Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023. billion in 2023. ” concludes the report. million.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 19, 2022

A financially motivated cybercrime group has been linked to an ongoing wave of attacks aimed at hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America with the goal of installing malware on compromised systems. Since 2018,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018. But in Wednesday’s filing, the DFS said First American was unable to determine whether records were accessed prior to Jun 2018. In the days that followed, the DFS and U.S.

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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. ” As KrebsOnSecurity noted in a 2018 story , Troia has acknowledged posing as a buyer or seller on various dark web forums as a way to acquire old and newly-hacked databases from other forum members.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Levashov has been in federal custody since his extradition to the United States and guilty plea in 2018, and was facing up to 12 more years in prison. Severa created and then leased out to others some of the nastiest cybercrime engines in history — including the Storm worm , and the Waledac and Kelihos spam botnets. A native of St.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

In the 15-month span of the GandCrab affiliate enterprise beginning in January 2018 , its curators shipped five major revisions to the code, each corresponding with sneaky new features and bug fixes aimed at thwarting the efforts of computer security firms to stymie the spread of the malware. The GandCrab identity on Exploit[.]in

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The network equipment maker MikroTik revealed that the routers were previously compromised in 2018. “As far as we have seen, these attacks use the same routers that were compromised in 2018, when MikroTik RouterOS had a vulnerability, that was quickly patched.” ” reads a post published by MikroTik in a forum post.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

BulletProofLink has been active since 2018, it was used by multiple threat actors in either one-off or monthly subscription-based business models. The double theft tactic allows the PhaaS operators to maximize their profits, the operators also earn selling victims’ credentials in the cybercrime underground. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2022

TA558 cybercrime group is behind a malware campaign targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America. Researchers from Proofpoint are monitoring a malware campaign conducted by a cybercrime group, tracked as TA558, that is targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Talos researchers believe that the group was able to remain under the radar using crypters that it bought on cybercrime forums. The post Threat actor has been targeting the aviation industry since at least 2018 appeared first on Security Affairs. Microsoft 365 Defender detects the multiple components of this attack. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2023

Researchers discovered credentials associated with cybercrime forums on roughly 120,000 computers infected with information stealers. Threat intelligence firm Hudson Rock has discovered credentials associated with cybercrime forums on roughly 120,000 computers infected with various information stealer malware.

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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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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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The Hacker News

AUGUST 15, 2023

A "staggering" 120,000 computers infected by stealer malware have credentials associated with cybercrime forums, many of them belonging to malicious actors. The findings come from Hudson Rock, which analyzed data collected from computers compromised between 2018 to 2023.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most people who who filed a tax return in 2018 and/or 2019 and provided their bank account information for a debit or credit should soon see an Economic Impact Payment direct-deposited into their bank accounts. More importantly, it appears one doesn’t really need to supply one’s AGI in 2018.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

billion in 2018. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. In December 2018, the parent company of Kay Jewelers and Jared Jewelers fixed a weakness in their site that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. In August 2018, financial industry giant Fiserv Inc.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Silent Push said Araneida is being advertised by an eponymous user on multiple cybercrime forums. Araneida Scanner’s Telegram channel bragging about how customers are using the service for cybercrime. That user, “ Exorn ,” has posts dating back to August 2018. co — first came online in February 2023.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

The alleged perpetrator, who turned out to be a citizen of Morocco, was arrested in May by the Moroccan police based on the data about his cybercrimes that was provided by Group-IB. Over the period from 2009 to 2018, the threat actor defaced over 130 web pages. Original post at [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 9, 2023

In December 2018, the feds targeted 15 booter sites, and three booter store defendants who later pleaded guilty. man charged in the government’s first 2018 mass booter bust-up. In December 2022, the feds seized four-dozen booter domains and charged six U.S. Charles, Ill.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In mid-August, a member of a popular Russian-language cybercrime forum offered to sell access to the internal network of a U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

aka BIRDDOG)’ It is a backdoor that was used by the FIN7 group since at least 2018, it also connects to a C2 IP address 45[.]67[.]229[.]148 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.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020. In the years leading up to his arrest, Ferizi was the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Pentagon Crew.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Recent data from anti-phishing company PhishLabs shows that 49 percent of all phishing sites in the third quarter of 2018 bore the padlock security icon next to the phishing site domain name as displayed in a browser address bar. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018.

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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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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Recent research conducted by Hudson Rock has shed light on the extensive compromise of computers and the exposure of hackers within cybercrime forums. Hudson Rock's research delved deep into the underbelly of the cyber world, focusing on the top 100 cybercrime forums.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. ” In at least some of those recruitment ads — like one in 2018 on the forum sysadmins[.]ru

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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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Between December 2018 and June 2019, SSNDOB sent over $100,000 worth of Bitcoin to Joker’s Stash, suggesting the two markets may have had some relationship to one another, including possibly shared ownership.” The post US dismantled and seized SSNDOB cybercrime marketplace appeared first on Security Affairs.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 28, 2023

A new North Korean nation-state cyber operator has been attributed to a series of campaigns orchestrated to gather strategic intelligence that aligns with Pyongyang's geopolitical interests since 2018.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The operation was carried out by Public Prosecutor’s Office in Frankfurt am Main, the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT), and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Nearly $100M in cryptocurrency was traded on the platform from 2018-2024, with operators taking 1-5% commissions. Now in custody.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 18, 2021

The announcement came on the heels of a turbulent year for the major cybercrime store, and just weeks after U.S. Like many other top cybercrime bazaars, Joker’s Stash was a frequent target of phishers looking to rip off unwary or unsophisticated thieves. and European authorities seized a number of its servers.

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