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FBI, Dutch Police Disrupt ‘Manipulaters’ Phishing Gang

January 31, 2025 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bec fraud, Breadcrumbs, Business Email Compromise, cracked, domaintools, Dutch National Police, FBI, fudco, fudpage, fudtools, heartsender, Ne'er-Do-Well News, operation talent, saim raza, sellix, the manipulaters, u.s. department of justice, wecodesolutions

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:35:32 +0000

The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized a number of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan. The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname “The Manipulaters,” have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015. The FBI said the main clientele are organized crime groups that try to trick victim companies into making payments to a third party.

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Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud

January 30, 2025 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, acb group, Amazon AWS, anjie cdn, crowell & moring llp, fangneng cdn, funnull, infrastructure laundering, Microsoft Azure, Ne'er-Do-Well News, netscout, noname057(16), polyfill, richard hummel, silent push, suncity group, Time to Patch, u.s. department of commerce, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:10:08 +0000

In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such outfit — a sprawling network tied to Chinese organized crime gangs and aptly named “Funnull” — highlights a persistent whac-a-mole problem facing cloud services.

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U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

December 30, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, Allison Nixon, cameron john wagenius, connor riley moucka, judische, kiberphant0m, Ne'er-Do-Well News, unit 221b

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:05:51 +0000

Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea.

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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

December 19, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, acunetix, altug sara, altugsara321@gmail.com, araneida scanner, bilitro yazilim, Breadcrumbs, domaintools, FIN7, invicti security, matt sciberras, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neil roseman, ori0nbusiness@protonmail.com, silent push, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of health and human services, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:07:30 +0000

Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey.

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How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

December 18, 2024 admin (650) 203-0000, A Little Sunshine, Coinbase, daniel from google, gemini ai, Google Assistant, google docs, google forms, google photos, graham cluely, junseth, Latest Warnings, Minecraft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swancoin, trezor, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:17:59 +0000

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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U.S. Offered $10M for Hacker Just Arrested by Russia

December 4, 2024 admin aleksandr ermakov, boriselcin, daryna antoniuk, Intel 471, mikhail lenin, mikhail matveev, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rescator, shtazi-it, sugarlocker, wazawaka

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:08:45 +0000

In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity identified a Russian man named Mikhail Matveev as “Wazawaka,” a cybercriminal who was deeply involved in the formation and operation of multiple ransomware groups. The U.S. government indicted Matveev as a top ransomware purveyor a year later, offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. Last week, the Russian government reportedly arrested Matveev and charged him with creating malware used to extort companies.

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Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

November 26, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, boxfan, buttholio, connor riley moucka, cyb3rph4nt0m, ddos-for-hire, john erin binns, judische, kiberphant0m, naver, Ne'er-Do-Well News, proman557, ransomware, reverseshell, shi-bot, snowflake, South korea, telekomterrorist, The Coming Storm, vars_secc, Verizon, waifu

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:45:48 +0000

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m’s daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.

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Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup

November 21, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, ahmed hossam eldin elbadawy, evans onyeaka osiebo, joel martin evans, joeleoli, kingbob, lastpass, mailchimp, Namecheap, Ne'er-Do-Well News, noah michael urban, ogusers, Okta, oktapus, scattered spider, SIM swapping, sosa, T-Mobile, twilio, tylerb

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:13:08 +0000

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass, MailChimp, Okta, T-Mobile and Twilio.

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