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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

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He was paroled in 2009, and in 2014 moved his family to a home in Lancaster County, Pa. One key reason thread hijacking is so successful is that these attacks generally do not include the tell that exposes most phishing scams: A fabricated sense of urgency. The FBI hasn’t responded to LancasterOnline’s tip.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

ChronoPay specializes in providing access to the global credit card networks for “high risk” merchants — businesses involved in selling services online that tend to generate an unusually large number of chargebacks and reports of fraud, and hence have a higher risk of failure.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

The SocksEscort home page says its services are perfect for people involved in automated online activity that often results in IP addresses getting blocked or banned, such as Craigslist and dating scams, search engine results manipulation, and online surveys. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com

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