Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Ensure secure configurations for devices: Change the default password to a strong one, and block SSH from external access.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. The portal asked me for an email address and suggested a longish, randomized password, which I accepted. Consumers in every U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In total, the database leaked over 152,000 pieces of information pertaining to customers, such as emails, names, links to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook profiles, and hashed passwords. The instance also contained 15 employee emails, names, and passwords protected by a weak SHA1-128bit hash. It also had organizations’ tax numbers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. A copy of pictrace[.]com

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On August 2018, Schuchman has been indicted on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori that infected at least 500,000 internet routers around the word. Schuchman , Vamp, and Drake created the Satori botnet in between July and August 2017. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

On August 2018, Schuchman has been indicted on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori that infected at least 500,000 internet routers around the word. Schuchman, Vamp, and Drake created the Satori botnet in between July and August 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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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. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints.

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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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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

According to the EC3, the joint operation was conducted in September 2017, it involved more than a dozen law enforcement agencies from Europe, the US, and Australia. Our modern society is dependent on computers, mobile devices, and the use of the internet. Security Affairs – Luminosity RAT, cybercrime ).

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. So as of a few months ago, the US now requires data containerization along much the same lines as Saudi Arabia and the UAE first mandated in 2017.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Facebook has long been a happy hunting ground for online crooks, who take great pleasure in turning unwary members of the internet community into their prey. phishing scam on its Messenger service that had been doing the rounds since at least 2017. Inside a criminal stronghold.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

All the affected organizations had hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials. It was revealed that the operators scanned ranges of IPs for hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials in Russia , Japan , China , and India. In some attacks, they attempted to elevate privileges using exploit for CVE-2017-0213.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. That’s not all: cybercriminals attempted to compromise more websites in Q3 2017 than in the previous quarter, increasing their attempted attacks by 16 percent. Backdoor Files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2018

US-CERT warns of cyber attacks on Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as Oracle and SAP, both nation-state actors and cybercrime syndicates are carrying out hacking campaign against these systems. “ “Digital Shadows Ltd. and Onapsis Inc. ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

According to Kaspersky, there was a spike in the number of spear phishing messages in November 2017 that targeted up to 400 industrial companies located in Russia. “For example, the archive mentioned above contains an executable file, which has the same name and is a password-protected self-extracting archive.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified hundreds of compromised credentials from Singaporean government agencies and educational institutions over the course of 2017 and 2018. Users’ logins and passwords from the Government Technology Agency ( [link] [.] So in case of Lazarus a stitch in time saves nine.

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

SAFR was rolled out with little fanfare at two Seattle pilot schools about a year ago, in early 2017. This partnership can be a huge first step in developing holistic human biometric solutions that can protect us all against spoofing, impersonation, fraud and cybercrime,” she says. Secure credentialing. Acohido.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

According to Group-IB’s annual “ 2018 H i-Tech Crime Trends ” report, the estimated damage caused by targeted attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and the first three quarters of 2018 amounted to $877 million. From 2016 to 2017, the number of such incidents increased by 369 percent.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Lack of access to security features, such as passwords for admins, may result in a data breach where unauthorized persons within the organization may access sensitive data and leak it to malicious insiders. Rapid technological advancements and potential security gaps due to the growing sophistication of cybercrimes.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by the end of 2021. Equifax data breach (2017). Summary: In 2017, an application vulnerability in one of their websites lead to the breach. What was compromised: names, email addresses, and passwords. Records affected: 148 million.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In 2018, authorities with the U.K.’s ”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

million voter records related to the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election on the ‘eleakstore,’ and on the Hydra Market cybercriminal forums in TOR network. The feedback suggests they had no clue their personal information (like names, addresses, and more) had been compromised and was circulating in the shady parts of the internet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Turchin obtained credentials to target networks by launching spear-phishing attacks and brute-forcing the passwords of remote desktop servers exposed online. Once the hacker gained access to the network, the deployed password-stealing malware and remote access trojans (RATs) to harvest credentials and establish persistence in the system.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched an investigation into the case, codenamed Cepheus, in 2017 after it received information about a “suspicious RAT” from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks and the U.S. The Imminent Monitor RAT is a hacking tool that allows threat actors to remotely control the victim’s computers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Confirmed thefts by Silence increased more than fivefold from just 100 000 USD in 2017 to 550 000 USD in less than a year. For more than two years, there was not a single sign of Silence that would enable to identify them as an independent cybercrime group. Since autumn 2017, the group has become more active.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Use a safe and password-protected internet connection. The TA505 cybercrime group that is known for the distribution of the Dridex Trojan and the Locky ransomware , in mid-2017 released the BitPaymer ransomware (aka FriedEx) that was used in attacks against high profile targets and organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to security firm Gemini Advisory, the Fin7 hacker group stole data on more than five million credit and debit cards that had been used at HBC credit card terminals beginning in May 2017. “This type of poor security practice should be avoided at all costs, as it exposes the company to easily become a victim of cybercrime.”

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