Ransomware cartel model didn’t fulfill potential, yet, but served as cybercrime proving ground

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by Bradley Barth - April 8, 20210

Ransomware cartel model didn’t fulfill potential, yet, but served as cybercrime proving ground

FBI’s cyber division personnel in front of a computer screen. In late 2020 and 2021 law enforcement scored a series of victories against cybercriminal actors, shutting down certain operations, seizing assets and/or making arrests related to Egregor ransomware, NetWalker RaaS and the Emotet botnet. (FBI) Counter to initial fears, researchers say

FBI: Cybercrime skyrocketed in 2020, with email compromise scams accounting for 43% of losses

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by Joe Uchill - March 19, 20210

FBI: Cybercrime skyrocketed in 2020, with email compromise scams accounting for 43% of losses

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual report Wednesday, showing a sharp increase in cybercrime, both in quantity and cost in 2020. Over the course of the year, the IC3 logged 791,000 complaints, more than a third of the total complaints over the past five years and a

Russian cybercrime forums seen selling malware-sabotaged COVID-19 map

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by Bradley Barth - March 14, 20200

Malicious coronavirus map hides AZORult info-stealing malware

The recently discovered weaponized coronavirus map found to infect victims with a variant of the information-stealing AZORult malware has been sold online by Russian language cybercrime forums, according to a new report. Security expert Brian Krebs states in a blog post published this week that the live, interactive map dashboard was

Busted! 2019’s top cybercrime news

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by Doug Olenick - December 21, 20190

Spies, whistleblowers, students, executives and every variety of scammer. It seems no one was immune from the long arm of the law, or at least, the indictment, in 2019. Many are in custody, some have been sentenced and others remain at large. Julian Assange In what might have been the

U.S. charges alleged members of “Evil Corp” cybercrime group for Zeus and Dridex campaigns

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by Bradley Barth - December 5, 20190

U.S. charges alleged members of “Evil Corp” cybercrime group for Zeus and Dridex campaigns

The U.S. today announced legal and regulatory action against the powerhouse cybercriminal group Evil Corp, filing hacking and bank fraud charges against two of its suspected members. Authorities are also offering a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest or conviction of one of the group’s alleged masterminds,