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A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris

March 8, 2024 admin affiliate.ru, american russian media inc., arrestfacts.com, atlas data privacy corp., bitseller expert ltd, bizstanding.com, Breadcrumbs, centeda.com, channel one, clubset.com, consumer reporting agencies, daniel's law, dating factory, difive.com, dmitry lybarsky, epop@comby.com, fact magazine, fair credit reporting act, gary nard, gary norden, gary@barksy.com, gary1@eprofit.com, homeflock.com, homemetry.com, igor lybarsky, instantcheckmate.com, kworld.com, newenglandfacts.com, ntv, persontrust.com, projectlab.com, pub360.com, publicreports.com, radaris.com, radaris.ru, rehold.com, rosconcert.com, trustoria.com, truthfinder, u.s. department of justice, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, u.s. federal trade commission, unipoint technology inc., virtory.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:02:48 +0000

If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal about you, and they are happy to sell what they know to anyone. But how much do we know about Radaris? Publicly available data indicates that in addition to running a dizzying array of people-search websites, the co-founders of Radaris operate multiple Russian-language dating services and affiliate programs. It also appears many of their businesses have ties to a California marketing firm that works with a Russian state-run media conglomerate currently sanctioned by the U.S. government.

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

February 28, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, citizen lab, dakota cary, data breaches, i-soon, mei danowski, Ne'er-Do-Well News, poison carp, sentinelone, u.s. department of justice, will thomas, wu haibo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:27:47 +0000

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry.

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BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption

January 13, 2024 admin alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, deputy attorney general lisa o. monaco, FBI, Lawrence Abrams, Other, u.s. department of justice

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:49:43 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang’s darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems. Meanwhile, BlackCat responded by briefly “unseizing” its darknet site with a message promising 90 percent commissions for affiliates who continue to work with the crime group, and open season on everything from hospitals to nuclear power plants.

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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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Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

May 9, 2023 admin angel manuel colon jr., booters, cambridge university cybercrime center, cory anthony palmer, ddos-for-hire, FBI, jeremiah sam evans miller, john m. dobbs, matthew gatrel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, richard clayton, shamar shattock, stressers, u.s. department of justice

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 14:05:44 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

May 9, 2023 admin 79608229389, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, denis gennadievich kulkov, Intel 471, Joker's stash, k022yb190, kreenjo, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nordex, nordexin, nordia@yandex.ru, polkas@bk.ru, try2check, u.s. department of justice, u.s. department of state, U.S. Secret Service, Unicc, vault market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 01:50:08 +0000

The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. U.S. authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov’s card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items.

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UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

March 28, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, booter, ddos-for-hire, National Crime Agency, Operation Power Off, stresser, u.s. department of justice, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:26:07 +0000

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

June 22, 2022 admin 79136334444, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, denis "neo" kloster, exploit, internet advertising omsk, istanx@gmail.com, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rsocks botnet, rusdot, sl mobpartners, spamdot, stanx, stanx@rusdot.com, u.s. department of justice, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:06:34 +0000

Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the “RSOCKS” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. While the coordinated action did not name the Russian hackers allegedly behind RSOCKS, KrebsOnSecurity has identified its owner as a Russian man living abroad who also runs the world’s top Russian spamming forum.

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