Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. It remains unclear how many individuals were active in the core GandCrab malware development team. of GandCrab.

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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. The government argued that under U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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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

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Image: treasury.gov.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2020

A 30-year-old Moldovan man pleaded guilty this week for creating the FastPOS malware that infected PoS systems worldwide. The Moldovan citizen Valerian Chiochiu (30), aka Onassis, pleaded guilty on Friday for creating the infamous FastPOS Point-of-Sale (POS) malware. and infraud.ws. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. Even today, the RUSdot Mailer is advertised for sale at the top of the RUSdot community forum.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

VPN bulletproof services are widely adopted by cybercrime organizations to carry out malicious activities, including ransomware and malware attacks, e-skimming breaches, spear-phishing campaigns, and account takeovers. ” The three services were advertised on both Russian and English-speaking cybercrime forums.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

A threat actor has sold almost 900,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards on a cybercrime forum on the dark web. ” The investigation of the cybercriminal actor selling the gift cards and payment cards revealed that he is a prolific Russian-speaking hacker who was engaged in similar activities since 2010.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Malware developers have different ways of attacking their victims, and they make their attempts as difficult to identify as they can. According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group , about 88–92% of total email messages in 2010 are spam. Some of them use spam which is in the form of unsolicited and inappropriate messages.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

According to the cyber intelligence company Intel 471 , a user named Acidut with the email address iulyan87_4u@gmail.com had an active presence on almost a dozen shadowy money-making and cybercrime forums from 2010 to 2017, including BlackHatWorld , Carder[.]pro 1, 2021: 15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. The Magecart group used a generic phishing technique to gather and sell full sets of an individual’s personally identifying information along with financial data (identified with the slang term fullz in the cybercrime underground).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. The cyberspies used spear phishing, watering hole attacks, and domain hijacking to deliver various malware families, including Sakula and IsSpace, to the target organization. State-sponsored hacking is a direct threat to our national security.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Prilex is a Brazilian threat actor that has evolved out of ATM-focused malware into modular point-of-sale malware. Active since 2014, in 2016, the group decided to give up ATM malware and focus all of their attacks on PoS systems, targeting the core of the payment industry. Evolving into PoS malware.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Threat actors behind the ChromeLoader malware campaign are using VHD files disguised as popular games, experts warn. Researchers from Ahnlab Security Emergency Response Center ( ASEC ) recently uncovered a malware campaign distributing the ChromeLoader using VHD files. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 2010, Volvo Cars became a subsidiary of the Chinese manufacturer Geely Holding Group, which confirmed that it “has become aware that one of its file repositories has been illegally accessed by a third party.” Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo Cars revealed that threat actors have stolen R&D data from its systems.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The group’s activities have been traced back to 2010 when it performed a cyberespionage campaign directed at diplomatic organizations and missions in Europe. One method Nickel uses to hide malware is to drop it into existing installed software paths. Targets, methods, and techniques.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. Malware actor publishes the address of the Bot-A in DNS (or using any other public channel).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2019

Zhukov is accused of being involved in a sophisticated ad fraud scheme that leverages advertising and malware to compromise computer networks. million computers with malware, attackers used thousands of servers and more than 10,000 counterfeit websites to impersonate legitimate web publishers. ” reported the AFP.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

The Satan ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape in January 2017 when the independent malware research @Xylit0l discovered it. Since its discovery, the malware was costantly updated, in one of the campaigns monitored by Fortinet, it utilized a cryptominer as an additional payload to maximize its profits. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The campaigns involved a new piece of malware called BadBazaar and new variants of the MOONSHINE surveillance software discovered by Citizen Lab in 2019 and employed in attacks against Tibetan activists. . We named this malware family BadBazaar in response to an early variant that posed as a third-party app store titled “APK Bazar.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Security experts linked the Magecart group 5 to the infamous Dridex banking Trojan and the Carbanak cybercrime group. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . SecurityAffairs – Magecart Group 5, cybercrime ). Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The group’s activities have been traced back to 2010 when it performed a cyberespionage campaign directed at diplomatic organizations and missions in Europe. One method Nickel uses to hide malware is to drop it into existing installed software paths. Targets, methods, and techniques.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Cybercrime gangs under the Magecart umbrella continue to compromise e-commerce platforms to steal payment card data from users worldwide. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The company added that the incident may have impacted those that attended a public institution of higher education in Colorado between 2007-2020, attended a Colorado public high school between 2004-2020, individuals with a Colorado K-12 public school educator license between 2010-2014, participated in the Dependent Tuition Assistance Program from 2009-2013, (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The US FBI issued a warning for the US private sector about e-skimming attacks carried out by the Magecart cybercrime groups. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . Anti-virus and anti-malware need to be up-to-date and firewalls strong.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Zhukov, aka Nastra, was arrested in Bulgaria, where he had lived since 2010, in November 2018 and was extradited to the US on January 18. . million computers with malware, attackers used thousands of servers and more than 10,000 counterfeit websites to impersonate legitimate web publishers. 2—The KOVTER Malware Scheme.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

The malware creators promoted their brainchild on a specially set-up YouTube channel and Discord server, where they discussed DDoS attacks. This malware is of interest for its use of infected devices as honeypots. In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless.

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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. Stuxnet in 2010 was the first the most recent was CosmicEnergy in 2023. Workers were unable to safely shut down a furnace and it melted to the ground.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. For starters, the text string “Rescator” was found in some of the malware used in the Target breach.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware. On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing. Looking to Protect Yourself Against Malware?

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