Catalin Cimpanu reports: Russian law enforcement agencies have raided the office of cybersecurity company Group-IB and detained its founder and chief executive officer, Ilya Sachkov, for two months, on state treason charges. The raids, first reported by Russian news outlet RTVI, took place on Tuesday, September 28. Read more on The Record.
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Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents
Brian Krebs reports: In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, Schober says he’s confident he has located two young men in the United Kingdom responsible for developing a clever piece of digital clipboard-stealing malware that let them siphon his crypto holdings….
AlphaBay OG announces comeback
Wow. Ionut Ilascu reports: The AlphaBay darkweb market has come back to life after an administrator of the original project relaunched it over the weekend. At the same time, the admin announced plans for setting up a platform for darknet markets to set up shop with a strong focus on anonymity. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Spammer floods the Babuk ransomware gang’s forum with gay porn GIFs
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A spammer has flooded the forum of the Babuk ransomware group with gay orgy porn GIFs after the Babuk gang failed to pay a $5,000 ransom demand the threat actor made on Friday. While initially, the Babuk gang derided the extortion attempt and deleted the spammer’s initial post, hundreds of forum topics…
US Secret Service brings back its Cyber Most Wanted list
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Secret Service has updated its official website this month to add a new page where the agency is now listing the most sought-after fugitives involved in financially related cybercrime investigations. The new Most Wanted Fugitives page was re-added to the agency’s site after the page had been removed from the site for…
Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale in Cyber-Underground
Tara Seals reports: After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it’s happened again – with big security ramifications. A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on…