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DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time

November 20, 2019 0 Comments andrew quez, brian martinez, DDoS-for-hire, Hackforums, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rasbora, sergiy p. usatyuk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:05:15 +0000

A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. This individual’s sentencing comes more than five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the defendant and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities.

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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.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

November 13, 2019 0 Comments australian federal police, blackshades rat, john revesz, luminositylink, nanocore rat, Ne'er-Do-Well News, orcus rat, orcus technologies, rcmp, royal canadian mounted police, taylor huddleston

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:41:17 +0000

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

October 29, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, andrei barysevich, briansclub breach, Data Breaches, gemini advisory, mastercard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, visa

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:47:58 +0000

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

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When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win

October 16, 2019 0 Comments briansclub, Data Breaches, mrgreen, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:13:42 +0000

Cybercrime forums have been abuzz this week over news that BriansClub — one of the underground’s largest shops for stolen credit and debit cards — had been hacked, and its inventory of 26 million cards leaked to security contacts in the banking industry. Now it appears this brazen heist may have been the result of one of BriansClub’s longtime competitors trying to knock out a rival.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

October 15, 2019 0 Comments allison nixon, andrei barysevich, briansclub, briansclub hack, Data Breaches, flashpoint, gemini advisory, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000

“BriansClub,” a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly’s likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.

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Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

October 1, 2019 0 Comments butterfly bot, darkode, fubar, iserdo, mariposa botnet, matjaz skorjanc, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ngrbot, nicehash, spyeye, thomas k. mccormick, zeus

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:33:19 +0000

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who’ve recently re-indicted him on related charges.

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German Cops Raid “Cyberbunker 2.0,” Arrest 7 in Child Porn, Dark Web Market Sting

September 28, 2019 0 Comments cb3rob, cyberbunker, DDoS, disaster-proof solutions, guido blaauw, herman johan xennt, juergen bauer, Ne'er-Do-Well News, sven kamphuis, zyztm research

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 23:25:48 +0000

German authorities said Friday they’d arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child porn, cybercrime and drug markets with hundreds of servers buried inside a heavily fortified military bunker. Incredibly, for at least two of the men accused in the scheme, this was their second bunker-based hosting business that was raided by cops and shut down for courting and supporting illegal activity online.

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MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

September 27, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Michael T. Mann, mypayrollHR, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:17:07 +0000

Earlier this month, employees at more than 1,000 companies saw one or two paycheck’s worth of funds deducted from their bank accounts after the CEO of their cloud payroll provider absconded with $35 million in payroll deposits from customers. On Monday, the CEO was arrested and allegedly confessed that the diversion was the last desperate gasp of a financial shell game that earned him $70 million over several years.

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Interview With the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

September 25, 2019 0 Comments flashpoint, fly, flycracker, muxacc1, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pauch, sergei vovnenko

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:28:36 +0000

In April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. That individual recently gave his first interview since finishing his jail time here in the states, and he’s shared some select (if often abrasive and coarse) details on how he got into cybercrime and why. Below are a few translated excerpts.