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Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

March 26, 2020 admin A Little Sunshine, alexey stroganov, andrey sporov, bingodumps, bte-e, dumpskindgom, federal security service, flint, flint24, FSB, gabrik, goldendumps, honeymoney, hustlebank, Intel471, know your customer, KYC, mrwhite, Ne'er-Do-Well News, trust your client, tyc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:28:07 +0000

Federal investigators in Russia have charged at least 25 people accused of operating a sprawling international credit card theft ring. Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. In a statement released this week, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said 25 individuals were charged with circulating illegal means of payment in connection with some 90 websites that sold stolen credit card data.

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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

March 17, 2020 admin antichat, Breadcrumbs, firsov arrest, firsov indictment, hm@mail.ru, isis, kirill firsov, Ne'er-Do-Well News, xeka

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:17:42 +0000

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io, a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. Kirill V. Firsov was arrested Mar. 7 after arriving at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Prosecutors with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations.

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Booter Boss Busted By Bacon Pizza Buy

February 4, 2020 admin assistant u.s. attorney adam alexander, david bukoski, ddos-for-hire, Ne'er-Do-Well News, quantum stresser

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:05:08 +0000

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While the young man’s punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant’s dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss’s identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to his home using the same email address he originally used to register his criminal attack service.

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Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Pleads Guilty

January 27, 2020 admin aleksei burkov, aqua, cardplanet, directconnection, evil corp., Haaretz, k0pa, maksim viktorovich yakubets, naama issachar, Ne'er-Do-Well News, the times of israel, Vladimir Putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:21:46 +0000

Aleksei Burkov, an ultra-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court 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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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

January 20, 2020 admin backconnect security llc, ddos-for-hire, free software foundation, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Richard Stallman, tucker preston, U.S. Justice Department, vDos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:13:03 +0000

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others.

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Alleged Member of Neo-Nazi Swatting Group Charged

January 10, 2020 admin Atomwaffen Division, chanz, deadnet, Doxbin, FBI, john william kirby kelley, Ne'er-Do-Well News, zheme

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:22:27 +0000

Federal investigators on Friday arrested a Virginia man accused of being part of a neo-Nazi group that targeted hundreds of people in “swatting” attacks, wherein fake bomb threats, hostage situations and other violent scenarios were phoned in to police as part of a scheme to trick them into visiting potentially deadly force on a target’s address.

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Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case

December 17, 2019 admin Augustin Inzirillo, leparisien, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nuclear Bot, sextortion, tinynuke

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:09:10 +0000

Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they’ve charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called “Nuclear Bot.”

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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

December 16, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, aqua, aquamo, bugat, dridex, Europol, evgeniy mikhailovich bogachev, evil corp., igor “enki” turashev, jabberzeus, luck12345, maksim v. yukabets, money mules, Ne'er-Do-Well News, slavik, Target: Small Businesses, U.S. Justice Department, u.s. treasury department, zeus trojan

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 14:08:21 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “Evil Corp” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. As it happens, for several years KrebsOnSecurity closely monitored the day-to-day communications and activities of the accused and his accomplices. What follows is an insider’s look at the back-end operations of this gang.

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