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Hackers Are Now Selling 'Raccoon' Data-Stealing Malware as a $200 Monthly Service

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @09:51PM   
from the washes-your-data-before-reselling-it dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for soylent_brown

Hackers are now selling 'Raccoon' data-stealing malware as a $200 monthly service

A new kind of trojan malware is fast gaining currency among cybercriminals for its capability to steal sensitive information, such as credit card data, cryptocurrency wallets, and email credentials.

Dubbed Raccoon Stealer, the malware first emerged in April 2019 and has since infected hundreds of thousands of Windows devices around the world, Boston-based endpoint security solutions provider Cybereason said.

"Its popularity, even with a limited feature set, signals the continuation of a growing trend of the commoditization of malware as they follow a MaaS (Malware-as-a-Service) model and evolve their efforts," the researchers stated.

Costing $200 per month to use, Raccoon is suspected to be of Russian origin and has been found to be aggressively marketed in underground forums, offering prompt 24×7 customer support to community questions and comments on Telegram under the handle "glad0ff."

This "gladoff" actor has been linked previously to a variety of malware like the Decrux and Acrux cryptominers, the Mimosa RAT and the ProtonBot loader, Cybereason said.

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• Richard Stallman says it's OK to sell your data Richard Stallman says it's OK to sell your data (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:50PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:50PM (#912214)

  Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. On the systems that permit it I use the “empty password”, and on systems where that isn't allowed, or where that means you can't log in at all from other places, things like that, I use my login name as my password.

  But the ITS machines had certain other features that helped prevent this from getting out of hand, one of these was the “spy” feature, where anybody could watch what anyone else was doing. And of course tourists loved to spy, they think it's such a neat thing, it's a little bit naughty you see, but the result is that if any tourist starts doing anything that causes trouble there's always somebody else watching him. So pretty soon his friends would get very mad because they would know that the continued existence of tourism depended on tourists being responsible.

  https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html [gnu.org]

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• Richard Stallman keeps his computer clean Richard Stallman keeps his computer clean (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @01:13AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @01:13AM (#912249)

  Nothing of value to an attacker on his computer = perfectly safe to use no password.

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  • Re:Richard Stallman keeps his computer clean (Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:32AM

    by anubi (2828) on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:32AM (#912298) Journal

    That's the same paradigm I use too.

    Computers are so cheap these days. I have some online 24/7. I do not do business or personal stuff on them, but you can see if I have water pressure, house temperature, rate of electricity consumption, motion sensors, etc, if you know how to telnet in, and what the numbers you get back mean.

    I run stuff in these, along with Wireshark, to see if they are ratware. Maybe, if it's useful enough and hasn't soiled it's reputation, I may transfer the program, usually via FTP, to my " secure" machine, which I connect to the net only when I have to.

    It frustrates the shit out of me when people code business websites to reference the cloud. At that point, I have no idea who I am talking to.

    Its almost like trying to establish a rapport with a businessman, then once I have his trust, I stick my fingers in my mouth, whistle, and this bozo comes out of nowhere and takes my place, leaving the businessman wondering who is this?

    This is not the guy I was talking to.

    But that's the way some businesses do business. I try like the dickens to avoid businesses that do that.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]

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  • Re:Richard Stallman keeps his computer clean (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @02:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @02:59PM (#912429)

    Then you won't mind me using your computer to mine bitcoins or broadcast spam?

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