Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

One of the methods often utilized to hack into employees’ smartphones is so-called “ smishing ” (a combination of SMS and phishing). Even something totally unrelated to business, such as a YouTube link, may be used to target SMBs, as their employees often use the same devices for work and personal matters.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“As reflected in court documents, from 2007 through 2019, Brovko worked closely with other cybercriminals to monetize vast troves of data that had been stolen by “botnets,” or networks of infected computers. Brovko was involved in the illegal practice between 2007 and 2019. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Aleksandr Brovko).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Since 2017, host Jack Rhysider has investigated some of the most noteworthy stories related to the darkside of the internet, specifically hacking, data breaches, and cybercrime. Through interviews and research, Ran connects the dots between the early days of cybercrime and today’s stories of data hacks and breaches.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2022

Non-state actors include multinational corporations, collectives of hacktivists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), cybercrime syndicates, private military organizations, media outlets, terrorist groups, labor unions, organized ethnic groups, lobby groups, criminal organizations, private businesses, and others. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Researchers from the NCC Group’s report and later Symantec confirmed that malware was developed by the Russian cybercrime crew known as Evil Corp , which was behind the Dridex Trojan , and multiple ransomware like Locky , Bart, Jaff , and BitPaymer. This group has been active since at least 2007, in December 2019, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

DoppelPaymer and Dridex were both attributed to the operation of a cybercrime gang known as Evil Corp , which launched in October a new ransomware called Macaw Locker to evade US sanctions that prevent victims from making ransom payments. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Dridex). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

QBot, also known as Qakbot, QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot, is a Banking Trojan that was first observed in 2007. The post QBOT – A HTML Smuggling technique to target victims appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The experts warn that nation-state actors are adopting TTPs associated with cybercrime gangs to make it hard the attack attribution. They also leveraged the Sysinternals DebugView tool, the McAfee on-demand scanner, and Microsoft Word 2007.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, BISMUTH). ” Microsoft said. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach) The post Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Since 2007, the two allegedly operated a cybercrime ring called "Bayrob Group.".

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

.” According to the authorities, the Romanian duo, along with a third co-conspirator who has pled guilty, operated their criminal conspiracy from Bucharest since 2007. SecurityAffairs – Romanian Duo, cybercrime). Sentencing is scheduled for August 24 before Chief Judge Patricia A. Gaughan in the Northern District of Ohio.

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Tavakoli said the FBI report mentions Mimikatz, a tool created in 2007. And elements of Cobalt Strike were also used in the SolarWinds supply chain hack. Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra, said while each of the active ransomware groups has its own particular collection of tools, many of those tools are well-known and pedestrian.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

The APT41 group, aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. The experts noticed the use of an IP address that was part of the hacking infrastructure used by APT41 between May 2014 and August 2020. government.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It appeared on the threat landscape in 2007 and gained popularity in 2014 when its source code was leaked online giving the opportunity to several threat actors to develop their own version. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ursnif). ” Ursnif is one of the most and widespread common threats today delivered through malspam campaigns.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 26, 2021

In this third installment of the series ( Part 1 , Part 2 ), we come back to the story in early 2007 when a Secret Service agent operating out of San Diego takes a flight halfway across the world. He’s going to meet with Europe’s most prolific stolen credit card salesman.

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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.”. According to Rezvesz himself, he is no stranger to the Canadian legal system.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

financial transactions associated with the commission of crimes, such as buying and selling drugs or weapons, leasing servers used in the commission of cybercrime, soliciting funds to support terrorist activity, or ransom, blackmail and extortion. . The new report points out something that I've recently been mentioning as well.

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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. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

” The APT group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers,the gang has been active since 2007. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon PierluigiPaganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,APT group Winnti)

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2019

My big takeaways: Bulletproof weaponry Back in 2007, a noted fellow journalist, Brian Krebs, exposed how the Russian Business Network had pioneered something called “ bulletproof hosting.” We know this from the Inside the Mind of a Cybercrimal survey conducted by Andrei Barysevich, director of advanced collection at Recorded Future.

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