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Breached Data Indexer ‘Data Viper’ Hacked

July 13, 2020 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, apollo breach, data viper breach, empire market, exabyte, five, Ne'er-Do-Well News, RaidForums, Soundcard, The Coming Storm, verifications.io breach, Vinny Troia

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 23:30:39 +0000

Data Viper, a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. The hackers also claim they are selling on the dark web roughly 2 billion records Data Viper collated from numerous breaches and data leaks, including data from several companies that likely either do not know they have been hacked or have not yet publicly disclosed an intrusion. The apparent breach at St. Louis, Mo. based Data Viper offers a cautionary and twisted tale of what can happen when security researchers seeking to gather intelligence about illegal activity online get too close to their prey or lose sight of their purported mission. The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime.

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Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years

June 27, 2020 admin alexsei burkov, arkady bukh, cardplanet, directconnection, Infraud, k0ra, naama issachar, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sergey Medvedev, Stells, Vladimir Putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:27:43 +0000

A well-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow was sentenced on Friday to nine years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks.

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New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy

June 25, 2020 admin aaron sterritt, adam alexander, chickenmelon, ddos-for-hire, dingle, Drake, DYN DDoS, FBI, fbot, iot botnets, judge timothy burgess, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, Masuta, Mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Okiru, operation midmonth, satori, TalkTalk hack, U.S. Justice Department, VAMP, viktor, william walton

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:52:54 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In addition, a defendant in the United States was sentenced to drug treatment and 18 months community confinement for his admitted role in the conspiracy.

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Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service

June 7, 2020 admin boaz dolev, booter, clearsky cyber security, david bukoski, ddos-for-hire, itay huri, Jesse Wu, Mirai, Namecentral, Ne'er-Do-Well News, quantum stresser, Sergiy Usatyuk, stresser, Titanium Stresser, vDos, yarden bidani, zachary buchta

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 16:02:26 +0000

The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court.

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Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2 Billion

June 4, 2020 admin All About Skimmers, ATM Skimmers, constantin sorinel marcu, Florian Tudor, Intacash, Mexico, Ne'er-Do-Well News, occrp, organized crime and corruption reporting project, riviera maya gang, the shark

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:00:39 +0000

An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico’s top tourist destinations disrupted their highly profitable business, which raked in an estimated $20 million a month and enjoyed the protection of top Mexican authorities.

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UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

May 28, 2020 admin booter, cybersecurity challenge, david cox, ddos-for-hire, ddos-for-hire services, google, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pathways to cyber crime, richard clayton, stresser, university of cambridge cybercrime center

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:19:30 +0000

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say measurably dampened demand for such services by explaining that their use to harm others is illegal and can land potential customers in jail.

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Ukraine Nabs Suspect in 773M Password ‘Megabreach’

May 19, 2020 admin alex holden, Collection #1, Hold Security, Intel 471, Ne'er-Do-Well News, password megabreach, sanix, Sanixer, Troy Hunt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 16:46:21 +0000

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” A subsequent review by KrebsOnSecurity quickly determined the data was years old and merely a compilation of credentials pilfered from mostly public data breaches. Earlier today, authorities in Ukraine said they’d apprehended a suspect in the case.

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

May 18, 2020 admin A Little Sunshine, Cerber, gandcrab, Intel 471, krober, lebron, malware testing service, Ne'er-Do-Well News, redbear, rEvil, Sodin, Sodinokibi, unkn, upo, vivalamuerte, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 15:31:17 +0000

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems. Here’s a look at one long-lived malware vulnerability testing service that is used and run by some of the Dark Web’s top cybercriminals.

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