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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

December 14, 2023 admin 74957809554, A Little Sunshine, bothunter, Breadcrumbs, chronopay, ika, jsc hot spot, lev tolstoy, megaplan, mikhail borisovich shefel, mikhail lenin, mikhail shefel, pavel vrublevsky, pustota, r-fac1, target breach, v.zhabukin@freefrog-co-ru, vasily borisovich zhabykin, vera vrublevsky, zaxvatmira@gmail.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:51:39 +0000

On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “Rescator,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. Ten years later, KrebsOnSecurity has uncovered new clues about the real-life identity of Rescator.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

March 22, 2022 admin aleksandr "nastra" zhukov, chronopay, Dmitry Artimovich, igor artimovich, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pavel vrublevsky, redeye, vladislav horohorin, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:33:35 +0000

Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “Spam Nation,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes, and facilitated money laundering for Hydra, the largest Russian darknet market. But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, it is equally likely Vrublevsky was arrested thanks to his propensity for carefully documenting the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground.

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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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Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

February 26, 2019 admin chronopay, Dmitry Dokuchaev, Georgi Fomchenkov, kaspersky lab, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pavel vrublevsky, Pharma Wars, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergei Mikhailov

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:43:41 +0000

A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information about Russian cybercriminals with U.S. law enforcement officials. The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted for their part in an investigation into Pavel Vrublevsky, a convicted cybercriminal who ran one of the world’s biggest spam networks and was a major focus of my 2014 book, Spam Nation.

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A Shakeup in Russia’s Top Cybercrime Unit

January 28, 2017 admin chronopay, crutop, FBI, FSB, Humpty Dumpty, idefense, Indrik, kaspersky lab, Kimberly Zenz, King Servers, Other, pavel vrublevsky, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergey Mikhaylov, Spam Nation, ThreatConnect, Шалтай-Болтай

A chief criticism I heard from readers of my book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime, was that it dealt primarily with petty crooks involved in petty crimes, while ignoring more substantive security issues like government surveillance and cyber war. But now it appears that the chief antagonist of Spam Nation is at the dead center of an international scandal involving the hacking of U.S. state electoral boards in Arizona and Illinois, the sacking of Russia’s top cybercrime investigators, and the slow but steady leak of unflattering data on some of Russia’s most powerful politicians.