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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

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Facebook, Instagram , TikTok , and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. Facebook said it targeted a number of accounts tied to key sellers on OGUsers, as well as those who advertise the ability to broker stolen account sales. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

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Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts.

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Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

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One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. In December 2018, a then 21-year-0ld Troy Woody Jr. Woody’s complaint states that Masters also was present during his 2018 home invasion, as was another core UGNazi member: Eric “CosmoTheGod” Taylor. and refers to T.W.

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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

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LastPass officially instituted this change back in 2018, but some undisclosed number of the company’s earlier customers were never required to increase the length of their master passwords. KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account.

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Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

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In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. In a lawsuit filed in Colorado, Schober said the sudden disappearance of his funds in January 2018 prompted him to spend more than $10,000 hiring experts in the field of tracing cryptocurrency transactions. universities). .”

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

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Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

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Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases.

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