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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers. co showing the site did indeed swap out any cryptocurrency addresses.

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REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward

Krebs on Security

million in cryptocurrency sent to another REvil affiliate, and that the U.S. su, and that forum’s database says a user by the name “Damnating” registered with the forum in 2008 using the email address damnating@yandex.ru. The DOJ also said it had seized $6.1 Among those was carder[.]su,

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First Cyber Attack ‘Mass Exploiting’ BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild

Security Affairs

Experts have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit , crooks leverage the exploit to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit , the attack aims at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 254

Security Affairs

Venezuela – Power outage knocked out part of the internet connectivity. US officials charge two Chinese men for laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea. CIA Hacking unit APT-C-39 hit China since 2008. Karkoff 2020: a new APT34 espionage operation involves Lebanon Government. Nemty ransomware LOVE_YOU malspam campaign.

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Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide

Security Affairs

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. Countries with several thousands of infected machines include China, Taiwan, Russia, Brazil and the US.”

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Cybercriminals’ friend VPNLab.net shut down by law enforcement

Malwarebytes

VPNLab had been around since 2008 and had built its service around the OpenVPN technology, used strong encryption, and provided double VPN, with servers located in many different countries. “Our service is designed for a broad spectrum of clients who care about their personal security. What is double VPN?

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

Introduction It’s just another cryptocurrency miner… Nobody would even suspect the mining malware was merely a mask, masquerading behind an intricate modular framework that supports both Linux and Windows. During that time, it had effectively evaded analysis and had previously been misclassified as a cryptocurrency miner.

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