CyberCrime List - 2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
DATE | NAME | Info | CATEG. | WEB |
4.9.24 | Ex-Engineer Charged in Missouri for Failed $750,000 Bitcoin Extortion Attempt | A 57-year-old man from the U.S. state of Missouri has been arrested in connection with a failed data extortion campaign that targeted his | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
31.8.24 | Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot | A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot targeting his employer. | CyberCrime | |
25.8.24 | Russian laundering millions for Lazarus hackers arrested in Argentina | The federal police in Argentina (PFA) have arrested a 29-year-old Russian national in Buenos Aires, who is facing money laundering charges related to cryptocurrency proceeds of the notorious North Korean hackers' Lazarus Group.' | CyberCrime | |
25.8.24 | Greasy Opal's CAPTCHA solver still serving cybercrime after 16 years | A developer that researchers now track as Greasy Opal, operating as a seemingly legitimate business, has been fueling the cybercrime-as-a-service industry with a tool that bypasses account security solutions and allows bot-led CAPTCHA solving at scale. | CyberCrime | |
24.8.24 | Man sentenced for hacking state registry to fake his own death | A 39-year old man from Somerset, Kentucky, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for identity theft and faking his own death in government registry systems. | CyberCrime | |
23.8.24 | Latvian Hacker Extradited to U.S. for Role in Karakurt Cybercrime Group | A 33-year-old Latvian national living in Moscow, Russia, has been charged in the U.S. for allegedly stealing data, extorting victims, and | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
21.8.24 | New Mad Liberator gang uses fake Windows update screen to hide data theft | A new data extortion group tracked as Mad Liberator is targeting AnyDesk users and runs a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to distract while exfiltrating data from the target device. | CyberCrime | |
21.8.24 | Azure domains and Google abused to spread disinformation and malware | A clever disinformation campaign engages several Microsoft Azure and OVH cloud subdomains as well as Google search to promote malware and spam sites. | CyberCrime | |
21.8.24 | Russian who sold 300,000 stolen credentials gets 40 months in prison | Georgy Kavzharadze, a 27-year-old Russian national, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for selling login credentials for over 300,000 accounts on Slilpp, the largest online marketplace of stolen logins, until its seizure in June 2021. | CyberCrime | |
17.8.24 | Russian Hacker Jailed 3+ Years for Selling Stolen Credentials on Dark Web | A 27-year-old Russian national has been sentenced to over three years in prison in the U.S. for peddling financial information, login | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
16.8.24 | WWH-Club credit card market admins arrested after cash spending spree | U.S. law enforcement has arrested two suspected admins of the WWH-Club stolen credit card marketplace after they went on a cash spending spree in Florida. | CyberCrime | |
4.8.24 | Credit card users get mysterious shopify-charge.com charges | People worldwide report seeing mysterious $1 or $0 charges from Shopify-charge.com appearing on their credit card bills, even when they did not attempt to purchase anything. | CyberCrime | |
3.8.24 | Former Avaya employee gets 4 years for $88M license piracy scheme | Three individuals who orchestrated a massive-scale pirate operation involving the sale of Avaya business telephone system software licenses worth over $88,000,000 have received imprisonment sentences. | CyberCrime | |
1.8.24 | DigiCert to Revoke 83,000+ SSL Certificates Due to Domain Validation Oversight | Certificate authority (CA) DigiCert has warned that it will be revoking a subset of SSL/TLS certificates within 24 hours due to an oversight | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
28.7.24 | Acronis warns of Cyber Infrastructure default password abused in attacks | ​Acronis warned customers to patch a critical Cyber Infrastructure security flaw that lets attackers bypass authentication on vulnerable servers using default credentials. | CyberCrime | |
24.7.24 | Magento Sites Targeted with Sneaky Credit Card Skimmer via Swap Files | Threat actors have been observed using swap files in compromised websites to conceal a persistent credit card skimmer and harvest | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
22.7.24 | UK arrests suspected Scattered Spider hacker linked to MGM attack | UK police have arrested a 17-year-old boy suspected of being involved in the 2023 MGM Resorts ransomware attack and a member of the Scattered Spider hacking collective. | CyberCrime | |
