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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. “UltraRank combined attacks on single targets with supply chain attacks.” We did not take this decision lightly!”

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In a report published today, the company said since late March 2020 it has observed several crooks complaining about COVID-19 interfering with the daily activities of their various money mules (people hired to help launder the proceeds of cybercrime). ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed.

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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. “SwatVerified.”

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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

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. “If you were to look [on cybercrime forums] at the past history of people posting about that Ledger database, you’d see people were selling it privately for months prior to that,” Nixon said.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. ” In an interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Pompompurin said the hack was done to point out a glaring vulnerability in the FBI’s system.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re Image: Spur.us. The disruption at 911[.]re

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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.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

The request for the last four of the customer’s credit card number was consistent with my own testing, which relied upon on a caller ID spoofing service advertised in the cybercrime underground and aimed at a Citi account controlled by this author. A screen shot from an underground store selling CVV records. Click to enlarge.

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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. One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

” MRMURZA Faceless is a project from MrMurza , a particularly talkative member of more than a dozen Russian-language cybercrime forums over the past decade. MrMurza’s Faceless advertised on the Russian-language cybercrime forum ProCrd. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com. In 2013, U.S.

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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. ” On top of that, it’s also difficult to know how much activity you’re not seeing.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

The reality that teenagers are now impersonating law enforcement agencies to subpoena privileged data on their targets at whim is evident in the dramatic backstory behind LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked into some of the world’s most valuable technology companies , including Microsoft , Okta , NVIDIA and Vodafone.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

At issue are forged “emergency data requests,” (EDRs) sent through hacked police or government agency email accounts. ” Tuesday’s story showed how fraudulently obtained EDRs were a tool used by members of LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta and Samsung.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

.” The report tracks the work of Magecart — the name given to a collective of at least seven cybercrime groups involved in hacking Web sites to steal payment card data. which looked at a network of hacked sites that fit the Magecart profile.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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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. had some personal problems and checked himself into rehab.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

This email address is also connected to accounts on several Russian cybercrime forums, including “ __edman__ ,” who had a history of selling “logs” — large amounts of data stolen from many bot-infected computers — as well as giving away access to hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. ” Exactly what that “new work” might entail, Saim Raza wouldn’t say. ” A number of questions, indeed.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. Not all of those undercover buys went as planned.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

The post Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that Venus ransomware attacks were targeting a number of U.S. healthcare organizations. “They are targeting a lot of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. One of this user’s Facebook pages says Rizky is the chief executive officer and founder of an entity called BandungXploiter , whose Facebook page indicates it is a group focused mainly on hacking and defacing websites.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While MGM was still trying to evict the intruders from its systems, an individual who claimed to have firsthand knowledge of the hack contacted multiple media outlets to offer interviews about how it all went down. ’s West Midlands Police as part of a joint investigation with the FBI into the MGM hack.

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