Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But judging from the proliferation of help-wanted ads for offensive pentesters in the cybercrime underground, today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion: The real challenge seems to be hiring enough people to help everyone profit from the access already gained. THE DOCTOR IS IN.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The security firm CrowdStrike dubbed the group “ Scattered Spider ,” a recognition that the MGM hackers came from different hacker cliques scattered across an ocean of Telegram and Discord servers dedicated to financially-oriented cybercrime. ” Beige members were implicated in two stories published here in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. ” asked Ohad Zaidenberg , founder of CTI League , a volunteer emergency response community that emerged in 2020 to help fight COVID-19 related scams. “Who does it?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Picari was the owner, developer and main beneficiary of the service, and his personal information and ownership of OTP Agency was revealed in February 2020 in a “dox” posted to the now-defunct English-language cybercrime forum Raidforums. The NCA said it began investigating the service in June 2020.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. As detailed in this Nov. 2 story , SWAT currently employs more than 1,200 U.S. ” But the triploo@mail.ru However, in Sept.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software. In early 2022, a video surfaced on a popular cybercrime channel purporting to show attackers hurling a brick through a window at an address that matches the spacious and upscale home of Urban’s parents in Sanford, Fl.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

” The incident Jim described happened in late January 2020, and Citi may have changed its procedures since then. Dozens of cybercrime shops traffic in this stolen data, which is more traditionally used to defraud online merchants. . “I was appalled that Citi would do that. Click to enlarge. Image: Gemini Advisory.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

pw has been registered and abandoned by several parties since 2014, but the most recent registration data available through DomainTools.com shows it was registered in March 2020 to someone in Krasnodar, Russia with the email address edgard011012@gmail.com. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers. Allison Nixon , chief research officer with New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Unit221B , recalled what happened in the weeks leading up to Dec.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

But Caturegli said ransomware gangs and other cybercrime groups could siphon huge volumes of Microsoft Windows credentials from quite a few companies with just a small up-front investment. ” If we ever learn that cybercrime groups are using namespace collisions to launch ransomware attacks, nobody can say they weren’t warned. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

.” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020. A LinkedIn profile for Rizky says he is a backend Web developer in Bandung who earned a bachelor’s degree in information technology in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. A search at DomainTools.com for privatenote[.]io io shows it has been registered to two names over as many years, including Andrey Sokol from Moscow and Alexandr Ermakov from Kiev.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

” The 30-year-old Donahue said he left the FBI in April 2020 to start Kodex because it was clear that social media and technology companies needed help validating the increasingly large number of law enforcement requests domestically and internationally. Apple’s compliance with EDRs was 93 percent worldwide in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Like most cybercrime forums, OGUsers is overrun with shady characters who are there mainly to rip off other members. Indeed, the leaked OGUsers databases — which include private messages on the forum prior to June 2020 — offer a small window into the overall value of the hijacked social media account industry.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Launched in 2020, websites under the banner of the Impulse Scam Crypto Project are all essentially “advanced fee” scams that tell people they have earned a cryptocurrency investment credit. The crypto scam affiliate program “Project Impulse,” advertising in 2021. Image: Trend Micro. billion last year.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Here’s the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email inboxes per day, and apparently does little else with this access except siphon gift card and customer loyalty program data that can be resold online.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The crackdown — the second closure of major card fraud shops by Russian authorities in as many weeks — comes closely behind Russia’s arrest of 14 alleged affiliates of the REvil ransomware gang , and has many in the cybercrime underground asking who might be next. K in January 2020. It was seized by Dept.

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