Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 , up from $3 trillion in 2015. Global cybersecurity spending is not keeping up, and is estimated to be $1 trillion cumulatively over the 5 year period from 2017 to 2021.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. Six days later, on December 19, 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. used the password 225948. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In it, we identified the trends, threats, and innovations in cybercrime that small businesses need to know about in order to keep their websites secure. Even as the number of attacks rose, only 60,000 sites in our sample were actually compromised — which is comparable to our 2017 findings.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

The malware is being distributed via large-scale COVID-19-themed spam campaigns, the messages use an RTF exploit targeting the CVE-2017-8570 Microsoft Office RCE to deliver the malicious payload. When it finds them, it launches an SSH brute force attack on these machines, with the username root and a hardcoded list of passwords.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

We expect that that other APTs like Silence , MoneyTaker , and Cobalt will stage multiple attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in the near future,” – says Dmitry Volkov. Users’ logins and passwords from the Government Technology Agency ( [link] [.] So in case of Lazarus a stitch in time saves nine. Have you been pwned?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Time is of the essence in these attacks because many companies that rely on VPNs for remote employee access also require employees to supply some type of multi-factor authentication in addition to a username and password — such as a one-time numeric code generated by a mobile app or text message.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This makes stealthy attacks incredibly popular in the cybercrime community. Perhaps this low cost is why DDoS accounted for 35% of all cyberattacks in 2017 and continues to be a favorite tactic among cybercriminals. Cybercriminals won’t become complacent, and that means you shouldn’t, either. Stealthy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

While investigating an infection of a cryptocurrency company in Southeast Asia, we found Gopuram coexisting on target computers with AppleJeus , a backdoor attributed to the Lazarus. The threat actor specifically targeted cryptocurrency companies. We observed that they have a specific interest in cryptocurrency companies.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

“In one year, people who worked with us have earned over US $2 billion,” read the farewell post by the eponymous GandCrab identity on the cybercrime forum Exploit[.]in That email address and nickname had been used since 2009 to register multiple identities on more than a half dozen cybercrime forums. Vpn-service[.]us

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than a simple scanner attacking Linux systems by brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting known vulnerabilities. Like CVE-2017-6079, this vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. fold increase.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We have previously seen DustSquad use third-party post-exploitation tools, such as the password dumping utility fgdump; but we have now observed new custom C modules, a first for DustSquad, and Delphi downloaders acting as post-exploitation facilitators, able to gather documents of interest for the actor.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. National Security Agency tool that was leaked by the hacker group “Shadow Brokers” in 2017. It has been noted that paying a ransom demand only encourages this type of cybercrime and funds it. Eternal Blue is a U.S.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ransomware was a relatively obscure form of malware until the early 2010s , but it has increased in scope and the amount of damage it has caused year after year, aided by a proliferation of botnets , cryptocurrencies , and sophisticated criminal enterprises. AI makes it possible to identify patterns and correctly guess passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. Petya was initially developed by a group called Janus Cybercrime Solutions as part of its ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

In recent operations, the group has focused on cryptocurrency businesses. In this campaign, BlueNoroff used a malicious Word document exploiting CVE-2017-0199, a remote template injection vulnerability. The purpose of the campaign was to steal passwords stored in the password manager.

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