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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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Instagram verification services: What are the dangers?

May 28, 2022 admin checkmark, Identity, instagram, Media, scams, services, social media, tick, verification, verified

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 14:44:47 +0000

We take a look at services claiming to offer verification of Instagram accounts, along with the many ways it can go wrong.

The post Instagram verification services: What are the dangers? appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Wazawaka Goes Waka Waka

February 14, 2022 admin #babuk, A Little Sunshine, babuk ransomware, biba99, boriselcin, Cisco Talos, cve-2021-20028, dmitry smilyanets, groove ransom, mikhail pavlovich matveev, Ne'er-Do-Well News, orange, RaidForums, ramp, ransomware, sonicwall vpn, teresacox19963@gmail.com, tox, verified, washington metropolitan police department, wazawaka

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:22:38 +0000

In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by “Wazawaka,” the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has since “lost his mind” according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. In last month’s story, we explored clues that led from Wazawaka’s multitude of monikers, email addresses, and passwords to a 30-something father in Abakan, Russia named Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev. This post concerns itself with the other half of Wazawaka’s identities not mentioned in the first story, such as how Wazawaka also ran the Babuk ransomware affiliate program, and later became “Orange,” the founder of the ransomware-focused Dark Web forum known as “RAMP.”

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