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14 Jan, 2022

At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates

Cybersecurity Andrey Sergeevich Bessonov, Colonial Pipeline, DarkSide, Dmitri Alperovitch, FSB, GandCrab, Immersive Labs, Kevin Breen, Ne'er-Do-Well News, NotPetya, President Biden, Ransomware, rEvil, Roman Gennadyevich Muromsky, The Coming Storm, Vladimir Putin

The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for “REvil,” a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from victim organizations. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said the actions were taken in response to a request from U.S. officials, but many experts believe the crackdown is part of an effort to reduce tensions over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to station 100,000 troops along the nation’s border with Ukraine. …

7 Jun, 2021

Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, BadB, C#, CryptoPro, fbi, Federal Security Service, FSB, GOST, Lance James, Treasury Department, Unit221B, virustotal, Vladislav Horohorin, Yandex

KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to contact them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. The reason I contacted the FSB — one of the successor agencies to the Russian KGB — ironically enough had to do with security concerns raised about the FSB’s own preferred method of being contacted. …

18 Dec, 2020

VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Cybersecurity, VMware APT 29, Ars Technica, CISA, Cozy Bear, Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency, Data Breaches, Duo, FSB, Microsoft Outlook Web App, New York Times, nsa, SAML token compromise, Security Assertion Markup Language, The Coming Storm, U.S. National Security Agency, VMware, Volexity, washington post

U.S. government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. According to sources, among those was a flaw in software virtualization platform VMware, which the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Dec. 7 was being used by Russian hackers to impersonate authorized users on victim networks. …

26 Mar, 2020

Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Alexey Stroganov, Andrey Sporov, BingoDumps, BTE-e, DumpsKindgom, Federal Security Service, Flint, Flint24, FSB, Gabrik, GoldenDumps, HoneyMoney, HustleBank, Intel 471, know your customer, KYC, MrWhite, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Trust Your Client, TYC

Federal investigators in Russia have charged at least 25 people accused of operating a sprawling international credit card theft ring. Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. In a statement released this week, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said 25 individuals were charged with circulating illegal means of payment in connection with some 90 websites that sold stolen credit card data. …

s0x • Austin Managed IT Services

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Tag Archives: FSB

At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates

Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring