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The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters.

The "Jokers Stash" marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data traded hands for bitcoin and other digital coins, ceased operations this month, Elliptic said on Friday, in what it called a rare example of such a site bowing out on its own terms.

minute read Share this article: About 3.27 billion stolen account logins have been posted to the RaidForums English-language cybercrime community in a ‘COMB’ collection. A “compilation of many breaches” – COMB for short – has been leaked on the cyber-underground, according to researchers. The so-called COMB contains a staggering 3.27 billion unique combinations of cleartext email addresses and passwords. The trove is an aggregate database that brings together older stol...

Iranian cyber actors are likely behind the creation of an inflammatory website called Enemies of the People and continue to be active despite earlier warnings, according to the FBI.

Get Permission A post to RaidForums offers to share the identities of a ransomware-as-a-service operations leadership - for a price. Maze was one of the most notorious and successful ransomware operations of recent years until its "retirement" last November. The group pioneered the data-leaking model that involves first stealing victims data, then using the threat of leaking it to try to force victims to pay. The strategy worked, helping fuel a boom in ransomware profits and leading numerous o...

Ransomware: Why industrial networks make an appealing target for cyber extortion Watch Now Ransomware attacks are a potential danger for any organisation, with ransomware variants including Conti, Egregor, Maze and many others still successfully compromising victims across all industries – but there are some industries that criminal gangs are targeting more than others. The ransomware attacks are successful because many organisations cant afford for their network to be out of service for...

The Hackers Microsoft says it started tracking the campaign by this North Korean-linked group in mid-2020. The hackers started by building a reputation in the security research community through Twitter by retweeting and posting high-quality security content and other material related to exploit research. The hackers controlled other social media accounts and used these to amplify the other posts, Microsoft says. After building their reputation, the hackers started approaching potential targets...

Two new phishing tactics use the platform’s automated responses to evade email filters. Two fresh business email compromise (BEC) tactics have emerged onto the phishing scene, involving the manipulation of Microsoft 365 automated email responses in order to evade email security filters. In one case, scammers are targeting victims by redirecting legitimate out-of-office (OOO) replies from an employee to them; and in the other, read receipts are being manipulated. Both styles were seen being us...

Pay-or-Get-Breached Ransomware Schemes Take Off In 2020, ransomware attackers moved quickly to adopt so-called "double extortion" schemes, with more than 550 incidents in the fourth quarter alone. The "pay or get breached" ransomware trend — also known as the "double extortion" scheme — took off in 2020, despite the prolific Maze Teams Nov. 1 announcement that it would be discontinuing operations. Using data collected by automated feeds, cyber-risk firm Digital Shadows documented 550 doubl...

Source: Europol A multinational law enforcement operation has disrupted the Emotet botnets infrastructure by gaining control of hundreds of servers, reports the EUs law enforcement intelligence agency, Europol. Authorities also redirected computers previously infected by Emotet to servers operated by law enforcement agencies, Europol says, to help arrest the infections. "This was big crime, and this is a big success for law enforcement, especially across borders," says Alan Woodward, a visitin...