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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

Krebs on Security

had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. billion in 2019.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

In March 2020, the DOJ unsealed two criminal hacking indictments against Kislitsin, who was then head of security at Group-IB , a cybersecurity company that was founded in Russia in 2003 and operated there for more than a decade before relocating to Singapore.

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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

Krebs on Security

NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. Many of the exposed files are records of wire transactions with bank account numbers and other information from home or property buyers and sellers.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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GUEST ESSAY: The Top 5 online privacy and data security threats faced by the elderly

The Last Watchdog

Phishing emails may ask for personal information like a log-in or Social Security number to authenticate your account, or they may urge you to share your credit card payment details. This enormously horrific cybercrime primarily targets older women and freshly widowed individuals. Identity-theft. Debt relief scams.

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Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot

Security Affairs

Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files. Several websites and multiple social media accounts exist all touting their password “crackers.””

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