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. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox in 2011 and the operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e. ” reads the DoJ.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Europol described the ring as “very well organized”, saying it included computer experts who created the phishing domains and spear headed cyber fraud, money mule recruiters and organizers, and money launderers, some of whom are said to be cryptocurrency experts. Cyber mafia” is not an unknown concept in the cybersecurity world.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have become one of the most prevalent and expensive forms of cybercrime. RaaS : Mirroring the Legitimate SaaS Models In mid-2012, the ransomware ecosystem evolved with the introduction of Reveton , the first Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). She is also a regular writer at Bora.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

One of the key significant improvements are support of more software clients (including browser-based cryptocurrency wallets), upgraded credit card (CC) grabber, and additional advanced mechanisms for password storage dump on various platforms to extract credentials and tokens.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Skynet was first discovered in 2012 and has since grown to become one of the largest botnets in the world. The Godzilla botnet has been active since at least 2021, it was used to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as steal login credentials and mine cryptocurrency.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Methodology In this report, we present an analysis of financial cyberthreats in 2023, focusing on banking Trojans and phishing pages that target online banking, shopping accounts, cryptocurrency wallets and other financial assets. Cryptocurrency phishing saw a 16% year-on-year increase in 2023, with 5.84 million in 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace. The authorities seized the stolen funds on November 2021, at the time it was the biggest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency. billion mystery. ” said U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Booter sites are dangerous because they help lower the barriers to cybercrime, allowing even complete novices to launch sophisticated and crippling attacks with the click of a button. Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012. netstress[.]org.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. Technical Analysis. As previously mentioned, the infection chain starts with the hack of a Linux server, after a SSH brute-force attack as shown in Fig.1.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This trend aimed at reducing threats from banking Trojans for PCs has been continuing in Russia since 2012. Security Affairs – financial sector, cybercrime ). In Russia, according to Group-IB experts, there are no longer any groups left that would conduct thefts from individuals using banking Trojans for PCs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

Having been charged, the hacktivist failed to appear at a court hearing pending trial in 2012. As before, the market will be heavily dependent on cryptocurrency prices, which have been riding high, despite declining relative to their spring peak: 1 BTC is worth US$30,000–35,000, less than a couple of months ago, but still a tidy sum.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That reporting was based on clues from an early Russian cybercrime forum in which a hacker named Rescator — using the same profile image that Rescator was known to use on other forums — claimed to have originally been known as “Helkern,” the nickname chosen by the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Darklife.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Whether they’re nation-state actors, cybercrime groups, or hacktivists, understanding who these groups are and how they operate is the first step in fortifying your cybersecurity posture. The ransomware’s open-source nature also serves as a gateway for budding threat actors to enter cybercrime.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Whether they’re nation-state actors, cybercrime groups, or hacktivists, understanding who these groups are and how they operate is the first step in fortifying your cybersecurity posture. The ransomware’s open-source nature also serves as a gateway for budding threat actors to enter cybercrime.

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