Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:00:20 +0000
A shadowy sub-economy is more than just a curiosity – it’s booming business, and also an opportunity for defenders. In the second part of our series, we look at the different flavors of scams prevalent on criminal forums
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:54:21 +0000
InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself.
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Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:00:36 +0000
A shadowy sub-economy is more than just a curiosity – it’s booming business, and also an opportunity for defenders. In the first of a four-part series, we look at the forums involved, and how they deal with scammers scamming scammers
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:44:19 +0000
A network intrusion at the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in January led to the theft of personal information on more than 500,000 people receiving assistance from the group. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the email address used by a cybercriminal actor who offered to sell the stolen ICRC data also was used to register multiple domain names the FBI says are tied to a sprawling media influence operation originating from Iran.
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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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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 13:44:20 +0000
Ogusers[.]com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users.
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