Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Researchers discovered a new Linux malware developed with the shell script compiler ( shc ) that was used to deliver a cryptocurrency miner. The ASEC analysis team recently discovered that a Linux malware developed with shell script compiler ( shc ) that threat actors used to install a CoinMiner. ” reads the report published by ASEC.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

The man is known in the cybercrime underground for selling billions of stolen credentials. Early last year, it caught the attention of global cybersecurity experts by posting on one of the forums the sale of a database with 773 million e-mail addresses and 21 million unique passwords.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In May, researchers at cybersecurity firm Cyble analyzed a Tor website named named ‘Eternity Project’ that offers for sale a broad range of malware, including stealers, miners, ransomware, and DDoS Bots. The operators behind the project allow their customers to customize the binary features through the Telegram channel.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

Cryptocurrency wallet attacks. People new to cryptocurrency often gravitate to services which take the hassle out of setting everything up. Some folks may feel the above process isn’t as secure as storing their cryptocurrency on standalone devices. Below, we dig into a few of those. Ransomware supply chain triple-threat.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. used the password 225948. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. A zombie network, named Abcbot by researchers, first hit the radar in July, but at the time it was little more than a simple scanner attacking Linux systems by brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting known vulnerabilities.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This makes stealthy attacks incredibly popular in the cybercrime community. Cybercriminals conducting DDoS attacks deploy a network of hacked machines called a “botnet” to flood servers with traffic they can’t handle. Even when a DDoS attack doesn’t take a site completely offline, it usually slows it enough to make it unusable.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The first version spotted by TrendMicro includes a DDoS script that could be used by botmaster to set-up DDoS for-hire service offered on the dark web. Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2023

million in critical infrastructure cyber projects via new program Ivanti Ships Urgent Patch for API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Defense contractor Belcan leaks admin password with a list of flaws Leaseweb is restoring ‘critical’ systems after security breach Microsoft is now a cybersecurity titan.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. This application contains a legitimate program called DeFi Wallet, that saves and manages a cryptocurrency wallet, but also implants a malicious file when executed. We recently discovered a Trojanized DeFi application, compiled in November 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For example, once it infects your device, a keylogger will start tracking every keystroke you make and sending a log of those keystrokes to the hacker, allowing them to reconstruct any sensitive information you might have entered after infection, such as your PIN, password, or social security number.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Casinos of tribal communities are losing millions in Ransomware attacks Threat actors stole $55 million worth of cryptocurrency from bZx DeFi platform Philips Tasy EMR healthcare infomatics solution vulnerable to SQL injection White hat hackers earn over $1 Million at Pwn2Own Austin 2021 A drone was modified to disrupt U.S. Operators made $2.1

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Cryptocurrencies are represented in hacked accounts to trading sites. And there are even more specialized products such as DDoS attacks, email databases, and malware. Monero is the cryptocurrency of choice, instead, and all communications must be PGP encrypted. Cryptocurrency trading accounts. DDoS Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

ChatGPT can be trained to identify and mitigate network security threats like DDoS attacks when used in conjunction with other technologies. Researchers also discovered cybercriminals exchanging ideas about how to create dark web marketplaces using ChatGPT that sell stolen credentials, malware, or even drugs in exchange for cryptocurrency.

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