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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.

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A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

April 3, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alan john mykhailov, blackstone corporate alliance ltd, Breadcrumbs, codestoyou, colette davies, david bruno, domaintools.com, drydennow.com, igor gubskyi, igor hubskyi, iryna davies, john bernard, john clifton davies, maria yakovleva, mariya kulikova, mysolve, Ne'er-Do-Well News, safeswiss secure communication ag, secure swiss data, the inside knowledge gmbh

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:13:42 +0000

John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. Davies’ newest invention appears to be “CodesToYou,” which purports to be a “full cycle software development company” based in the U.K.

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German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’

March 31, 2023 0 Comments DDoS-for-hire, flyhosting, german federal criminal police office, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:35:15 +0000

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web service that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services. Fly Hosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based hosting firm that was open for business to anyone looking for a reliable place to host malware, botnet controllers, or DDoS-for-hire infrastructure.

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Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

March 17, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, breachforums, conor brian fitzpatrick, dc health link, FBI, john langmire, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pompompurin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:39:22 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “Pompompurin” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums is widely considered a reincarnation of RaidForums, a remarkably similar crime forum that the FBI infiltrated and dismantled in 2022.

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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

March 14, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, convict, Data Breaches, doxbin, emergency data request, kt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nicholas ceraolo, ominus, phobia, ryan stevenson, sagar steven singh, u.s. drug enforcement agency, vile, Web Fraud 2.0, weep

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:25:20 +0000

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.