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28 Dec, 2019

Ransomware at IT Services Provider Synoptek

Cybersecurity Ransomware, rEvil, Sodinokibi, Synoptek

Synoptek, a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customer nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand in a bid to restore operations as quickly as possible. Irvine, Calif.-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries, including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. The company employs nearly a thousand employees and brought in more than $100 million in revenue in the past year. …

17 Dec, 2019

Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case

Cybersecurity Augustin Inzirillo, LeParisien, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nuclear Bot, sextortion, TinyNuke

Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they’ve charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called “Nuclear Bot.” …

17 Dec, 2019

Ransomware Gangs Now Outing Victim Businesses That Don’t Pay Up

Cybersecurity BleepingComputer, Lawrence Abrams, Maze Ransomware, Ransomware, rEvil, Sodinokibi, The Coming Storm

16 Dec, 2019

Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, aqua, aquamo, Bugat, Dridex, Europol, Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, Evil Corp., Igor “Enki” Turashev, JabberZeuS, luck12345, Maksim V. Yukabets, money mules, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Slavik, Target: Small Businesses, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Treasury Department, ZeuS Trojan

The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “Evil Corp” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. As it happens, for several years KrebsOnSecurity closely monitored the day-to-day communications and activities of the accused and his accomplices. What follows is an insider’s look at the back-end operations of this gang. …

11 Dec, 2019

The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Adconion Direct, AFRINIC, Afriq*Access, Eddy Kayihura, Infoplan, ipv4leasing, ITC, Jan Vermeulen, Mybroadband.co.za, Ron Guilmette, The African Network Information Centre, Web Fraud 2.0

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers. The allegations stemmed from a three-year investigation by a U.S.-based researcher whose findings shed light on a murky area of Internet governance that is all too often exploited by spammers and scammers alike. …

11 Dec, 2019

Patch Tuesday, December 2019 Edition

Cybersecurity Microsoft Patch Tuesday December 2019, Recorded Future, Time to Patch

10 Dec, 2019

CISO MAG Honors KrebsOnSecurity

Cybersecurity CISO MAG, Other

7 Dec, 2019

Ransomware at Colorado IT Provider Affects 100+ Dental Offices

Cybersecurity Complete Technology Solutions ransomware, Herb Miner, Medix Dental, PerCSoft, Ransomware, rEvil, Sodinokibi, Thomas Terronez

A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack this week that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Multiple sources affected say their IT provider, Englewood, Colo. based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware known as “Sodinokibi” or “rEvil” to be installed on computers at more than 100 dentistry businesses that rely on the company for a range of services — including network security, data backup and voice-over-IP phone service. …

5 Dec, 2019

Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, apple, iPhone 11, Techcrunch, Ultra Wideband, Zack Whittaker

KrebsOnSecurity ran a story this week that puzzled over Apple’s response to inquiries about a potential privacy leak in its new iPhone 11 line, in which the devices appear to intermittently seek the user’s location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data. Today, Apple disclosed that this behavior is tied to the inclusion of a new short-range technology that lets iPhone 11 users share files locally with other nearby phones that support this feature, and that a future version of its mobile operating system will allow users to disable it. …

4 Dec, 2019

The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Apple iPhone 11 Pro, location privacy, location services

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