Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2024

Introduction to TLS and Certificate Transparency Log Securing Internet communications is crucial for maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of information in transit. Although the Certificate Transparency Log is designed to improve security and transparency, its public nature leads to known Information Disclosure risks.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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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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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

5.135.26.102 176.123.6.191 Personally identifiable information: Email: support@xdedic.biz, abuse@xdedic.ac ICQ 591-20-47 Related personally identifiable information: support@e-investhost.com Name Server: NS1.E-INVESTHOST.COM 5.135.26.102 176.123.6.191 Personally identifiable information: Email: support@xdedic.biz, abuse@xdedic.ac

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. “The FBI is informing academic partners of identified US college and university credentials advertised for sale on online criminal marketplaces and publically accessible forums.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

An internet outage impacted Orange Spain after a hacker gained access to the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing. The hacker, who uses the moniker ‘Snow’, gained access to the RIPE account of Orange Spain and misconfigured the BGP routing causing an internet outage.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 15, 2021

The automaker said an unauthorized third party obtained personal information about customers and interested buyers from a vendor used for digital sales and marketing by its Audi Volkswagen brands and some U.S. What Do Hackers Do with Your Information? How to Help Protect Your Information. and Canadian dealers.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

This post explores answers to those questions, as well as some of the ways Trickbot and other organized cybercrime gangs gradually recruit, groom and trust new programmers. Alla Witte’s personal website — allawitte[.]nl nl — circa October 2018. 6 in Miami, Fla. .” Image: DOJ.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 10, 2021

According to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center received 791,790 cybercrime complaints in 2020, with. The post Keeping criminal justice information secure with advanced authentication appeared first on Entrust Blog.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Exploit Tools and Targets: Malicious Use of Internet Information Services (IIS) Extension. Microsoft published a report on July 26th alerting defenders to the malicious use of Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions. 5 ) More recently, the U.S. 5 ) More recently, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

Representatives for the city’s police and Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s internet overseer, did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment.” The database contained names, addresses, birthplaces, national IDs, phone numbers, and criminal case information of Chinese citizens. ” reported Reuters.

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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. This campaign specifically targets SSH servers exposed to the internet with password authentication enabled.

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Hot for Security

MAY 20, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been providing the public with reliable cybercrime reporting systems for 20 years. ” According to the 2020 IC3 report, the top three scams and cybercrimes reported by victims were phishing scams, non-payment/non-delivery scams and extortion attempts.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The report follows the Internet Organized Crime Assessment (IOCTA), Europol’s assessment of the cybercrime landscape and how it has changed over the last 24 months. The information theft is also seen to be feeding an ecosystem of criminals dealing in and making use of personal and financial information.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. That identifying information was then used to establish a bank account to receive stolen BEC/EAC funds and then transferred to a cryptocurrency account.”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One of the largest this year was the MOVEit breach, which impacted various state motor vehicle organizations and exposed driver’s license information for nearly 9.5 Embedded cybercrime units within law enforcement closely track criminal and cyber gangs by tracing their actions on the dark web. million individuals.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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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. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. A stepping stone to impactful cybercrime This tactic has tangible real-world implications.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Researchers from Cyber looked for VNC exposed over the internet and discovered over 8000 VNC instances with authentication disabled, most of them in China, Sweden, and the United States. Exposing VNCs to the internet, increases the likelihood of a cyberattack. connected via VNC and exposed over the internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Identity IQ

APRIL 8, 2021

The information released in the FBI 2020 Internet Crime Report is staggering when it comes to the sheer scope of the crimes committed. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) provides information to the public regarding cybercrime and allows citizens to report crimes directly to the government.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2023

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting , a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The German authorities did not name the suspects or the Internet service in question. Image: Ke-la.com. In mid-December 2022, the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

billion in total fraud losses to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2020. In addition, CISA awarded CSN a cooperative agreement in the amount of $625,000 to develop an SLTT National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Cyber Pilot. Americans reported $4.2

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

If these predictions – based on information gleaned from our observations in the areas of the internet most can’t see – tell us anything, it’s this: in 2023, businesses will need to work harder to stay ahead of cybercrime. The post Three cybercrime technology trends to watch in 2023 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2021

As many Americans’ personally identifiable information goes digital, it’s becoming increasingly vulnerable to hacks and theft by cybercriminals who profit from access to online accounts. This past year, in particular, internet services have experienced anywhere from a 40% to 100% rise in usage as part of COVID-19 lockdowns.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2022

While it should come as no surprise that cybercrime broke pretty much every record in 2021, the actual numbers behind the crimes are quite revealing. Cybercrime in the last five years. The first section of the report provides an overview of what cybercrime has looked like in the last five years.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

An operation conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) led to the seizure of the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market in Germany and Lithuania. Crimemarket was a prominent platform for trading illegal drugs, narcotics, and cybercrime services.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Protection systems do not stand still; awareness is growing.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums , a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely show up for sale. In April 2022, U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

The world of cybercrime is changing, and more and more malware variants have spread every day. There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc on Twitter, and targeting Portuguese users.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 14, 2021

Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. Brian Krebs has some good information on DarkSide, the criminal group behind that attack.) The Colonial Pipeline is another current high-profile ransomware victim. So is Vastaamo , a Finnish mental heal clinic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The costliest cybercrimes were against businesses, involving Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) schemes that added up to U.S. The quality of the data is directly attributable to the information ingested via the public interface. “The

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2023

Most internet-exposed Cacti servers are vulnerable to the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-46169 which is actively exploited in the wild. Researchers from Censys discovered that the majority of internet-exposed Cacti servers are vulnerable to the critical flaw CVE-2022-46169 which is under active exploitation in the wild.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

The US Department of State’s national security rewards program, Rewards for Justice (RFJ), is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information linking the Cl0p ransomware gang, or any other malicious cyber actors targeting US critical infrastructure, to a foreign government. critical infrastructure to a foreign government?

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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. InfraGard , a program run by the U.S. This is a developing story.

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