Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. Here’s a look at one long-lived malware vulnerability testing service that is used and run by some of the Dark Web’s top cybercriminals. is cybercrime forum.

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Malware Cybercrime Ransomware Marketing 351

Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

For the past seven years, a malware-based proxy service known as “ Faceless ” has sold anonymity to countless cybercriminals. The proxy lookup page inside the malware-based anonymity service Faceless. In 2013, U.S. Image: spur.us. as a media sharing device on a local network that was somehow exposed to the Internet.

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Malware Passwords Accountability Advertising 299

Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2024

The Russia-based cybercrime group dubbed “ Fin7 ,” known for phishing and malware attacks that have cost victim organizations an estimated $3 billion in losses since 2013, was declared dead last year by U.S. authorities.

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Phishing Cybercrime Malware Software 320

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 According to the Russian news outlet Kommersant , Vrublevsky and company operated “ Inferno Pay ,” a payments portal that worked with Hydra, the largest Russian darknet market for illicit goods, including drug trafficking, malware, and counterfeit money and documents.

Banking 233

Banking Marketing DDOS Risk 233

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Now if an attacker launches a malware campaign using these domains, it will be harder to pinpoint who/what is carrying out the attack since the domains would all appear to be just regular domains with no observable pattern other than the fact that they all use cloud DNS. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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DNS Internet Internet Computers and Electronics 269

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Scams Accountability Media Banking 230

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

. “This was accomplished by targeting the DevOps engineer’s home computer and exploiting a vulnerable third-party media software package, which enabled remote code execution capability and allowed the threat actor to implant keylogger malware,” LastPass officials wrote. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Cryptocurrency Passwords Encryption Accountability 362