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FIN7 cybercrime gang creates fake cybersecurity firm to recruit pentesters for ransomware attacks

Security Affairs

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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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

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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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A member of the FIN7 group was sentenced to 10 years in prison

Security Affairs

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. companies, predominantly in the restaurant, gambling, and hospitality industries.” ” concludes DoJ.

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Microsoft warns of Human-Operated Ransomware as a growing threat to businesses

Security Affairs

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. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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A Russian cyber vigilante is patching outdated MikroTik routers exposed online

Security Affairs

Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator. Just to be clear, despite Alexey has broken into the infected routers to sanitize them, this action is technically considered a cybercrime.

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Administrators of bulletproof hosting sentenced to prison in the US

Security Affairs

The two individuals, Aleksandr Skorodumov (33) of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi (30) of Estonia, administrated the bulletproof hosting service between 2009 and 2015. Stassi conducted several administrative tasks for the group, such as registering webhosting and financial accounts using stolen and/or false personal information.

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FireEye experts found source code for CARBANAK malware on VirusTotal?

Security Affairs

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group.

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