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Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates

February 28, 2024 admin artur sungatov, bassterlord, Europol, FBI, ivan gennadievich kondratyev, lockbit, lockbitsupp, mark stockley, mikhail matveev, mikhail vasiliev, NCA, Ne'er-Do-Well News, operation cronos, prodaft, ransomware, ruslan magomedovich astamirov, u.k. national crime agency

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:09:00 +0000

U.S. and U.K. authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit, a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. Instead of listing data stolen from ransomware victims who didn’t pay, LockBit’s victim shaming website now offers free recovery tools, as well as news about arrests and criminal charges involving LockBit affiliates.

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From Cybercrime Saul Goodman to the Russian GRU

February 7, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, aleksei valerievich safronov, congressional research service, constella intelligence, djamix, DomainTools.com, gru, guardia civil, mark rasch, mazafaka, meduza, Ne'er-Do-Well News, russia's war on ukraine, stalker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:10:18 +0000

In 2021, the exclusive Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked. The leaked user database shows one of the forum’s founders was an attorney who advised Russia’s top hackers on the legal risks of their work, and what to do if they got caught. A review of this user’s hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU, the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation.

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Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX?

February 1, 2024 admin 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, Ars Technica, blackcat ransomware, carter rohn, cisa, data breaches, elliptic, emily hernandez, FBI, ftx, kroll, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nick bax, powell sim swapping crew, r$, robert powell, scattered spider, SIM swapping, tom robinson, unciphered

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:41:37 +0000

Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S. government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

January 30, 2024 admin 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, elijah, grails, Group-IB, king bob, lastpass, lastpass breach, mailchimp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, noah michael urban, Okta, plex, scattered spider, signal, SIM swapping, sosa, twilio, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:07:18 +0000

On Jan. 9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Who is Alleged Medibank Hacker Aleksandr Ermakov?

January 26, 2024 admin ae.ermak@yandex.ru, aleksandr ermakov, Breadcrumbs, gustavedore, jimjones, medibank breach, mikhail borisovich shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Patrick Gray, rEvil, Risky Business podcast, shtazi

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:12:09 +0000

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. 33-year-old Aleksandr Ermakov allegedly stole and leaked the Medibank data while working with one of Russia’s most destructive ransomware groups, but little more is shared about the accused. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. Ermakov’s alleged hacker handles.

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E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop

January 17, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, constella intelligence, devon turner, devtakeflight, devtakeflightbeats inc., DomainTools.com, nba 2k17, Ne'er-Do-Well News, obn dev, obn group llc, punchmade dev, punchmade llc, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:00:40 +0000

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs.

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Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial

November 16, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, antti kurittu, julius kivimäki, mikko hypponen, Ne'er-Do-Well News, petteri järvinen, vastaamo psychotherapy center, withsecure

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:59:14 +0000

Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

November 6, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, apathyp, apathyr8@jabber.ccc.de, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, gezze@mail.ru, gezze@yandex.ru, Intel 471, ivan sherban, mynetwatchman, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swat usa drop service, triploo@mail.ru, universalo, verified, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:51:31 +0000

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. In today’s Part II, we’ll examine clues about the real-life identity left behind by “Fearless,” the nickname chosen by the proprietor of the SWAT USA Drops service.