Ne’er-Do-Well News
LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack
[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech ...
SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge
[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m ...
Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia's top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of ...
U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison
Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years ...
Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny
If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or "crypt" your malware so that it appears ...
Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware
Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Both of these ...
Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer
Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series ...
Russian Hacker “Wazawaka” Indicted for Ransomware
A Russian man identified by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2022 as a prolific and vocal member of several top ransomware groups was the subject of two indictments unsealed by the Justice Department today ...
Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are ...
$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia
The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground's most trusted ...
