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U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

August 29, 2023 admin DoJ, don alway, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Latest Warnings, martin estrada, qakbot, Qbot, ransomware, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of justice

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:35:25 +0000

The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems.

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Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile

June 14, 2022 admin accenture security, advanced intel, anydesk, chainalysis, cirt, cisa, cobalt strike, conti ransomware, cyber incident response team, cybercrime, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, diavol, diavol ransomware, dridex, evil corp., FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, filezilla, karakurt, karakurt extortion group, karakurt lair, karakurt team, kimberly goody, Mandiant, mega.io, mfa, Mimikatz, multi-factor authentication, ncc, ransomhouse, ransomware, ransomware syndicate, rclone, tetra defense, virtual private network, VPN, Wall Street Journal

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:00:29 +0000

An obscure group called Karakurt has extorted organizations in the US and elsewhere. Know how to keep it away from your network.

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Alleged vDOS Owners Poised to Stand Trial

March 27, 2017 admin FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, itay huri, Other, Perach Aroch, Recorded Future, themarker.com, vDos, yarden bidani

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:56:31 +0000

Police in Israel are recommending that the state attorney’s office indict and prosecute two 18-year-olds suspected of operating vDOS, until recently the most popular attack service for knocking Web sites offline. On Sept. 8, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story about the hacking of vDOS, a service that attracted tens of thousands of paying customers and facilitated countless distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. That story named two young Israelis — Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri — as the likely owners and operators of vDOS, and within hours of its publication the two were arrested by Israeli police, placed on house arrest for 10 days, and forbidden from using the Internet for a month.