Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations. “Negotiate a deal in Telegram.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website. According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The FBI responded by reverifying InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold. In a post on the English language cybercrime forum BreachForums , USDoD leaked information on roughly 3,200 Airbus vendors, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. But on Sept. But on Sept.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Over the past 15 years, a cybercrime anonymity service known as VIP72 has enabled countless fraudsters to mask their true location online by routing their traffic through millions of malware-infected systems. based Internet address for more than a decade — a remarkable achievement for such a high-profile cybercrime service.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

The German police seized the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market disrupting its operation. The Nemesis Market has been active since 2021, its offerings included illegal drugs and narcotics, stolen data and credit cards, as well as a selection of cybercrime services such as ransomware , phishing or DDoS attacks.

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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. “New evidence shows FIN7 is using multiple pseudonyms to mask the group’s true identity and sustain its criminal operations in the underground market” reads the report published by SentinelLabs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook told KrebsOnSecurity it seized hundreds of accounts — mainly on Instagram — that have been stolen from legitimate users through a variety of intimidation and harassment tactics, including hacking, coercion, extortion, sextortion , SIM swapping , and swatting. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Interactive Data, also known as IDIdata.com, markets access to a “massive data repository” on U.S. Hacked or ill-gotten accounts at consumer data brokers have fueled ID theft and identity theft services of various sorts for years. In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

Law enforcement seized the Genesis Market black marketplace, a platform focused on the sale of stolen credentials, as part of Operation Cookie Monster. The FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. Experts reported that brute-force cracking tools and account checkers are available on cybercrime marketplaces and forums for an average of $4. ” continues the report.

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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. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Treasury Department sanctioned the Hydra Market, the world’s largest and longest-running dark web marketplace. Treasury Department sanctioned the darkweb marketplace Hydra Market, the same day Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), announced they have shut down the illegal platform. The post U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Well-known crypto researcher ZachXBT reached the same conclusion as Elliptic, sharing his analysis on X: Lazarus Group just connected the Bybit hack to the Phemex hack directly on-chain commingling funds from the intial theft address for both incidents.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

According to recent estimates, Google enjoys somewhere near 90 percent market share in search engine usage. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Researchers detailed the multi-millionaire market of zero-day exploits, a parallel economy that is fueling the threat landscape. Zero-day exploits are essential weapons in the arsenal of nation-state actors and cybercrime groups. High-rollers: threat actors that sell and buy zero-day exploits for $1,000,000-plus.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

From Brian Krebs : A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

The new ransomware group Arkana Security claims to have hacked US telecom provider WOW!, is known for offering high-speed internet and competitive pricing in markets where it competes with larger providers. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,WideOpenWest)

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Services like SWAT are known as “Drops for stuff” on cybercrime forums. The login page for the criminal reshipping service SWAT USA Drop.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Federal authorities charged two individuals with operating the dark web marketplace Empire Market that facilitated over $430 million in illegal transactions. currency on AlphaBay before starting Empire Market. “They began operating Empire Market on Feb. “They began operating Empire Market on Feb.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In addition, many crooks are finding the outbreak has helped them better market their cybercriminal wares and services. He said while the Coronavirus has forced reshipping operators to make painful shifts in several parts of their business, the overall market for available mules has never looked brighter.

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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. This identity has been highly active on Breached and its predecessor RaidForums for more than two years, mostly selling databases from hacked Mexican entities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market as a result of an international law enforcement operation. The Kingdom Market was established in March 2021, the offer of the dark web marketplace included drugs, malware, stolen data, and forged documents. Many of these deposits were made in cash.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 to sell fraudulent Outlook accounts. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by a cybercrime group, tracked as Storm-1152, to sell fraudulent accounts. ” reads the announcement published by Microsoft.

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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. Vulnerabilities market got a remake.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

An information technology specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested this week on suspicion of hacking into the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2014, stealing personal data on more than 65,000 UPMC employees, and selling the data on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

‘Hotarus Corp’ Ransomware operators hacked Ecuador’s largest private bank, Banco Pichincha, and the country’s Ministry of Finance. ?A “We know that there was unauthorized access to the systems of a provider that provides marketing services for the Pichincha Miles program. ” reads the statement.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. Krystal claims to have been breached between July and September 2019, and disclosed this in late October.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

An international law enforcement operation led by Europol disrupted a cybercrime ring focused on hacking wireless key fobs to steal cars. The criminals used a tool, marketed as an automotive diagnostic solution, to replace the original software of the vehicles. SecurityAffairs – hacking, key fobs). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Desnica launched the dark web market in 2019, Monopoly rapidly became one the biggest marketplace for the sale of illicit narcotics, including opioids, stimulants, psychedelics, and prescription medications. The analysis of the seized server allowed the identification of several actors using the Monopoly Market.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder for banks to trace the source of payment card data stolen from smaller, hacked online merchants. The economic laws of supply and demand hold just as true in the business world as they do in the cybercrime space.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs. Punchmade Dev’s shop.

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