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.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

The webinar will feature Senior Vice President Lynn McLean and Principal Security Architect Alan Yarusevich as they introduce threat prevention from Cyemptive Technologies. In spite of an increasing number of sophisticated cybersecurity solutions being offered on the market today, cybercrimes continue to be on the rise.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The state of stalkerware in 2020 (PDF). Kaspersky’s data shows that the scale of the stalkerware issue has not improved much in 2020 compared to the last year: The number of people affected is still high. In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. between 2015 and 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

DMARC builds upon the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and the DomainKeys Identified Message (DKIM) technologies to add security and instructions for a specific domain. DMARC policies increased by 43% in 2020 and grew a further 84% in 2021 to reach nearly 5 million valid DMARC records confirmed by DNS. How Does DMARC Work?

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Cybercrime surpasses $1Trillion in global costs. A recent study has put the global cost of cybercrime at over $1 trillion for 2020. Educational technology still lacking proper security. The post Cyber News Rundown: Global Cybercrime Costs Surpass $1 Trillion appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2022

AMLBot , a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology to help cybercrooks avoid detection by anti-money laundering systems.

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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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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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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2020

When technology companies close the support door on their old systems and software, it opens the gates for cybercriminals. Windows 7 'End of Life' is a cybercrime opportunity. What else is reaching End of Life in 2020? The most recent example of this is for organizations using Windows 7.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Lastly, the DOJ says that O'Connor stalked and threatened a minor victim in June and July 2020, orchestrating a series of swatting attacks on this third victim. O'Connor, also known as "PlugwalkJoe," was extradited from Spain on April 26, 2023, after his arrest in August 2022. O'Connor's criminal activities were described by U.S.

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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. It will only serve to stifle global efforts to combat cybercrime.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Singapore, 09/18/2020 — Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, evidenced the transformation of the threat portfolio over the first half of 2020. The post Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2021

NYSE:IT ] — a $4 billion technology goliath whose analyst reports can move markets and shape the IT industry. As the largest organization dedicated to the analysis of software, Gartner’s network of analysts are well connected to the technology and software industries.

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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. “There has been no violation of our platforms and technological infrastructure,” Banorte said. ” That statement may be 100 percent true. . “Who does it?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software. “Brickings” are among the “violence-as-a-service” offerings broadly available on many cybercrime channels. 9, 2024, U.S.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 17, 2021

Today’s columnist, Derek Manky of FortiGuard Labs, writes about the need for security teams to deploy deception technologies to guard against emerging threats. There are no borders in cyberspace, so the fight against cybercrime needs to go beyond borders, as well, to include the global threat-fighting community. FortiGuard Labs.

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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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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.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

COVID-19 wasn’t the only challenge businesses faced in 2020. Last year also saw a wave of cybercrime across all industries, highlighting the need for better cybersecurity. A mid-2020 survey revealed that 82% of IT teams had increased their cloud use in response to the pandemic. In Q2 2020, the U.S. Less Third-Party Trust.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2024

The funding will be used for core research and development to build new AI technology and products to protect against generative AI threats, such as deepfake social engineering and autonomous fraud. While billions have been spent on security products, the impact of cybercrime has actually been getting worse.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

” The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) on Tuesday said the investigation began in January 2020 when the U.S. Perhaps the earliest and most important cybercrime forum DCReavers2 frequented was Darkode , where he was among the first two-dozen members. DCReavers2 was just the 22nd account to register on the Darkode cybercrime forum.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 10, 2021

While many sectors didn’t have to worry about cybercrime in the past, rapid digitization and increased connectivity have opened the door for new risks. The industry still isn’t one people think of immediately when they think of cybercrime, but that needs to change. The transportation industry is a prime example of this shift.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

26, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt information technology systems at hundreds of hospitals, clinics and medical care facilities across the United States. On Monday, Oct. hospitals and healthcare providers.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

. “South Korea’s main spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, said North Korea’s capacity to steal digital assets is considered among the best in the world because of the country’s focus on cybercrimes since U.N. economic sanctions were toughened in 2017 in response to its nuclear and missile tests.” Citing the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For the generation of children growing up today, advanced technology has been integrated into their lives since they were born. With 2020 YouGov statistics showing that 85% of six-year-olds have access to a tablet at home and, by age 17, only 4% of teenagers said that they don’t have access to a computer, it is.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Toy industry giant Mattel announced that it has suffered a ransomware attack that took place on July 28th, 2020, and impacted some of its business operations. The company filed a 10-Q form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mattel disclosed that it suffered a ransomware attack on July 28th, 2020.

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. net , privatenote[.]io

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

IABs specialize in one specific area of the cybercrime ecosystem where the victims are accumulated and then sold off to the highest bidder,” he says. IABs contributed to threat actors dwelling longer before detection: the median attacker dwell time was 15 days in 2021, up from 11 days in 2020.

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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. Europol said.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world. Definitely yes.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company specializing in the investigation and prevention of high-tech cybercrime, has published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. . Classiscam threat actors alone were found to defraud users by $ 7.75 million in one year .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2023, the researchers observed 36 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild targeting enterprise-specific technologies, while 61 vulnerabilities affected end-user platforms and products such as mobile devices, operating systems, browsers, and other applications.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The incident highlighted the growing threat of cyberattacks to healthcare organizations, which are increasingly reliant on technology to deliver care. RELATED: The Holiday Hacker Case Study ] Hackers have been targeting hospital chains since ransomware became a major cybercrime trend in 2019. In June, St.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 16, 2023

Platforms like ChipMixer, which are designed to conceal the sources and destinations of staggering amounts of criminal proceeds, undermine the public's confidence in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. FBI, Homeland Security, and DOJ. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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