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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

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authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software. 9, 2024, U.S.

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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

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But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

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” Beige members were implicated in two stories published here in 2020. In November 2020, intruders thought to be associated with the Beige Group tricked a GoDaddy employee into installing malicious software, and with that access they were able to redirect the web and email traffic for multiple cryptocurrency trading platforms.

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Russian Govt. Continues Carding Shop Crackdown

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Unicc shop, which sold stolen credit card data as well as Social Security numbers and other consumer information that can be used for identity theft. K in January 2020. In contrast, card-not-present data stolen from online stores continues to be in high demand, because it helps facilitate fraud at online retailers.