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JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” Dijkxhoorn shared records obtained from OpenProvider showing that on Dec.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

ARIN’s civil case caught the attention of federal prosecutors in South Carolina, who in May 2019 filed criminal wire fraud charges against Golestan , alleging he’d orchestrated a network of shell companies and fake identities to prevent ARIN from knowing the addresses were all going to the same buyer.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Petersburg does, and she has a photo on her Vktontake page that shows the two of them in 2019 flying over Lake Ladoga, a large body of water directly north of St. Sergey “Taleon” Ivanov (right) in 2019 in his helicopter with the woman he lives with, flying over a lake north of St. Petersburg. Petersburg, Russia.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Indeed, Malwarebytes’ Pieter Arntz warned about malicious browser push notifications in a January 2019 blog post. That post includes detailed instructions on how to tell which sites you’ve allowed to send notifications, and how to remove them.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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

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AUGUST 25, 2021

The plaintiffs point out that Schober’s investigators didn’t pinpoint one of the young men’s involvement until more than a year after they’d identified his co-conspirator, saying Schober notified the second boy’s parents in December 2019. None of the parties to this lawsuit responded to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Treasury said blockchain researchers had determined that approximately 86 percent of the illicit Bitcoin received directly by Russian virtual currency exchanges in 2019 came from Hydra.

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APRIL 4, 2024

In August 2019, a slew of websites and social media channels dubbed “HKLEAKS” began doxing the identities and personal information of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io,

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APRIL 14, 2019

Here’s one from would-be victim Shanon, on March 28, 2019, to the scammers. The Land Lordz panel lets the scammer keep track of all messages with would-be victims, who are strung along and told the reservation on the residence will be lifted unless a cash deposit is made within 72 hours.

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APRIL 3, 2024

In 2019, The Manipulaters failed to renew their core domain name — manipulaters[.]com Given the risk for abuse, this domain will not be published.” ” This is hardly the first time The Manipulaters have shot themselves in the foot. com — the same one tied to so many of the company’s past and current business operations.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Ceraolo is a self-described security researcher who has been credited in many news stories over the years with discovering security vulnerabilities at AT&T , T-Mobile , Comcast and Cox Communications.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

According to the most recent stats (PDF) from the Anti-Phishing Working Group , software-as-a-service providers (including CRM and Webmail providers) were the most-targeted industry sector in the first quarter of 2019, accounting for 36 percent of all phishing attacks. Image: APWG. Update, 2:55 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The only experience listed for Khafagy prior to the TikTok job is labeled “Marketing” at “Confidential,” from February 2014 to October 2019. million from private investors.

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JULY 18, 2022

su between 2016 and 2019. However there are two cybercriminal identities on the forums that have responded to individual 911 help requests, and who promoted the sale of 911 accounts via their handles. Both of these identities were active on the crime forum fl.l33t[.]su

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AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. Various 16Shop lures for Apple users in different languages. Image: Akamai.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

In many ways, the story arc of the young men allegedly involved in the $243 million heist tracks closely to that of Joel Ortiz , a valedictorian who was sentenced in 2019 to 10 years in prison for stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrencies.

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MARCH 23, 2020

2019 a director in HMGT Services Ltd. It appears that a Scotsman named Robert Paul Graham Scott — perhaps Mark’s older brother — was in the same line of work (SEO and advertising) and pimping the exact same companies as Mark. HMGT stands for the aforementioned HelpMeGo.To

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

However, he abruptly resigned from his position in October 2019 shortly after news of the IP address scheme was first detailed by Jan Vermeulen , a reporter for the South African tech news publication Mybroadband.co.za That individual — Ernest Byaruhanga — was only the second person hired at AFRINIC back in 2004.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Mozilla spokesperson Ellen Canale said Mozilla took ownership of virtualfirefox.com in September 2017 after a trademark dispute, but that the DNS nameserver for the record was not reset until January of 2019. “We’ve reviewed the configuration of both our registrar and nameservers and have found no indication of misuse.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

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 more. million cards.

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