Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The makers of Acunetix, Texas-based application security vendor Invicti Security , confirmed Silent Push’s findings, saying someone had figured out how to crack the free trial version of the software so that it runs without a valid license key. co — first came online in February 2023. 2023 on the forum Cracked.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity! But that action did not name any defendants.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There’s an old adage in information security: “Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure.” ” Many organizations that do hire professionals to test their network security posture unfortunately tend to focus on fixing vulnerabilities hackers could use to break in.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2025

These individuals are members of a global cybercrime ring tracked as Storm-2139 by Microsoft. Members speculated on identities, exchanged blame, and leaked information, highlighting the lawsuit’s impact. The case demonstrates legal actions power in dismantling cybercrime networks. ” concludes the announcement.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Veteran cybersecurity expert witness executive will help strengthen law enforcement capabilities to prevent, investigate, and prosecute information-age crimes. His opinions are frequently cited in books, law journals, security publications, and general interest periodicals; his cybersecurity-related inventions appear in over 500 U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

seized the stolen credit card marketplace PopeyeTools and charged its operators, this is a major success against cybercrime. PopeyeTools was a dark web marketplace specializing in selling stolen credit cards and cybercrime tools, facilitating fraud and illicit online activities since 2016.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

This misconfigured Salesforce Community site from the state of Vermont was leaking pandemic assistance loan application data, including names, SSNs, email address and bank account information. That data later wound up for sale on a top cybercrime forum. Huntington Bank has disabled the leaky TCF Bank Salesforce website. ”

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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

JUNE 22, 2022

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. hospitals and healthcare providers.”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dutch police dismantled Bohemia/Cannabia, two major dark web markets for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. These are two of the largest and longest-running dark web platforms for the trade of illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Proxy 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 make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com , segate[.]org

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2024

for suspected involvement in the Scattered Spider cybercrime syndicate. arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Walsall who is suspected to be a member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group (also known as UNC3944 , 0ktapus ). Law enforcement arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall, U.K., Law enforcement in the U.K.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

“Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cybersecurity issue perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who has represented itself to us as ALPHV/Blackcat.” However, after a $22 million transaction, an affiliate publicly complained on a Russian cybercrime forum, alleging that BlackCat did not pay their fee.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

The SEC said that under First American’s remediation policies, if the person responsible for fixing the problem is unable to do so based on the timeframes listed above, that employee must have their management contact the company’s information security department to discuss their remediation plan and proposed time estimate.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

Mike Barlow , information security manager for the City of Memphis, confirmed the Memphis Police’s systems were sharing their Microsoft Windows credentials with the domain, and that the city was working with Caturegli to have the domain transferred to them. .” Caturegli said setting up an email server record for memrtcc.ad

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction in any country of Volodymyr Kadariya for his alleged participation in a significant malware organization.” Department of State is offering a reward of up to $2.5 ” reads the announcement published by US Department of State.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2025

Last week, the notorious threat actor IntelBroker announced on a popular cybercrime forum the sale of data allegedly stolen from HPE. ” reads the announcement published on the cybercrime forum. HPE is probing claims by the threat actor IntelBroker who is offering to sell alleged stolen source code and data from the company.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

WWH Club had over 353,000 users by 2023 and offered courses on fraud and cybercrime, generating profits through membership and tuition fees. Khodyrev and Kublitskii were also the administrators of many similar websites, including darkweb marketplaces, forums, and training centers to enable cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2025

Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cybersecurity issue perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who has represented itself to us as ALPHV/Blackcat. However, after a $22 million transaction, an affiliate publicly complained on a Russian cybercrime forum, alleging that BlackCat did not pay their fee.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

government sanctioned the virtual currency exchanges Cryptex and PM2BTC for facilitating cybercrime and money maundering. The authorities believe that these exchanges facilitate the laundering of proceeds from cybercrime. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. data breaches.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

At this time, no cybercrime group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Unfortunately, school districts are privileged targets of cybercrime groups due to the huge amount of date they manage. In March 2024, schools in Scranton, Pennsylvania, experienced a ransomware attack , resulting in IT outages.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime) Now in custody.

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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.” ” reads the notice of data breach published by the company on its website.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

The Coronavirus has prompted thousands of information security professionals to volunteer their skills in upstart collaborative efforts aimed at frustrating cybercriminals who are seeking to exploit the crisis for financial gain. It’s probably best described as ‘working together on an operation.'”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With the FBI’s mix of unique authorities, capabilities, and partnerships, there is no limit to our reach when it comes to combating all forms of cybercrime and defending global cybersecurity.” The DoJ charged Anonymous Sudan members and disrupted their DDoS infrastructure, halting its cyber operations.

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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. “2025 will be a fortunate year for the world.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In 2023, Zservers leased infrastructure, including a Russian IP address, to a Lockbit affiliate” Bulletproof hosting services enable global cybercrime by providing safe havens for threat actors. The law enforcement revealed that Zservers’ servers were in Amsterdam, and cybercrime groups like Conti and LockBit used the platform.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The investigation began in early 2024 after data stolen from a Madrid business association was leaked on dark web cybercrime forums. The hacker claimed responsibility for the attacks on multiple cybercrime forums under different monikers to avoid being identified. ” continues the press release. ” concludes the statement.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have become one of the most prevalent and expensive forms of cybercrime. This revolutionized the cybercrime landscape, making it easier for people with minimal technical skills to commit ransomware attacks. She is also a regular writer at Bora.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

They’ve also acquired Lacework, a cloud security company. ” reads the announcement published by Fortibitch on a cybercrime forum. Guess what? Their Azure Sharepoint got leaked. 440 GB of data available on my S3 bucket.” The company immediately excluded that the incident had impacted its operations.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2025

I came into IT from the side as a consultant and worked my way through IT infrastructure management before transiting to information security. This year, cybercrime is expected to cost $10.3 In terms of GDP, cybercrime is already the third largest economy on the planet after the U.S. Today, Cybercrime Inc.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

. • Create security awareness for employees. One of the most important ways to protect against data breaches is to increase employee security awareness. Employees are the first line of defense against cybercrime and should understand how to recognize phishing emails and what to do if they suspect them.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

The malicious code was advertised on cybercrime forums for $3,000 per month. The malware can collect cookies, logins and browsing history, but from Safari only cookies can be collected. Elastic researchers noticed that regarding Safari, only the cookies are collected by the AppleScript script for the current version.

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