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Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial

November 16, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, antti kurittu, julius kivimäki, mikko hypponen, Ne'er-Do-Well News, petteri järvinen, vastaamo psychotherapy center, withsecure

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:59:14 +0000

Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

November 6, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, apathyp, apathyr8@jabber.ccc.de, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, gezze@mail.ru, gezze@yandex.ru, Intel 471, ivan sherban, mynetwatchman, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swat usa drop service, triploo@mail.ru, universalo, verified, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:51:31 +0000

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. In today’s Part II, we’ll examine clues about the real-life identity left behind by “Fearless,” the nickname chosen by the proprietor of the SWAT USA Drops service.

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Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed

November 5, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, drops, drops for stuff, fearlless, Ne'er-Do-Well News, reshipping mules, stuffers, swat usa drop service, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:55:34 +0000

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Here’s a closer look at the Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, which currently employs more than 1,200 people across the United States who are knowingly or unwittingly involved in reshipping expensive consumer goods purchased with stolen credit cards.

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NJ Man Hired Online to Firebomb, Shoot at Homes Gets 13 Years in Prison

October 23, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Ne'er-Do-Well News, patrick mcgovern-allen, violence-as-a-service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:08:27 +0000

A 22-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for participating in a firebombing and a shooting at homes in Pennsylvania last year. Patrick McGovern-Allen was the subject of a Sept. 4, 2022 story here about the emergence of “violence-as-a-service” offerings, where random people from the Internet hire themselves out to perform a variety of local, physical attacks, including firebombing a home, “bricking” windows, slashing tires, or performing a drive-by shooting at someone’s residence.

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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

October 17, 2023 admin American Registry for Internet Numbers, Amir Golestan, ARIN, Micfo LLC, Ne'er-Do-Well News, spamhaus, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:23:25 +0000

Amir Golestan, the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo LLC, has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Caribbean.

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

September 30, 2023 admin Breadcrumbs, cisa, constella intelligence, databreaches.net, FBI, Flashpoint, Ne'er-Do-Well News, perchatka, ransomware, semen7907, semyon tretyakov, snatch ransomware, snatch team, tretyakov-files@yandex.ru

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:47:57 +0000

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. Today, we’ll take a closer look at the history of Snatch, its alleged founder, and their claims that everyone has confused them with a different, older ransomware group by the same name.

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‘Snatch’ Ransom Group Exposes Visitor IP Addresses

September 27, 2023 admin @htmalgae, 8base ransomware, atomicstealer, Breadcrumbs, data breaches, DomainTools.com, google.com, Malwarebytes, microsoft teams, mihail kolesnikov, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, rilide, Trustwave Spiderlabs

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:48:37 +0000

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. The leaked data suggest that Snatch is one of several ransomware groups using paid ads on Google.com to trick people into installing malware disguised as popular free software, such as Microsoft Teams, Adobe Reader, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Discord.

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Who’s Behind the 8Base Ransomware Website?

September 18, 2023 admin @htmalgae, 8base ransomware, A Little Sunshine, andrei kolev, gitlab, jcube group, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, VMware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 02:12:53 +0000

The victim shaming website operated by the cybercriminals behind 8Base — currently one of the more active ransomware groups — was until earlier today leaking quite a bit of information that the crime group probably did not intend to be made public. The leaked data suggests that at least some of website’s code was written by a 36-year-old programmer residing in the capital city of Moldova.

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