Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And this goes beyond usernames and passwords to information that can get them immediate financial gain like credit card information and cryptocurrency wallets.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords.

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Krebs on Security

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. After being charged with the attack in October 2022, Kivimäki fled the country.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When security researchers discovered more than 2 million stolen passwords on a hacker server in December, a piece of malware called a keylogger was suspected. So let’s make 2014 the year you take back your security and peace of mind. Our goal for 2014 is to be the best security partner for online businesses.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Kislitsin is accused of hacking into the now-defunct social networking site Formspring in 2012, and conspiring with another Russian man convicted of stealing tens of millions of usernames and passwords from LinkedIn and Dropbox that same year. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

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. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

A successful new operation was announced by Europol, it announced to have dismantled the global organized cybercrime ring behind Imminent Monitor RAT. ” The law enforcement speculates hackers using the hacking tool to steal personal details, passwords, private photographs, video footage, and data from tens of thousands of victims.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted MD5).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system. If you use the legacy email and password login, your passwords are encrypted, but we highly encourage that you change it. Members of the E27 are recommended to change their password as soon as possible.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2020

The Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 has been hacked, attackers are threatening to sell the database on the cybercrime underground markets. The huge trove of data contains data, recent transactions, passwords, emails, mobile numbers, email addresses, messages, etc. ” reads the post published by the expert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

The man is known in the cybercrime underground for selling billions of stolen credentials. Early last year, it caught the attention of global cybersecurity experts by posting on one of the forums the sale of a database with 773 million e-mail addresses and 21 million unique passwords.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.” Aerial Direct confirmed that no passwords or financial information accessed by hackers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The recent Emotet campaign uses spam messages with password-protected attachments, experts noticed a decline in infections over the weekend, a behavior already observed in the past. Emotet joined the password-protected attachment bandwagon with a campaign starting Friday. ” states the Italian CSIRT’s alert. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. The company discovered unauthorized access to its servers, the intruders stole personal information of the users, including usernames , hashed passwords, first and last names, gender information, and city of residenc.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. Between May 14, 2012 and July 25, 2012, Nikulin obtained the records belonging 68 million Dropbox users containing usernames, emails, and hashed passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Like most cybercrime forums, OGUsers is overrun with shady characters who are there mainly to rip off other members. For example, one of the most active accounts targeted in this week’s social network crackdown is the Instagram profile “ Trusted ,” self-described as “top-tier professional middleman/escrow since 2014.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore group, aks Crypto-gang, “Dangerous Password”, and “Leery Turtle” has been active since 2018. The spear-phishing messages attempt to trick the victims into installing malware on their computer that allows attacker to steal or obtain access to a password manager account.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The malware is able to steal sensitive information (a variety of credentials, including FTP credentials, stored email passwords, passwords stored in the browser, as well as a whole host of other credentials) . If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Javvad Malik

JULY 5, 2024

Oliver’s story brings into sharp focus the real-world consequences of cybercrime – the stress, the uncertainty, and the potential health complications that can arise from delayed medical procedures. This includes using strong, unique passwords, regularly updating our software, and being cautious about the information we share online.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A recently discovered cybercrime gang, tracked as Epic Manchego , is using a new technique to create weaponized Excel files that are able to bypass security checks. The Epic Manchego threat actors stored their malicious code in a custom VBA code format, which was also password-protected to prevent researchers from analyzing it.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“The new finding came to light over the weekend after a hacker put up for sale the hotel’s data in an ad published on a dark web cybercrime marketplace.” The company excluded that hackers have stolen financial and payment card data or passwords. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

HIBP received the data from dehashed.com on June 9th, 2019, exposed info includes mail addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. The user dfyz on Searchengines[.]ru

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. Gafgyt is a popular choice for launching large-scale DDoS attacks, it first appeared in the threat landscape in 2014. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Microsoft is warning of human-operated ransomware, this kind of attack against businesses is becoming popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Human-operated ransomware is a technique usually employed in nation-state attacks that is becoming very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. ” continues Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The messages include a link that points to phishing websites that prompt users into entering their username and password. Once at the site, users were prompted to enter their user name and password (surprise!), Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The StreetEasy data breach took place in the mid-2016 and exposed 988k records that included names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes. The data has been available for sale in the cybercrime underground since February. Impacted data includes names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

The company is also aware that a threat actor is attempting to sell the Dave user records in the cybercrime underground, it hired security firm CrowdStrike to investigate the security breach. Dave is notifying customers of the security breach, it also forced a password reset in response to the incident. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Cybercrime gangs aim at hiring skilled hackers that can help them in extortion campaign against high-worth individuals, in this case they promise $30,000 per month ($360,000 per year). “ Highly competitive salaries and other forms of remuneration are becoming an essential element of attractive in the cybercrime ecosystem.

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