2020, Cybercrime, Hacking and Web Fraud

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook told KrebsOnSecurity it seized hundreds of accounts — mainly on Instagram — that have been stolen from legitimate users through a variety of intimidation and harassment tactics, including hacking, coercion, extortion, sextortion , SIM swapping , and swatting. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. ” But the triploo@mail.ru However, in Sept. and gezze@mail.ru.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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. ” 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. Image: ZeroFox.

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. This identity has been highly active on Breached and its predecessor RaidForums for more than two years, mostly selling databases from hacked Mexican entities. “Who does it?

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Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

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. That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

pw has been registered and abandoned by several parties since 2014, but the most recent registration data available through DomainTools.com shows it was registered in March 2020 to someone in Krasnodar, Russia with the email address edgard011012@gmail.com. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw

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How Cybercriminals are Weathering COVID-19

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In a report published today, the company said since late March 2020 it has observed several crooks complaining about COVID-19 interfering with the daily activities of their various money mules (people hired to help launder the proceeds of cybercrime). ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed.

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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

” The incident Jim described happened in late January 2020, and Citi may have changed its procedures since then. Dozens of cybercrime shops traffic in this stolen data, which is more traditionally used to defraud online merchants. . “I was appalled that Citi would do that. Click to enlarge. Image: Gemini Advisory.

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‘ValidCC,’ a Major Payment Card Bazaar and Looter of E-Commerce Sites, Shuttered

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. 16, 2020, several of Joker’s long-held domains began displaying notices that the sites had been seized by the U.S.

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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

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. Urgency should be a giant red flag.

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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. Image: Meta Transparency Report.

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Amid an Embarrassment of Riches, Ransom Gangs Increasingly Outsource Their Work

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But judging from the proliferation of help-wanted ads for offensive pentesters in the cybercrime underground, today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion: The real challenge seems to be hiring enough people to help everyone profit from the access already gained. THE DOCTOR IS IN.

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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

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. ” On top of that, it’s also difficult to know how much activity you’re not seeing.

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Russian Govt. Continues Carding Shop Crackdown

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The crackdown — the second closure of major card fraud shops by Russian authorities in as many weeks — comes closely behind Russia’s arrest of 14 alleged affiliates of the REvil ransomware gang , and has many in the cybercrime underground asking who might be next. K in January 2020. financial institutions.

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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

How Cybercriminals are Weathering COVID-19

Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

‘ValidCC,’ a Major Payment Card Bazaar and Looter of E-Commerce Sites, Shuttered

The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

Amid an Embarrassment of Riches, Ransom Gangs Increasingly Outsource Their Work

Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Russian Govt. Continues Carding Shop Crackdown

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