SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. Most of the statistics presented in the report were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You got it – in 2020, your employees will be using corporate devices on home networks to shop the best deals of the holiday season. Turn on 2 Factor Authentication (2FA / MFA). Turn on 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) in your Email App. this is also commonly referred to as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. He will also earn credit for the 229 days that he has already spent in jail.

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BH Consulting

JULY 26, 2022

In 2017, we published a guide to dealing with ransomware and updated it in 2020 to reflect how the threat had adapted. For years, we’ve encouraged all victims of cybercrime to report to law enforcement so the agencies can gather intelligence, share information, understand threats better, and develop responses.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon. The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Cybercrime Banking Computers and Electronics DDOS 215

Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Part of Megatraffer’s ad. Image: Ke-la.com.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

.” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020. A LinkedIn profile for Rizky says he is a backend Web developer in Bandung who earned a bachelor’s degree in information technology in 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

The first issue, tracked as CVE-2020-8467 , impacts the migration tool component of Apex One and OfficeScan. It could be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installs. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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Authentication Advertising Antivirus Cybercrime 103

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybercrime is a big business. Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. Ransomware is already the fastest-growing type of cybercrime , and IABs make it more accessible to novice criminals. Mitigating IABs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to the Alert (AA20-283A), advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are exploiting multiple legacy vulnerabilities in combination with a the recently discovered Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472). The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon. ” reads the report.

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VPN Government Authentication Advertising 139

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

This post examines some of the clues left behind by “ Wazawaka ,” the hacker handle chosen by a major access broker in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has been a highly active member of multiple cybercrime forums over the past decade, but his favorite is the Russian-language community Exploit.

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DDOS Accountability Cybercrime Ransomware 272

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 18, 2021

The announcement came on the heels of a turbulent year for the major cybercrime store, and just weeks after U.S. But 2020 turned out to be a tough year for Joker’s Stash. 16, 2020, several of Joker’s long-held domains began displaying notices that the sites had been seized by the U.S. Image: Gemini Advisory.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“AbstractEmu does not exploit zero-click remote exploits, instead it exploits very contemporary vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-0041, CVE-2020-0069, CVE-2019-2215 and CVE-2020-0041 ) from 2019 and 2020 to target the largest number of devices as possible. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Malware Cybercrime Mobile Banking 91

SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) cybercrime groups. Since January 2020 , our telemetry shows that Grandoreiro has attacked mostly Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey. Grandoreiro and Trojan-Banker.Win32.Melcoz.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

Scams 315

Scams Insurance DDOS Authentication 315

Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. First American released its first quarter 2020 earnings today. In the days that followed, the DFS and U.S. A hearing on the charges alleged by the DFS is slated for Oct.

Insurance 308

Insurance Financial Services Penetration Testing Scams 308

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020. In the years leading up to his arrest, Ferizi was the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Pentagon Crew.

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Identity Theft Government Social Engineering Accountability 318

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Taiwanese vendor QNAP has published an advisory to warn customers that certain versions of the operating system for its network-attached storage (NAS) devices, also known as of QTS, are affected by the Zerologon vulnerability ( CVE-2020-1472 ). The CVE-2020-1472 flaw is an elevation of privilege that resides in the Netlogon.

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Authentication Advertising Architecture Cybercrime 80

BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

Shedding the light of the law on cybercrime methods Today’s cybercrime landscape involves criminals operating across borders as business-like syndicates, says Europol. The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. ” LAPSUS$ recruiting insiders via its Telegram channel. .

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Social Engineering Accountability Mobile Passwords 295

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Europol investigators revealed that the cybercrime organization stole more than $100 million worth of cryptocurrency using SIM Swapping attacks. The National Crime Agency revealed that the SIM swapping attacks targeted numerous victims throughout 2020, including well-known influencers, sports stars, musicians, and their families.

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Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Accountability Authentication 78

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“From January 2018 to December 2020, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 320 complaints related to SIM swapping incidents with adjusted losses of approximately $12 million. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting.

Mobile 89

Mobile Cryptocurrency Authentication Accountability 89

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stolen data spans from 2006 and 2019, local media outlets have confirmed their authenticity. Threat actors are also offering a file containing information from 2020 to those that will buy the database. As a bonus to the purchase, a file with information from 2020 is offered.

Insurance 96

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

billion user login combinations, was posted on a cybercrime forum last week. On February 2, 2020, user Singularity0x01 created a thread on the popular English-language cybercriminal forum RaidForums titled ‘Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB) 3.8Billion (Public),” Digital Shadows researcher Ivan Righi said.

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Passwords Data breaches Accountability Password Management 119

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Since then, the company has steadily cast off the need for passwords for various accounts, and by May 2020, 150 million people had stopped using passwords. Google automatically makes account holders use two-factor authentication. million every second to cybercrime and that 80 percent of attacks are directed at passwords.

Accountability 122

Accountability Passwords Authentication Phishing 122

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. So did the 2020 Twitter hack. Two in five small and medium businesses were impacted by ransomware in 2020. Spear Phishing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

. “To secure systems against Conti ransomware, CISA, FBI, and the National Security Agency (NSA) recommend implementing the mitigation measures described in this Advisory, which include requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA), implementing network segmentation, and keeping operating systems and software up to date.”

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Ransomware Cybercrime Authentication Healthcare 93

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. 22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers.

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Passwords Password Management Phishing Scams 358

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The security breach was discovered on November 13, 2023, and impacted customers who made purchases from the Samsung UK online store between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020. In March 2020, Samsung disclosed another data breach after it was hit by an attack conducted by the data extortion group Lapsus$.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Here’s the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email inboxes per day, and apparently does little else with this access except siphon gift card and customer loyalty program data that can be resold online. “For context, our research indicates that multi-factor authentication prevents more than 99.9%

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

As it turned out, calling the phone number on the back of the credit card from the phone number linked with the card provided the most recent transactions without providing any form of authentication.” ” The incident Jim described happened in late January 2020, and Citi may have changed its procedures since then.

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Scams Banking Accountability Financial Services 359

Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Authentication best practices to prevent sophisticated phishing attacks Phishing is low effort yet very effective at allowing hackers to steal credentials. Phishing and socially engineered attacks can be prevented with multi-factor authentication (MFA or 2FA) in most instances.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybercriminals know that the more subscribers a service has, the more likely that messages sent to random phone numbers will reach subscribers who believe that the received messages are authentic communications from the relevant service. rate of growth experienced the year prior.

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