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Neo-Nazi SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists

July 24, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Atomwaffen Division, Carey Holzman, Doxbin, James Mason, Ne'er-Do-Well News, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:39:33 +0000

Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database listing the personal information of people who threaten their views. This group specializes in encouraging others to harass those targeted by their ire, and has claimed responsibility for dozens of bomb threats and “swatting” incidents, where police are tricked into visiting potentially deadly force on the target’s address.

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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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Is ‘REvil’ the New GandCrab Ransomware?

July 15, 2019 admin Cisco Talos, gandcrab, Intel471, kaspersky lab, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rEvil, Sodin, Sodinokibi, Tesorion, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:58:30 +0000

The cybercriminals behind the GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering recently announced they were closing up shop and retiring after having allegedly earned more than $2 billion in extortion payments from victims. But a growing body of evidence suggests the GandCrab team have instead quietly regrouped behind a more exclusive and advanced ransomware program known variously as “REvil,” “Sodin,” and “Sodinokibi.”

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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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Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors

May 30, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, CASL, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Neil Barratt, Security Tools

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 22:21:47 +0000

Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software.

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Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked

May 18, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Ace, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ogusers, Omnipotent, RaidForums, SIM swapping

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 13:44:20 +0000

Ogusers[.]com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users.

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Feds Target $100M ‘GozNym’ Cybercrime Network

May 16, 2019 admin Alexander Konovolov, Avalanche, Eduard Malancini, Farkhad Rauf Ogly Manokhim, Gennady Kapkanov, GozNym, Konstantin Volchkov, Krasimir Nikolov, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Vladimir Gorin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 22:05:30 +0000

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today unsealed charges against 11 alleged members of the GozNym malware network, an international cybercriminal syndicate suspected of stealing $100 million from more than 41,000 victims with the help of a stealthy banking trojan by the same name.