Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The locations of alleged GozNym cybercrime group members. According to the indictment, the GozNym network exemplified the concept of ‘cybercrime as a service,’ in that the defendants advertised their specialized technical skills and services on underground, Russian-language, online criminal forums. Source: DOJ.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Last year, the French security firm Intrinsec detailed Prospero’s connections to bulletproof services advertised on Russian cybercrime forums under the names Securehost and BEARHOST. And BEARHOST has been cultivating its reputation since at least 2019. The bulletproof hosting provider BEARHOST. Image: Ke-la.com.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2025

He is internationally wanted for multiple cybercrime, including ransomware attacks, blackmail, and money laundering, targeting Dutch companies. “He is wanted internationally for committing several cybercrimes (ransomware attacks, blackmail, and money laundering) against companies based in the Netherlands.” million euros.”

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2022

As per an article by The Hindu, 50,035 cases of cybercrime were reported in 2020, 11.8% more than in 2019 while 60.2% of cybercrimes were of fraud. The post Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World appeared first on Kratikal Blogs. The post Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World appeared first on Kratikal Blogs.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. “It picked up steam in mid-2020, growing the average ransom to $65,000 last year, up from $18,800 in 2019.” ” Image: Chainalysis.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. The other three restaurants are all part of the same parent company and disclosed breaches in August 2019. Image: Gemini Advisory.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. billion in 2019. In August 2019, the company said a third-party investigation into the exposure identified just 32 consumers whose non-public personal information likely was accessed without authorization.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

“Emotet’s return is not coincidental, it is caused by major shifts in the overall cybercrime domain. This has been proven by the alliance of TrickBot , Emotet , and Ryuk : the three major players of the pre-2019 cybercrime hierarchy. The Conti operations will leverage Emotet to deliver their payload to high-value targets.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Q6Cyber CEO Eli Dominitz said the breach appears to extend from May 2019 through September 2020. Gemini puts the exposure window between July 2019 and August 2020. the vast majority of the payment card data for sale in the cybercrime underground is stolen from merchants who are still swiping chip-based cards.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. In late 2019, BriansClub changed its homepage to include doctored images of my Social Security and passport cards, credit report and mobile phone bill information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2023

The program was developed in the year 2019 and after a long pause, the service of crafting the service was resumed at the end of last year. The mapping will be called as Cybercrime Atlas and arrangements are being made to host it at the World Economic Forum(WEF) in the next 18-20 months.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

The cybercrime group ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown backdoor known as GoRed. Positive Technologies researchers reported that a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In February 2020, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about being contacted by an Internal Revenue Service investigator seeking to return funds seized seven years earlier as part of the governments 2013 seizure of Liberty Reserve , a virtual currency service that acted as a $6 billion hub for the cybercrime world.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime. 3, 2019, Data Viper’s Twitter account casually noted , “FiveStars — 44m breached records added – incl Name, Email, DOB.” An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. But on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

Which means when a cybercrime forum gets hacked and its user databases posted online, it is often possible to work backwards from some of the more unique passwords for each account and see where else that password was used. As I described in a 2019 story about an interview Fly gave to a Russian publication upon his release from a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity decided to test this expanded policy with what would appear to be a no-brainer request: I asked Google to remove search result for BriansClub , one of the largest (if not THE largest) cybercrime stores for selling stolen payment card data. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. First advertised in the cybercrime underground in 2014, RSOCKS was the web-based storefront for hacked computers that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their Web traffic through someone else’s device. But that action did not name any defendants.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The cybercrime group XE Group exploited a VeraCore zero-day to deploy reverse shells, web shells in recent attacks. The group was also observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Telerik UI such as CVE-2017-9248 and CVE-2019-18935. ” reads the analysis published by Intezer.

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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 those sources, U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The answer involved Bitcoin, but also Taleon’s new service. Petersburg.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented in 2019 revealed that deepfakes generated by AI could deceive humans up to 60% of the time. These services allow attackers with minimal technical expertise to execute advanced attacks, democratizing cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

First debuting in early 2019, CLOP is one of several ransomware groups that hack into organizations, launch ransomware that encrypts files and servers, and then demand an extortion payment in return for a digital key needed to unlock access. ?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

22 on RAMP , a new and fairly exclusive Russian-language darknet cybercrime forum. Fortinet said the credentials were collected from systems that hadn’t yet implemented a patch issued in May 2019. ” reads the Oct. 22 post from Groove calling for attacks on the United States government sector. Groove was first announced Aug.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The investigator — we’ll call him “George” — said the 23-year-old Medayedupin lives with his extended family in an extremely impoverished home, and that the young man told investigators he’d just graduated from college but turned to cybercrime at first with ambitions of merely scamming the scammers.

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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. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

19 individuals worldwide were charged in a transnational cybercrime investigation of the now defunct xDedic marketplace. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime)

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

” In another thread from June 2019, an Antichat user asks if anyone has heard from Isis recently, and Isis pops up a day later to inquire what he wants. That same email address was used to register the account “Isis” at several other top Russian-language cybercrime forums, including Damagelab, Zloy, Evilzone and Priv-8.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2025

Sansec identified these backdoors in the following packages which were published between 2019 and 2022.” ” Below are the backdoored extensions that were published between 2019 and 2022. In older versions (2019), this required no authentication, but newer versions require a secret key. ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “According to the analysis of foreign law enforcement agencies, more than 50% of all phishing attacks in 2019 in Australia were carried out thanks to the development of the Ternopil hacker,” the attorney general’s office said, noting that investigators had identified hundreds of U-Admin customers. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. The fraud bazaar Joker’s Stash on Monday began selling some 30 million stolen payment card accounts that experts say have been tied back to a breach at Wawa in 2019. Representatives from MasterCard did not respond to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most people who who filed a tax return in 2018 and/or 2019 and provided their bank account information for a debit or credit should soon see an Economic Impact Payment direct-deposited into their bank accounts. Likewise, people drawing Social Security payments from the government will receive stimulus payments the same way.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In mid-August, a member of a popular Russian-language cybercrime forum offered to sell access to the internal network of a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who’ve recently re-indicted him on related charges. issued international arrest warrant for his extradition.

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