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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

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Silent Push said Araneida is being advertised by an eponymous user on multiple cybercrime forums. Araneida Scanner’s Telegram channel bragging about how customers are using the service for cybercrime. In 2022, Araneida told fellow Breached members they could be reached on Discord at the username “ Ornie#9811.”

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

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Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

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Shefel claims the true mastermind behind the Target and other retail breaches was Dmitri Golubov , an infamous Ukrainian hacker known as the co-founder of Carderplanet, among the earliest Russian-language cybercrime forums focused on payment card fraud. “I’m also godfather of his second son.” Image: U.S.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

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Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. But by the time we got to claims made in the middle of May 2022, completing the rest of the year’s timeline seemed unnecessary.

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Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums , a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely show up for sale. that suffered a data breach this month. In April 2022, U.S. Image: News 12 Westchester.

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Internet Archive was breached twice in a month

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Poor cyber hygiene increases the risk of further data breaches and could undermine user trust. The breach may have exposed personal identification documents uploaded by users for Wayback Machine page removal requests, depending on the attacker’s Zendesk API access.

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Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

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A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider , a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio , LastPass , DoorDash , Mailchimp , and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. man arrested was a SIM-swapper who went by the alias “ Tyler.”

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