Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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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. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. Many online services allow users to reset their passwords just by clicking a link sent via SMS , and this unfortunately widespread practice has turned mobile phone numbers into de facto identity documents.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This week on Decoding Security , security analysts Jessica Ortega and Ramuel Gall share their predictions for the top cybercrime trends in 2018. We’ll also catch you up on the latest cybersecurity news, including the 25 Worst Passwords of 2017 and a leaky server that exposed 300,000 email addresses and login credentials from Ancestry.com.

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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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybercrime is a big business. Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. Ransomware is already the fastest-growing type of cybercrime , and IABs make it more accessible to novice criminals.

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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

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. The user dfyz on Searchengines[.]ru

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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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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.

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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

MAY 20, 2019

The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. LeakedSource was also cracking the associated passwords when it was possible. “I am immensely proud of this outcome as combatting cybercrime is an operational priority for us.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The StreetEasy data breach took place in the mid-2016 and exposed 988k records that included names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes. The data has been available for sale in the cybercrime underground since February. Impacted data includes names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

The attacks aimed at stealing information to gain an advantage over CrowdSurge, which was acquired by Warner Music Group (WMG) in 2017. “Ticketmaster Used Passwords Unlawfully Retained by a Former Employee of a Competitor to Access Computer Systems in Scheme to “Choke Off” the Victim’s Business” wrote the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore group, aks Crypto-gang, “Dangerous Password”, and “Leery Turtle” has been active since 2018. The spear-phishing messages attempt to trick the victims into installing malware on their computer that allows attacker to steal or obtain access to a password manager account.

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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. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Experts observed the bot attempting to gain access to the device by using a combination of eight common usernames and 130 passwords for IoT devices over SSH and telnet on ports 23 and 2323. Ensure secure configurations for devices: Change the default password to a strong one, and block SSH from external access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

TA547 is a financially motivated threat actor that has been active since at least November 2017, it was observed conducting multiple campaigns to deliver a variety of Android and Windows malware, including DanaBot , Gootkit , Lumma stealer , NetSupport RAT , Ursnif , and ZLoader.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“The new finding came to light over the weekend after a hacker put up for sale the hotel’s data in an ad published on a dark web cybercrime marketplace.” According to MGM Resorts, the data was old, none of the customers in the archive stayed at the hotel past 2017. ” reported ZDNet.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. In a 2017 discussion on fl.l33t[.]su

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Cybercrime gangs aim at hiring skilled hackers that can help them in extortion campaign against high-worth individuals, in this case they promise $30,000 per month ($360,000 per year). “ Highly competitive salaries and other forms of remuneration are becoming an essential element of attractive in the cybercrime ecosystem.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

MajikPOS PoS malware was first spotted by Trend Micro in early 2017, when it was used to target businesses in North America and Canada. On July 18, 2019, the source code for MajikPOS (aka MagicPOS) was offered for sale on the cybercrime forum “exploit[.]in” MajikPOS is written using the “.NET

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Schuchman , Vamp, and Drake created the Satori botnet in between July and August 2017. The first Satori iteration targeted devices running with factory-settings or protected with easy -to-guess passwords, the bot infected over 100,000 devices in its first month. SecurityAffairs – Satori, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

” Organized cybercrime gangs that coordinate unlimited attacks typically do so by hacking or phishing their way into a bank or payment card processor. million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

Schuchman, Vamp, and Drake created the Satori botnet in between July and August 2017. The first Satori iteration targeted devices running with factory-settings or protected with easy-to-guess passwords, the bot infected over 100,000 devices in its first month. the man also claimed that the botnet was capable of DDoS attacks of 1Tbps.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dr. Richard Thaler, 2017 Nobel Economics laureate for his work with the “Nudge Theory”, argues that in general, humans do not make economic decisions based on rational thinking, even for very important decisions like taking measures to secure sensitive information stored on a corporate or personal device.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“BleepingComputer was also told that the ransomware gang advised Delaware County to change all of their passwords and modify their Windows domain configuration to include safeguards from the Mimikatz program.” BleepingComputer was informed that the Delaware County was hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. LOW FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

According to a report from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye titled, "Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of COVID-19," 81% of global organizations have experienced increased cyberthreats, and 79% experienced downtime from an attack during a peak season. Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Experts from Digital Shadows traced the advertisement to an IP address in Saint Petersburg, they also linked the IP address to a campaign spreading LokiBot password-stealing. Security Affairs – Facebook accounts, cybercrime). Which is the data source? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, Bitcoin). UK authorities have seized over £920,000 ($1.1 The police also seized around £1.6 Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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