Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:47:57 +0000
Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. Today, we’ll take a closer look at the history of Snatch, its alleged founder, and their claims that everyone has confused them with a different, older ransomware group by the same name.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:22:05 +0000
In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “USDoD” had infiltrated the FBI’s vetted information sharing network InfraGard, and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. The FBI responded by reverifying all InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold. But on Sept. 11, 2023, USDoD resurfaced after a lengthy absence to leak sensitive employee data stolen from the aerospace giant Airbus, while promising to visit the same treatment on top U.S. defense contractors.
Read moreCategories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: Qakbot Tags: FBI Tags: law enforcement Tags: takedown Tags: removal tool Tags: HIBP Tags: Spamhaus The Qakbot botnet has suffered a major setback after its infrastructure was heavily disrupted by US and European law enforcement agencies. |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:35:25 +0000
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:58:56 +0000
You’ve probably never heard of “16Shop,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. INTERPOL said authorities in Indonesia arrested the 21-year-old proprietor and one of his alleged facilitators, and that a third suspect was apprehended in Japan.
Read moreCategories: News Tags: FBI Tags: warning Tags: beta-testing Tags: malicious code Tags: crypto recovery Tags: scammers The FBI has issued a warning about two related types of fraud, malicious beta-testing apps and crypto recovery schemes. |
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:57:41 +0000
Apps on your iPhone must come from the App Store. Except when they don’t… we explain what to look out for.
Read moreCategories: Personal Tags: sextortion Tags: deepfake Tags: FBI Tags: blackmail Tags: extortion Tags: fake Tags: fakes Tags: synthetic We take a look at some new developments in sextortion cases via a warning issued by the FBI. |
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Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 16:15:37 +0000
Not just an active adversary, but a two-faced one, too.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 14:05:44 +0000
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters.
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