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.”

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a significant victory against cybercrime, U.S. Cybercrime as a service: an evolving threat As cybercriminals continue to develop more sophisticated and accessible tools, law enforcement agencies worldwide are struggling to keep pace. For every criminal group disrupted, multiple others remain active or emerge to take their place."

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2025

An international law enforcement operation targeted several major cybercrime websites, including Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP. An international law enforcement operation led by Europol, code-named Operation Talent, dismantled several major cybercrime sites, including Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP. and Nulled.to.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2025

Trend ZDI researchers discovered 1,000 malicious.lnk files used by nation-state actors and cybercrime groups to execute hidden malicious commands on a victims machine by exploiting the vulnerability ZDI-CAN-25373. Since 2017, the vulnerability has been exploited by APT groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2025

. “On November 20, 2024, we were notified by a vendor of point-of-sale processing services for some of our retail locations that accounts with their organization had been compromised by an organized cybercrime group.” The companyalso filed documents with regulators in California warning impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

On October 17, 2024, Rahman stole and leaked Top-Secret documents on a U.S. The CIA analyst photographed the classified documents and transmitted them to individuals he knew were not authorized to view them. Rahman has access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). “After Oct.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Crimenetwork facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services, including drugs, forged documents, hacking tools, and stolen data. 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).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2024

court for his role in the Karakurt cybercrime gang. court for his role in the Russian Karakurt cybercrime gang. “According to court documents, Zolotarjovs is a member of a known cybercriminal organization that attacks computer systems of victims around the world.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Hacker's King

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

To make it user-friendly for both beginners and experts, clear commands and comprehensive documentation are incorporated in this tool. Check the documentation for detailed instructions. User-Friendly Command-Line Interface (CLI): Diving into cybersecurity can feel overwhelming, especially when some tools seem designed for experts only.

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Hacker's King

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

To make it user-friendly for both beginners and experts, clear commands and comprehensive documentation are incorporated in this tool. Check the documentation for detailed instructions. User-Friendly Command-Line Interface (CLI): Diving into cybersecurity can feel overwhelming, especially when some tools seem designed for experts only.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In October 2024, Cisco confirmed that the data posted by the notorious threat actor IntelBroker on a cybercrime forum was stolen from its DevHub environment. DevHub is a platform designed for developers to access resources, tools, and APIs to build and integrate applications with Ciscos technologies.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2024

US DoJ sentenced a Moldovan national (31) to 42 months in federal prison for operating the E-Root cybercrime marketplace. Diaconu was operating the E-Root cybercrime marketplace. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

Abnormal Security documented how it tied the email back to a young man in Nigeria who acknowledged he was trying to save up money to help fund a new social network he is building called Sociogram. “For decades, West African scammers, primarily located in Nigeria, have perfected the use of social engineering in cybercrime activity.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2024

The cybercrime group FIN7 is advertising a security evasion tool in multiple underground forums, cybersecurity company SentinelOne warns. in cybercrime forum. While many techniques are documented, such as removing PPL protection via the RTCore64.sys

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In a coordinated international effort, law enforcement agencies from the United States, Europe, and Australia have dismantled Cracked and Nulled, two of the world's largest cybercrime marketplaces. By dismantling these two major forums, law enforcement agencies have disrupted a global supply chain of cybercrime tools.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. He said anyone who knew the URL for a valid document at the Web site could view other documents just by modifying a single digit in the link.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. The availability of the source in the cybercrime ecosystem can allow threat actors to develop their own version of the Hello Kitty ransomware. The HelloKitty gang has been active since January 2021.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In several posts to an English-language cybercrime forum in November, Kiberphant0m leaked some of the phone records and threatened to leak them all unless paid a ransom. More than 160 other Snowflake customers were relieved of data, including TicketMaster, Lending Tree, Advance Auto Parts and Neiman Marcus.

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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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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

JUNE 18, 2021

NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. If you bought or sold a property in the last two decades or so, chances are decent that you also gave loads of personal and financial documents to First American.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recently leaked documents from Chinese cybersecurity firm i-SOON provide an unprecedented look at China's extensive state-sponsored hacking operations. Targets listed in the documents span Central and Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The specifics of the leaked capabilities that directly relate to these or other U.S. government."

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Krebs on Security

JULY 1, 2020

Usually, the blog posts that appear on ransom sites are little more than a teaser — screenshots of claimed access to computers, or a handful of documents that expose proprietary or financial information. Maybe you disagree, dear readers? Feel free to sound off in the comments below.

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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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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has unsealed charges against five individuals accused of orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns tied to the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Allegedly, invoice receipts, accounting documents, personal data, certificates, employment contracts, a huge amount of confidential information, confidentiality pic.twitter.com/Tad7LeOcsk — HackManac (@H4ckManac) December 6, 2024 According to the announcement published by the group on its Tor leak site, stolen data includes: Invoice Receipts (..)

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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. Hacked or leaked credentials are prized by cybercriminals engaged in “credential stuffing,” a rampant form of cybercrime that succeeds when people use the same passwords across multiple websites.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Abnormal Security documented how it tied the email back to a Nigerian man who acknowledged he was trying to save up money to help fund a new social network he is building called Sociogram. billion in losses tied to cybercrime in 2020, and BEC fraud and romance scams alone accounted for nearly 60 percent of those losses.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

Terabytes of documents and files stolen from victim organizations that have not paid a data ransom are now available for download from CLOP’s deep web site, including Stanford, UCLA and the University of Maryland.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The breach may have exposed personal identification documents uploaded by users for Wayback Machine page removal requests, depending on the attacker’s Zendesk API access. Experts warn that stolen information is circulating in the cybercrime underground, and other threat actors can use it to carry out other attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

Kennedy Airport, according to court documents unsealed Monday. 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. ru , a cybercrime forum in its own right that called itself “ The Antichat Mafia.”

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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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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The researchers pointed out that tools belonging to the arsenal of China-linked APT groups are often shared resources, however, many arent publicly available and arent usually associated with cybercrime activity. It also resembles Trend Micros documented PlugX type 2 variant, also linked to Fireant.

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