Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2022

“Information about the fraudsters was also sent to key market participants, and their transaction data was added to the tracking database to better combat money laundering.” ” Experts say the founder of Antinalysis also runs a darknet market for narcotics. Antinalysis, as it existed in 2021. ”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

One example is Genesis Market , where customers can search for stolen credentials and authentication cookies from a broad range of popular online destinations.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Among the most common ways that thieves extract cash from stolen credit card accounts is through purchasing pricey consumer goods online and reselling them on the black market. Once the drops receive and successfully reship the stolen packages, the stuffers then sell the products on the local black market.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. “UR uses a third party marketing agency that utilizes the Pardot platform,” said Salesforce spokesman Bradford Burns.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

RedBear’s service is marketed not only to malware creators, but to people who rent or buy malicious software and services from other cybercriminals. 2016 and July 2017 that sought to corner the increasingly lucrative and competitive market for ransomware-as-a-service offerings. is cybercrime forum.

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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. Most online retailers years ago stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

” “But because of the rapidly growing market for compromised accesses and the fact that these could be sold to anyone , organizations need to focus more on efforts to understand, detect and quickly respond to network compromises,” Arena continued. Have a Coke and a Molotov cocktail.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

” A more typical response when a large bank suspects a breach is to approach the seller privately through an intermediary to ascertain if the information is valid and what it might cost to take it off the market.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 28, 2023

The post UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Digital Shadows

MAY 3, 2021

Any Product Marketing professional worth their salt will have read the seminal “Crossing the Chasm” book, which highlights how technology. The post The Technology Adoption Lifecycle of Genesis Market first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. But roughly two weeks ago, VIP72’s online storefront — which ironically enough has remained at the same U.S.-based

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. ” The Hydra darknet market. “My understanding is he wrote this in order to blackmail people later. Image: bitcoin.com.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the user BHProxies also used the handle “ hassan_isabad_subar ” and marketed various software tools, including “Subar’s free email creator” and “Subar’s free proxy scraper.” The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” GAIHNIK Constella Intelligence shows gaihnik@mail.ru

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These so-called “stealer logs” are mostly generated by opportunistic infections from information-stealing trojans that are sold on cybercrime markets.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2022

Botnet, Hydra Dark Market appeared first on Security Boulevard. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Germany moved to decapitate "Hydra," a billion-dollar Russian darknet drug bazaar that also helped to launder the profits of multiple Russian ransomware groups. The post Actions Target Russian Govt.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Actively scan and monitor web applications for unauthorized access, modification, and anomalous activities. Verify web links do not have misspellings or contain the wrong domain. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Venus indicated it recently had success with a method that involves carefully editing one or more email inbox files at a victim firm — to insert messages discussing plans to trade large volumes of the company’s stock based on non-public information. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

Even his most vocal critics acknowledged that the whole persona could just be savvy marketing.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

It also appears many of their businesses have ties to a California marketing firm that works with a Russian state-run media conglomerate currently sanctioned by the U.S. government. based data brokers that sell personal information on Americans.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2024

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Faced with a buyer’s market, Joker’s Stash set themselves apart by focusing on loyalty programs, frequent buyer discounts, money-back guarantees, and just plain good customer service.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

As noted here last year , scammers have long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Among the top seller accounts targeted in the ban wave was the Instagram account belonging to Ryan Zanelli ( @zanelli ), a 22-year-old self-described “ social media marketing specialist ” from Melbourne, Australia.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Perhaps the most bustling marketplace within RaidForums was its “ Leaks Market ,” which described itself as a place to buy, sell, and trade hacked databases and leaks. “Members could also earn credits through other means, such as by posting instructions on how to commit certain illegal acts.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

3 blog post from email and SMS marketing firm Klaviyo.com , the company’s CEO recounted how the phishers gained access to the company’s internal tools, and used that to download information on 38 crypto-related accounts. In an Aug.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“You literally just pull cash out of peoples’ inboxes, and then you have all these secondary markets where you can sell this stuff.” . “These guys want that hard digital asset — the cash that is sitting there in your inbox,” Bill said.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s not clear if the Angry Coders team members remain affiliated with SocksEscort; none of them responded to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Malware-based anonymity networks are a major source of unwanted and malicious web traffic directed at online retailers, Internet service providers (ISPs), social networks, email providers and financial institutions.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

Chainalysis also notes a potential connection between SSNDOB and another dark web market trading in credit cards which called it quits in 2021. We’ve noted the gradual emergence of Bitcoin ATMs in scams previously; here, cryptocurrency ATMs are more popular as a payment method to SSNDOB than other dubious online services.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 13, 2021

Two new dark web services are marketing to cybercriminals who are curious to see how their various cryptocurrency holdings and transactions may be linked to known criminal activity.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Spammers, phishers and other ne'er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they've long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin's parent firm Microsoft).

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book "Spam Nation," was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

Up for the "Most Meta Cybercrime Offering" award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming tools, email and phone bombing services, and those selling authentication cookies for a slew of popular (..)

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