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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

March 2, 2020 admin +212611604438, 4iq.com, Breadcrumbs, DomainTools.com, fatal.001, fatalw01, Hyas, hyas.com, ing.equipepro@gmail.com, njRAT, sasha angus, talainine.com, yamosoft, yassine algangaf, yassine majidi

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:07:16 +0000

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple, Dell, and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products.

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

August 19, 2019 admin 202-643-8533, 868-360-9983, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Breadcrumbs, Hackforums, Hexproxy, Hyas, IAPS Security Services, Joshua Powder, joshua.powder@gmail.com, Laskh Cybersecurity and Defense LLC, Men Danil Valentinovich, Profitvolt, Residential Networking Solutions LLC, residential proxies, Resnet, resnetworking, Serversget, shoe bots, sneaker bots, The Coming Storm, Wireless Data Service Provider Corporation

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:03:32 +0000

Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is the story of a sprawling “bulletproof residential VPN” service that appears to have been built by acquiring chunks of Internet addresses from some the largest ISPs and mobile data providers in the United States and abroad.

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

July 16, 2019 admin AbdAllah, Alexander Alexandrovich Volosovik, Alexander Volosovyk, Breadcrumbs, bulletproof hosting providers, chronopay, Delft University of Technology, Downlow, Dutch National High-Tech Crimes Unit, Intel 471, Jason Passwaters, King Saud University, MaxiDed, Mikhail Rytikov, Ne'er-Do-Well News, New York University, sosweet, stas_vl@mail.ru, Web Fraud 2.0, Yalishanda

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:34:31 +0000

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “Yalishanda,” “Downlow” and “Stas_vl” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers. What follows are a series of clues that point to the likely real-life identity of a Russian man who appears responsible for enabling a ridiculous amount of cybercriminal activity on the Internet today.

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Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?

July 8, 2019 admin +7-951-7805896, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, dedserver, gandcrab ransomware, hottabych_k2@mail.ru, Igor Prokopenko, kaspersky lab, metall2, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oneiilk2, oneillk2, sec.service@mail.ru

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:27:42 +0000

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. What follows is a deep dive into who may be responsible for recruiting new members to help spread the contagion.

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Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android

June 25, 2019 admin Android, blazefire, Breadcrumbs, Chu da, Chuda, Dr. Web, google, Haagen, Hagen, Hsu Heng, Ltd., Ne'er-Do-Well News, Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co Ltd., Shanghai Bronze Network Technology Co., Shanghai Qianyou Network Technology Co., Shanghai Tongjue Network Technology Co., Shanghai Wildfire Network Technology Co., The Coming Storm, tosaka1027@gmail.com, Triada malware, Wildfire, yehuo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:24:29 +0000

Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new budget Android devices. Google didn’t exactly name those responsible, but said it believes the offending vendor uses the nicknames “Yehuo” or “Blazefire.” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware.

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Who’s Behind the RevCode WebMonitor RAT?

April 22, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Alex Yücel, Blackshades RAT, Breadcrumbs, Krabsonsecurity, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ratsit AB, RevCode, WebMonitor, WebMonitor RAT

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:43:02 +0000

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT, a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms

April 18, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Avanade, Breadcrumbs, Capgemini, Elavon, Green Dot, King Servers, Maritz Holdings Inc., PCM, Rackspace, ScreenConnect, Sears, Virustotal.com, Wipro data breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:42:46 +0000

The criminals responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro, India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant — two other large technology consulting companies, new evidence suggests.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

April 2, 2019 admin Breadcrumbs, John Rezvesz, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Orcus RAT, RCMP

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:50:11 +0000

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer responsible for authoring and selling “Orcus RAT,” a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate Remote Administration Tool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a Remote Access Trojan.