Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AvosLocker affiliates use legitimate software and open-source remote system administration tools to compromise the victims’ networks. This joint CSA updates the advisory published by the US Government on March 17, 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FIN7). ” reads the press release published by DoJ. ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

Mandiant researchers discovered a new Unix rootkit named Caketap, which is used to steal ATM banking data, while investigating the activity of the LightBasin cybercrime group (aka UNC1945 ). The China-linked hacking group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

They found a tool called WormGPT “through a prominent online forum that’s often associated with cybercrime,” Kelley wrote in a blog post. WormGPT can be used for “everything blackhat related,” its developer claimed in the cybercrime forum. Promotion of jailbreaks for AI platforms.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. Ukrainian nationals Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr, and Andrii Kolpakov, were members of a prolific hacking group widely known as FIN7.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Microsoft is warning of human-operated ransomware, this kind of attack against businesses is becoming popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Human-operated ransomware is a technique usually employed in nation-state attacks that is becoming very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Human-operated ransomare).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Taiwanese company urges its customers to enable multi-factor authentication where available, enable auto block and account protection, and to use string administrative credentials, . System administrators that have noticed suspicious activity on their devices should report it to Synology technical support.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 9, 2020

That last effort prompted a gracious return call the following day from a system administrator for the city, who thanked me for the heads up and said he and his colleagues had isolated the computer and Windows network account Hold Security flagged as hacked.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

A Russian-speaking hacker, who goes by the name of Alexey, claims to have hacked into over 100,000 MikroTik routers with a specific intent, disinfect them. Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

A new cryptocurrency stealer dubbed WeSteal is available on the cybercrime underground, unlike other commodity cryptocurrency stealers, its author doesn’t masquerade its purpose and promises “the leading way to make money in 2021.”. SecurityAffairs – hacking, WeSteal). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Skorodumov was one of the organization’s lead systems administrators, he configured and managed the clients’ domains and IP addresses, provided technical assistance to help clients optimize their malware and botnets. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the most outstanding capabilities of iLOBleed is the manipulation of the iLO firmware upgrade routine, when the system administrator tries to upgrade the iLO firmware, the malware simulates the version change while preventing the upgrade routine. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, iLOBleed). ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Unfortunately, as system administrators seek ways to control access to these platforms, users may seek out alternative ways to gain access.” In this case, the visitors were downloading Midjourney-x64.msix, msix, which is a Windows Application Package also signed by ASHANA GLOBAL LTD. ” concludes the report.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 19, 2021

Being a systems administrator can be a fulfilling job with a lot of rewards. But if you're a SysAdmin for a hacking group, you could be rewarded with time behind bars. This is exactly what is happening to 35-year-old Fedir Hladyr, who was a SysAdmin for the hacking group FIN7.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, City of Dallas ) The post City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

Three members of the cybercrime group tracked as FIN7 and Carbanak have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts. Three members of the notorious cybercrime gang known as FIN7 and Carbanak have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

US DoJ charged two Russian citizens for deploying the Dridex malware and for their involvement in international bank fraud and computer hacking schemes. 32) and Igor Turashev (38) for distributing the infamous Dridex banking Trojan , and for their involvement in international bank fraud and computer hacking schemes. Attorney Brady.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

In response to an inquiry from this office, the RCMP stopped short of naming names, but said “we can confirm that our National Division Cybercrime Investigative Team did execute a search warrant at a Toronto location last week.”. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

. “The lengthy delay for the cleanup routine to activate may be explained by the need to give system administrators time for forensics analysis and checking for other infections.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Emotet). ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

In particular, recent investigations were able to identify four of them: the ARestore escalation tool, the backdoor, and other publicly available toolkits such as Advanced_Port_Scanner and a particular popular Chinese hack tool. The “ARestore” tool is.NET executable built in 2020 and partially obfuscated.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 12, 2021

System Administrator (or, sysadmin). Far away from the glamor and spotlight that other career fields like programming or data science get, there is a full-on war for hiring good cyber talent because of the year-on-year spike in cybercrime. Secure Software Development. Secure DevOps. IoT (Internet of Things) Security.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is hacking a crime? Bryan McAninch (Aph3x) talks about his organization, Hacking Is Not A Crime , and the ethical line it draws on various hacking activities. I used to hack the phone company quite a bit. I was like living in our systems for years and I want to get in some trouble for that.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

But let’s see what are the execution binaries and what an administrator will see because this analysis IS for rise the system administration awareness: Code execution: execve("/tmp/upgrade""); // to execute upgrade. This C2 scheme is new , along with the installer / updater. The Elknot DoS ELF dropped is not new.”.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In this Cyber Security Training for Employees you will find an extensive instruction on how to avoid becoming a cybercrime victim which will be useful for your colleagues. There are computer hack techniques even before you open a file on USB and long before your antivirus scans it.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Black Kingdom changes the desktop background to a note that the system is infected while it encrypts files, disabling the mouse and keyboard as it does so. | We hacked your (( Network )), and now all files, documents, images, databases and other important data are safely encrypted using the strongest algorithms ever. We Are Back ?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2021

So, when people fail to simply patch their systems, or even really just understand what their attack surface looks like, it yields opportunities for bad guys to get in. So using things like sys-internal tools, or legitimate systems, administrators tools, to then proliferate ransomware across an environment for executing it.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Looking back at past leaks of private companies providing such services, such as in the case of Hacking Team, we learned that many states all over the world were buying these capabilities, whether to complement their in-house technologies or as a stand-alone solution they couldn’t develop. Hack-and-leak is the new black (and bleak).

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