Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Shefel claims the true mastermind behind the Target and other retail breaches was Dmitri Golubov , an infamous Ukrainian hacker known as the co-founder of Carderplanet, among the earliest Russian-language cybercrime forums focused on payment card fraud. “I’m also godfather of his second son.” “Hi, how are you?”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The bot allowed the attackers to use the phished username, password and one-time code to log in as that employee at the real employer website. One of Scattered Spider’s first big victims in its 2022 SMS phishing spree was Twilio , a company that provides services for making and receiving text messages and phone calls. Click to enlarge.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “ USDoD ” had infiltrated the FBI ‘s vetted information sharing network InfraGard , and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. Department of Defense. Now it’s a charming kitten.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

authorities seized $23M in crypto linked to a $150M Ripple wallet theft, experts believe the incident is linked to the 2022 LastPass breach. authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. ” reads the complaint.

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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. The Raccoon v.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Group-IB cybersecurity researchers recently identified several Russian-speaking cybercrime groups offering infostealing malware-as-a-service (MaaS), resulting in the theft of more than 50 million passwords thus far. Millions in Cybercrime Profit. Don’t save passwords in browser. Gaming Becomes a Target.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. In May 2021, over 36,000 email and password combinations for.edu email accounts were offered for sale on a publically available instant messaging platform. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

HIBP confirmed that the stolen archive had 31M records, including email address, screen name, bcrypt password hash, and timestamps for password changes. The exposed token had been available since December 2022 and was reportedly rotated multiple times since then.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Since early 2022, there has been a 49 percent rise in phishing attempts capable of evading filters, with AI-generated threats accounting for nearly 5 percent of these attacks. This surge highlights a broader trend toward automation in cybercrime and signals that no email platform is immune.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. According to Constella Intelligence [currently an advertiser on KrebsOnSecurity], Oleg used the same password from his iboss32@ro.ru

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below. million users.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Megatraffer has continued to offer their code-signing services across more than a half-dozen other Russian-language cybercrime forums, mostly in the form of sporadically available EV and non-EV code-signing certificates from major vendors like Thawte and Comodo.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As many as 34 Russian-speaking gangs distributing information-stealing malware under the stealer-as-a-service model stole no fewer than 50 million passwords in the first seven months of 2022. The underground market value of stolen logs and compromised card details is estimated around $5.8

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

5, 2022, and that an investigation determined the bad actor started abusing the API beginning around Nov. T-Mobile says it is in the process of notifying affected customers, and that no customer payment card data, passwords, Social Security numbers, driver’s license or other government ID numbers were exposed.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

At least 34 distinct Russian-speaking cybercrime groups using info-stealing malware like Raccoon and Redline have collectively stolen 50,350,000 account passwords from over 896,000 individual infections from January to July 2022. [.].

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs say the crooks responsible for maintaining the QakBot botnet have rented their creation to various cybercrime groups over the years.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2024

Toyota has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor leaked 240GB of data stolen from its infrastructure on a cybercrime forum. Toyota disclosed a data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from its systems on a cybercrime forum, BleepingComputer reported.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One account of the hack came from a 17-year-old in the United Kingdom, who told reporters the intrusion began when one of the English-speaking hackers phoned a tech support person at MGM and tricked them into resetting the password for an employee account. ” Beige members were implicated in two stories published here in 2020.

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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

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. This and other “nordia@” emails shared a password: “ anna59.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files. The password cracking software also acts as a dropper for the Sality P2P bot. ” concludes the report.

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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 2022, Troy Woody Jr. We know what E.Z.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to the analytical agency Newzoo, in 2022, the global gaming market will exceed $ 200 billion , with 3 billion players globally. The gaming industry went into full gear during the pandemic, as many people took up online gaming as their new hobby to escape the socially-distanced reality. Top game titles by number of related threats.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last year, we foresaw the APT and cybercrime worlds becoming more porous on an operational level. Here are the developments we think we could be seeing in 2022. In 2022, we will see more sophisticated attacks against mobile devices getting exposed and closed, accompanied by the inevitable denial from the perpetrators.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for interfering in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. 2022 by Google researcher Luca Nagy. 2022 by Google researcher Luca Nagy. A slide from a talk given in Sept.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online. While we hope 2022 will be the last pandemic year, we do not think the privacy trends will reverse. What will be the consequences of these processes?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

” The Remote Access Trojan (RAT) has been active since July 2022. Attackers also attempted to exploit weak vendor-supplied passwords. . “Private sector partners are encouraged to implement the recommendations listed in the Mitigation column of the table below to reduce the likelihood and impact of these attack campaigns.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Rasch said it could be that Dellone’s stolen crypto was seized as part of a government asset forfeiture, but that either way there is no reason Uncle Sam should hold some cybercrime victims’ life savings indefinitely. The law firm DLAPiper writes that in November 2022, the U.S. federal court.” federal court.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2022. We can confirm a Maui ransomware incident in 2022, but we would expand their “first seen” date from the reported May 2021 to April 15, 2021, and the geolocation of the target to Japan and India. The most remarkable findings.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

A previously unknown threat actor released config files and VPN passwords for Fortinet FortiGate devices on a popular cybercrime forum. A previously unknown threat actor named Belsen Group published configuration files and VPN passwords for over 15,000 Fortinet FortiGate appliances. released in October 2022.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2022, we saw a major upgrade of the notorious Emotet botnet as well as the launch of massive campaigns by Emotet operators throughout the year. For instance, malicious spam campaigns targeting organizations grew 10-fold in April 2022, spreading Qbot and Emotet malware. of all phishing attacks in 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2023

But after the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the focus of hackers has shifted more towards the smart phones with more phishing and social engineering attacks recorded in a 2nd quarter of 2022. The post Hackers shifting cybercrime focus towards smart phones and tablets appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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