Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching revealed more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by deleting those groups.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number. They face a fifteen count indictment, including charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and aggravated identity theft (a charge that carries a mandatory two-year sentence).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2023

A price of $200,000 is being demanded for the stolen information and as it contains sensitive information such as contact details, those interested might make merry as they can use the purchased data to launch identity thefts and phishing campaigns. Hudson Rock did not name the hacking form that contains the twitter data dump.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

It does not appear USPS account passwords were exposed via this API, although KrebsOnSecurity conducted only a very brief and limited review of the API’s rather broad functionality before reporting the issue to the USPS. . “It should have been protected via authentication and validated against the logged in user in question.”

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The report also stated that the FBI received more than 1,600 SIM swap complaints in 2021, dramatically up from 320 from 2018 to 2020. When you reclaim your number, open your accounts and change your passwords. Here are tips to help prevent these types of phishing attacks and stay safe. Minimizing SIM Swapping Attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ivan Yermakov worked for the Russian Military Unit 26165 and was indicted by the US DoJ in October 2018, along six other defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate ( GRU ), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. based filing agents.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Highly placed sources confirmed that no password or personal information was accessed or stolen by the hackers in the apparent breach. However, security experts suggest it is better to change the password of an online account, respectively, to avoid any identity theft or phishing attacks in the future.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2020

In November, King was accused and convicted of computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, and in June he also pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges for having provided fake evidence during his trial. According to the investigators, the man gained access to the technology firm in 2015 with an accomplice, Ashley St.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In October 2018, Brannan pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access to a protected computer. “Christopher Brannan, 31, pleaded guilty in October to unauthorized access of a protected computer and to aggravated identity theft before U.S. District Judge Henry E.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Impacted T-Mobile customers are recommended to change their password, PIN, and security questions. T-Mobile offers two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services to impacted customers. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first data breach suffered by T-Mobile in the past years.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The suspects stole the funds from at least 10 victims using SIM swapping between November 2015 and May 2018. Department of Justice charged nine individuals connected to a hacking crew focused on identity theft and SIM swapping attacks. In May, the U.S. This could help protect your account from unauthorized changes.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. VPN subscriptions surge every time there’s a Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal or a headline-grabbing identity theft caper, like the unemployment payments hacks that swept across the U.S. percent ten years ago.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. billion records exposed, and a more than 54% increase in the number of reported breaches vs. the first half of 2018. MFA awareness is not new to CISOs or IT teams.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

This leaves victims of the data breaches vulnerable to identity theft. Back in 2018, a massive data breach exposed the personal information of up to 500 million Marriott guests. The data was available to anyone on the web, unsecured with passwords or any other authentication requirements. Small Business Administration.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. If your email happens to be among those leaked, we strongly recommend that you immediately change your email password. Who had access?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“The British Council takes its responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) very seriously. ” The impacted individuals are exposed to a broad range of malicious activities, including identity theft, phishing attacks, and scams. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Cracked: 4 million users and a database of stolen credentials Since 2018, Cracked functioned as a hub for selling stolen login credentials, malware, and cybercrime tools. Authorities have placed seizure banners on all affected domains, notifying users that the platforms have been taken down by law enforcement. He is now facing U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

All of this data is conveniently stored in spreadsheet format that can be easily opened, read, and downloaded by anyone who knows what to look for. Who had access? The exposed data was hosted on an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) server and located in the US. Original post available on Cybernews: [link]. About the author Edvardas Mikalauskas.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement of work documents for marketing campaigns date between 2018 and 2019: Who owns the bucket? If your email happens to be among those leaked, immediately change your email password. Most of the CSV files contain user records for what we assume to be target demographics for either digital or physical marketing materials.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network. According to an FBI Flash document released to affected organizations on March 27, 2017, machines were infected with FruitFly via brute force attacks, using weak passwords or passwords from breaches of other systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This attack marked its fifth breach since 2018 and, in fact, the company suffered yet another breach – albeit apparently a small one — late in December. Security patches need to be installed and passwords for users with breached accounts may also need to be reset. Such breaches, unfortunately, have become common. Eradication.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

While 2018 showed a slight decline, you can see that the number of records that were exposed increased drastically, likely indicating cybercriminals are becoming more brazen in their attacks. You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. How do databases get compromised?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 9, 2021

While most data breaches that you hear about in the news are related to passwords or credit card information being stolen by a hacker, a data breach can also include your personal information, health information, or proprietary information from your organization. “What is a data breach?”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Storing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or social security numbers in cookies is discouraged due to the potential risk of exposure.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

The other choice of crime is enhanced by the internet, like identity theft and credit card fraud," Judge said. 450,000+ people or small businesses reported a crime to IC3 (an increase of 100,000 from 2018). Someone may need technical support in resetting passwords, etc., How significant is cybercrime?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Although its researchers have done good work, like discovering critical webOS flaws in early 2024, the company’s servers were hacked in 2015, compromising business clients’ passwords. Aside from a 2018 antitrust lawsuit , its reputation is mostly fine, which I can’t always say about antivirus providers.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. Cybercriminals decided to take advantage of that exclusivity, creating phishing pages that assured visitors their verified status had been approved and all they needed to do was to enter their account logins and passwords.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Lack of access to security features, such as passwords for admins, may result in a data breach where unauthorized persons within the organization may access sensitive data and leak it to malicious insiders. Yahoo also recorded a breach that affected 1 billion accounts in 2013, where names and passwords were stolen.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2024

court previously sentenced the man to 27 years in prison for 38 counts of wire fraud, hacking, identity theft, and payment card fraud. focused on identity theft and credit card fraud. Seleznev was ordered to pay roughly $51 million in the Nevada case and more than $2.1 million in the Georgia case. caused $50,893,166.35

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Disasters and attacks for web service providers can result in emails, passwords, and more being published and exposing account user information. In evaluating doxing risks, users with compromised credentials must act with haste to change any other accounts carrying the same username and password. Hopefully, no pwnage is found!

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

And as stated by a Harris Poll conducted in 2018 , more than 60 million Americans are affected by identity theft every year. According to security industry professionals, cyber criminals will access 33 billion records per year by 2023, a dramatic increase from the reported 12 billion or so breaches in 2018.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. When applied to a set of 43 million compromised LinkedIn passwords, it was able to crack them with 27 percent accuracy. An artificially generated “person.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2025

Other features include ad blocking and password management. It adds password management and protection for eight devices. Both mid-range plans have features like password management and ad blocking. ExpressVPN ExpressVPN offers tracker blocking, password management, identity alerts, and identity theft insurance.

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