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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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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

April 16, 2024 admin aleksandr ermakov, Associated Press, Breadcrumbs, data breaches, embargo, Home Depot breach, jeffrey collins, mark keel, mazafaka, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nikki haley, rescator, shtazi, target breach, tax refund fraud, tax return fraud, the post and courier, u.s. internal revenue service, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:26:55 +0000

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

January 13, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, ad1@safe-mail.net, alexander valerievich grichishkin, andrey skvortsov, Breadcrumbs, cherepovets, constella intelligence, duanesburg central school district, grichishkin@gmail.com, icami$, icamis, icamis@4host.info, ika, jabberzeus, nameservers.ru, rescator, sal, salomon, spamdot, Spamit, tech@safe-mail.net

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:57:55 +0000

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran Russia’s most popular spam forum for years.

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Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?

August 25, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Active Sun Network, AdGenics, Barbarich_Viacheslav_Yuryevich, Breadcrumbs, Cabo Networks, Hicham Aallam, mtaexpert, rescator, Ron Guilmette, SIFT Logic, spamhaus, uscourtsgov, web-shield

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:35:40 +0000

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it’s likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with their own versions of the phishing email after noticing that some recipients were actually paying up. The truth is we may never find out who’s responsible, but it’s still fun to follow some promising early leads and see where they take us.

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U.S. Arrests 13, Charges 36 in ‘Infraud’ Cybercrime Forum Bust

February 8, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, andrey hodirevski, Helkern, Infraud, John P. Cronan, Jose Gamboa, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Rafael101, Rector, rescator, Sergey Kozerev, Sergey Medvedev, Stells, Svyatoslav Bondarenko, target breach, TonyMontana, Unicc, Zo0mer

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:04:22 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against three dozen individuals thought to be key members of ‘Infraud,” a long-running cybercrime forum that federal prosecutors say cost consumers more than a half billion dollars. In conjunction with the forum takedown, 13 alleged Infraud members from the United States and six other countries were arrested. Started in October 2010, Infraud was short for “In Fraud We Trust,” and collectively the forum referred to itself as the “Ministry of Fraudulently [sic] Affairs.” As a mostly English-language fraud forum, Infraud attracted nearly 11,000 members from around the globe who sold, traded and bought everything from stolen identities and credit card accounts to ATM skimmers, botnet hosting and malicious software.

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Trump’s Dumps: ‘Making Dumps Great Again’

May 25, 2017 admin dark web, DomainTools.com, Home Depot breach, Magento, McDumpals, OpenCart, Other, Powerfront, rescator, RiskIQ, rudneva-y@mail.ua, Sally Beauty breach, target breach, Tor, Trump's-Dumps, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Senate GOP Senatorial Committee hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 04:45:24 +0000

It’s not uncommon for crooks who peddle stolen credit cards to seize on iconic American figures of wealth and power in the digital advertisements for these shops that run continuously on various cybercrime forums. Exhibit A: McDumpals, a hugely popular carding site that borrows the Ronald McDonald character from McDonald’s and caters to bulk buyers. Exhibit B: Uncle Sam’s dumps shop, which wants YOU! to buy American. Today, we’ll look at an up and coming credit card shop called Trump’s-Dumps, which invokes 45’s likeness and promises to “make credit card fraud great again.”

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Google Points to Another POS Vendor Breach

March 16, 2017 admin 24/7 Hospitality, Brian's Dump, Home Depot breach, Jr, Other, pos breach, POSeidon, rescator, Select Restaurants, target breach, Todd Baker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:11:57 +0000

For the second time in the past nine months, Google has inadvertently but nonetheless correctly helped to identify the source of a large credit card breach — by assigning a “This site may be hacked” warning beneath the search results for the Web site of a victimized merchant.