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Europol lifts the lid on cybercrime tactics

Malwarebytes

The report follows the Internet Organized Crime Assessment (IOCTA), Europol’s assessment of the cybercrime landscape and how it has changed over the last 24 months. The Russian conflict with Ukraine led to a significant boost in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against EU targets.

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Crooks target Ukraine’s IT Army with a tainted DDoS tool

Security Affairs

Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a malware campaign targeting Ukraine’s IT Army , threat actors are using infostealer malware mimicking a DDoS tool called the “Liberator.” Once downloaded, these files infect unwitting users rather than delivering the tools originally advertised.” ” continues the report.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Quotpw/Ahick/Edgard/ципа advertising his coding services in this Google-translated forum posting.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com, super-socks[.]com,

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New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two years while targeting SOHO Routers

Security Affairs

Threat actors behind the campaign aimed at building a botnet to use for a range of criminal activities from password spraying to digital advertising fraud. .”” reads the analysis published by Lumen. The AVrecon malware was written in C to ensure portability and designed to target ARM-embedded devices. ” concludes the report.

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Ukrainian police dismantled a bot farm involved in multiple spam campaigns

Security Affairs

Cybercrime is a prolific business, criminal organizations continues to make profits with illegal activities in the cyberspace, but police are ready to contrast them. Crooks were preserving their anonymity using VPN and TOR services. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. “Cyber ??

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Avaddon ransomware campaign prompts warnings from FBI, ACSC

Malwarebytes

Both the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued warnings about an ongoing cybercrime campaign that is using Avaddon ransomware. After Avaddon actors gain access to a victim’s network, they map the network and identify backups for deletion and/or encryption. Additional threats.