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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

According to Brighton and Hove news , his spree began in 2019 with the initial purchase of a laptop from Amazon, bought with “fake Honey gift vouchers” I would love to know more about how this initial foray into system compromise worked, as one would imagine purchasing anything with fake vouchers would be a bit of a tall order.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In 2019, The Manipulaters failed to renew their core domain name — manipulaters[.]com ” A number of questions, indeed. .

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. In April 2020, Truniger was banned from two of the top Russian cybercrime forums, where members from both forums confirmed that Semen7907 was one of Truniger’s known aliases.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2022

As people conduct more and more business online — both in their personal and professional lives — cybercrime has become big business, more organized and well-funded than ever. With the acceleration in digital spending, there’s been an increase in related cyberthreats, like account takeover. billion in 2021 when compared with 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. 86 billion RUB ($27.4M

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Hackers may also access webcams to perform other types of cybercrime, such as identity theft, fraud, or extortion.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Its account and transaction processing systems power the Web sites for hundreds of financial institutions — mostly small community banks and credit unions. The authentication weakness allowed bank customers to view account data for other customers, including account number, balance, phone numbers and email addresses.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. io seem like a legitimate website.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

million of its managed WordPress customer accounts. Using a compromised password, an unauthorized third party accessed the provisioning system in our legacy code base for Managed WordPress.” The original WordPress Admin password that was set at the time of provisioning was exposed. We reset both passwords.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals know this, which is why phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents and why 54% of companies say their data breaches were caused by “negligent employees. ”. Considering the many ways cybercriminals target employees and the costs of cybercrime to employers, it’s a wise investment.

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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

JULY 18, 2023

In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. 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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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Truth be told: cybercrimes against students continue to rise, especially against those who report to university campuses and use university resources. According to BlueVoyant’s Cybersecurity in Higher Education 2021 report , ransomware attacks on colleges increased twofold between 2019 and 2020. Improve Your Password Security.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Compromised data include names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, bank account numbers, credit cards, passwords, license plates, citizen service numbers or passport data. Tens of millions of privacy-sensitive personal data have fallen into the hands of criminals as a result of this theft and trade.”

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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 The notice issued by the service Have I Been Pwned states that 1,131,229 accounts from Emuparadise forums were exposed in an incident occurred in April 2018. million Emuparadise forum members.

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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. su between 2016 and 2019. ”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

When normal computer users fall into the nasty habit of recycling passwords, the result is most often some type of financial loss. Our passwords can say a lot about us, and much of what they have to say is unflattering. Interestingly, one of the more common connections involves re-using or recycling passwords across multiple accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

While we do not store credit card information on our website, it appears that the unauthorized person gained access to the website and could have accessed the data of consumers who made payment card purchases while that data was being entered, between August 3, 2019 and January 14, 2020.” SecurityAffairs – TrueFire, cybercrime).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Hackers may also access webcams to perform other types of cybercrime, such as identity theft, fraud, or extortion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

” According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. According to the report issued by the CERT-FR, operators behind the Pysa ransomware launched brute-force attacks against management consoles and Active Directory accounts.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

She said CopperStealer, which Proofpoint fully describes in a blog post , exhibits many of the same targeting and delivery methods as SilentFade, a Chinese-sourced malware family first reported by Facebook in 2019. Examples include the 2019 Hong Kong protests, which described the events as “riots funded by the CIA.”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Cyber criminals have exploited an unproperly implemented password reset process in 7-Eleven to make unwanted charges on 900 customers’ accounts. Crooks targeted approximately 900 customers the company, it has been estimated that they charged a total of ¥55 million ($510,000) on the 7pay app accounts. 7-Eleven Inc.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks. March 2020 – TOKOPEDIA e-commerce hacked, 91 Million accounts available on the darkweb.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The StreetEasy data breach took place in the mid-2016 and exposed 988k records that included names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes. The data has been available for sale in the cybercrime underground since February. Impacted data includes names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s safe to say that the volume and magnitude of high-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks that punctuated 2019 really kept the cybersecurity industry on its toes. Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2022

WordPress Ultimate FAQ (vulnerabilities CVE-2019-17232 and CVE-2019-17233). The researchers noticed that both trojan variants contain unimplemented functionality for hacking the administrator accounts of WordPress websites through a brute-force attack using special dictionaries. Total Donations Plugin. WP Quick Booking Manager.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The gang has been active since at least 2019 and today it is one of the most active ransomware gangs. The code of the encryptor was leaked on Twitter by at least a couple of accounts, @ali_qushji and @protonleaks1. The builder is contained in a password-protected 7z archive, “LockBit3Builder.7z,” Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. Brand impersonation accounts for 81% of all spear phishing attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

According to the FBI, phishing was the most common type of cybercrime last year—nearly doubling in frequency between 2019 and 2020. Individuals should be able to quickly and accurately spot phishing emails in their personal and professional email accounts, even the most deceitful ones.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2023

” The Lockbit gang has been active since at least 2019 and today it is one of the most active ransomware groups offering a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. ransomware, then a password argument is mandatory during the execution of the ransomware.” “LockBit 3.0 and LockBit.” The LockBit 3.0

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

While the internet and social media have been very positive for businesses, there remains an inherent risk when it comes to how brands manage their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. 1 : Cybercrime Businesses should always be very aware of the threat of cybercriminals, and social media also poses very real cyber-security risks.

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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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