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‘Snatch’ Ransom Group Exposes Visitor IP Addresses

September 27, 2023 admin @htmalgae, 8base ransomware, atomicstealer, Breadcrumbs, data breaches, DomainTools.com, google.com, Malwarebytes, microsoft teams, mihail kolesnikov, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, rilide, Trustwave Spiderlabs

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:48:37 +0000

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. The leaked data suggest that Snatch is one of several ransomware groups using paid ads on Google.com to trick people into installing malware disguised as popular free software, such as Microsoft Teams, Adobe Reader, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Discord.

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Who’s Behind the 8Base Ransomware Website?

September 18, 2023 admin @htmalgae, 8base ransomware, A Little Sunshine, andrei kolev, gitlab, jcube group, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, VMware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 02:12:53 +0000

The victim shaming website operated by the cybercriminals behind 8Base — currently one of the more active ransomware groups — was until earlier today leaking quite a bit of information that the crime group probably did not intend to be made public. The leaked data suggests that at least some of website’s code was written by a 36-year-old programmer residing in the capital city of Moldova.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

August 17, 2023 admin 16shop, Akamai, bandungxploiter, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, cyberthread.id, devilscream, FBI, Interpol, McAfee, Ne'er-Do-Well News, riswanda noor supatra, rizky mauluna sidik, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:58:56 +0000

You’ve probably never heard of “16Shop,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. INTERPOL said authorities in Indonesia arrested the 21-year-old proprietor and one of his alleged facilitators, and that a third suspect was apprehended in Japan.

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Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man

August 14, 2023 admin ardelis solutions, codes2you, diligere, equity-invest, john bernard, john clifton davies, Ne'er-Do-Well News, the inside knowledge

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:13:22 +0000

John Clifton Davies, a convicted fraudster estimated to have bilked dozens of technology startups out of more than $30 million through phony investment schemes, has a brand new pair of scam companies that are busy dashing startup dreams: A fake investment firm called Equity-Invest[.]ch, and Diligere[.]co.uk, a scam due diligence company that Equity-Invest insists all investment partners use. A native of the United Kingdom, Mr. Davies absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. Prior to his conviction, Davies served 16 months in jail before being cleared on suspicion of murdering his third wife on their honeymoon in India.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

July 18, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, abusewithus, agentjags, Ashley Madison hack, ashleymadison.com, constella intelligence, data breaches, domaintools, eric malek, Hulu, impact team, Jordan Evan Bloom, LeakedSource, Ne'er-Do-Well News, near-reality.com, noel biderman, ownagegaming1@gmail.com, pictrace, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Runescape, trevor sykes

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:57:04 +0000

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 — less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users — and launched LeakedSource three months later.

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SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge

July 13, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Ashley Madison hack, data breaches, Hulu, impact team, Ne'er-Do-Well News, william webster harrison

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:45:02 +0000

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

June 29, 2023 admin arkady bukh, dmitry volkov, dropbox, facct, fight against cybercrime technologies, formspring, Group-IB, ilya sachkov, lamarez, LinkedIn, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oleg tolstikh, oleksandr vitalyevich ieremenko, U.S. Secret Service, u.s. securities & exchange commission, yevgeniy nikulin, zl0m

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:08 +0000

Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.

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U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison

June 27, 2023 admin graham ivan clarke, joseph james o'connor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, plugwalkjoe, SIM swapping, twitter hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:44:03 +0000

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison. That may seem like harsh punishment for a brief and very public cyber joy ride. But O’Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by “SIM swapping,” a crime wherein fraudsters trick a mobile provider into diverting a customer’s phone calls and text messages to a device they control.