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KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime

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They didn’t specify what additional topics the series would scrutinize, but Netflix’s teaser for the show suggests it concerns cybercrimes that result in deadly, real-world kinetic attacks. “What starts out virtual can get real all too quickly — and when the web is worldwide, so are the consequences.”

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

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is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

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. “According to the analysis of foreign law enforcement agencies, more than 50% of all phishing attacks in 2019 in Australia were carried out thanks to the development of the Ternopil hacker,” the attorney general’s office said, noting that investigators had identified hundreds of U-Admin customers. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

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The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The answer involved Bitcoin, but also Taleon’s new service. Petersburg.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

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The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. at , a thriving fraud bazaar named after this author. million card records for sale.

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Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty

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Launched in November 2019, OTP Agency was a service for intercepting one-time passcodes needed to log in to various websites. Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency The NCA said it began investigating the service in June 2020.

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‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

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Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In 2019, The Manipulaters failed to renew their core domain name — manipulaters[.]com

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