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Dr HeX is a Moroccan cybercriminal actor active since at least 2009 and publicly linked to a long-running campaign of financially motivated cybercrime. The actor has been associated with website defacements, phishing operations, malware development and distribution, fraud, and carding activity. Reporting tied the actor to more than 130 website defacements over roughly a decade and to underground activity involving malware trading and development. Dr HeX has been linked to phishing campaigns impersonating major French financial institutions and to broader attacks against French telecommunications companies, major French banks, a French corporation, and several multinational corporations. These operations included spoofed websites and mass phishing emails designed to harvest victim credentials, as well as attempts to steal customers’ banking card data. The actor’s activity reportedly resulted in thousands of victims. The actor is known by the alias Dr HeX and has used multiple additional nicknames and online personas across public platforms and underground communities. Available information supports characterization as an individual cybercriminal rather than a state-sponsored intrusion set. The dominant pattern of operations indicates profit-driven activity centered on credential theft, fraud, malware-enabled intrusion, and related post-compromise abuse.
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A long-running cybercriminal actor allegedly involved in phishing, website defacement, malware development, fraud, carding, and attacks against French corporations to steal bank card data.
A Morocco-based cybercriminal accused of a long-running campaign involving website defacements, phishing attacks, malware distribution, and attempted theft of banking card data. The activity also targeted French telecommunications companies, major French banks, and multinational corporations.
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