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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. ShinyHunters is a popular hacking crew that is known to have offered for sale data stolen from tens of major organizations, including Tokopedia , Homechef , Chatbooks.com , Microsoft , and Minted.

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Data breaches Telecommunications Cybercrime Hacking 134

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. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

The infection chain starts with the installation of a tainted program downloaded from the Internet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Nitrokod ). The post Nitrokod crypto miner infected systems across 11 countries since 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs. Check Point shared Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this campaign.

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Malware Software Internet Internet 93

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten, also known as Fox Kitten or Parisite, is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The source code of the infamous Dharma ransomware is now available for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source code of one of the most profitable ransomware families, the Dharma ransomware , is up for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. ” concluded ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

In February 2019, CenturyLink Threat Research Labs collected evidence that botnet actor has sold this proxy botnet as a service to other cybercrime gangs that were using it for credential brute forcing, video advertisement fraud, general traffic obfuscation and more.

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IoT Cybercrime Internet Internet 124

Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019.

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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.

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Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Hacking 94

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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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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Phishing Cybercrime Malware Advertising 221

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. Image: Akamai.

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Phishing Passwords Internet Internet 192

Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Megatraffer has continued to offer their code-signing services across more than a half-dozen other Russian-language cybercrime forums, mostly in the form of sporadically available EV and non-EV code-signing certificates from major vendors like Thawte and Comodo.

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Malware Cybercrime Software Antivirus 242

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Justice Department announced the seizure of internet domains used to sell the remote access Trojan Warzone RAT (www.warzone[.]ws). Meli allegedly provided cybercriminals with malware products and services via online hacking forums. The two individuals are charged with selling and supporting the Warzone RAT and other malware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Racoon malware , Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. 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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Cybercrime Malware Cryptocurrency Advertising 91

Threatpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Cybercriminals double down on successful internet scams, with a focus on phishing, BEC and other defrauding schemes that have proven to work.

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Scams Phishing Internet Internet 107

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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Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Backups 218

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

ShinyHunters is a popular hacking crew that is known to have offered for sale data stolen from tens of major organizations, including Tokopedia , Homechef , Chatbooks.com , Microsoft , and Minted. The company speculates that leaked data are from 2019 or earlier. AT&T told CNN. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Data breaches Telecommunications Identity Theft Hacking 101

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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Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Banking Mobile 142

Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

International ‘Malvertiser’ Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited from the Netherlands to face hacking charges in New Jersey. 3, 2018, and unsealed upon his arrival in the United States on May 2, 2019.” based internet advertising company to spread malicious advertising. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, malspam).

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Hacking Advertising Cybercrime Internet 75

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Europol this week announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. An international operation conducted by law enforcement bodies from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. SecurityAffairs – hacking, VPNLab).

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VPN Cybercrime Ransomware Advertising 83

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This operation follows the takedown in May of last year of Wall Street Market that took place in May 2019. The Wall Street Market marketplace was considered one of the most important points of aggregation in the cybercrime underground for trading in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well as digital goods (i.e.

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Cybercrime Advertising Marketing Internet 133

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. In early 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the anchor_dns tool for abusing the DNS protocol for C2 communications. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Healthcare Ransomware Cybercrime Advertising 142

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 304

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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Malware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Media 92

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.

Identity Theft 81

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Cyber threats Cybercrime 81

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Iranian nation-state actors are attempting to buy info available for sale in the cybercrime underground to launch attacks against US organizations. Attackers also use to exploit the Kentico Content Management System (CVE-2019-10068) and used SQLmap to bypass Web Application Firewalls. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Iran).

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VPN Cybercrime Passwords Firewall 91

Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Department of Justice, the U.S.

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Scams Identity Theft Phishing Accountability 130

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. PA Unit 42 found that the average ransom paid by organisations nearly tripled over the past year, from $115,123 in 2019 to $312,493. High-end ransoms have gone up significantly too.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware Banking Hacking 122

Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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Penetration Testing Ransomware Firewall Social Engineering 89

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Cybercrime Hacking Passwords 131

Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

CVE-2019-9019 affects British Airways Entertainment System on Boeing 777-36N(ER). ICANN warns of large-scale attacks on Internet infrastructure. Recently disclosed Drupal CVE-2019-6340 RCE flaw exploited in the wild. The Arsenal Behind the Australian Parliament Hack. Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2019 has arrived.

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Wireless Banking Advertising Cybercrime 57

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The source code of the Zeus Trojan is available in the cybercrime underground since 2011 allowing crooks to develop their own release since. On Dec 23 2019, this variant of Zloader was observed being distributed by the RIG Exploit Kit, experts observed small campaigns, likely for testing purposes. comparing Axe Bot 1.4.1

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Banking Advertising Malware Cybercrime 137

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

At this time, it is not clear how threat actors compromised the QNAP devices, some users claim that attackers exploited a flaw in the Photo Station software to hack them. “It is important to note that there is a free decryptor for files locked with an older version (before July 17th, 2019) of eCh0raix ransomware. TXTT” extension.

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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. Makinin controlled these infected devices as part of an extensive botnet, which is a network of compromised devices.”

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Hacking Cryptocurrency Cyber Attacks Advertising 91

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. Hacking campaign targets sites running popular Duplicator WordPress plugin. Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Banking Malware Advertising Ransomware 91