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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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2024

Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was sentenced to prison for his role in Zeus and IcedID malware operations. DoJ sentenced the Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (37) to prison and ordered him to pay millions of dollars in restitution for his role in the Zeus and IcedID malware operations.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Scan4you is a VirusTotal like online multi-engine antivirus scanning service that could be used by vxers to test evasion abilities of their malware against the major antiviruses. A second customer used Scan4you to contribute to the development of infamous Citadel malware that caused over $500 million in fraud-related losses.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A suspected leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Tank), was arrested by Swiss police. Swiss police last month arrested in Geneva Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (40), also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It's been active since 2009 and is responsible for many high profile attacks. Now, researchers at Volexity have analyzed a new campaign that is likely targeting cryptocurrency users and organizations with a variant of the AppleJeus malware by using malicious Microsoft Office documents. Lazarus Group. Second wave. Be careful.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

A few days ago, the researchers of ZLab Yoroi-Cybaze dissected another attack wave of the infamous Ursnif malware, also known as Gozi ISFB , an offspring of the original Gozi which source code was leaked in 2014. Ursnif/Gozi is active from over a decade and was one of the most active malware listed in 2017 and 2018.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The man operated the Cardplanet site between at least early 2009 through at least August 2013. Burkov was also operating another invite-only cybercrime forum, to obtain membership prospective members needed three existing members to “vouch” for their good reputation in the cybercrime community.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The United States Department of Justice sentenced two individuals that were providing bulletproof hosting to various malware operations. The two individuals, Aleksandr Skorodumov (33) of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi (30) of Estonia, administrated the bulletproof hosting service between 2009 and 2015.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The last global recession occurred in 2009. Every nation analyzed the trends of cybercrime as apprehensions rose. If law enforcement does not attempt to match cybercrime’s rapid rise in popularity, criminals will continue to get away with their actions. Predicting the Future by Looking to the Past.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals who specialized in one particular area of cybercrime – such as network intrusion, malware development, or money laundering – began offering their products and services to others in exchange for a fee, or a percentage of the illicit proceeds of the scheme in which those products or services were to be used.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Today, the United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, is designating seven individuals who are part of the Russia-based cybercrime gang Trickbot.” The operation aimed at disrupting Russian cybercrime and ransomware. ” reads the press release published by the US Treasury. and allies and partners.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The big payoffs, the tendency of most victims to pay the ransom demand, and the money to be made by selling or leasing their malware in the growing ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) market are all enticements when it comes to ransomware. E-gold use peaked in the mid-2000s before it was suspended in 2009 for legal reasons.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The threat actor has been targeting government, military, energy, financial, educational, healthcare, and technology sector companies since 2009. Group-IB describes Tonto Team: "Tonto Team (aka HeartBeat, Karma Panda, CactusPete, Bronze Huntley, Earth Akhlut) is a cyber espionage threat actor that is believed to originate from China.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The group (also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , MenuPass group, Bronze Riverside, and Cloud Hopper ) has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. Phishing and malware attacks that exploit the medical theme will continue, and, with the development of telemedicine, the number of services that fraudsters use as bait will only increase. The HIPAA Journal , which is focused on leaks in the U.S. Source: HIPAA Journal.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

He said have only been eight examples of malware specifically written to target operational technology (OT) – as distinct from IT – that runs critical national infrastructure. Ferguson said attackers are getting better at using legitimate tools found in OT environments, so they don’t need to develop custom malware.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Detective Inspector Gerard Doyle of the Garda Siochana National Cybercrime Bureau urged victims not to pay the ransom. Raj Samani, chief scientist at Rapid7, said that part of the reason why security has become so difficult is because attackers often use tools that aren’t malware per se but enterprise software used maliciously. “So

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NopSec

MAY 25, 2022

Cybercrime has exploded in growth over the past several years to levels that are stunning to contemplate. To put it into perspective, consider these facts: In 2009, the total reported malware infections worldwide was 12.4 By 2018, that number had risen to 812.67

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. According to the U.S.

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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. This story explores the history and identity behind Cryptor[.]biz WHO RUNS CRYPTOR[.]BIZ?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Wanted Ukrainian cybercrime suspect Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov (right) was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. The JabberZeus malware was custom-made for the crime group by the alleged author of the Zeus trojan — Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev , a top Russian cybercriminal with a $3 million bounty on his head from the FBI.

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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 20, 2021

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally. In this paid ad from 2004, Severa lists prices to rent his spam botnet.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

Such ‘objects’, as referred to here, point to things such as malware and hijacked servers, which, when put together and ‘manipulated’, inform the technical attribution process. Instead, the objects crucial to the process of technical attribution are threat actors and attack campaigns. Tool-based attribution (i.e.,

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 31, 2021

It's also known that any high-profile political event attracts malware attacks. Global events increase malware attacks. One of these threats is a spike in malware when your part of the world grabs headlines. Security researcher Kenneth Geers followed this trend during the Trump presidency by watching for spikes in malware. "In

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