Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Russian Phobos ransomware operator Evgenii Ptitsyn, accused of managing attacks, was extradited from South Korea to the US to face cybercrime charges. Russian Phobos ransomware operator Evgenii Ptitsyn, suspected of playing a key role in the ransomware operations, was extradited from South Korea to the US to face cybercrime charges.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

The cybercrime group ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown backdoor known as GoRed. Positive Technologies researchers reported that a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in multiple sectors with a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Q6Cyber CEO Eli Dominitz said the breach appears to extend from May 2019 through September 2020. Gemini puts the exposure window between July 2019 and August 2020. the vast majority of the payment card data for sale in the cybercrime underground is stolen from merchants who are still swiping chip-based cards.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2023

The program was developed in the year 2019 and after a long pause, the service of crafting the service was resumed at the end of last year. The mapping will be called as Cybercrime Atlas and arrangements are being made to host it at the World Economic Forum(WEF) in the next 18-20 months.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. billion in 2019. In August 2019, the company said a third-party investigation into the exposure identified just 32 consumers whose non-public personal information likely was accessed without authorization.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

19 individuals worldwide were charged in a transnational cybercrime investigation of the now defunct xDedic marketplace. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

Which means when a cybercrime forum gets hacked and its user databases posted online, it is often possible to work backwards from some of the more unique passwords for each account and see where else that password was used. As I described in a 2019 story about an interview Fly gave to a Russian publication upon his release from a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In February 2020, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about being contacted by an Internal Revenue Service investigator seeking to return funds seized seven years earlier as part of the governments 2013 seizure of Liberty Reserve , a virtual currency service that acted as a $6 billion hub for the cybercrime world.

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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. 3, 2019, Data Viper’s Twitter account casually noted , “FiveStars — 44m breached records added – incl Name, Email, DOB.” An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. But on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity decided to test this expanded policy with what would appear to be a no-brainer request: I asked Google to remove search result for BriansClub , one of the largest (if not THE largest) cybercrime stores for selling stolen payment card data. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon , a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. According to those sources, U.S.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2020

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. The fraud bazaar Joker’s Stash on Monday began selling some 30 million stolen payment card accounts that experts say have been tied back to a breach at Wawa in 2019. Representatives from MasterCard did not respond to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

First debuting in early 2019, CLOP is one of several ransomware groups that hack into organizations, launch ransomware that encrypts files and servers, and then demand an extortion payment in return for a digital key needed to unlock access. ?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The investigator — we’ll call him “George” — said the 23-year-old Medayedupin lives with his extended family in an extremely impoverished home, and that the young man told investigators he’d just graduated from college but turned to cybercrime at first with ambitions of merely scamming the scammers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. First advertised in the cybercrime underground in 2014, RSOCKS was the web-based storefront for hacked computers that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their Web traffic through someone else’s device. But that action did not name any defendants.

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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. Likewise, people drawing Social Security payments from the government will receive stimulus payments the same way.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

22 on RAMP , a new and fairly exclusive Russian-language darknet cybercrime forum. Fortinet said the credentials were collected from systems that hadn’t yet implemented a patch issued in May 2019. ” reads the Oct. 22 post from Groove calling for attacks on the United States government sector. Groove was first announced Aug.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. Nixon said the data suggests that between 2015 and August 2019, BriansClub sold roughly 9.1

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “According to the analysis of foreign law enforcement agencies, more than 50% of all phishing attacks in 2019 in Australia were carried out thanks to the development of the Ternopil hacker,” the attorney general’s office said, noting that investigators had identified hundreds of U-Admin customers. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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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. Petersburg.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

” In another thread from June 2019, an Antichat user asks if anyone has heard from Isis recently, and Isis pops up a day later to inquire what he wants. That same email address was used to register the account “Isis” at several other top Russian-language cybercrime forums, including Damagelab, Zloy, Evilzone and Priv-8.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2019

21, 2019, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo after discovering strong evidence that two million credit and debit card numbers belonging to the company’s customers were being sold in the cybercrime underground. In a statement posted to its Web site today, Orlando, Fla.

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Adam Levin

JULY 15, 2020

The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially reported. Access to the database was made available on a dark web cybercrime marketplace for roughly $3,000.

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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. A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. info , allproxy[.]info

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The Hacker News

APRIL 4, 2021

In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability.

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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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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. The service’s Telegram channel boasts nearly 500 subscribers and explains how to use the tool for malicious purposes.

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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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The Hacker News

APRIL 9, 2024

2023 CL0P Growth Emerging in early 2019, CL0P was first introduced as a more advanced version of its predecessor the ‘CryptoMix’ ransomware, brought about by its owner CL0P ransomware, a cybercrime organisation. Over the years the group remained active with significant campaigns throughout 2020 to 2022.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

In the years leading up to his arrest, Ferizi was the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Pentagon Crew. Between 2015 and 2019, Ferizi was imprisoned at a facility in Illinois that housed several other notable convicts. Junaid Hussain’s Twitter profile photo.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. in , where the group recruited many of its distributors.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

” A copy of the passport for Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. ” Launched in 2013, RSOCKS was shut down in June 2022 as part of an international investigation into the cybercrime service. ” Kloster’s blog even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees.

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