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Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

Schneier on Security

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with security firm Certfa Lab said in a blog post.

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Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva

Krebs on Security

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money. tank: [link].

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

Krebs on Security

From 2009 to the present, Aqua’s primary role in the conspiracy was recruiting and managing a continuous supply of unwitting or complicit accomplices to help Evil Corp. ” Only, in every case the company mentioned as the “client” was in fact a small business whose payroll accounts they’d already hacked into.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” An ad for war.md, circa 2009. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. A 2009 census found that Russians make up about 24 percent of the population of Kazakhstan. “If that happens, Kazakhstan may have to make some very unpleasant decisions.”

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Experts found 20 Million tax records for Russian citizens exposed online

Security Affairs

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.”