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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

December 11, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, binance, blaven technologies, Breadcrumbs, chainalysis, CloudFlare, cryptomus, ctv news, fintrac, icon tech sro, investigative journalism foundation, mezhundarondnaya ibu sro, peter german, pq hosting, RCMP, richard sanders, russia's war on ukraine, vira krychka, Web Fraud 2.0, ws management and advisory corporation ltd, xeltox enterprises

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:38:48 +0000

A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which are physically located there.

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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

September 13, 2024 admin 2992, 303, 404, 545, 555, 6996, 7997, 8884, advance auto parts, ali winston, alphv, aspertaine, AT&T, beige group, black cat, Bloomberg, breachforums, Breadcrumbs, chumlul, court, CrowdStrike, cultist, cvlt, Der Spiegel, discord, Doxbin, ea games, h3ll, harm nation, james thomas andrew mccarty, judische, kalana limkin, kaskar, kayte, kingbob, kt, kya christian nelson, leak society, lending tree, Mandiant, mark rasch, mgm resorts, microsoft, Minecraft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neiman marcus, nicholas "convict" ceraolo, nmk, noah michael urban, nvidia, Okta, owen david flowers, pompompurin, RCMP, recorder, roblox, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sagar "weep" singh, Samsung, santander bank, scattered spider, SIM swapping, slit town, snowflake, sosa, star chat, steam, SWATting, T-Mobile, telegram, the com, The Washington Post, ticketmaster, Twitch, u.s. department of justice, u.s. drug enforcement agency, unc5537, unit 221b, vile, violence-as-a-service, vsphere, waifu, Web Fraud 2.0, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:16:45 +0000

A cyberattack that shut down some of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023: It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that made-for-Hollywood narrative has eclipsed a far more hideous trend: Many of these young, Western cybercriminals are also members of fast-growing online groups that exist solely to bully, stalk, harass and extort vulnerable teens into physically harming themselves and others.

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Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

January 19, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, adavio, amazon.ca, duncan's first nation, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The Coming Storm, timothy barker, triangulation fraud, Walmart, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:34:53 +0000

A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. His case appears to involve “triangulation fraud,” which occurs when a consumer purchases something online — from a seller on Amazon or eBay, for example — but the seller doesn’t actually own the item for sale. Instead, the seller purchases the item from an online retailer using stolen payment card data. In this scam, the unwitting buyer pays the scammer and receives what they ordered, and very often the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.

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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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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.

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Canadian Police Charge Operator of Hacked Password Service Leakedsource.com

January 15, 2018 admin abusewithus, Breachalarm, Dutch National Police, FBI, HaveIBeenPwned.com, Jordan Evan Bloom, Leakedsource.com, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Project Adoration, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:44:47 +0000

Canadian authorities have arrested and charged a 27-year-old Ontario man for allegedly selling billions of stolen passwords online through the now-defunct service Leakedsource.com.

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Canadian Man Gets 9 Months Detention for Serial Swattings, Bomb Threats

September 26, 2017 admin Cosmo the God, Curtis Gervais, Eric Taylor, Other, ProbablyOnion, RCMP, SWATting, The Ottawa Citizen, U.S. Ontario Court Justice Mitch Hoffman

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:49:39 +0000

A 19-year-old Canadian man was found guilty of making almost three dozen fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America in 2013 and 2014. The false alarms, two of which targeted this author — involved phoning in phony bomb threats and multiple attempts at “swatting” — a dangerous hoax in which the perpetrator spoofs a call […]

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A Guy Punched a Black Bear in the Face When It Tried to Break Into a House

August 25, 2017 admin ANIMALS, BC, Bears, black bears, British Columbia, Canada, Conservation, fight, fisheries, grizzly bears, RCMP, Read, Salmon, wildlife

Credit to Author: Lisa Cumming| Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Human-black bear conflict is on the rise. It’s a sad story—for the bears.