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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach
BrianKrebs | | 1Password, A Little Sunshine, AdBlock Plus, Ars Technica, Chainalysis, Data breaches, Karim Toubba, lastpass breach, MetaMask, Nicholas Weaver, Nick Bax, Plex, Taylor Monahan, The Coming Storm, Unciphered, Web Fraud 2.0, Wladimir Palant
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a ...
Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Chainalysis, Courtney Nolan, Employment Fraud, Erin West, FBI, IC3.gov, Justin Maile, Latest Warnings, pig butchering, REACT Task Force, The Coming Storm, Vice News, Web Fraud 2.0, WhatsApp, xtb-market
U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” ...
Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Athens University School of Information Sciences and Technolog, Begemot, Bloodrush, Chainalysis, Conti ransomware, ddos, Demon, Ghost, Gizmodo, Jeffrey Ladish, Mango, Matt Novak, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pump-and-dump, Ransomware, squid, Stern, VAN
Three stories here last week pored over several years’ worth of internal chat records stolen from the Conti ransomware group, the most profitable ransomware gang in operation today. The candid messages revealed ...
Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry
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Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what it's like to ...
Arrest, Seizures Tied to Netwalker Ransomware
BrianKrebs | | Chainalysis, Ne'er-Do-Well News, NetWalker, Ransomware, Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, U.S. Justice Department
U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. In connection with the seizure, a Canadian national ...
REvil Ransomware Gang Starts Auctioning Victim Data
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Bleeping Computer, Chainalysis, Lawrence Abrams, Ransomware, REvil ransomware, Sodin, Sodinokibi
The criminal group behind the REvil ransomware enterprise has begun auctioning off sensitive data stolen from companies hit by its malicious software. The move marks an escalation in tactics aimed at coercing ...