Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. ” concludes DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Microsoft is warning of human-operated ransomware, this kind of attack against businesses is becoming popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Human-operated ransomware is a technique usually employed in nation-state attacks that is becoming very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

Mandiant researchers discovered a new Unix rootkit named Caketap, which is used to steal ATM banking data, while investigating the activity of the LightBasin cybercrime group (aka UNC1945 ). Experts spotted a new Unix rootkit, called Caketap, that was used to steal ATM banking data.

Banking 144

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AvosLocker affiliates use legitimate software and open-source remote system administration tools to compromise the victims’ networks. This joint CSA updates the advisory published by the US Government on March 17, 2022.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

These days, financial cybercrimes often involve Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It is thought to conduct financial cybercimes as a way to raise money for a regime that has few trading opportunities, because of long-standing international sanctions.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator. Just to be clear, despite Alexey has broken into the infected routers to sanitize them, this action is technically considered a cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Taiwanese company urges its customers to enable multi-factor authentication where available, enable auto block and account protection, and to use string administrative credentials, . System administrators that have noticed suspicious activity on their devices should report it to Synology technical support.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

They found a tool called WormGPT “through a prominent online forum that’s often associated with cybercrime,” Kelley wrote in a blog post. WormGPT can be used for “everything blackhat related,” its developer claimed in the cybercrime forum. Promotion of jailbreaks for AI platforms.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. Ukrainian nationals Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr, and Andrii Kolpakov, were members of a prolific hacking group widely known as FIN7.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

A new cryptocurrency stealer dubbed WeSteal is available on the cybercrime underground, unlike other commodity cryptocurrency stealers, its author doesn’t masquerade its purpose and promises “the leading way to make money in 2021.”. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2018

Three members of the cybercrime group tracked as FIN7 and Carbanak have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts. Three members of the notorious cybercrime gang known as FIN7 and Carbanak have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Banking 70

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Digital Shadows

JULY 5, 2021

On 02 July 2021, details started to emerge of a sophisticated supply-chain attack targeting Kaseya VSA, virtual system administrator software.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the most outstanding capabilities of iLOBleed is the manipulation of the iLO firmware upgrade routine, when the system administrator tries to upgrade the iLO firmware, the malware simulates the version change while preventing the upgrade routine. . ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Skorodumov was one of the organization’s lead systems administrators, he configured and managed the clients’ domains and IP addresses, provided technical assistance to help clients optimize their malware and botnets.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 27, 2021

Indeed, while many people are looking forward to catching up with friends and family this Labor Day weekend, cybercrime gangs are likely huddling, too, planning to attack somebody. . You never think you’re gonna be hit by ransomware,” says Ski Kacoroski , a system administrator with the Northshore School District in Washington state.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

For over a decade, Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev led one of the most sophisticated transnational cybercrime syndicates in the world,” said U.S. Then the criminals moved the money to other accounts or withdraw the funds and transport the funds overseas as smuggled bulk cash. . Attorney Brady.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

All we do is provide paid training to system administrators around the world on how to properly set up a corporate network. “For us it is just business and we are all apolitical. We are only interested in money for our harmless and useful work.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 19, 2021

Being a systems administrator can be a fulfilling job with a lot of rewards. But if you're a SysAdmin for a hacking group, you could be rewarded with time behind bars. This is exactly what is happening to 35-year-old Fedir Hladyr, who was a SysAdmin for the hacking group FIN7.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

“The lengthy delay for the cleanup routine to activate may be explained by the need to give system administrators time for forensics analysis and checking for other infections.” concludes MalwareBytes. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Unfortunately, as system administrators seek ways to control access to these platforms, users may seek out alternative ways to gain access.” In this case, the visitors were downloading Midjourney-x64.msix, msix, which is a Windows Application Package also signed by ASHANA GLOBAL LTD. ” concludes the report.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds. What Stoll was calling us to do is to take the threats of scams, misinformation campaigns, and cybercrime seriously.

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Technology Artificial Intelligence Cybercrime Government 109

The State of Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A 40-year-old man could face up to 10 years in prison, after admitting in a US District Court to sabotaging his former employer’s computer systems.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2020

But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of day-to-day activity needed to support these enterprises is in fact mind-numbingly boring and tedious, and that highlighting this reality may be a far more effective way combat cybercrime and steer offenders toward a better path.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 12, 2021

System Administrator (or, sysadmin). Far away from the glamor and spotlight that other career fields like programming or data science get, there is a full-on war for hiring good cyber talent because of the year-on-year spike in cybercrime. Secure Software Development. Secure DevOps. IoT (Internet of Things) Security.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

PAM is the utility that verifies the permissions for administrative users according to these policies. As cybercrime has grown in both frequency and severity, zero trust’s advantages have become increasingly clear. It integrates with Office 365, Google Workspace, Okta and more for both cloud-based and on-premises systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In an era seeing more cybercrime focused on businesses , cybersecurity knowledge and education is only becoming more critical. Current faculty includes 136 chief executive officers, 19 chief information officers, three chief information security officers, and 127 information technology/system administrators. About EC-Council.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

But let’s see what are the execution binaries and what an administrator will see because this analysis IS for rise the system administration awareness: Code execution: execve("/tmp/upgrade""); // to execute upgrade. This C2 scheme is new , along with the installer / updater. The Elknot DoS ELF dropped is not new.”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

The tool is basically a search engine for local and network shared files inside a Windows environment: unlike the default Windows search, it is designed to locate files and folders by filename instantly, speeding up system information discovery. Its name is YDArk and it is an open-source tool available even on GitHub ( link ).

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent leak has put it in the hands of cybercrime actors and it is very likely that by the end of the year we will see it involved in APT cases too. We encourage system administrators to immediately set up monitoring for these machines, due to the unlikelihood that patching (even in a timely fashion) will be sufficient to protect them.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In this Cyber Security Training for Employees you will find an extensive instruction on how to avoid becoming a cybercrime victim which will be useful for your colleagues. Do not reveal them to anybody, including your boss, your system administrator or support service, your spouse, parents, children etc.

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Digital Shadows

JULY 5, 2021

On 02 July 2021, details started to emerge of a sophisticated supply-chain attack targeting Kaseya VSA, virtual system administrator software used to manage and monitor customers’ infrastructure.

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Ransomware Encryption Cryptocurrency System Administration 52