Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook, Instagram , TikTok , and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. Facebook said it targeted a number of accounts tied to key sellers on OGUsers, as well as those who advertise the ability to broker stolen account sales. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2025

Kosovar citizen extradited to the US for running the cybercrime marketplace BlackDB.cc Kosovo citizen Liridon Masurica (33) of Gjilan, was extradited to the US for running the cybercrime marketplace BlackDB.cc ” The FBI led the investigation with support from the Kosovo Polices Cybercrime Investigation Directorate. .”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges. million from 158 Poloniex users, and $1.17

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

In the 15-month span of the GandCrab affiliate enterprise beginning in January 2018 , its curators shipped five major revisions to the code, each corresponding with sneaky new features and bug fixes aimed at thwarting the efforts of computer security firms to stymie the spread of the malware. The GandCrab identity on Exploit[.]in

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime. ” As KrebsOnSecurity noted in a 2018 story , Troia has acknowledged posing as a buyer or seller on various dark web forums as a way to acquire old and newly-hacked databases from other forum members. But on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. It employs some 18,000 people and brought in $6.2

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The FBI will continue to expose and combat the DPRKs use of illicit activitiesincluding cybercrime and virtual currency theftto generate revenue for the regime. In 2018, the Lazarus APT group targeted several cryptocurrency exchanges , including the campaign tracked as Operation AppleJeus discovered in August 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020. In the years leading up to his arrest, Ferizi was the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Pentagon Crew. military members and government employees.

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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. ” In at least some of those recruitment ads — like one in 2018 on the forum sysadmins[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

su , a bustling cybercrime community of which Seleznev was a leading organizer. government says four of Klyushin’s alleged co-conspirators remain at large, including Ivan Ermakov , who was among 12 Russians charged in 2018 with hacking into key Democratic Party email accounts. Marine arrested in 2018 and accused of spying.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. billion in 2018. In August 2018, financial industry giant Fiserv Inc.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

As first reported here on July 16, prior to bitcoin scam messages being blasted out from such high-profile Twitter accounts @barackobama, @joebiden, @elonmusk and @billgates, several highly desirable short-character Twitter account names changed hands, including @L, @6 and @W. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

su , a bustling cybercrime community of which Seleznev was a leading organizer. government says four of Klyushin’s alleged co-conspirators remain at large, including Ivan Ermakov , who was among 12 Russians charged in 2018 with hacking into key Democratic Party email accounts. Marine arrested in 2018 and accused of spying.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 18, 2021

Joker’s Stash , by some accounts the largest underground shop for selling stolen credit card and identity data, says it’s closing up shop effective mid-February 2021. The announcement came on the heels of a turbulent year for the major cybercrime store, and just weeks after U.S. 15 or forfeit those funds.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Randall said she didn’t notice at the time because she was in the middle of switching careers, didn’t have any active photography clients, and had gotten out of the habit of checking that email account. “I still don’t have access to it because I don’t have access to the email account tied to my old domain. .

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

The credit union said the investigation that fueled the lawsuit was prompted by a 2018 KrebsOnSecurity report about glaring security weaknesses in a Fiserv platform that exposed personal and financial details of customers across hundreds of bank Web sites. Brookfield, Wisc.-based billion in earnings last year.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In a coordinated international effort, law enforcement agencies from the United States, Europe, and Australia have dismantled Cracked and Nulled, two of the world's largest cybercrime marketplaces. By dismantling these two major forums, law enforcement agencies have disrupted a global supply chain of cybercrime tools.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2023

Researchers discovered credentials associated with cybercrime forums on roughly 120,000 computers infected with information stealers. Threat intelligence firm Hudson Rock has discovered credentials associated with cybercrime forums on roughly 120,000 computers infected with various information stealer malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. Earlier in August, Poshmark , a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach that took place in May 2018.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With stolen passwords, the impact is even broader; hackers could wire funds from a breached online banking account into their own, or masquerade as someone on social media to ask friends and family for money. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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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. These services, too, have been outsourced.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

employee who hacked into the accounts of thousands of users was sentenced to five years of probation. accounts back in 2018. The man accessed the users’ victim accounts, using cracked passwords, but in some cases, he also used internal Yahoo! systems for access to the accounts. A former Yahoo!

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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. In 2018 the direct financial losses from these attacks amounted to almost $20 million. Attacks on Crypto.

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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. Bilal Waddaich).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

Finnish prosecutors quickly zeroed in on a suspect: Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki , a notorious criminal hacker convicted of committing tens of thousands of cybercrimes before he became an adult. After being charged with the attack in October 2022, Kivimäki fled the country.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. Until sometime this morning, the LEEP portal allowed anyone to apply for an account. ” the FBI’s site enthuses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.”

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