Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Do not trust everything you see online.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The United Nations on Friday have approved a Russian-sponsored and China-backed resolution to create a new convention on cybercrime. The United Nations on Friday has approved a Russian-sponsored and China-backed resolution to create a new convention on cybercrime. It will only serve to stifle global efforts to combat cybercrime.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

First detailed in September 2018, the toolkit was observed delivering malware families ranging from ransomware to backdoors, but also fingerprinting the browser profile to identify targets of interest. Security researcher Kafeine identified that Fallout is now the second exploit kit to add CVE-2018-15982.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges. In December 2018, a then 21-year-0ld Troy Woody Jr.

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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. In 2018 the direct financial losses from these attacks amounted to almost $20 million. Attacks on Crypto.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 9, 2023

But the DOJ says these disclaimers usually ignore the fact that most booter services are heavily reliant on constantly scanning the Internet to commandeer misconfigured devices that are critical for maximizing the size and impact of DDoS attacks. man charged in the government’s first 2018 mass booter bust-up. Charles, Ill.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. Alas, in 2018, the.llc TLD was born and began selling domains. SSL/TLS certs).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that the market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol in Russia exceeded 30 million USD in 2018, i.e. almost 5.8 The intoxicating Internet. As a result, criminals earned around 30 million USD in 2018, i.e. 23% more than the year before. SecurityAffairs – illegal market, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

According to the threat intelligence firm Volexity, the CVE-2018-11776 vulnerability is already being abused in malicious attacks in the wild. Just yesterday I wrote about the availability online of the exploit code for the recently discovered Critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2018-11776 in Apache Struts 2.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The Darknet marketplace was a crucial service for drug trafficking in the cybercrime underground for several years. . As a result, the darkweb marketplace was shut down in 2017 by the BKA also arrested its operator and sentenced him to seven years in prison in 2018. He is said to have administered them since November 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

In May 2018, researchers from security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab reported that cybercriminals that targeted the Dasan GPON routers were using another new zero-day flaw affecting the same routers and recruit them in their botnet. sox,” which is used to proxy traffic from the bot to the internet on behalf of a user.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), seniors lost $500 each on computer tech assistance scams in 2018. Internet and email fraud.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

“An INTERPOL-coordinated operation in Southeast Asia against an emerging form of cybercrime known as cryptojacking has led to a massive reduction in the number of infected devices across the region.” The campaign was first spotted by the researcher who goes online with the Twitter handle MalwareHunterBR in July 2018.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

“CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. Several groups of experts linked both TrickBot and Ryuk threats to cybercrime gangs operating out of Russia. Ryuk first appeared in the threat landscape in August 2018 as a derivative of the Hermes 2.1

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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

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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina. Click to enlarge.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. Popular search engines do their part to help create a safe internet by looking for websites with malware.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. that were created from different Internet addresses in Vienna, Austria. billion last year.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link]. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018. A live Paypal phishing site that uses [link] (has the green padlock).

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) cybercrime groups. We found the group attacking assets in Chile in 2018 and, more recently, in Mexico. It also includes a Bitcoin wallet stealing module.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

is an Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability. pic.twitter.com/AZasBtG2Ot — Trend Micro Research (@TrendMicroRSRCH) February 13, 2024 DarkGate RAT is written in Borland Delphi and is available in the cybercrime ecosystem as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model. CVE-2024-21412 (CVSS score 8.1)

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

Last week, French authorities have seized the dark web marketplace Le Monde Parallèle, it is another success of national police in the fight against cybercrime. French authorities seized the dark web marketplace Le Monde Parallèle, the operation is another success of national police in the fight against cybercrime activity in the dark web.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On August 2018, Schuchman has been indicted on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori that infected at least 500,000 internet routers around the word. In April 2018 , Schuchman develops a new DDoS botnet alone, it was based on the Qbot malware family.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. I am contacting you today because we located a botnet being hosted on your forehead, please take immediate action thanks.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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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

JULY 25, 2022

Amadey Bot is a data-stealing malware that was first spotted in 2018, it also allows operators to install additional payloads. The malware is available for sale in illegal forums, in the past, it was used by cybercrime gangs like TA505 to install GandCrab ransomware or the FlawedAmmyy RAT. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061. “Since the release of Zerobot 1.1,

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