Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012. While getting busted on account of ordering a pizza online might sound like a bone-headed or rookie mistake for a cybercriminal, it is hardly unprecedented.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 22, 2018

From the Lookout announcement: Dark Caracal has operated a series of multi-platform campaigns starting from at least January 2012, according to our research. Types of data stolen include documents, call records, audio recordings, secure messaging client content, contact information, text messages, photos, and account data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by a US District Court. The Russian hacker was suspected of being the author of the Neverquest malware , aka Vawtrak malware, and the person who administrated the control infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com , buydudu[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The DOJ said it did not seek to disinfect compromised devices; instead, it obtained court orders to remove the Cyclops Blink malware from its “command and control” servers — the hidden machines that allowed the attackers to orchestrate the activities of the botnet. energy facilities. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA. .

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

According to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), this individual also was behind the infamous Reveton ransomware Trojan spread in 2012 — 2014. The third quarter’s most prolific ransomware gang was RansomHub, which accounted for 17.75% of all victims. Reveton was among the most notorious PC screen lockers. 4 Ethiopia 1.30

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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. This user said they specialize in developing malware, creating computer worms, and crafting new ways to hijack Web browsers.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

All of a sudden we have infectious email attachments, and compromised third-party sites serving up malware. The most interesting incident was probably a fake opening ceremonies website serving infections , via promotion from a bogus Twitter account. 2012 London. Things began early, with Twitter account compromises in February.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

re network uses at least two free VPN services to lure its users to install a malware-like software that achieves persistence on the user’s computer,” the researchers wrote. The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. “The 911[.]re “all promotion methods allowed”).

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities. Interestingly enough, the share of adware attacks increased in relation to mobile malware in general. They typically work with malware developers to achieve this.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Samide and other experts say what’s coming next is very likely to be a series of varied attacks as combatants on all sides leverage footholds gained from ongoing intelligence gathering and malware planting. It describes malware being iterated by hackers who’ve clearly been doing this for a long while.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov has pleaded guilty to his key roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware operations. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was a leader of two prolific malware groups that infected thousands of computers with malicious software.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook has suspended some accounts linked to APT32 that were involved in cyber espionage campaigns to spread malware. Facebook has suspended several accounts linked to the APT32 cyberespionage that abused the platform to spread malware. The company also blocked the domains used by the group.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. bank accounts. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com , buydudu[.]com

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

The United States has deported the author of NeverQuest banking malware, the computer programmer Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov to Russia. . The Russian hacker was suspected of being the author of the Neverquest malware , aka Vawtrak malware, and the person who administrated the control infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. cyber #cybersecurity @BleepinComputer #malware pic.twitter.com/CtnppIyhxn — Cyble (@AuCyble) May 14, 2020. million April 2018 Netlog.com (Twoo.com) 57 million November 2012 Dubsmash.com Phone numbers 47.1

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

20 said they were checking the 8,653 accounts of those it has business transactions with to determine if information related to bank accounts of the other parties as well as other information leaked.” Data exposed after the incident data includes names, addresses, and phone numbers of account holders. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “ LuminosityLink ,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

The university was notified by an undisclosed third party, who provided information to help the team find and identify the malware. Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. million detections compared to 5.04

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Damages: sensitive leaked account information.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

88 publicly traded companies in Japan compromised personal information last year, either because of a malware infection or misconfigured access protocols. Credit reporting agency Tokyo Shoko Research (TSR), which compiled the data, says the number is the highest since it began collecting it in 2012, reported the Japan Times.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov pleads guilty to bank fraud after running a botnet that spread ‘NeverQuest’ malware for three years. “ NeverQuest has been responsible for millions of dollars’ worth of attempts by hackers to steal money out of victims’ bank accounts. “Geoffrey S. Sweeney Jr.,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

US DHS CISA agency warns of increased cyber-activity from Iran aimed at spreading data-wiping malware through password spraying , credential stuffing , and spear-phishing. industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The attacks are targeting U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

net), a popular hacking forum a place frequented by hackers, malware authors, scammers and cybercriminals. XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. Not all the malware were authentic, some of them were cracked versions, while other s were backdoored. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

“Taking account of all of the information available to him, he considered Mr Assange’s risk of suicide to be very high should extradition become imminent. This was a well-informed opinion carefully supported by evidence and explained over two detailed reports.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

The NetWire Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is available for sale on cybercrime forums since 2012, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the infected systems. DomainTools further shows this email address was used to register one other domain in 2012: wwlabshosting[.]com, ” reads the press release published DoJ.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The malware is distributed via a malspam campaign, the spam messages come with malicious attachments or include URL to malicious content. Adwind is could infect all the major operating systems, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, it is available in the cybercrime underground as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

It has its own statute and specific regulations governing administration and accounting. “From 1 December 2012 the Revenue Agency incorporated the Territory Agency (article 23-quater of Legislative Decree 95/2012).” The bodies of the Agency are made up of the Director, the Management Committee, the Board of Auditors.”

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2025

This confirms the trend of hacktivists exploiting trusted relationships (T1199 Trusted Relationship and T1078 Valid Accounts). Our telemetry data revealed domain controllers still running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Standard x64 or, as in the aforementioned incidents, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 used for email.

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