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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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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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The attackers may have gained access to the members’ credentials for a legacy member system that was decommissioned in 2018. It it important to highlight that even with the passwords being hashed and salted, threat actors can obtain the plain text the passwords, especially for weak passwords.

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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. If your New Year’s resolution is to protect yourself from cyberattacks, you’re in luck! Our hosts also identify ways you can arm yourself against these ever-evolving threats.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2023

North Korea has established a hacking group named APT43 to fund its cybercrime activities, aimed at advancing Pyongyang’s geopolitical interests. Additionally, a new spying team named Archipelago, a subset of APT43, has emerged and is using phishing tactics to tar-get potential victims.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. Protect your website and your visitors in 2018 and beyond.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Do not provide your mobile number account information over the phone to representatives that request your account password or pin.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an individual who’s been known to sell access to hacked online accounts kicked off an auction for “the admin panel of a big American ad platform.” ” PASSWORD SPRAYING. “It seemed like [the screenshots were accounts from] past employees.

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) cybercrime groups. We found the group attacking assets in Chile in 2018 and, more recently, in Mexico. It also includes a Bitcoin wallet stealing module.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?,

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

” Kurittu said he and others who worked on the investigation into Kivimaki’s previous cybercrimes couldn’t shake the suspicion that the infamous cybercriminal was also behind the Vastaamo extortion. “There were also other projects and databases.”

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Million accounts back in April 2018. The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 Since August 2018, Emuparadise no longer host game ROMs, anyway it continued to offer any kind of info for retro video games and operated community forums. million Emuparadise forum members.

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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. billion in earnings last year.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Two separate attacks on banks in the United States and Pakistan revealed this week highlight once again the inherent weakness of a security practice that relies on passwords or knowledge-based credentials to protect critical information. Read the whole entry. »

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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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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. the malware operators have removed CVE-2018-12613, a phpMyAdmin vulnerability that could allow threat actors to view or execute files.

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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. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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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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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

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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

billion stolen usernames, passwords and other personal data. Related: Massive Marriott breach closes out 2018. This is where criminals deploy botnets to automate the injection of surreptitiously obtained usernames and password pairs until they gain fraudulent access to a targeted account. ” Third-party risks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

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. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. ” This claim was backed up by Grzegorz Milka, a Google software engineer who presented at the Usenix’s Enigma 2018 security conference.

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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. The Biggest Cybersecurity Trends of 2018. Throughout 2018, per-day website attack attempts increased by just about 60%, peaking at 80 attacks and averaging at 62 attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Do not provide your mobile number account information over the phone to representatives that request your account password or pin.

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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. In April 2018 , Schuchman develops a new DDoS botnet alone, it was based on the Qbot malware family.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. nl — circa October 2018.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2019

The attackers coul d exploit the flaw to steal cryptocurrency wallets and SSH keys , According to the researchers Willem de Groot , the cybercrime gang known as Magecart exploited the flaw to inject into shopping sites software skimmer in the October 2018 attacks. was released in June, 2018 and appears safe. Adminer 4.6.3

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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. In April 2018, Schuchman develops a new DDoS botnet alone, it was based on the Qbot malware family.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ivan Yermakov worked for the Russian Military Unit 26165 and was indicted by the US DoJ in October 2018, along six other defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate ( GRU ), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. For the latter service, the men were keeping for them up to 60% of the profit.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

“When I tried to reset the account password through Instagram’s procedure, I could see that the email address on the account had been changed to a.ru Likewise, kavanaghsirishpub-dot-com corresponded to a pub and restaurant in Tennessee until mid-2018; now it’s pretending to sell cheap Nike shoes.

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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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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API. It looks like this: There are all sorts of amazing Pwned Passwords use cases out there. Fast forward to now and that ingestion pipeline is finally live.

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