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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. ” A copy of the indictment is available here.

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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io , a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. also is a favored marketplace for people involved in selling phony social media accounts.

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Breached Data Indexer ‘Data Viper’ Hacked

Krebs on Security

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. But on Aug.

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NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)

Schneier on Security

” This is related to the SolarWinds hack I have previously written about , and represents one of the techniques the SVR is using once it has gained access to target networks. This SAML forgery technique has been known and used by cyber actors since at least 2017.

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

Krebs on Security

We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida. The homepage for publicrecordsunlimited.com, per archive.org circa 2017. billion rows of records — they claimed was taken from nationalpublicdata.com. .”

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Hacking the Tax Code

Schneier on Security

A recent example comes from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. companies avoided paying nearly US$200 billion in taxes in 2017 alone. And there are thousands of black-hat researchers who examine every line of the tax code looking for exploitable vulnerabilities—tax attorneys and tax accountants. That same 2017 U.S.

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Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims

Krebs on Security

men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. conspired to hack into Yahoo email accounts belonging to victims in the United States.

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