Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FBI). ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. All of the card data stolen from BriansClub was shared with multiple sources who work closely with financial institutions to identify and monitor or reissue cards that show up for sale in the cybercrime underground.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox ) The post Russians charged with hacking Mt. Gox in 2011 and money laundering.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Threat actors from North Korea have been increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector since 2017 as a source of generating revenue. In this article, we’ll dive into […] The post Lazarus Cryptocurrency Hacks Estimated To Be $3 Billion appeared first on TuxCare.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.” BTC-e was popular in the cybercrime ecosystem, it was an illegal platform because it was not registered as a money services business with the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

Truebot has been active since 2017 and some researchers linked it to the Russian Silence Group , while a recent investigation linked it to threat actor TA505 (aka Evil Corp). .” The researchers noticed that the domain hosting the tools employed in the attack, windowservicecemter[.]com, com, was registered on April 12, 2023.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the New York Times , the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and used it to inform internal personnel that the company had “suffered a data breach” and provided a list of allegedly hacked internal databases. “I SecurityAffairs – hacking, Uber). states the message. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. New cybercrime groups are also expected to start operations in Asia and Latin America. Attacks on Crypto.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. In 2017, U.S. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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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

MARCH 29, 2020

The source code of the infamous Dharma ransomware is now available for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source code of one of the most profitable ransomware families, the Dharma ransomware , is up for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against three members of Lazarus Group for a wide range of financially-motivated hacks against private businesses that authorities said were designed to steal $1.3 The post Three North Korean hackers charged for financial and revenge-motivated hacks appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

A Ukrainian man was sentenced in the US to 5 years in prison for his criminal activity in the cybercrime group FIN7. for high-level hacking activity in the cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group). Iarmak is the third member of the FIN7 cybercrime group to be sentenced in the U.S. in May 2020.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations. ru , a cybercrime forum in its own right that called itself “ The Antichat Mafia.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files. In December 2017, Nissan Finance Canada was hacked , personal information of 1.13 This week, Nissan Oceania announced that it started notifying the impacted individuals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And an official confirmation says that the attack was launched by notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group that is known for its social engineering attacks such as the Wannacry 2017. Note- Lazarus group aka Guardians of Peace is a Cybercrime group that is being funded by North Korean intelligence- as per US Intelligence.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The attacks aimed at stealing information to gain an advantage over CrowdSurge, which was acquired by Warner Music Group (WMG) in 2017. ” Both Mead and Zaidi were fired by Ticketmaster in 2017.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

The activity of the TheMoon botnet was first spotted in 2014, and since 2017 its operators added to the code of the bot at least 6 IoT device exploits. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – Hacking, TheMoon)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Government of Pyongyang focuses on crypto hacking to fund its military program following harsh U.N. “South Korea’s main spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, said North Korea’s capacity to steal digital assets is considered among the best in the world because of the country’s focus on cybercrimes since U.N.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Daniel’s Hosting became the largest Dark Web hosting provider earlier 2017 when Anonymous members breached and took down Freedom Hosting II. The attackers exploited a PHP zero-day exploit leaked just a day before the hack and that was already fixed in db626a54a4f5 , but likely attackers used other flaws. Who is the culprit?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2023

A variant of the Gafgyt botnet is actively attempting to exploit a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-18368 (CVSS v3: 9.8), impacting the end-of-life Zyxel P660HN-T1A router. Zyxel addressed the vulnerability in 2017 with the release of new firmware, however, the vendor warned that a Gafgyt variant was exploiting the flaw in 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The researchers speculate the originating accounts of the instant messaging applications were compromised through the leaked credentials available on cybercrime forums.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks in May and June 2017, respectively, were the most devastating in history. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. FireEye documented obfuscation techniques used by the group in June 2017 and the involvement of PUNCHTRACK POS-scraping malware. SecurityAffairs – FIN8, hacking). ” concludes Morphisec. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2023

In April, the FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. As reported by BleepingComputer , on June 28, the alleged admin of Genesis Market (GenesisStore) announced on a cybercrime forum that the platform was available for sale.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. com (2017).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged with different hacking crimes in Russia, France, and the United States. In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international investigation conducted by the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) in partnership with U.S. “Hydra quickly rose to become the most prominent Russian-language darknet market after the closure of a key competitor in 2017. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hydra).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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