The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2021

FinCEN analyzed a data set composed of 2,184 SARs filed between 1 January 2011 and 30 June 2021 and identified 177 CVC (convertible virtual currency) wallets addresses that were used in ransomware operations associated with the above ransomware variants.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Compromised data vary by individuals and organizations, it includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers, and more. Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The French court acquitted Vinnik of charges of extortion and association with a cybercrime organization. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators. To prevent infections from malware like Cryptbot, Cybercrime Support Network recommends users to Download from well-known and trusted sources.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. Alexander Vinnik, a Russian operator of virtual currency exchange BTC-e pleaded guilty to participating in a money laundering scheme.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and since then the blog was visited by tens of millions of readers. Eleven years ago I decided to launch Security Affairs, a blog that is considered today one of the most valuable sources of the cybersecurity industry.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By piecing together the puzzle of cybercrime, we can better prepare companies and organizations to protect against these modern and extensive threats. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

At the time of this writing, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the security breach. CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2024

Since 2011, Wang and his co-conspirators had been distributing malware through malicious VPN applications, including MaskVPN, DewVPN, PaladinVPN, ProxyGate, ShieldVPN, and ShineVPN. The law enforcement also arrested its administrator, the 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang, in Singapore. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2019

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, hacking). The post Greece to extradite Alexander Vinnik to France to face a charge of money laundering appeared first on Security Affairs. million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Dear blog readers, Do you know a lot about information security cybercrime research OSINT and threat intelligence gathering including cyber threat actors research? Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement agencies and organizations? Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement agencies and organizations?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Researchers were able to detect the first Canary bot attack after noticing a Safari browser version from 2011 changing IP addresses on a daily basis and that originate from cloud and colocation services. . ” continues the experts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

Aparat is an Iranian video-sharing site that was founded in 2011. A Google image search using the icon returned some results with the same image. All the results were under the domain aparat[.]com. The image matched was used as a profile picture for a user on the site. The profile page provided a link to a Twitter account.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

Group-IB‘s fight against digital piracy started in 2011, when the Anti-Piracy Department was established. Group-IB’s Anti-Piracy team uses unique machine-learning technologies applied in complex investigations of cyberattacks to detect pirate websites, find their owners and block illegal content.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Indicators of Compromise and Yara Rules are available in the original post published by Luca Mella [link] About the author: Luca Mella , Cyber Security Expert, Response & Threat Intel | Manager In 2019, Luca was mentioned as one of the “32 Influential Malware Research Professionals”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

If you want to have Indicators of Compromise and Yara Rules for this threat give a look at the original post published on Medium: [link] About the author: Luca Mella , Cyber Security Expert, Response & Threat Intel | Manager In 2019, Luca was mentioned as one of the “32 Influential Malware Research Professionals”.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2015, a former Morgan Stanley financial advisor pleaded guilty to stealing 730,000 account records from 2011 to 2014 and saving them on a personal server at home. This capability can protect your IT security team from being inundated with false positives. The Global State of Information Security Survey 2018.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

“Cloud storages and online services are due to remain among phishers’ main targets due to the large amount of personal information that is stored in them, cybercriminals are likely to use the access to them to first download data from cloud storages and then blackmail their victims to increase the chances of receiving a ransom.”.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Burkov calls himself a specialist in information security and denies having committed the crimes for which he’s been charged. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011. DirectConnection, circa 2011. FraudCrew, a botnet-based anonymity service offered by K0pa.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

Why ChatGPT security concerns are both overblown and valid Artificial intelligence (AI) was once a science fiction cautionary tale—stories consistently warned against designing machines capable of surpassing human ingenuity. The program can help close the security knowledge gap by assisting in employee training.

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