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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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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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. This is a well-reasoned treatise collaboratively assembled by board members of the Internet Security Alliance ( ISA.) This is because economic incentives favor the attackers.

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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

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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2020

While what my source did was technically wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet through false pretenses), cybercriminals bent on using fake.gov domains to hoodwink Americans likely would not be deterred by such concerns. Then you either mail or fax it in. After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.”.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cybercrime isn’t just a futuristic Hollywood plotline, it’s a real threat that targets everyone—from wide-eyed kids to seasoned adults and wise grandparents. They come in all shapes and sizes, lurking in the shadowy corners of the internet. You can also be a good internet citizen by forwarding these scams to the U.S.

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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. After acknowledging someone had also seized their Internet servers, DarkSide announced it was folding. Department of Justice. Image: FBI. sanctions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

increasingly relies on cloud services and the internet. 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.

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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 Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

In response to the incident, the company disconnected the affected systems from the internet to prevent the threat from spreading. 18 Gb.dwg - 38295 pcs - drawings and schematics of chips, microchips, transistors, etc. The chipmaker confirmed it became aware of the unauthorized access to certain Nexperia IT servers in March 2024.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. That individual recently gave his first interview since finishing his jail time here in the states, and he’s shared some select (if often abrasive and coarse) details on how he got into cybercrime and why.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What will cyber security look like now that those tools are all over the internet? Spyware are powerful weapons in the arsenal of governments and cybercrime gangs. How are some governments using the Internet to threaten world peace in one way or another? Is making the internet a safe place technically possible?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers. Image: Intel471.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2023

I'd have been left with little choice but to hang out on dodgy Internet forums or to sidle up to people wearing hoodies in the hope they're prepared to trade their morals for money. But the Internet has been fighting off idiots slinging code they didn't write and don't understand for decades. Not anymore though. It wouldn't, no way. "I

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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 has been the most widespread fraud in the world during the pandemic.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

. “This ‘malvertising’ scheme is especially dangerous because it uses online ads to target millions of unsuspecting Internet users engaged in activities as routine as booking their next vacation.” based internet advertising company to spread malicious advertising. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, malspam).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I am writing to you from an old desktop computer in the tent of the chaplain who works on behalf of a refugee agency, because here there is no internet point or effective means of communication. […]. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns, the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war with its much larger neighbor, and of course Mikko’s new book, If it’s Smart, it’s Vulnerable. The second largest company in the USA was not hacked yesterday. That's not news.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the 1980s, the internet as we know it today was called ARPANET and used mostly by researchers and the military. According to Cliff Stoll, author of the book The Cuckoo's Egg , the community was small, and the level of trust was very high. What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Pope Nicholas V founded the library in 1451, and it has grown to be one of the world's most important institutions with an unbelievable collection of manuscripts, books, and artwork. Swaths of history, previously explored only by white-gloved historians, are now made available to anyone with a internet connection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Russia is going to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. I have authored 13 books on these subjects, including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015). They collect everything about what we do on the Internet. Before the.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The talent shortage , coupled with the increasing volume of threats and the changing cybercrime landscape, presents a problem which is only getting worse. As more and more devices are connected to the internet, businesses, manufacturers and end users must be increasingly vigilant. The Release of The Cybersecurity Playbook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The infection chain was divided into four stages : The malware was installed through a dropper, a program executed by opening an attachment to a deceptive e-mail, probably a fake pdf or doc file, or executed directly from the Internet, without user interaction, exploiting the exploit described in the point 4. Twitter @Slvlombardo.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

We’ve also observed several different wipers and cybercrime groups such as FormBook using the same tactics. skin/office/updates/GtkjdsjkyLkjhsTYhdsd/putty.exe CobaltStrike: Putty.exe d4eaf26969848d8027df7c8c638754f55437c0937fbf97d0d24cd20dd92ca66d CobaltStrike C2: wikipedia-book[.]vote/async/newtab_ogb

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The intoxicating Internet. While investigating the manufacture of counterfeit alcohol, we reached a disappointing conclusion: namely that buying a bottling or production line is no more complicated than ordering a book or a smartphone”, commented Andrey Busargin, Director of Brand Protection at Group-IB. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

I started this research on September 2016, when I started writing my my book, “The Prison of the Humanity – from the deep web to 4.0 An Iceberg has always been used as a visual representation of the Internet world. It is very easy to access to the Tor network or browse content on other anonymizing networks like I2P.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

More businesses are moving online , cybercrime like ransomware continues its meteoric rise , and state-backed advanced persistent threat groups are targeting the weakest links in the hardware and software supply chains to compromise targets downstream. “Any Microsoft).

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

Since OpenAI allows developers to modify its official APIs, some have tested a few nefarious theories by creating ChaosGPT, an internet-connected “evil” version that runs actions users do not intend. However, even when ChatGPT is engaged in ominous activities, the outcomes at present are rather harmless.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Themida uses an extremely complex virtual machine environment combined with every anti-debug and anti-analysis trick in the books, combined with many different obfuscation methods. During this analysis we detect that malware performs several connections to “ www.bing.com ” — maybe to validate a successful connection to the Internet.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

.” I wrote about the pending Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002 (CSEA) and said: “ The problem with this legislation is that it's often very difficult to determine who is responsible for any given cybercrime. When people feel threatened by it they want to throw the book at Yeah. Who is responsible?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Vamosi: And three years later cybercrime magazine released a similar study showing there remains a shortage of 3.5 It was used to describe people who had access to the internet in their home, and those who did not, that still remains.

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