Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. LOW FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 2, 2020

From July through September, US law enforcement handed down major indictments or sanctions against foreign threat groups at least six times.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

The book was written by several members of ERI’s leadership team, Aaron Blum, Kevin Dillon, Brendan Egan, John Shegerian and Tammy Shegerian and is available for purchase via Amazon Prime as a physical copy or digitally on Amazon. ERI’s mission is to protect people, the planet and privacy.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

Since then, he has defused global viruses, searched for the first virus authors in a Pakistani conflict zone, and traveled the globe advising law enforcement and governments on cybercrime. He has also recently published a book, If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable , where he explains how the growth of internet connectivity has fueled cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Researchers discovered a series of incidents involving software credit card skimmer used by Magecart to hit the booking websites of hotel chains. “The downloaded script for mobile devices is a credit card skimmer which can steal the information entered on the hotel booking page and send it to a remote server.”

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He has led organizations within the cybersecurity industry for over 25 years, and has written books ranging from the best-selling Cybersecurity for Dummies to the official study guide from which many CISOs study for certification exams in advanced information security management. patent filings.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 25, 2023

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The creation of a dedicated emergency number for cybersecurity could provide an effective solution to this rapidly growing challenge The growing threat of cybercrime is calling for new and innovative defense strategies. This would have a long-term impact on cybercrime prevention, helping to create a society more aware of digital threats.

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 3, 2022

The police have considerable experience with these types of incidents, and it is hoped that the culprits will be identified and brought to book. The post Norwegian Media Behemoth is the Latest Victim of Cybercrime appeared first on Hacker Combat.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the eyes of many, the war on cybercrime is being lost. Ransomware, identity theft, and other cybercrime is on the rise. For example, I experienced first-hand when I started in this sector that the cost of books, courses and accreditations was and remains astronomical. Cybercrime can leave devastating consequences.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

In contrast, WormGPT has promoted itself as a new, uncensored LLM that was created specifically for cybercrime activities. WormGPT was initially sold exclusively on HackForums , a sprawling, English-language community that has long featured a bustling marketplace for cybercrime tools and services. “I’m an open book.”

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Hot for Security

MAY 25, 2021

As travel restrictions begin to ease, the UK’s national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime is warning the British public to watch out for holiday fraud. The agency’s report reveals that 56% of accounts were linked to booking airline tickets online and just 29% to holiday accommodation.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Indeed, those messages show Sosa/King Bob was obsessed with finding new “ grails ,” the slang term used in some cybercrime discussion channels to describe recordings from popular artists that have never been officially released.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The database included the personally identifiable information of Blink Mobility customers and administrators, including: Phone number Email address Encrypted password Registration date Device info and device token Details on subscription and rented vehicles (license plate, VIN, booking start and end location, etc.)

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the reasons why there’s so much cybercrime is because there are so many ways for cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities and circumvent even the best defenses. Take a deep dive into the three main hacker types and get tips on how to defend against them by downloading the e-book, Hacker Personas: a deeper Look Into Cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Services like SWAT are known as “Drops for stuff” on cybercrime forums. The login page for the criminal reshipping service SWAT USA Drop. “SwatVerified.”

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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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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. “In December 2021, the online booking service FlexBooker suffered a data breach that exposed 3.7 Threat actors compromised the FlexBooker accounts of more than 3.7 million users, the attack took place before the holidays. million accounts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That reporting was based on clues from an early Russian cybercrime forum in which a hacker named Rescator — using the same profile image that Rescator was known to use on other forums — claimed to have originally been known as “Helkern,” the nickname chosen by the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Darklife.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

Reinvention is a basic survival skill in the cybercrime business. Among the oldest tricks in the book is to fake one’s demise or retirement and invent a new identity. ” The Business Club was a notorious Eastern European organized cybercrime gang accused of stealing more than $100 million from banks and businesses worldwide.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Related: Preparing for ‘quantum’ hacks That being so, a new book, Fixing American Cybersecurity , could be a long overdue stake in the ground. Part one of the book catalogues how cyber criminals and US adversaries have taken full advantage of systemic flaws in how we’ve come to defend business and government networks.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

” Kurittu said he and others who worked on the investigation into Kivimaki’s previous cybercrimes couldn’t shake the suspicion that the infamous cybercriminal was also behind the Vastaamo extortion. “There were also other projects and databases.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. The user dfyz on Searchengines[.]ru

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? Dancho Danchev’s “Intell on the Criminal Underground – Who’s Who in Cybercrime for ” Presentation – [PDF].

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

Basic OTR Protocol Overview in the context of the global growing cybercrime trend. It should be worth pointing out over 98% of Russian and Eastern European cybercrime-friendly propositions actively rely on the use of public and private proprietary Jabber-based servers and active OTR (Off-the-Record) type of communications.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email.

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Naked Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Hear renowned cybersecurity author Andy Greenberg's thoughtful commentary about the "war on crypto" as we talk to him about his new book.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 29, 2023

” This quote by Dr. Chase Cunningham from his book, “Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies,” seems a fitting way to begin the topic of cybersecurity battlegrounds. ” How to Apply For the modern day, we’ll expand this to studying how other companies have dealt with cybercrime and cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The group reported that the alleged stolen data includes booking confirmations for the past 3 years. This data includes PDF & RTF booking confirmations for the past 3 years (5.5 The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang added Motel One to the list of victims on its Tor leak site.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

This study, edited by Professor Luigi Martino and Nada Gamal, approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary point of view, considering critical infrastructures, skills, strategic autonomy, AI, cybercrime, privacy, and the use of space. The book is structured in eleven chapters as follows: Pablo A.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In April, Hyundai suffered another data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. The crooks provided Bleeping Computer with evidence of the data breach, it seems that the gang stole data from various departments, including legal, sales, and human resources.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

” The security breach occurred at a service provider that lets customers book flights, hotels and other reservations using an online portal. It is important to note that American Express owned or controlled systems were not compromised by this incident, and we are providing this notice to you as a precautionary measure.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted for their part in an investigation into Pavel Vrublevsky , a convicted cybercriminal who ran one of the world’s biggest spam networks and was a major focus of my 2014 book, Spam Nation.

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