Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

.” Over the course of his 15-year cybercriminal career, Severa would emerge as a pivotal figure in the cybercrime underground , serving as the primary moderator of a spam community that spanned multiple top Russian cybercrime forums. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. In 2017, crooks launched a phishing campaign against universities to compromise.edu accounts. ” reads the alert published by the FBI. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 27, 2017

According to Verizon's 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, espionage-related attacks are growing in popularity, with malware and phishing still go-to tools for hackers as well.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 17, 2020

One of those offering claimed access over the Exploit forum in 2017 was known as “fxmsp” and is wanted by the FBI “for involvement in several high-profile incidents,” said Mark Arena, chief executive of cybercrime intelligence firm Intel471. Arena informed his company’s clients, which include U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. As touched on above, the group hired experts in a variety of cybercrime fields. The wire transfers listed range from $44,900 to $230,400 across most of 2017 to 2018. What happened this week, you ask? How bad is it really?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is RANSOMWARE DREAMS.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. ’s Companies House shows that in 2017 Mr. Zanko became an officer in a company called Godbex Solutions LTD.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 24, 2024

A previously unknown traffic distribution system (TDS) named 'VexTrio' has been active since at least 2017, aiding 60 affiliates in their cybercrime operations through a massive network of 70,000 sites. [.]

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

The “ NotPetya ” attack of 2017 – the most financially damaging cyberattack in history – and the 2018 “ Olympic Destroyer ” attack, which took down the entire technology system of the Winter Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, used wiper malware.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. ValidCC, circa 2017. “UltraRank combined attacks on single targets with supply chain attacks.” We did not take this decision lightly!”

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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.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

Firsov also tweeted about competing in and winning several “capture the flag” hacking competitions, including the 2016 and 2017 CTF challenges at Positive Hack Days (PHDays), an annual security conference in Moscow. ru , a cybercrime forum in its own right that called itself “ The Antichat Mafia.”

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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. In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. Law enforcement seized the Genesis Market black marketplace, a platform focused on the sale of stolen credentials, as part of Operation Cookie Monster.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 17, 2019

To alleviate the cash from a whole entire nation…” KrebsOnSecurity has seen some creative yet truly bizarre ads for dodgy services in the cybercrime underground, but the following animated advertisement for a popular credit card fraud shop likely takes the cake. “It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation.

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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

MARCH 26, 2020

“Our continuous monitoring of underground activity revealed despite the conviction, Flint24 never left the cybercrime scene,” reads an analysis penned by Intel 471. authorities in 2017. Intel 471 says Selivanon also was charged along with Stroganov in this past week’s law enforcement action.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

A new report released by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows that financial losses due to suspected cybercrime continued to rise sharply over the course of 2021, to a total of $6.9 billion in that year alone, with 847,000 complaints lodged by victims. billion, on 301,580 complaints. billion, on 301,580 complaints.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who’ve recently re-indicted him on related charges. issued international arrest warrant for his extradition.

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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. In 2017, U.S. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime. Hacked or leaked credentials are prized by cybercriminals engaged in “credential stuffing,” a rampant form of cybercrime that succeeds when people use the same passwords across multiple websites. MURKY WATERS.

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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

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. This batch of some five million cards put up for sale Sept.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. SSN and DOB data is widely available for sale in the cybercrime underground on almost all U.S. Consumers in every U.S. But Equifax has changed a few things since then.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.” BTC-e was popular in the cybercrime ecosystem, it was an illegal platform because it was not registered as a money services business with the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

An American was charged with money laundering while operating the dark web Helix Bitcoin mixer service between 2014 and 2017. Larry Dean Harmon (36), from Akron, Ohio, was charged with laundering more than $310 million worth of Bitcoin while he was operating a Darknet-based cryptocurrency laundering service between 2014 and 2017.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2018

According to LifeLock’s marketing literature as of January 2017, the company has more than 4.5 Plus, I definitely think the target market of LifeLock is someone who is easily spooked by the specter of cybercrime.” Corrected the number of LifeLock subscribers based on a 2017 estimate by Symantec. Update, 7:40 p.m.:

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. with the profile name of “ Denis Kloster ” and the Omsk phone number of 79136334444.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

. “Sign of the seriousness of the situation, the prosecutor of Paris, competent at the national level for the fight against cybercrime, opened an investigation on Saturday, announced the latter to the World .” The Rouen hospital announced it would not pay any ransom to decrypt the files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

Truebot has been active since 2017 and some researchers linked it to the Russian Silence Group , while a recent investigation linked it to threat actor TA505 (aka Evil Corp). .” The researchers noticed that the domain hosting the tools employed in the attack, windowservicecemter[.]com, com, was registered on April 12, 2023.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

But just eight months later — in January 2017 according to the lawsuit — hackers broke in to the bank’s systems once more, again gaining access to the financial institution’s systems via a phishing email. As with the first incident, the intruders executed their heist on a weekend. Between Jan. THE LAWSUIT.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2023

Did you already grab a copy of my Twitter 2017-2023 Ebook compilation for free? Have you also downloaded my Cybercrime Forum Data Set for 2022 including a free 256GB compilation of all of my publicly accessible research from 2005 up to 2023 for free in the form of a torrent ? Stay tuned!

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Kimsuky, also known as Velvet Chollima, Thallium, or Black Banshee, is a North Korean-based cybercrime group with operations going back to 2017. The North Korean cyberespionage group known as Kimsuky has been observed exploiting three different Android malware targeted specifically at South Korean users.

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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 That email address and nickname had been used since 2009 to register multiple identities on more than a half dozen cybercrime forums. Vpn-service[.]us

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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

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. million stolen cards; 2017 saw some 4.9 The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million more.

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