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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Rasch said it could be that Dellone’s stolen crypto was seized as part of a government asset forfeiture, but that either way there is no reason Uncle Sam should hold some cybercrime victims’ life savings indefinitely. For example, in 2013 the U.S. court orders, then it’s yours,” Bax said. federal court.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. A screenshot of a website reviewing PM2BTC.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2024

That link provides an excellent over so start there then come back to this blog post which adds some insight into the data and explains how HIBP fits into the picture. So, with that in mind, let's get into the mechanics of the data: In terms of the email addresses, there were 16.5M in total with 4.5M

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

The company immediately launched an investigation into the incident and notified law enforcement and data protection watchdogs. “As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and the content of messages collected on accounts,” reads a statement published by the company. India, and Africa.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. com and wwwpexpay[.]com. com , and portalsagepay[.]com.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) revealed that a data breach its has suffered impacted 14 million customers. The data breach suffered by Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is much more serious than initially estimated. million) were provided before 2013. 94% of these records (5.7

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh allege that in 2013 and 2014 Johnson hacked into the Oracle PeopleSoft databases for UPMC, a $21 billion nonprofit health enterprise that includes more than 40 hospitals.

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Graham Cluley

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A malicious hacking group, thought to have been operating since at least 2013, may have suffered a significant blow after the arrest of a suspected leading member by Spanish police late last week. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Hacked or ill-gotten accounts at consumer data brokers have fueled ID theft and identity theft services of various sorts for years. In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms Dun & Bradstreet , and Kroll Background America Inc.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2019

million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group over a 2013 data breach. million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach suffered by the company in 2013 and disclosed earlier 2014. billion in the Q4 2013. Security Affairs – settlement, cybercrime ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2024

“Finnish prosecutors quickly zeroed in on a suspect: Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki , a notorious criminal hacker convicted of committing tens of thousands of cybercrimes before he became an adult. .” reads the post published by Brian Krebs. After being charged with the attack in October 2022, Kivimäki fled the country.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent, but data exposed in the breach shows the service has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to distribute the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other titles. io , and online[.]io.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

government sanctioned the virtual currency exchanges Cryptex and PM2BTC for facilitating cybercrime and money maundering. The authorities believe that these exchanges facilitate the laundering of proceeds from cybercrime. data breaches. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. million from darknet drug markets.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

Visa declined to comment for this story, but pointed to a series of alerts it issued in November and December 2019 about cybercrime groups increasingly targeting fuel dispenser merchants. In the 2013 megabreach at Target Corp. , Representatives from MasterCard did not respond to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

With cybercrime at record levels, businesses are on guard against a constantly growing number and variety of threats. But even as companies race to increase cybersecurity spending and awareness, data breaches have actually become much more (not less) likely. In truth, we may never know.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

Cloud services provider Rackspace confirmed that the recent data breach was the result of the Play Ransomware gang’s attack. Cloud services provider Rackspace announced this week that the recent data breach was the result of an attack conducted by the Play ransomware group.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Their data has been harvested and analyzed by these companies without their knowledge or consent. They cannot improve the security of their personal data, and have no control over how vulnerable it is. North Korea routinely engages in cybercrime as way to fund its other activities.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. Company credentials are a valuable commodity in the cybercrime underground , they are offered up to $5,000 for a single username and password pair.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

The Passwordstate attack is the latest example of a re-emerging cyberthreat that saw great attention back in 2013 when the US retailer Target suffered an enormous data breach that compromised the payment information of 41 million customers. According to Bleeping Computer , the CDN servers used in the attack are no longer active.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), losses due to BEC scams since 2013 total around $28 billion dollars and it is the most profitable cybercrime there is. Cybercrime Support Network's FightCybercrime.org website contains information on BEC incidents along with reporting information.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2013, extortionists added encryption to their genre and started locking down victims' files instead of screens or web browsers. RELATED: Researcher: Two Hackers Linked to 42% of Data Breaches ] The current trend is different.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to the university, the potential breached information included names, medical information, SSN, Medicare numbers, health plan IDs, birthdays and physical addresses.The network made this announcement two months after the data breach was discovered. million from $94.4 million to $237 million over the next five years.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Safe and Secure Federal Websites Act was first introduced as a bill in 2013 and was finally passed into law in July of this year. The State of Cybercrime. The law requires that any federal agency that launches a new website, or that has launched any website since 2012, has to certify that those websites are safe.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The malware uploads data from the infected device to a command and control server, then uses an online parsing tool to separate out credit card data. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013. ” Focusing only on the perimeter: A multi-layered approach is key. “It

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2022

Dataprot reports that 59 percent of Americans have experienced cybercrime in the past. An estimate stated that $6 trillion worth of damage was caused by cybercrime in 2022, making it vital for businesses to securely destroy data. It isn’t simply a matter of data security. Cybersecurity poses a risk to all businesses.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. consumer data broker USinfoSearch , KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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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. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

Harrison posted to his Facebook page in 2013 shows him holding a handgun and wearing a bulletproof vest. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 recorded a series of posts by a user with the handle “ Brutium ” on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Antichat between 2014 and 2016. A selfie that William B.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses. Stay safe and secure.

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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 22, 2018

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