article thumbnail

Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. At least my laptop is sure of it.” Image: Archive.org. Image: Archive.org.

article thumbnail

Coronavirus: Europol arrests man behind €6M face masks and hand sanitisers scam

Security Affairs

million by a European pharmaceutical company, a European State reported. “A European Member State reported to Europol that one of their pharmaceutical companies had been defrauded of €6.64 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The man has stolen €6.64 million by this individual.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research

Security Affairs

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

article thumbnail

Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

During the last summer, Google observed threat actors from China, Russia, and Iran targeting pharmaceutical companies and researchers involved in the development of a vaccine. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. Pierluigi Paganini.

article thumbnail

68% of Pharma Executives Have Had Credentials Breached Online

Adam Levin

The online credentials for 68% of pharmaceutical executives analyzed for a study have been compromised recently. The study, conducted by cybersecurity firm Blackcloak, found that the email accounts of over two-thirds of pharmaceutical executives had been compromised within the last five to ten years.

article thumbnail

Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Krebs on Security

But on March 21, Shelest released a lengthy statement wherein he admitted to maintaining an ownership stake in Nuwber, a consumer data broker he founded in 2015 — around the same time he launched Onerep. Onerep and Shelest did not respond to requests for comment on that story. “I get it,” Shelest wrote.

article thumbnail

An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals.

Retail 212