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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And an official confirmation says that the attack was launched by notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group that is known for its social engineering attacks such as the Wannacry 2017. Note- Lazarus group aka Guardians of Peace is a Cybercrime group that is being funded by North Korean intelligence- as per US Intelligence.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you’re part of the cybersecurity community, then you know that October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month ( CSAM ), initially launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the U.S. Fast forward to now: cybersecurity is a consistent topic amongst the C-Suite and CSAM is a must-mention, internationally recognized campaign.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Our most recent cybersecurity research is now available in the “ Cybersecurity Trends in 2019: Protecting Websites in the Age of Stealth Attacks ” report. In it, we identified the trends, threats, and innovations in cybercrime that small businesses need to know about in order to keep their websites secure. What does this mean?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. New cybercrime groups are also expected to start operations in Asia and Latin America. Attacks on Crypto.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. .” Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The FBI, the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a joint alert to warn hospitals and healthcare providers of imminent ransomware attacks from Russia. hospitals and healthcare providers. ” reads the alert.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

A cybersecurity issue can cause unexpected costs in several different areas, which is the cost of Dealing with an attack in 4 Industries? A cybersecurity issue can cause unexpected costs in several different areas. It also tops the list of annual cybercrime costs at about $18 million. Moving in a Worrying Direction.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations. District Judge Timothy M. “On Dec.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University , his former alma mater. In January 2017, almost a year before Jha’s arrest and guilty plea, KrebsOnSecurity identified Jha as the likely co-author of Mirai — which sprang to notoriety after a record-smashing Sept.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

The popular British cybersecurity expert Marcus Hutchins has pleaded guilty to developing and sharing the Kronos banking malware between July 2014 and July 2015. In August 2017, he was arrested in Las Vegas after attending the Def Con hacking conference and was detained by the FBI in the state of Nevada. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Researchers from Fortinet discovered a new DDoS botnet, tracked as Enemybot, that has targeted several routers and web servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Upon installing the threat, the bot drops a file in /tmp/.pwned

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Society’s dependence on internet-based technologies means security professionals must defend against cyberattacks as well as more traditional threats, such as robbers or disgruntled employees. Data from 2017 found only 27 percent of nonprofits broke even that year. Here are four of them: 1. Health Care. Financial Services.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Long before COVID-19, some notable behind-the-scenes forces were in motion to elevate cybersecurity to a much higher level. These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. states, for instance.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

The operators behind the RSOCKS botnet offered their clients access to IP addresses assigned to devices that had been compromised to route internet traffic. The initial undercover purchase in early 2017 identified approximately 325,000 compromised victim devices throughout the world with numerous devices located within San Diego County.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The oldest entry goes as far back as 2017, and it is unclear how long this instance had been open prior to the Cybernews discovery. The dataset also contained payment logs with emails, dates, bank names, phone numbers, and internet protocol (IP) addresses. The 3.9GB-strong database held information from 2017 onwards.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This information was first made public by experts from Group-IB’s Brand Protection team at the CyberCrimeCon 2018 international cybersecurity conference. billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 Counterfeit goods are not the only threat to popular brands on the Internet. Security Affairs – counterfeit goods, cybercrime ).

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Although cybercrime as a whole has seen a rise during the pandemic, arguably ransomware has been one of the more successful and lucrative attack types. It’s clear then that ransomware didn’t reach its zenith with WannaCry back in 2017 but remains a disruptive and profitable threat to business operations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 In December 2017, Group-IB published the first report on this group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. 1 November 2017. Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Before the.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2018

last December, researchers at the Check Point cybersecurity firm traced Satori to an amateur known as “Nexus Zeta” who frequented a web forum for untrained and wannabe malicious hackers. Securi ty Affairs – cybercrime, botnet). wrote Poulsen. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The incident forced the state of government of Louisiana to shut down several numerous web sites of the state as well as email and Internet services. “Today, we activated the state’s cybersecurity team in response to an attempted ransomware attack that is affecting some state servers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Facebook has long been a happy hunting ground for online crooks, who take great pleasure in turning unwary members of the internet community into their prey. phishing scam on its Messenger service that had been doing the rounds since at least 2017. If you want to know how to protect yourself, give a look at this post: [link].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

According to the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing.almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent security breach. According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, 1.8 ybercrime research unit. million were uploaded to card shops monthly.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In December 2017, Group-IB published its first report on the group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5 Group-IB is one the world’s leading providers of solutions aimed at detection and prevention of cyber attacks, fraud exposure and protection of intellectual property on the Internet. Security Affairs – Central Bank of Russia, cybercrime ).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With the advent of the internet, however, a new breed of malware was created specifically to target websites, their owners, and their visitors. Between 2016 and 2017, mobile devices experienced a 54% spike in malware variants, and Mac computers saw an 80% increase in malware attacks. As many as 17.6 Different Types of Malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, and a Swiss insurance broker ASPIS SA that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges cybersecurity, allowing the exchanges’ clients to ensure their assets.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

According to Kaspersky, there was a spike in the number of spear phishing messages in November 2017 that targeted up to 400 industrial companies located in Russia. computer name, username and the RMS machine’s internet ID) about the infected system. Securi ty Affairs – industrial sector, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Check out how China teleported a photon into space in 2017. I was personally honored in my early career to work for Wang Laboratories and was invited to share one of my visions ‘fax over the internet’ with the company, which I invented. To a visionary, it was obvious more than 25 years before it became a reality. Sounds absurd?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Several cybersecurity researchers note that also in 2018 Lazarus carried out global campaign known as “Rising sun”. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified hundreds of compromised credentials from Singaporean government agencies and educational institutions over the course of 2017 and 2018. Have you been pwned?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. With the extensive use of the internet, malicious ads pose a long-lasting threat if not blocked. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Human Error They say to err is human, however the consequences of human error in a cybersecurity context can be more severe and costly than in most other situations. Factors Contributing to Data Breaches in the Healthcare Industry The need for robust cybersecurity measures and protocols.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 30, 2022

The United States, Australia, and its Asian partners—India and Japan—have agreed to work on several cybersecurity initiatives on software, supply chain, and user data. A year ago, they supported regional countries to build cybersecurity resilience and counter disinformation.

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