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%). ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 8, 2021

The information released in the FBI 2020 Internet Crime Report is staggering when it comes to the sheer scope of the crimes committed. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) provides information to the public regarding cybercrime and allows citizens to report crimes directly to the government. Record Number of Complaints.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The United Nations on Friday have approved a Russian-sponsored and China-backed resolution to create a new convention on cybercrime. The United Nations on Friday has approved a Russian-sponsored and China-backed resolution to create a new convention on cybercrime.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The costliest cybercrimes were against businesses, involving Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) schemes that added up to U.S. IC3 data is used by the FBI and local law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute cybercrimes.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BEC attacks comprised nearly half of cybercrime losses last year, which totaled $3.5 billion overall as Internet-enabled crimes ramped up.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2022

The infection chain starts with the installation of a tainted program downloaded from the Internet. The post Nitrokod crypto miner infected systems across 11 countries since 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs. The attackers used a scheduled tacks mechanism to implement delays between each stage of the infection chain.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

The FBI just released its annual Internet Crime Report, and it is truly a sign of the times. The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. And this year's report highlights five "hot topics.". Business Email Compromise 2020. Tech support fraud.

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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. Powershell build.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 20, 2024, we reported how the data of over 70 million people was posted for sale on an online cybercrime forum. AT&T has still not disclosed the source of the leak, but says the data appears to be from June 2019 or earlier. The seller claimed the data came from the Shiny Hunters breach.

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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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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. The company believes that leaked data are from 2019 or earlier. Based on our preliminary analysis, the data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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. The post Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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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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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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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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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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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. info , allproxy[.]info

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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 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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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

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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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). He is accused of conspiracy to commit various cybercrimes, such as gaining authorized access to protected computers and causing unauthorized damage to protected computers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

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. Various 16Shop lures for Apple users in different languages. Image: Akamai.

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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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McAfee

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The talent shortage , coupled with the increasing volume of threats and the changing cybercrime landscape, presents a problem which is only getting worse. As more and more devices are connected to the internet, businesses, manufacturers and end users must be increasingly vigilant. 12 th Annual MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2020

While what my source did was technically wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet through false pretenses), cybercriminals bent on using fake.gov domains to hoodwink Americans likely would not be deterred by such concerns. Then you either mail or fax it in. After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.”.

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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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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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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.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

According to a report published by Crowdstrike, the group is now trying to sell access to some to compromised companies on a cybercrime forum. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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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. hospitals and healthcare providers. ” reads the alert.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

But regular consumers are equally affected by cybercrime, directly or indirectly. A key stat: cybercrime in 2020 was marked by a visible and aggressive targeting of the human layer. A key stat: cybercrime in 2020 was marked by a visible and aggressive targeting of the human layer. Aligned efforts to capitalize on COVID-19.

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