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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

June 29, 2023 0 Comments arkady bukh, dmitry volkov, dropbox, facct, fight against cybercrime technologies, formspring, group-ib, ilya sachkov, lamarez, LinkedIn, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oleg tolstikh, oleksandr vitalyevich ieremenko, U.S. Secret Service, u.s. securities & exchange commission, yevgeniy nikulin, zl0m

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:08 +0000

Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.

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U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison

June 27, 2023 0 Comments graham ivan clarke, joseph james o'connor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, plugwalkjoe, SIM swapping, twitter hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:44:03 +0000

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison. That may seem like harsh punishment for a brief and very public cyber joy ride. But O’Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by “SIM swapping,” a crime wherein fraudsters trick a mobile provider into diverting a customer’s phone calls and text messages to a device they control.

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

June 21, 2023 0 Comments +7.9235059268, Breadcrumbs, cdek, constella intelligence, crypt[.]guru, gumboldt@gmail.com, intel 471, kerens, kolumb, masscrypt@exploit.im, Ne'er-Do-Well News, obelisk57@gmail.com, pepyak@gmail.com, sergey y purtov, sergey yurievich purtov, spurtov@gmail.com, vip crypt, Web Fraud 2.0, Сергей Юрьевич Пуртов

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:39:36 +0000

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. In fact, the process of “crypting” malware is sufficiently complex and time-consuming that most serious cybercrooks will outsource this critical function to a handful of trusted third parties. This story explores the history and identity behind Cryptor[.]biz, a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

June 1, 2023 0 Comments 165540027, 774748@gmail.com, akafitis@gmail.com, Breadcrumbs, code-signing certificates, constella intelligence, domaintools.com, featar24, fitis, flashpoint, glavmed, intel 471, konstantin evgenievich fetisov, megatraffer, Ne'er-Do-Well News, o.r.z., spamit, spampage@yandex.ru

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:15:34 +0000

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Both of these qualities make stolen or ill-gotten code-signing certificates attractive to cybercriminal groups, who prize their ability to add stealth and longevity to malicious software. This post is a deep dive on “Megatraffer,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

May 22, 2023 0 Comments arkose labs, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, domaintools, edgard011012@gmail.com, lolzteam, mastodon, mondi group, moonxtrade, msr-sergey2015@yandex.ru, Ne'er-Do-Well News, quot.pw, renaud chaput, sergey proshutinskiy, tgm, twitter, Web Fraud 2.0, ципа

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 00:15:30 +0000

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several large Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations. According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code.

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Russian Hacker “Wazawaka” Indicted for Ransomware

May 16, 2023 0 Comments babuk ransomware, boriselcin, hive ransomware, lockbit ransomware, mikhail pavolovich matveev, Ne'er-Do-Well News, orange, ramp, uhodiransomwar, wazawaka

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 21:33:43 +0000

A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today. U.S. prosecutors say Mikhail Pavolovich Matveev, a.k.a. “Wazawaka” and “Boriselcin” worked with three different ransomware gangs that extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, schools, hospitals and government agencies.

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Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

May 9, 2023 0 Comments angel manuel colon jr., booters, cambridge university cybercrime center, cory anthony palmer, DDoS-for-hire, FBI, jeremiah sam evans miller, john m. dobbs, matthew gatrel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, richard clayton, shamar shattock, stressers, u.s. department of justice

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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$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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3CX Breach Was a Double Supply Chain Compromise

April 24, 2023 0 Comments 3cx, A Little Sunshine, clearsky security, diamond sleet, double supply chain breach, elastic security, eset, iconicstealer, kaspersky lab, kim zetter, Latest Warnings, MacOS, mandiant, marc-etienne m.leveille, Microsoft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, peter kalnai, supply chain, The Coming Storm, trading technologies, x_trader, zero day, zinc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:05:44 +0000

We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX, a complex, lengthy intrusion that has the makings of a cyberpunk spy novel: North Korean hackers using legions of fake executive accounts on LinkedIn to lure people into opening malware disguised as a job offer; malware targeting Mac and Linux users working at defense and cryptocurrency firms; and software supply-chain attacks nested within earlier supply chain attacks.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

April 18, 2023 0 Comments accessapproved, asus666, constella intelligence, denis viktorovich pankov, faceless, flashpoint, gaihnik, lesstroy@mgn.ru, liberty reserve, mrmurza, Ne'er-Do-Well News, omega^gg4u, riley kilmer, shodan, spur.us, u1018928, vadim panov, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:59:39 +0000

For the past seven years, a malware-based proxy service known as “Faceless” has sold anonymity to countless cybercriminals. For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. In this post we’ll examine clues left behind over the past decade by the proprietor of Faceless, including some that may help put a face to the name.