21.7.24 | 17-Year-Old Linked to Scattered Spider Cybercrime Syndicate Arrested in U.K. | Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall who is suspected to be a member of the notorious | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
14.7.24 | Huione Guarantee exposed as a $11 billion marketplace for cybercrime | The seemingly legitimate online marketplace Huione Guarantee is being used as a platform for laundering money from online scams, especially "pig butchering" investment fraud, researchers say. | CyberCrime | |
5.7.24 | Europol takes down 593 Cobalt Strike servers used by cybercriminals | Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used by cybercriminals to infiltrate victims' networks. | CyberCrime | |
5.7.24 | CDK Global says all dealers will be back online by Thursday | CDK Global says that its dealer management system (DMS), impacted by a massive IT outage following a June 18th ransomware attack, will be back online by Thursday for all car dealerships | CyberCrime | |
4.7.24 | Global Police Operation Shuts Down 600 Cybercrime Servers Linked to Cobalt Strike | A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
| 27.6.24 | Crown Equipment confirms a cyberattack disrupted manufacturing | Forklift manufacturer Crown Equipment confirmed today that it suffered a cyberattack earlier this month that disrupted manufacturing at its plants. | CyberCrime | |
| 27.6.24 | CDK Global cyberattack impacts thousands of US car dealerships | Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems and leaving clients unable to operate their business normally. | CyberCrime | |
| 27.6.24 | Scathing report on Medibank cyberattack highlights unenforced MFA | A scathing report by Australia's Information Commissioner details how misconfigurations and missed alerts allowed a hacker to breach Medibank and steal data from over 9 million people. | CyberCrime | |
| 27.6.24 | New Credit Card Skimmer Targets WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart Sites | Multiple content management system (CMS) platforms like WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart have been targeted by a new | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
| 19.6.24 | Two men guilty of breaching law enforcement portal in blackmail scheme | Two men have pleaded guilty to hacking into a federal law enforcement database to steal personal information of those they were extorting. | CyberCrime | |
| 19.6.24 | Alleged Scattered Spider sim-swapper arrested in Spain | A 22-year-old British national allegedly linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group and responsible for attacks on 45 U.S. companies has been arrested in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. | CyberCrime | |
| 18.6.24 | Singapore Police Extradites Malaysians Linked to Android Malware Fraud | The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has announced the extradition of two men from Malaysia for their alleged involvement in a mobile | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
| 16.6.24 | U.K. Hacker Linked to Notorious Scattered Spider Group Arrested in Spain | Law enforcement authorities have allegedly arrested a key member of the notorious cybercrime group called Scattered Spider. The | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
| 16.6.24 | Former IT employee gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers | A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired. | CyberCrime | |
| 9.6.24 | Los Angeles Unified School District investigates data theft claims | Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) officials are investigating a threat actor's claims that they're selling stolen databases containing records belonging to millions of students and thousands of teachers. | CyberCrime | |
30.5.24 | Europol Shuts Down 100+ Servers Linked to IcedID, TrickBot, and Other Malware | Europol on Thursday said it shut down the infrastructure associated with several malware loader operations such as IcedID, | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
30.5.24 | Cybercriminals Abuse Stack Overflow to Promote Malicious Python Package | Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new malicious Python package that has been discovered in the Python Package Index | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
29.5.24 | BreachForums Returns Just Weeks After FBI Seizure - Honeypot or Blunder? | The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |
27.5.24 | Moroccan Cybercrime Group Steals Up to $100K Daily Through Gift Card Fraud | Microsoft is calling attention to a Morocco-based cybercrime group dubbed Storm-0539 that's behind gift card fraud and theft | CyberCrime | The Hacker News |