Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon , a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. According to the U.S. Image: USDOJ.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The man was held in the Netherlands, and he was charged for his alleged role in the international cybercrime operation known as Raccoon Infostealer. The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

Identity Theft 101

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Hacking 101

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Current threat actor activity is incentivized by a broad attack surface represented through high volumes of users and systems, and high potential profits represented through the variety of cryptocurrency offerings. It is easy to detect and block things like malicious cryptocurrency apps or crypto-phishing websites.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. The IC3 "provides the public with a trustworthy source for information on cyber criminal activity," and also is a useful tool for victims to report a cybercrime. And this year's report highlights five "hot topics.".

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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

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

DoJ announced that Nicholas Truglia (25) was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the theft of over $20 million worth of cryptocurrency through SIM swapping attacks. Nicholas Truglia and his associates stole a staggering amount of cryptocurrency from the victim through a complex SIM swap scheme.” In May 2019, Terpin won $75.8

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Security Boulevard

MAY 27, 2022

The Exfiltration Phase of The Kill Chain of a Cryptocurrency-Based Attack Provides the Greatest Opportunity to Identify Cybercriminals. Cryptocurrency gained through illicit means is less useable than other assets due to the way cryptocurrency systems currently do not fully protect owner identity and allow for only limited liquidity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. billion and authorities observed an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019 (+69%). million in 2019 to over $29.1 billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2023

The duo operated the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer that facilitated more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Lazarus APT group. According to OFAC, Tornado Cash was used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Hacking Accountability 90

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

First surfacing in September 2019, the gang is estimated to have made hundreds of millions of U.S. ” In a lengthy thread about the LockBit takedown on the Russian-language cybercrime forum XSS, one of the gang’s leaders said the FBI and the U.K.’s Department of Justice (DOJ). An FBI wanted poster for Matveev.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

CryptBot malware is active since at least 2019, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the Google Chrome of the infected systems. The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The hacker behind the 2019 Capital One data breach has been sentenced to time served and five years probation by the U.S. In 2019, 37-year-old Paige Thompson, a former Amazon employee known by her online nickname "erratic," was arrested after Capital One alerted the FBI of her hacking activity. This is not what justice looks like.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

claims to be a trader of cryptocurrencies in social networks. One of the attacks, against a software developer, took place in 2019. The German police discovered Nikolay’s email address, which was also used to register to over 60 websites, along with his phone number that is associated with a Telegram account. for months.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

One of the key significant improvements are support of more software clients (including browser-based cryptocurrency wallets), upgraded credit card (CC) grabber, and additional advanced mechanisms for password storage dump on various platforms to extract credentials and tokens.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

Last week, French authorities have seized the dark web marketplace Le Monde Parallèle, it is another success of national police in the fight against cybercrime. French authorities seized the dark web marketplace Le Monde Parallèle, the operation is another success of national police in the fight against cybercrime activity in the dark web.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The man is currently being held in the Netherlands, he was charged for his alleged role the international cybercrime operation known as Raccoon Infostealer. The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. The authorities arrested tens of individuals in Spain and Romania. .

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Banking Cybercrime Mobile Accountability 121

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world. Definitely yes.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Organizations have paid more than $600 million in cryptocurrency during 2021, nearly one-third to the Conti ransomware gang. According to a report published by the blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, organizations have paid $602 million in cryptocurrency during 2021. Last week, cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., added the company.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2023

It shouldn't come as a surprise to many, but i llicit cryptocurrency transactions hit an all-time high in 2022, totaling $20.1 Chainalysis discusses: "Crypto exchange Garantex, which accounted for the majority of sanctions-related transaction volume last year, is a great example. billion, according to a report by Chainalysis.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 14, 2020

Department of Justice (DOJ), this represents the government's largest seizure of cryptocurrency in the terrorism context. In a recent announcement , the DOJ revealed a global disruption of three cyber campaigns, all of which used cryptocurrency to fund terrorist organizations. Over 300 cryptocurrency accounts.

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Cryptocurrency Government Media Scams 59

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

An operation coordinated by Interpol, dubbed Goldfish Alpha, dismantled an illegal cryptocurrency network operating in Southeast Asia. Interpol announced that it has coordinated a successful international operation aimed at removing cryptocurrency miners that infected routers located in Southeast Asia. ” reported Trend Micro.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Internet Internet 68

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. Phishing is one of the most prevalent forms of cybercrime due to minimal effort required and the fact that it really works.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Nearly three years ago, chaos descended upon Twitter when a small group of hackers successfully breached the accounts of some of the platform's most high-profile users. RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime has spiked, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims and costing more than $4 billion. The FBI received a record number of reports last year totaling 791,790, a 69% growth from 2019. billion in 2019 to $4.2 billion in 2020. Phishing Scams.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

The man is known in the cybercrime underground for selling billions of stolen credentials. Sanix was identified by the investigator Brian Krebs as the source of Collection 1 in January 2019. Sanix has been active on the cybercrime underground at least since 2018, he focuses in the sale of stolen data from organizations.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

That's because Ghaleb Alaumary motivated teams of criminals to commit cybercrime, financial crime, and to collectively steal tens of millions of dollars. Cybercrime ringleader confesses to conspiracies. Then there was the money laundering, the cryptocurrency, the digital wallets. Instead, he'll spend more than a decade in jail.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Avast researchers reported that since 2019, MyKings operators have amassed at least $24 million in the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. However, experts pointed out that the botnet uses more than 20 cryptocurrencies in total, for this reason the total financial gains could be greater than $24M.

Cryptocurrency 110

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of ongoing attacks targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns customers of threat actors targeting their NAS devices with cryptocurrency miners. Use stronger passwords for your administrator and other user accounts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The IPStorm botnet was first uncovered in May 2019 while targeting Windows systems, not experts from Intezer reported that the bot evolved to infect other platforms, including Android, Linux, and Mac devices. reads the Intezer’s report. The IPStorm bot also kills a list of processes that could potentially interfere with its operations.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

When it comes to hacking and cybercrime, sometimes all the focus is on the one who launches the attack. His services could be used for malware such as botnets, remote access trojans (RATs), keyloggers, credential stealers, and cryptocurrency miners. One of those threat actors was just convicted in a United States courtroom.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

Meanwhile, cryptocurrency became a prominent target for those seeking monetary gain. The amount of cryptocurrency-related phishing grew significantly in 2022, and with an endless array of new coins, NFT and other DeFi projects, scammers are continuously duping users. Key findings Phishing Financial phishing accounted for 36.3%

Banking 71

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 71

SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

When it comes to hacking and cybercrime, sometimes all the focus is on the one who launches the attack. His services could be used for malware such as botnets, remote access trojans (RATs), keyloggers, credential stealers, and cryptocurrency miners. One of those threat actors was just convicted in a United States courtroom.

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