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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

September 26, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alex holden, arpa plus, briansclub, chainanlysis, cryptex, cs proxy solutions cy, dark angels, financial crimes enforcement network, Hold Security, home depot breach, Joker's stash, liberty reserve, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, novaya gazeta, orbest investments lp, organized crime and corruption project, perfect money, pinpays, pm2btc, progate solutions, rich sanders, rm everton ltd, sergey sergeevich ivanov, sergey sergeevich omelnitskii, taleon, target breach, The Coming Storm, the laundromat, timur kamilevich shakhmametov, u.s. department of justice, uaps, universal anonymous payment system, unlimited cashouts, v1pee, vega, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:54:07 +0000

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash, a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The government also indicted a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon, whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks.

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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

April 16, 2024 0 Comments aleksandr ermakov, associated press, Breadcrumbs, Data Breaches, embargo, home depot breach, jeffrey collins, mark keel, mazafaka, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nikki haley, rescator, shtazi, target breach, tax refund fraud, tax return fraud, the post and courier, u.s. internal revenue service, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:26:55 +0000

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.

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From Cybercrime Saul Goodman to the Russian GRU

February 7, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aleksei valerievich safronov, congressional research service, constella intelligence, djamix, domaintools.com, gru, guardia civil, mark rasch, mazafaka, meduza, Ne'er-Do-Well News, russia's war on ukraine, stalker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:10:18 +0000

In 2021, the exclusive Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked. The leaked user database shows one of the forum’s founders was an attorney who advised Russia’s top hackers on the legal risks of their work, and what to do if they got caught. A review of this user’s hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU, the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

May 9, 2023 0 Comments 79608229389, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, denis gennadievich kulkov, intel 471, Joker's stash, k022yb190, kreenjo, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nordex, nordexin, nordia@yandex.ru, polkas@bk.ru, try2check, u.s. department of justice, u.s. department of state, U.S. Secret Service, unicc, vault market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 01:50:08 +0000

The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. U.S. authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov’s card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items.

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Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook

March 15, 2022 0 Comments aleksei burkov, directconnection, jake sullivan, k0pa, mazafaka, naama issachar, Ne'er-Do-Well News, vladimir putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:37:43 +0000

Aleksei Burkov, a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia’s most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. The Russian government fought Burkov’s extradition to the U.S. for four years — even arresting and jailing an Israeli woman to force a prisoner swap. That effort failed: Burkov was sent to America, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to nine years in prison. But a little more than a year later, he was quietly released and deported back to Russia. Now some Republican lawmakers are asking why a Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” was allowed to shorten his stay.

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Why Were the Russians So Set Against This Hacker Being Extradited?

November 18, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alexei burkov, cybereason, directconnection, evgeniy mikhailovich bogachev, fox it, fraudcrew, k0pa, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, slavik, spamdot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:19:10 +0000

The Russian government has for the past four years been fighting to keep 29-year-old alleged cybercriminal Alexei Burkov from being extradited by Israel to the United States. When Israeli authorities turned down requests to send him back to Russia — supposedly to face separate hacking charges there — the Russians then imprisoned an Israeli woman for seven years on trumped-up drug charges in a bid to trade prisoners. That effort failed as well, and Burkov had his first appearance in a U.S. court last week. What follows are some clues that might explain why the Russians are so eager to reclaim this young man.