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Shadow Banker Makes Glorious Return, Interviews Guy Exposing Conti Command & Control

Author’s note: Fantomas is a researcher* So, it’s been like three-and-a-half years since Shadow Banker published anything on their website. A lot of stuff happened and I’m not trying to go into any great detail about it, especially since there’s actually some money on the line now. But the reason for this writeup is to discuss some recent developments in the Conti investigation. You know, the notorious and bygone Russia-nexus…

Clout-Chasing, Serbian Narco-IT Moron Holds Key to Performative Europol Shade in ICIJ Story

30 Members of the Belivuk Clan in Serbia were arrested last February after their Sky ECC communications were crackedThey have been charged with 5 murders, but are suspected of as many as 20Serbian authories seized 44 Sky ECC phones from the gangThe gang’s messages were hacked at least 4 months prior to the timeline reported by Europol for when Sky was hackedSrdjan Lalic, the gang’s ‘IT wiz was in charge…

Interview with the ‘Vampire’: Is Eurasian Hacker Rap a New Front in Cyber-Threat SIGINT Collection?

While cyber-threat intelligence organizations like Intel471 and “dark web ninjas” like Gemini Advisory actively scan underground hacker forums for cybercriminal SIGINT like data breaches, new attack vectors, and money-laundering plugs, an unconventional, new front for analyst collection may have emerged: Eurasian rap music. Really. Just as heavy metal tempested the cultural “winds of change” that demolished the Berlin Wall and propelled pro-kleptocracy Western ideals throughout the former Soviet Union over…

Intel471 Releases Crucial Report on Crypto Cyber-Threat-Intelligence, Eludes Coverage in Crypto Media

In a three-weeks-old report authored by threat-intelligence firm Intel471’s chief cybercrime reporter Greg Otto, the author revealed that Russian cybercrime forums are crowdsourcing new crypto attack vectors in the same way that security conferences create programming for their speaker panels: Requesting white paper submissions that document new exploits. In an announcement made “on one of the top Russian-language cybercrime forums” on April 20, wrote Otto, “the forum’s administrator called for…

Buzzfeed Set to Report on 36 SARs Linked to Rogue Russian Crypto Exchange BTC-e, Hopefully Doesn’t Steele-Job it

Buzzfeed and Czech media outlet Investigace.cz are planning to report on 36 suspicious activity reports linked to a key payment processor for rogue Russian crypto-exchange BTC-e as early as this Sunday. This scoop marks the most geopolitically significant crypto thread in the financial-intelligence fiasco destined to be enshrined in history as ‘FinCENgate.’ According to Sergey Mayzus, a 45-year-old Russian national who is the majority owner of Mayzus Financial Services, which…