Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The analysis of the code revealed that the MooBot bot will also send heartbeat messages to the C2 server and parse commands from C2 to start a DDoS attack on a specific IP address and port number. Researchers strongly recommend users of D-Link routers of applying patches and upgrades when possible. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

The man is known in the cybercrime underground for selling billions of stolen credentials. Early last year, it caught the attention of global cybersecurity experts by posting on one of the forums the sale of a database with 773 million e-mail addresses and 21 million unique passwords.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The evolving world of cybercrime can be complicated, and at the end of the day, you just want what’s best for your business. You can start by learning about the three common cybersecurity threats that all small business owners should be prepared for: malware, vulnerabilities, and DDoS attacks. Reputational damage.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

In response to an inquiry from this office, the RCMP stopped short of naming names, but said “we can confirm that our National Division Cybercrime Investigative Team did execute a search warrant at a Toronto location last week.”. ” “I am not your A-typical computer geek, Brian,” he wrote in a 2018 email. “I

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Cobalt cybercrime gang abused Google App Engine in recent attacks. Dailymotion forces password reset in response to credential stuffing Attack. Law enforcement worldwide hunting users of DDoS-for-Hire services. Reading the ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2018. Once again thank you!

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. Hold training sessions to help employees manage passwords and identify phishing attempts. DDoS Attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Apollon ([link] is a classic escrow market founded in March 2018 with a total listing of more 54,000 items as of January 2020. On January 28, just after the Dread (a Reddit-style forum on the deep web) , an attacker started launching massive DDoS attacks against the Dread, Envoy, The Hub, and other forums.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Winning the ongoing battle against cybercrime and criminals starts with understanding the nature of the threats and how to combat them. And as stated by a Harris Poll conducted in 2018 , more than 60 million Americans are affected by identity theft every year. How high is your business’ cyber threat intelligence ? Learn from the past.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

After 2018, we observed falling detection rates for FinSpy for Windows. In July, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior announced the arrest of 16 people connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (aka Mekotio) cybercrime groups. Melcoz had been active in Brazil since at least 2018, before expanding overseas. Gamers beware.

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group was first spotted by TrendMicro in 2018 when the cyber criminal crew targeted automotive and financial industries. The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Technical Analysis.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That reporting was based on clues from an early Russian cybercrime forum in which a hacker named Rescator — using the same profile image that Rescator was known to use on other forums — claimed to have originally been known as “Helkern,” the nickname chosen by the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Darklife.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

This post examines some of the clues left behind by “ Wazawaka ,” the hacker handle chosen by a major access broker in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has been a highly active member of multiple cybercrime forums over the past decade, but his favorite is the Russian-language community Exploit.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

Cybercrime nearly always increases during times of crisis as criminals take advantage of panic and unease. The COVID-19 pandemic is certainly no exception, but victims of cybercrime often don’t know where to turn for help. Kristin Judge, founder of the Cybercrime Support Network, hopes to change that. billion in victim losses.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are our top 4 cybersecurity tips your business can deploy now to get proactive on preventing data breaches , site defacement, DDoS attacks and other threats that put your sites at risk. Because cybercrime is big business (and the fastest-growing type of crime), new attack methods are always arising.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. We had initially analyzed this Delphi malware in April 2018. The following day, Microsoft reported that it had found destructive malware , dubbed WhisperGate, on the systems of government bodies and agencies that work closely with the Ukrainian government.

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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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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. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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