Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2022

’ In February 2008, the US authorities dismantled the global cybercrime organization tracked as Infraud Organization, which was involved in stealing and selling credit card and personal identity data. Russia’s FSB and law enforcement have detained four members of the Infraud Organization hacking group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. Kivimäki was ultimately convicted of orchestrating more than 50,000 cybercrimes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2025

The PLAYFULGHOST backdoor shares functionality with Gh0stRAT whose source code was publicly released in 2008. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,malware)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

At least a dozen patriotic Russian hacking groups have been launching DDoS attacks since the start of the war at a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. He also co-runs SURBL , an anti-abuse service that flags domains and Internet address ranges that are strongly associated with spam and cybercrime activity, including DDoS.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. ru , and the website web-site[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who’ve recently re-indicted him on related charges. issued international arrest warrant for his extradition.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. com and wwwpexpay[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Europol this week announced the shutdown of VPNLab, a VPN service that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. An international operation conducted by law enforcement bodies from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider that is very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. SecurityAffairs – hacking, VPNLab).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was operating between 2008 and 2013. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, Apple) According to German media , one of the two operators was also involved in the operations of the site mega-downloads.net.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Internet’s co-designer, Vint Cerf, in a 2008 Guardian interview , explained how the Internet’s 1974, essential enabling Internet-protocol had a design flaw in not enabling packet authentication, security, or privacy at scale. Utopia meet reality. “It was actually an oversight.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware) The malware spreads via malspam campaigns, it inserts replies in active email threads.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Black Basta ransomware). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2022

Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware). Experts warn that operators behind the Qakbot malware operation are improving their attack chain in an attempt to avoid detection. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. In August, the FBI announced that the Qakbot botnet was dismantled as a result of an international law enforcement operation named Operation ‘Duck Hunt.’

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware) The malware spreads via malspam campaigns, it inserts replies in active email threads.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Pierluigi Paganini. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

Files are encrypted by Chacha 2008 ( D. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Akira ransomware ) The post Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs. Bernstein’s implementation ).”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Experts pointed out that despite having the same name, this botnet should not be confused with the Kraken botnet that was spotted in 2008. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Kraken botnet). Kraken is a new Golang-based botnet discovered in late October 2021 by researchers from threat intelligence firm ZeroFox Intelligence. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2023

’ Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. The FBI announced that the Qakbot botnet has been dismantled as a result of an international law enforcement operation named Operation ‘Duck Hunt.’

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

QBot has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials, and other financial information from the victims. Kaspersky researchers warn of a new QBot campaign leveraging hijacked business emails to deliver malware.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Recovering from the 2020 slump, the number of attacks continued to grow steadily, and we expect cybercrime activity to increase further. This country maintains a relatively outdated fleet of ATMs, making it a “piece of cake” for perpetrators to hack and a consistent target throughout the period in question.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be exploited to run arbitrary code in kernel mode. The issue resides in the way splwow64 (Thunking Spooler APIs) handles certain calls.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

The reasons for hacking have certainly shifted over time. We collected the most data ever from 87 organizations that were victims of cyberattacks, and between the original report in 2008 and this year, the biggest shift we' ve seen is the growing importance of end-users whom bad actors prey on for system access.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercrime is a big business and cybercriminals are actively looking to cash in, no matter the website’s size or purpose. SiteLock was founded in 2008 with one mission: to protect every website on the internet. Q: I’ve never been hacked/I haven’t been hacked in years. No website is too small or too unknown to be hacked.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

SCADA Access As A Service (SAaaS) Cybercrime is a business. It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France. Ransomware can be spread through campaigns that target specific individuals or companies. More often, though, it is spread indiscriminately via spam networks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

This post examines some of the clues left behind by “ Wazawaka ,” the hacker handle chosen by a major access broker in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has been a highly active member of multiple cybercrime forums over the past decade, but his favorite is the Russian-language community Exploit.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. It was around 9 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2022

million), 500,000 euros, and 20 “premium cars” purchased with funds obtained from cybercrime. Just months later, a multi-country law enforcement operation allowed investigators to hack into the REvil gang’s operations and force the group offline. “Be afraid and expect the worst,” the message warned.

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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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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When Israeli authorities turned down requests to send him back to Russia — supposedly to face separate hacking charges there — the Russians then imprisoned an Israeli woman for seven years on trumped-up drug charges in a bid to trade prisoners. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011. court last week.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

While it is crucial to protect against more well-established hacking techniques, to invest in security training, and to follow good data hygiene, it is also necessary to look ahead to possible forms of cyberattack from newer and still developing vectors. AI and Machine Learning Hacking. It is harder to dupe informed people.

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