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Operators of Counter Antivirus Service Scan4You Convicted

Posted on:May 16, 2018 at 3:18 pm
Posted in:Malware
Author:
Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research Team

In May 2017, one of the biggest facilitators of cybercrime, Scan4You, went offline after the two main suspects, Ruslans Bondars and Jurijs Martisevs, were arrested in Latvia and extradited to the U.S. by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In May 2018, the case against the Scan4You’s operators concluded in a Virginia federal courtroom.

The Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research (FTR) team started to look into Scan4You’s operations in 2012, and have been in close contact with FBI investigators assigned to the case since 2014. Our research on Scan4You spanned more than five years, passing some of our findings to the FBI until the service went offline.

Posted on:January 15, 2018 at 4:31 pm
Posted in:Malware
Author:
Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research Team

On January 15, Goncalo Esteves from Essex, UK plead guilty on 3 charges of computer offenses under UK law:

2 charges against Section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (Making/adapting/supplying an article intended for use/to assist in commission of section 1 or 3 Computer Misuse offense)
1 charge against Section 327(1) and Section 334 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Concealing/disguising/converting/transferring/removing criminal property)

This marks the result of a collaborative investigation that Trend Micro and the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the United Kingdom initiated back in 2015, when the two organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together in the fight against cybercrime. This collaboration is not restricted to this case alone, with Trend Micro actively continuing to assist the UK, as well as other international law enforcement partners, in their fight against cybercrime.

Posted on:January 19, 2017 at 12:14 am
Posted in:Malware, Targeted Attacks
Author:
Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research Team

On January 13, college student Zachary Shames pleaded guilty to a federal district court in Virginia, US, for authoring Limitless Logger, the malicious keylogger that was used to steal thousands of sensitive user information like passwords and banking credentials. In November 2014, Trend Micro’s Forward Looking Threat Research team (FTR) published a research paper that covered Limitless and how it was used to steal information from thousands of victims. Prior to that, we passed on details that correctly identified Shames as the creator to the FBI. This blog details how we made that link, which we left out of the published research paper.

Posted on:December 7, 2016 at 7:34 am
Posted in:Botnets, Malware
Author:
Robert McArdle (Senior Threat Researcher)

On November 30th, an international law enforcement operation stamped out Avalanche, a large-scale content and management platform designed for the delivery of bullet-proof botnets. Avalanche’s scale and scope spanned victims from 180 countries, over 800,000 domains in 60+ top-level domains (TLD), more than one million phishing and spam e-mails, 500,000 infected machines worldwide, and 130TB of captured and analyzed data.

The coordinated effort from international law enforcement agencies that include Germany’s Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police, the U.S.’s Attorney Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Europol, and Eurojust as well as partners in ShadowServer, resulted in one of the most successful anti-cybercrime operations in recent years.

Posted on:July 28, 2016 at 4:55 am
Posted in:Deep Web
Author:
Martin Roesler (Director, Threat Research)

As everyone knows by now, recently there have been some attacks in Germany that have people worried about their security. One question that comes up is – how were the attackers able to obtain their weapons?

In the recent Munich shooting, the attacker obtained his gun (a Glock 17 pistol) from an underground market. I was recently interviewed by the Handelblatt newspaper about underground markets.

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