Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

by | Feb 29, 2024 | 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, Elijah, grails, Group-IB, King Bob, lastpass, lastpass breach, Mailchimp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Noah Michael Urban, okta, Plex, Scattered Spider, Signal, SIM Swapping, Sosa, Twilio, Web Fraud 2.0

On Jan. 9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a...

Group-IB: ‘GoldDigger’ Banking Trojan Targets Vietnamese Organizations – Source: www.darkreading.com

by | Oct 6, 2023 | Cyber Security News, Dark Reading Security, DARKReading, GoldDigger, Group-IB, rss-feed-post-generator-echo

Source: www.darkreading.com – Author: Dark Reading Staff, Dark Reading Group-IB discovered an Android Trojan in August targeting more than 50 financial organizations in Vietnam that it’s dubbed GoldDigger. The Trojan has been active since June, when Group-IB’s...

Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years

by | Aug 13, 2023 | Evil Corp., Fancy Bear, Financial Times, Group-IB, GRU, Ilya Sachkov, Kaspersky Lab, Maksim Yakubets, Max Seddon, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergei Mikhailov, The Coming Storm

The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov, the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has...