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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

February 24, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, abdala tawfik, abdalla khafagy, bhproxies, bitsight, constella intelligence, hassan_isabad_subar, intel 471, lewklabs, minerva labs, mylobot, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:51:23 +0000

A security firm has discovered that a five-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be responsible for operating the BHProxies service.

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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group

February 9, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adam meyers, christina svechinskaya, CrowdStrike, dyre, group-ib, ilya sachkov, intel 471, kaspersky lab, michael debolt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, ruslan stoyanov, sergey mikhaylov, trickbot, u.s. department of treasury, vitaly "bentley" kovalev, wizard spider

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:23:58 +0000

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. companies and government entities.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

July 28, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, abhishek gupta, acidut, alexandru florea, alexandru iulian florea, blackhatworld, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, cpaelites, Hackforums, intel 471, microleaves, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nevo.julian, online.io, residential proxy, reverseproxies, shifter.io, socks proxy

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:52:28 +0000

Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, exposed their entire user database and the location of tens of millions of PCs running the proxy software. Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent. But research suggests Microleaves has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to install the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other software.

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A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

July 26, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, ashley madison breach, avid life media, flashpoint, impact team, intel 471, noel biderman, per thorsheim, robert graham, wired.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:04:51 +0000

It’s been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many AshleyMadison users, and to at least two suicides. To date, little is publicly known about the perpetrators or the true motivation for the attack. But a recent review of AshleyMadison mentions across Russian cybercrime forums and far-right underground websites in the months leading up to the hack revealed some previously unreported details that may deserve further scrutiny.