Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Booter sites are dangerous because they help lower the barriers to cybercrime, allowing even complete novices to launch sophisticated and crippling attacks with the click of a button. ” In such assaults, the perpetrators leverage unmanaged Domain Name Servers (DNS) or other devices on the Web to create huge traffic floods.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US A broad array of industry groups have filed comments opposing the proposed changes , saying they threaten to remove the last vestiges of accountability for a top-level domain that is already overrun with cybercrime activity. and illicit or harmful content. US phishing domains.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

For several years, Cisco Secure provided DNS visibility and architecture intelligence with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ; and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX. CyberCrime Tracker. Recorded Future.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on various cybercrime forums. Joker’s Stash is one of the most longevous carding websites, it was launched in October 2014 and is very popular in the cybercrime underground due to the freshness of its cards and their validity. Image source FlashPoint.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report. I had the chance to visit with Don Shin, A10 Networks’ Senior Product Marketing Manager, at Black Hat USA 2018. In response, many leading vendors and government officials are pushing hard for more sharing of cybercrime intelligence.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

“In November 2018, TA505 , a prolific actor that has been at the forefront of this trend, began distributing a new backdoor we named “ServHelper”. “On December 13, 2018, we observed another large ServHelper “downloader” campaign targeting retail and financial services customers.” SecurityAffairs – TA505, cybercrime).

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Iron cybercrime group has been active since at least 2016, is known for the Iron ransomware but across the years it is built various strain of malware, including backdoors, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware to target both mobile and desktop systems. “In Security Affairs – malware, cybercrime ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. FORUM ACTIVITY? su between 2016 and 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S. A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. How Does DMARC Work?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2019

In August 2018, three members of the notorious cybercrime gang have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The messages sent to the victims were also dropping the backdoor DNSbot that primarily operates over DNS traffic.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

“This C&C server has actually been active since 6 th March 2018 but didn’t attract attention because of the low capacity of the “black” botnet at that time. However, in May-July 2018 we detected a new Ramnit campaign with around 100,000 computers infected.” Security Affairs – cybercrime, Ramnit botnet).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. Since then, the criminal group has continued its attack activities by using various malware families such as HEUR:Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Wroba, and various attack methods such as phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Group-IB has limited some of the data in the reports that could hinder investigations into the group’s cybercrimes. Prior to April 2018, Silence’s target interests were primarily limited to 25 post-Soviet states and neighboring countries. Silence going global. Larger geographical scope of attacks. Within the sound of Silence.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . There are different kinds of cyber attacks that are faced by small businesses, including malware, phishing, SQL injection, DNS tunneling, and more. However, most small businesses think they are safe from cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

15, 2018, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged then 27-year-old Bloom, of Thornhill, Ontario, with selling stolen personal identities online through the website LeakedSource[.]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.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Netscout’s ASERT uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt cybercrime group. The attacks were detected on August 13, 2018, experts revealed that the hackers targeted also the NS Bank in Russia and Carpatica/Patria in Romania. Securi ty Affairs – Cobalt, Cybercrime). plus; eucentalbank[.]com;

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

The usage of the VPN service hides the real location of the attacker, however, the specific IP isn’t new to the threat intel community, it has been abused since october 2018. Also, the configuration reveal the nickname field containing the string “ MANUEL1986 ”.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Since 2018, Lazarus has persistently targeted crypto-currency-related businesses for a long time, using malicious Word documents and themes related to the crypto-currency business to lure potential targets. The threat actor not only develops its own tools, but also uses open source or commercially available implants and offensive tools.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Compared to its predecessors, the sixth “Hi-Tech Crime Trends” report is the first to contain chapters devoted to the main industries attacked and covers the period from H2 2018 to H1 2019, as compared to the period from H2 2017 to H1 2018. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

Security experts at Flashpoint revealed that the financially-motivated cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Anunak and Carbanak ) used new malware in a recent hacking campaign. The emails would also drop the backdoor DNSbot that primarily operates over DNS traffic. ” reads the analysis published by Flashpoint.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. — Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) January 20, 2018. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. Researchers found that TrickBot developers created a tool called anchor_dns which uses a single-byte X0R cipher to obfuscate communications and, once de-obfuscated, is discoverable in DNS request traffic. hospitals and healthcare providers,???

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Tens of VMware Products affected by SACK Panic and SACK Slowness flaws. Updates for Samsung, the scam app with 10M+ downloads. Cryptomining Campaign involves Golang malware to target Linux servers.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Since 2018, we have been tracking Roaming Mantis – a threat actor that targets Android devices. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. Roaming Mantis reaches Europe. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We had initially analyzed this Delphi malware in April 2018. In July 2021, we reported the previously unknown Tomiris Golang backdoor , deployed against government organizations within a CIS country through DNS hijacking. We exposed similarities between DarkHalo’s SunShuttle backdoor and the Tomiris implant.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Moreover, the malware mentioned by Google matched ThreatNeedle – malware that we have been tracking since 2018.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. However, we are becoming increasingly convinced that the DDoS market has stopped growing, having completely stabilized after the decline in 2018.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Business associations are fairly fluid in organised cybercrime groups, Partnerships and affiliations are formed and dissolved much more frequently than in nation state sponsored groups, for example. Actor Tracking. Nation state backed groups often remain operational in similar form over longer periods of time. CobaltStrike C&C Domains.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as well as a series of lawsuits and investigations that culminated last week with the indictment of the same former federal cybercrime prosecutor who brought the data to the attention of the FBI five years ago. trump-email.com).

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