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.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

Vasinskyi is a REvil ransomware affiliate since at least March 1st, 2019. ” The co-conspirators demanded ransom payments in cryptocurrency and used cryptocurrency exchangers and mixing services to hide their ill-gotten gains. . victims, and we are disrupting the broader cybercrime ecosystem.” in March 2022.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

billion worth of cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years. Cyber security and intelligence experts believe that attacks aimed at the cryptocurrency industry will continue to increase next year. trillion won ($1.2 Citing the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2022

A former Canadian government IT worker admitted to being a high-level member of the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. to charges related to his involvement with the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. The group has been active since 2019, the NetWalker ransomware has been offered with the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model.

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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. Malware developers — no longer hiring.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Chinese-speaking cybercrime gang Rocke that carried out several large-scale cryptomining campaigns, has now using news tactics to evade detection. Chinese-speaking cybercrime gang Rocke, that carried out several large-scale cryptomining campaigns in past , has now using news tactics to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot malware, which experts estimate infected approximately 670,000 computers this past year. Google targeted the distributors of the malware who are paid to spread and deliver the malicious code and infect a larger number of systems as possible. ” reads the announcement published by Google.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket. ” The U.S.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

First surfacing in September 2019, the gang is estimated to have made hundreds of millions of U.S. LockBit operated as a ransomware-as-a-service group, wherein the ransomware gang takes care of everything from the bulletproof hosting and domains to the development and maintenance of the malware. Department of Justice (DOJ).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

A new variant of the infamous Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware has been updated to targets Linux devices. Security researchers from Sophos have spotted a new variant of the Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware that has been updated to compromise Linux machines via SSH brute force attacks. ” reads the post published by Sophos.

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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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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. Of course, this is the result of economic problems caused by the pandemic.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The Rocke group is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware dubbed Pro-Ocean to target Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs. The cybercrime group Rocke is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware called Pro-Ocean to target vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis intalls.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

According to a press release issued by Ukrainian authorities, law enforcement officials also shut down infrastructure that was used to spread the cybercrime gang’s ransomware, which was first spotted in February of 2019 as a new variant of the Cryptomix family.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

claims to be a trader of cryptocurrencies in social networks. Investigators from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and LKA Baden-Württemberg consider the man to be one of the masterminds behind the notorious REvil malware and its alleged predecessor Gandcrab.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). for months. .

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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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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

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

A few days ago, the researchers of ZLab Yoroi-Cybaze dissected another attack wave of the infamous Ursnif malware, also known as Gozi ISFB , an offspring of the original Gozi which source code was leaked in 2014. Ursnif/Gozi is active from over a decade and was one of the most active malware listed in 2017 and 2018.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by exploiting known vulnerabilities and conducting brute-force attacks. In a recent campaign, the group targeted i686 and x86_64 Linux systems and uses RCE exploits for CVE-2022-26134 (Atlassian Confluence) and CVE-2019-2725 (WebLogic) for initial access.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. For instance, malicious spam campaigns targeting organizations grew 10-fold in April 2022, spreading Qbot and Emotet malware.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2022

In the 2019 incident, Thompson used her hacking prowess—and insider knowledge of AWS vulnerability scanning—to steal the personal data of more than 100 million people in the U.S. The hacker, operating under the online alias of "erratic," went on to illegally install malware on unlawfully accessed servers to mine for cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

Clop ransomware gang has been active since February 2019, it targeted many organizations and universities over the years. In February 2021, FireEye researchers reported the collaboration between the Clop gang and the FIN11 cybercrime group. The attackers received a “ransom” in cryptocurrency for decrypting the information.”

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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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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. Install and update Malware Remover to the latest version.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Our most recent cybersecurity research is now available in the “ Cybersecurity Trends in 2019: Protecting Websites in the Age of Stealth Attacks ” report. 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.

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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. DOJ prosecutors say Oleg Koshkin, a 41-year-old Russian national, operated a crypting service used to conceal Kelihos malware from antivirus software. One of those threat actors was just convicted in a United States courtroom.

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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. DOJ prosecutors say Oleg Koshkin, a 41-year-old Russian national, operated a crypting service used to conceal Kelihos malware from antivirus software. One of those threat actors was just convicted in a United States courtroom.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

As a result of the raids on 232 sites, the agents have found weapons, drugs, computers, around 50,000 euros ($56,300) in cash, cryptocurrency, the police also seized 300 terabytes of data. ” Local authorities arrested a 26-year-old man suspected to be the administrator of the forum in May 2019 while he was entering Germany. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

CVE-2019-9019 affects British Airways Entertainment System on Boeing 777-36N(ER). Fbot malware targets HiSilicon DVR/NVR Soc devices. Malware spam campaign exploits WinRAR flaw to deliver Backdoor. Recently disclosed Drupal CVE-2019-6340 RCE flaw exploited in the wild. Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2019 has arrived.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

According to the indictment, in late 2019, the man launched and operated a darknet marketplace to sell illicit narcotics, including opioids, stimulants, psychedelics, and prescription medications, among other drugs. .” According to DoJ, the is charged with facilitating $18 million in illegal drug transactions using cryptocurrency.

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