Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Alas, cybercrime bazaars like Joker’s Stash have continued plying their trade, undeterred by a push from the credit card associations to encourage more merchants to install credit card readers that require more secure chip-based payment cards. .”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums , a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely show up for sale. Pompompurin has been something of a nemesis to the FBI for several years. In April 2022, U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket. ” The U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

. “You can expect good things come tax time as I will have lots of profiles with verified prior year AGIs to make your refund filing 10x easier,” TheDearthStar advertised in an August 2015 message to AlphaBay members. ’ Could be $1,000 could be $100,000.” Treasury billions of dollars.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. Cloud Router was previously called 911 S5.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. At the time of the report, some of the HTTP 404 errors remain unfixed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Part of Megatraffer’s ad. Image: Ke-la.com. Image: Archive.org.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The scandal is the latest fallout stemming from a three-part investigation into the organized crime group by KrebsOnSecurity in 2015. According to prosecution documents, Marcu and The Shark spotted my reporting shortly after it was published in 2015, and discussed what to do next on a messaging app: The Shark: Krebsonsecurity.com See this.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

In a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity, Group-IB said Mr. Kislitsin is no longer an employee, and that he now works for a Russian organization called FACCT , which stands for “ Fight Against Cybercrime Technologies.” Alexei Burkov, seated second from right, attends a hearing in Jerusalem in 2015. Arkady Bukh is a U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group (aka Carbanak ) that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. They then use OpenSSH and Impacket to move laterally and deploy Clop ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A suspected leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Tank), was arrested by Swiss police. Swiss police last month arrested in Geneva Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (40), also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Babam has authored more than 270 posts since joining Exploit in 2015, including dozens of sales threads. com and wwwpexpay[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. Kivimäki was ultimately convicted of orchestrating more than 50,000 cybercrimes.

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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. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. According to stats released in September by Visa , 80 percent of U.S. storefronts now accept chip cards.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

On the other end, FIN7 is a Russian financially motivated group that has been active since at least 2015. The post Experts link the Black Basta ransomware operation to FIN7 cybercrime gang appeared first on Security Affairs. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 17, 2024

A previously unknown cybercrime syndicate named 'Bigpanzi' has been making significant money by infecting Android TV and eCos set-top boxes worldwide since at least 2015. [.]

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

“In one year, people who worked with us have earned over US $2 billion,” read the farewell post by the eponymous GandCrab identity on the cybercrime forum Exploit[.]in When Oneiilk2 registered on Exploit in January 2015, he used the email address hottabych_k2@mail.ru. in , where the group recruited many of its distributors.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

From 2015 to July 2022, 911 S5 sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, as “proxies” that allowed customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

The experts reported that the SSNDOB’s Bitcoin payment processing system has been active since April 2015. The post US dismantled and seized SSNDOB cybercrime marketplace appeared first on Security Affairs. Since then, the service has received nearly $22 million worth of Bitcoin across over 100,000 transactions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

The illegal dark web marketplace RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of the international law enforcement Operation TOURNIQUET coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. 1, 2015, and on or about Jan. ” RaidForums was launched in 2015, its community reached over half a million users.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

All of the card data stolen from BriansClub was shared with multiple sources who work closely with financial institutions to identify and monitor or reissue cards that show up for sale in the cybercrime underground. The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million card records for sale. million more. HACKING BACK?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Services like SWAT are known as “Drops for stuff” on cybercrime forums. The login page for the criminal reshipping service SWAT USA Drop. “SwatVerified.”

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. The figure that most of all capture our attention is that victims of cybercrime activities lost $3.5 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The selection of affiliates is a crucial process in the success of the cybercrime scheme, for this reason, REvil operators personally select each people they want to include in their program. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

A threat actor has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange and hunting sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a hacker has leaked online the databases of Utah-based gun exchange for free on a cybercrime forum. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

Proprietors of these so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — designed to knock websites and users offline — have long operated in a legally murky area of cybercrime law. In 2018, the feds seized 15 stresser sites, and levied cybercrime charges against three men for their operation of booter services.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

Avaddon ransomware operators, like other cybercrime groups, decided to launch a data leak site where publish data of victims who refuse to pay a ransom demand. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Let’s wait for new entries on the leak site! Pierluigi Paganini.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this latest BYOVD attack, which was observed and stopped by CrowdStrike's Falcon security system, Scattered Spider attempted to deploy a malicious kernel driver via a vulnerability — CVE-2015-2291 in MITRE's Common Vulnerability and Exposures program — in the Intel Ethernet diagnostics driver for Windows (iqvw64.sys).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

A Ukrainian man was sentenced in the US to 5 years in prison for his criminal activity in the cybercrime group FIN7. for high-level hacking activity in the cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group). Iarmak is the third member of the FIN7 cybercrime group to be sentenced in the U.S. in May 2020.

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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. The answer involved Bitcoin, but also Taleon’s new service. Petersburg.

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