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Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’

August 8, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, arctic stealer, Breadcrumbs, chatgpt, daniel kelley, dcrat, google bard, Hackforums, large language models, llms, rafael morais, ruiunashackers, The Coming Storm, wormgpt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:37:23 +0000

WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding restrictions on how the service can be used. Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.” The large language models (LLMs) made by ChatGPT parent OpenAI or Google or Microsoft all have various safety measures designed to prevent people from abusing them for nefarious purposes — such as creating malware or hate speech. In contrast, WormGPT has promoted itself as a new LLM that was created specifically for cybercrime activities.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

July 28, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, abhishek gupta, acidut, alexandru florea, alexandru iulian florea, blackhatworld, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, cpaelites, Hackforums, Intel 471, microleaves, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nevo.julian, online.io, residential proxy, reverseproxies, shifter.io, socks proxy

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:52:28 +0000

Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, exposed their entire user database and the location of tens of millions of PCs running the proxy software. Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent. But research suggests Microleaves has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to install the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other software.

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DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 13 Months Jail Time

November 20, 2019 admin Andrew Quez, Brian Martinez, ddos-for-hire, Hackforums, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Rasbora, sergiy p. usatyuk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:05:15 +0000

A 21-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 13 months in prison for running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. This individual’s sentencing comes more than five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the defendant and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities.

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

August 19, 2019 admin 202-643-8533, 868-360-9983, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Breadcrumbs, Hackforums, Hexproxy, Hyas, IAPS Security Services, Joshua Powder, joshua.powder@gmail.com, Laskh Cybersecurity and Defense LLC, Men Danil Valentinovich, Profitvolt, Residential Networking Solutions LLC, residential proxies, Resnet, resnetworking, Serversget, shoe bots, sneaker bots, The Coming Storm, Wireless Data Service Provider Corporation

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:03:32 +0000

Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is the story of a sprawling “bulletproof residential VPN” service that appears to have been built by acquiring chunks of Internet addresses from some the largest ISPs and mobile data providers in the United States and abroad.

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Bug Bounty Hunter Ran ISP Doxing Service

November 9, 2018 admin aoler, Hackforums, Joel Ortiz, Mat Honan, Microsoft Xbox, Ne'er-Do-Well News, O&G, ogusers, Phobia, Phobias, Ryan, Ryan Stevenson, SIM swap, T-Mobile, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:52:01 +0000

A Connecticut man who’s earned “bug bounty” rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security holes in their Web sites secretly operated a service that leveraged these same flaws to sell their customers’ personal data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty

July 16, 2018 admin Blackshades trojan, codyjohnson1337@live.com, Colton Grubbs, Colton Ray Grubbs, Hackforums, KFC Watermelon, Luminosity Security Solutions LLC, LuminosityLink, NanoCore RAT, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Palo Alto Networks, plasma rat, Rat, remote access tool, Taylor Huddleston

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:09:51 +0000

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “LuminosityLink,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide.

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Bot Roundup: Avalanche, Kronos, NanoCore

February 27, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Bleeping Computer, Catalin Cimpanu, Gennady Kapkanov, Hackforums, kronos, malwaretech, Malwaretechblog, Marcus Hutchins, NanoCore RAT, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Net Seal, Taylor Huddleston, WannaCry hero

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:10:52 +0000

It’s been a busy few weeks in cybercrime news, justifying updates to a couple of cases we’ve been following closely at KrebsOnSecurity. In Ukraine, the alleged ringleader of the Avalanche malware spam botnet was arrested after eluding authorities in the wake of a global cybercrime crackdown there in 2016. Separately, a case that was hailed as a test of whether programmers can be held accountable for how customers use their product turned out poorly for 27-year-old programmer Taylor Huddleston, who was sentenced to almost three years in prison for making and marketing a complex spyware program.

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Correcting the Record on vDOS Prosecutions

November 21, 2017 admin applej4ck, Breadcrumbs, ddos-for-hire, fractal, Hackforums, Jack Chappell, M30W, Ne'er-Do-Well News, portalkiller, smellyjelly01@gmail.com, vDos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:11:31 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity recently featured a story about a New Mexico man who stands accused of using the now-defunct vDOS attack-for-hire service to hobble the Web sites of several former employers. That piece stated that I wasn’t aware of any other prosecutions related to vDOS customers, but as it happens there was a prosecution in the United Kingdom earlier this year of a man who’s admitted to both using and helping to administer vDOS. Here’s a look at some open-source clues that may have led to the U.K. man’s arrest.

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