Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Criminals ripping off other crooks is a constant theme in the cybercrime underworld; Accountz Club’s slogan — “the best autoshop for your favorite shops’ accounts” — just normalizes this activity by making logins stolen from users of various cybercrime shops for sale at a fraction of their account balances.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023. billion in 2023. A monetary hold was placed on $538.39

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Cybercrime will cost Germany 206 billion euros ($224 billion) in 2023, German digital association Bitkom told Reuters. According to the German digital association Bitkom, cybercrime will have a worrisome impact on the economy of the state in 2023.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2023

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2022 Internet Crime Report , which reveals the trends and impacts of cybercrime in the United States. The report shows that phishing schemes were the most common type of cybercrime reported by victims in 2022, with 300,497 complaints.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs say the crooks responsible for maintaining the QakBot botnet have rented their creation to various cybercrime groups over the years.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 to sell fraudulent Outlook accounts. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by a cybercrime group, tracked as Storm-1152, to sell fraudulent accounts. ” reads the announcement published by Microsoft.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 8, 2023

A hacking group tracked as 'Asylum Ambuscade' was observed in recent attacks targeting small to medium-sized companies worldwide, combining cyber espionage with cybercrime. [.]

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. law enforcement agents in connection with various cybercrime investigations. FLATTENING THE CURVE.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 3, 2021

You may think cybercrime is something quite recent and modern, but at the dizzying pace everything happens today, this is actually a phenomenon that has already gone through several phases of evolution and development. Countries are buying hacking skills and this is no longer something to be overlooked.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2024

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after employee data was leaked by a threat actor on a hacking forum. The hacked third-party company manages the Acer employee attendance data. ph1ns told Bleeping Computer that Acer was hacked, but threat actors did not deploy any ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2021

A suspicious wave of attacks resulted in the hack of four cybercrime forums Verified, Crdclub, Exploit, and Maza since January. Since January, a series of mysterious cyberattacks that resulted in the hack of popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. ” reads the post published by threat intelligence firm Intel 471.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Pompompurin has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years.

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SecureBlitz

MAY 16, 2023

Looking for a list of the popular types of cybercrimes? In this digital age, Cybercrime is any crime committed using the computer or any connected digital devices. Cybercrime started in the 1970s with the hacking of computerized phones to make long distance calls without paying.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The post Social engineering: Cybercrime meets human hacking appeared first on Webroot Blog. Whether it’s updating your antivirus software or learning to spot phishing traps with security awareness training , Webroot has you covered. Find the best solution for your home or your business.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

“web shells”) that various cybercrime groups worldwide have been using to commandeer any unpatched Exchange servers. 26, Shadowserver saw an attempt to install a new type of backdoor in compromised Exchange Servers, and with each hacked host it installed the backdoor in the same place: “ /owa/auth/babydraco.aspx.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 5, 2021

In what's a case of hackers getting hacked, a prominent underground online criminal forum by the name of Maza has been compromised by unknown attackers, making it the fourth forum to have been breached since the start of the year.

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The Hacker News

JULY 6, 2023

A suspected senior member of a French-speaking hacking crew known as OPERA1ER has been arrested as part of an international law enforcement operation codenamed Nervone, Interpol has announced.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 4, 2021

The Maza cybercrime forum was hacked and member data leaked in the latest of a series of attacks targeting mostly Russian-speaking hacker forums. [.].

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The post Russia Hacks Ukraine, Ukraine Hacks Russia — Day#658 appeared first on Security Boulevard. When will it end? Russia takes down Kyivstar cellular system, Ukraine destroys Russian tax system.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

19 individuals worldwide were charged in a transnational cybercrime investigation of the now defunct xDedic marketplace. In 2016 the service was offering up to 70,000 hacked servers for as little as $6, and with 416 registered sellers in 173 countries, the platform was operating a highly successful global business model.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. The availability of the source in the cybercrime ecosystem can allow threat actors to develop their own version of the Hello Kitty ransomware. The HelloKitty gang has been active since January 2021.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) that is called BunnyLoader, which has been advertised for sale in multiple cybercrime forums since September 4, 2023. Cybersecurity researchers spotted a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) called BunnyLoader that’s appeared in the threat landscape.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Ten years in, Microsoft’s DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company’s technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors.

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Digital Guardian

JUNE 22, 2023

DOJ ESTABLISHES CYBERCRIME ENFORCEMENT UNIT AS U.S. WARNINGS MOUNT OVER CHINESE HACKING BY AJ VICENS

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group (aka Carbanak ) that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. They then use OpenSSH and Impacket to move laterally and deploy Clop ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The malware was advertised on cybercrime forums since early March, it is under active development and its operators planned to add new features to capture data from Apple’s Safari browser and the Notes app. It can infect Catalina and subsequent macOS versions running on Intel M1 and M2 CPUs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 15, 2023

From US state laws to the international stage, definitions of “cybercrime” remain vague, broad, and increasingly entrenched in our legal systems.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

“Shangai authorities have not publicly responded to the purported hack. The hacker is offering the database on a popular cybercrime forum for 10 bitcoins. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Chinese residents). If the incident will be confirmed, this data breach is the largest one in the country’s history. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

Cado researchers recently detected an interesting attack pattern linked to an emerging cybercrime group tracked as Diicot (formerly, “Mexals”) and described in analyses published by Akamai and Bitdefender. Researchers found evidence that Diicot threat actors are expanding their capabilities with new payloads and the Cayosin Botnet.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

A stepping stone to impactful cybercrime This tactic has tangible real-world implications. A mix of social engineering, hacking, and abuse of legitimate services makes this style of online crime incredibly effective. However, that seems to be a misconception because these cyberattacks often overlap.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware) The post New HijackLoader malware is rapidly growing in popularity in the cybercrime community appeared first on Security Affairs. .” Zscaler also published Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) for this threat.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 4, 2024

A threat actor announced on a cybercrime forum that they sold the source code and a cracked version of the Zeppelin ransomware builder for just $500. [.]

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2020

Glenn Greenwald has been charged with cybercrimes in Brazil, stemming from publishing information and documents that were embarrassing to the government. The complaint charged six other individuals, including four who were detained last year in connection with the cellphone hacking. This isn't new, or unique to Brazil.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2022

TA558 cybercrime group is behind a malware campaign targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America. Researchers from Proofpoint are monitoring a malware campaign conducted by a cybercrime group, tracked as TA558, that is targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America.

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