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Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case

December 17, 2019 admin Augustin Inzirillo, leparisien, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nuclear Bot, sextortion, tinynuke

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:09:10 +0000

Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they’ve charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called “Nuclear Bot.”

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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

December 16, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, aqua, aquamo, bugat, dridex, Europol, evgeniy mikhailovich bogachev, evil corp., igor “enki” turashev, jabberzeus, luck12345, maksim v. yukabets, money mules, Ne'er-Do-Well News, slavik, Target: Small Businesses, U.S. Justice Department, u.s. treasury department, zeus trojan

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:08:21 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “Evil Corp” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. As it happens, for several years KrebsOnSecurity closely monitored the day-to-day communications and activities of the accused and his accomplices. What follows is an insider’s look at the back-end operations of this gang.

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DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time

November 20, 2019 admin Andrew Quez, Brian Martinez, ddos-for-hire, Hackforums, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Rasbora, sergiy p. usatyuk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:05:15 +0000

A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. This individual’s sentencing comes more than five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the defendant and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities.

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Why Were the Russians So Set Against This Hacker Being Extradited?

November 18, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, alexei burkov, Cybereason, directconnection, evgeniy mikhailovich bogachev, fox-it, fraudcrew, k0pa, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, slavik, spamdot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:19:10 +0000

The Russian government has for the past four years been fighting to keep 29-year-old alleged cybercriminal Alexei Burkov from being extradited by Israel to the United States. When Israeli authorities turned down requests to send him back to Russia — supposedly to face separate hacking charges there — the Russians then imprisoned an Israeli woman for seven years on trumped-up drug charges in a bid to trade prisoners. That effort failed as well, and Burkov had his first appearance in a U.S. court last week. What follows are some clues that might explain why the Russians are so eager to reclaim this young man.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

November 13, 2019 admin australian federal police, Blackshades RAT, john revesz, LuminosityLink, NanoCore RAT, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Orcus RAT, orcus technologies, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Taylor Huddleston

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:41:17 +0000

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

October 29, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, andrei barysevich, briansclub breach, data breaches, Gemini Advisory, mastercard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Visa

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:47:58 +0000

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

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When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win

October 16, 2019 admin briansclub, data breaches, mrgreen, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:13:42 +0000

Cybercrime forums have been abuzz this week over news that BriansClub — one of the underground’s largest shops for stolen credit and debit cards — had been hacked, and its inventory of 26 million cards leaked to security contacts in the banking industry. Now it appears this brazen heist may have been the result of one of BriansClub’s longtime competitors trying to knock out a rival.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

October 15, 2019 admin Allison Nixon, andrei barysevich, briansclub, briansclub hack, data breaches, Flashpoint, Gemini Advisory, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000

“BriansClub,” a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly’s likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.