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WeSteal, a shameless commodity cryptocurrency stealer available for sale

Security Affairs

WeControl is similarly both designed and marketed as a tool for illicit activity, lacking in propriety no less than the earlier WeSteal.” Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.” ” concludes the report.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

The RUSdot mailer, the email spamming tool made and sold by the administrator of RSOCKS. Even today, the RUSdot Mailer is advertised for sale at the top of the RUSdot community forum. Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer.

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Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

Krebs on Security

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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

The Last Watchdog

What makes memory attacks so insidious is that none of this malicious activity happens anywhere near the perimeter of a company’s network, nor on any particular hard drive; and this is precisely where most of the horsepower of conventional cybersecurity tools is directed. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale.

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The researchers concluded that for many people involved, cybercrime amounts to little more than a boring office job sustaining the infrastructure on which these global markets rely, work that is little different in character from the activity of legitimate system administrators.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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Three members of FIN7 (Carbanak) gang charged with stealing 15 million credit cards

Security Affairs

Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. According to DoJ , the suspects stole more than 15 million credit cards from over 6,500 individual point-of-sale terminals at 3,600 business locations in 47. In late June 2018, foreign authorities arrested Andrii Kolpakov in Lepe, Spain.

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