Russian Hacker Gets 9-Year Jail for Running Online Shop of Stolen Credit Cards

A United States federal district court has finally sentenced a Russian hacker to nine years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty of running two illegal websites devoted to facilitating payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other crimes. Aleksei Yurievich Burkov, 30, pleaded guilty in...

Russian hacker Aleksei Burkov jailed for 9 years in US

By Deeba Ahmed Russian computer hacker and cyber criminal Aleksei Burkov was... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian hacker Aleksei Burkov jailed for 9 years in US...

Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years

A well-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow was sentenced on Friday to nine years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among it...

AcidBox Malware Uncovered Using Repurposed VirtualBox Exploit

Advanced malware, dubbed AcidBox, has been identified by researchers who say a mysterious cybergang used it twice against Russian organizations as far back as 2017. In a report released Wednesday, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 sheds new light onto attacks against the popular open-source...

The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About

The campaign known as Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years...

NSA Releases Advisory on Sandworm Actors Exploiting an Exim Vulnerability

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory on Russian advanced persistent threat APT group Sandworm exploiting a vulnerability—CVE-2019-10149—in Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA software. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to send a specially...

Turla APT Revamps One of Its Go-To Spy Tools

The Turla APT group has been spotted using an updated version of the ComRAT remote-access trojan RAT to attack governmental targets. Turla a.k.a. Snake, Venomous Bear, Waterbug or Uroboros, is a Russian-speaking threat actor known since 2014, but with roots that go back to 2004 and earlier,...

Silent Night Banking Trojan Charges Top Dollar on the Underground

A descendant of the infamous Zeus banking trojan, dubbed Silent Night by the malware’s author, has emerged on the scene, with a host of functionalities available in a spendy malware-as-a-service MaaS model. Custom builds can run as much as $4,000 per month to use, which researchers say is now...

NetWalker Ransomware Gang Hunts for Top-Notch Affiliates

The NetWalker ransomware – the scourge behind one of the recent Toll Group attacks – has transitioned to a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS model, and its operators are placing a heavy emphasis on targeting and attracting technically advanced affiliates, according to researchers. Traditionally,...

Records with data on 129 million Russian car owners sold on dark web

By Sudais Asif Sensitive data of 129 million car owners located for sale on the dark web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Records with data on 129 million Russian car owners sold on dark web...

This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne'er-do-wells to liberate or else seize...

HTTP Status Codes Command This Malware How to Control Hacked Systems

A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan RAT has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. The cyberespionage malware—traced to Turla APT with "medium-to-low level of confidence"...

APT trends report Q1 2020

For more than two years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

Threat actors release Troldesh decryption keys

Update: Kaspersky has updated their ShadeDecryptor tool to include decryption for the keys released by "shade team". You can download the tool and find instructions here. A GitHub user claiming to represent the authors of the Troldesh Ransomware calling themselves the “Shade team” published this...

A look at the ATM/PoS malware landscape from 2017-2019

From remote administration and jackpotting, to malware sold on the Darknet, attacks against ATMs have a long and storied history. And, much like other areas of cybercrime, attackers only refine and grow their skillset for infecting ATM systems from year-to-year. So what does the ATM landscape loo...

Russian Hackers Went After San Francisco International Airport

Plus: Windows zero days, Covid-19 spam, and more of the week's top security news...

49 New Google Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Cryptocurrency Wallets

Google has ousted 49 Chrome browser extensions from its Web Store that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallets but contained malicious code to siphon off sensitive information and empty the digital currencies. The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified fi...

49 New Google Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Cryptocurrency Wallets

Google has ousted 49 Chrome browser extensions from its Web Store that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallets but contained malicious code to siphon off sensitive information and empty the digital currencies. The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified fi...

openSUSE Security Update : python-nltk (openSUSE-2020-436)

This update for python-nltk fixes the following issues : Update to 3.4.5 boo1146427, CVE-2019-14751 : - CVE-2019-14751: Fixed Zip slip vulnerability in downloader for the unlikely situation where a user configures their downloader to use a compromised server boo1146427 Update to 3.4.4 : - fix bug...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for python-nltk (openSUSE-SU-2020:0436-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...