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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

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. A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S. prison system.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. Try2Check’s login pages have been replaced with a seizure notice from U.S. law enforcement.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2019 ­– 39.7 million records leaked

IT Governance

Social planning platform Evite admits to data breach that was first reported in April (10 million). Edcouch, TX, government hit by ransomware attack (3,000). NY, government systems accessed by unauthorised party (unknown). The Tech Data Corporation exposed 264GB of client servers, invoices, passwords (unknown).

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? That object was crafted on 2018-10-09 but it was seen only on 2018-10-12. According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! 1 and OleObj.2.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. used the password 225948. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev. Image: treasury.gov.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. PowerShell is a command-line shell that Microsoft began installing by default on all Windows machines a few years back.