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Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India

March 11, 2025 0 Comments aleksandr mira serda, aleksej besciokov, elliptic, garantex, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, u.s. department of justice, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:49:02 +0000

Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alfa bank, bearhost, gootloader, interisle consulting group, intrinsec, kaspersky lab, kentik, Ne'er-Do-Well News, prospero ooo, Ransomware, securehost, silent push, SocGholish, spamhaus, The Coming Storm, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:14:58 +0000

One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing its operations through networks run by the Russian antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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U.S. Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched “Can Hacking Be Treason”

February 28, 2025 0 Comments AT&T, Breadcrumbs, cameron john wagenius, connor riley moucka, john erin binns, kiberphant0m, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:39:25 +0000

A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question “can hacking be treason?” prosecutors in the case said Wednesday. The government disclosed the details in a court motion to keep the defendant in custody until he is discharged from the military.

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Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

February 7, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, as400495, backconnect security llc, curtis gervais, diamondcdn, director of national intelligence, doge, dstat, edward coristine, elon musk, eric taylor, marshal webb, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neuralink, packetware, path networks, president trump, rivage, tesla sexy llc, the com, The Coming Storm, tucker preston, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:32:53 +0000

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

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FBI, Dutch Police Disrupt ‘Manipulaters’ Phishing Gang

January 31, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bec fraud, Breadcrumbs, business email compromise, cracked, domaintools, dutch national police, FBI, fudco, fudpage, fudtools, heartsender, Ne'er-Do-Well News, operation talent, saim raza, sellix, the manipulaters, u.s. department of justice, wecodesolutions

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:35:32 +0000

The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized a number of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan. The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname “The Manipulaters,” have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015. The FBI said the main clientele are organized crime groups that try to trick victim companies into making payments to a third party.

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Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud

January 30, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, acb group, amazon aws, anjie cdn, crowell & moring llp, fangneng cdn, funnull, infrastructure laundering, Microsoft Azure, Ne'er-Do-Well News, netscout, noname057(16), polyfill, richard hummel, silent push, suncity group, Time to Patch, u.s. department of commerce, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:10:08 +0000

In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such outfit — a sprawling network tied to Chinese organized crime gangs and aptly named “Funnull” — highlights a persistent whac-a-mole problem facing cloud services.

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U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

December 30, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, allison nixon, cameron john wagenius, connor riley moucka, judische, kiberphant0m, Ne'er-Do-Well News, unit 221b

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:05:51 +0000

Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea.

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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

December 19, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, acunetix, altug sara, altugsara321@gmail.com, araneida scanner, bilitro yazilim, Breadcrumbs, domaintools, Fin7, invicti security, matt sciberras, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neil roseman, ori0nbusiness@protonmail.com, silent push, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of health and human services, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:07:30 +0000

Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey.

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How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

December 18, 2024 0 Comments (650) 203-0000, A Little Sunshine, Coinbase, daniel from google, gemini ai, Google Assistant, google docs, google forms, google photos, graham cluely, junseth, Latest Warnings, minecraft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swancoin, trezor, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:17:59 +0000

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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U.S. Offered $10M for Hacker Just Arrested by Russia

December 4, 2024 0 Comments aleksandr ermakov, boriselcin, daryna antoniuk, intel 471, mikhail lenin, mikhail matveev, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rescator, shtazi-it, sugarlocker, wazawaka

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:08:45 +0000

In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity identified a Russian man named Mikhail Matveev as “Wazawaka,” a cybercriminal who was deeply involved in the formation and operation of multiple ransomware groups. The U.S. government indicted Matveev as a top ransomware purveyor a year later, offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. Last week, the Russian government reportedly arrested Matveev and charged him with creating malware used to extort companies.

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