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Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

April 7, 2022 0 Comments ars technica, asus, beserk bear, cyclops blink, dan goodin, dragonfly 2.0, FBI, federal security service, garantex, german federal criminal police office, gru, hydra market, main intelligence directorate, Ne'er-Do-Well News, notpetya, Ransomware, russian fsb, sandworm, trisis, triton, u.s. department of justice, u.s. department of treasury, voodoo bear, vpnfilter, watchguard, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 22:03:45 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Germany moved to decapitate “Hydra,” a billion-dollar Russian darknet drug bazaar that also helped to launder the profits of multiple Russian ransomware groups.

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Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

March 31, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Apple, bloomberg, Bug, discord, facebook, Instagram, lapsus, meta, Ne'er-Do-Well News, sen. ron wyden, snapchat, twitter, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:54:45 +0000

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes.

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Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”

March 29, 2022 0 Comments anitsu, data extortion, discord, doxbin, emergency data request, everlynn, fake edr, FBI, kt, lapsus, mark rasch, Microsoft, miku, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oklaqq, palo alto networks, pompompurin, recursion team, The Coming Storm, unit 221b, Web Fraud 2.0, white, whitedoxbin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:07:27 +0000

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

March 22, 2022 0 Comments aleksandr "nastra" zhukov, chronopay, dmitry artimovich, igor artimovich, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pavel vrublevsky, redeye, vladislav horohorin, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:33:35 +0000

Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “Spam Nation,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes, and facilitated money laundering for Hydra, the largest Russian darknet market. But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, it is equally likely Vrublevsky was arrested thanks to his propensity for carefully documenting the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground.

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Russian Govt. Continues Carding Shop Crackdown

February 9, 2022 0 Comments alexander kovalev, artem bystrykh, denis pachevsky, department k, ferum shop, flashpoint, gemini advisory, get-net llc, infraud, Ne'er-Do-Well News, saratovfilm film company llc, sky-fraud, stas alforov, tass, transtekhkom llc, trump's-dumps, unicc, vladislav gilev, Web Fraud 2.0, yaroslav solovyov

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:34:48 +0000

Russian authorities have arrested six men accused of operating some of the most active online bazaars for selling stolen payment card data. The crackdown — the second closure of major card fraud shops by Russian authorities in as many weeks — comes closely behind Russia’s arrest of 14 alleged affiliates of the REvil ransomware gang, and has many in the cybercrime underground asking who might be next.

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How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

February 3, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, amazon, avanan, check point, fortinet, irs, jeremy fuchs, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Paypal, slinks, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:49:38 +0000

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).

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Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams

February 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, freidig shipping, guy devos, harald berglihn, harald vanvik, inside knowledge, john bernard, john clifton davies, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nils-odd tønnevold, the weeknd, uber, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:05:52 +0000

Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard, the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who’s tricked dozens of start-ups into giving him tens of millions of dollars. Bernard’s latest victim — a Norwegian startup hoping to build a fleet of environmentally friendly shipping vessels — is now embroiled in a lawsuit over a deal gone bad, in which Bernard falsely claimed to have secured $100 million from six other wealthy investors, including the founder of Uber and the artist Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd.

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Scary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide

February 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, buckley llp, installment loan, leslie bailey, mountain summit financial, native american financial services association, payday loan, public justice, The Coming Storm, tribal lenders, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:48:40 +0000

What’s worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan? Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? One reader’s nightmare experience spotlights what can happen when ID thieves and hackers start targeting online payday lenders.

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Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops

February 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, accountz club, genesis market, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:11:36 +0000

Up for the “Most Meta Cybercrime Offering” award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming tools, email and phone bombing services, and those selling authentication cookies for a slew of popular websites.

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Coronavirus Widens the Money Mule Pool

March 17, 2020 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alex holden, bitcoin atm scam, coronavirus scam, globalgiving, Hold Security, holdsecurity.com, kevin conroy, Latest Warnings, vasty health care foundation, vastyhealthcarefoundation.com, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:11:46 +0000

With many people being laid off or working from home thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, cybercrooks are almost certain to have more than their usual share of recruitable “money mules” — people who get roped into money laundering schemes under the pretense of a work-at-home job offer. Here’s the story of one upstart mule factory that spoofs a major nonprofit and tells new employees they’ll be collecting and transmitting donations for an international “Coronavirus Relief Fund.”