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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The government says that in March 2022, three men showed up at E.Z.’s The FBI later obtained a copy of a search warrant executed by LASD deputies in January 2022 for GPS location information on a phone belonging to E.Z., In December 2022, Troy Woody Jr. cryptocurrency holdings online. We know what E.Z. and refers to T.W.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.” A U2F device made by Yubikey.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. ”

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. 27, 2022, Experian’s PR team acknowledged receipt of my Dec. It’s also worth mentioning that reports of hijacked Experian.com accounts persisted into late 2022. ” Sen.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Further reading: July 29, 2022: 911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach. July 28, 2022: Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service. July 18, 2022: A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’ June 28, 2022: The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet.

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JUNE 22, 2023

.” The written notice goes on to say UPS believes the data exposure “affected packages for a small group of shippers and some of their customers from February 1, 2022 to April 24, 2023.” A smishing website targeting Canadians who recently purchased from Adidas online. The site would only load in a mobile browser.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

” A November 2022 story at patch.com quoted Veer Chetal (class of 2024) crediting the Harvard program with his decision to pursue a career in law. The Corvette that Diaz was sitting in when he was shot in 2022. In 2022, Borrero was arrested in Miami for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Image: NBC 6, South Florida.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

In mid-June 2022, a flood of SMS phishing messages began targeting employees at commercial staffing firms that provide customer support and outsourcing to thousands of companies. The messages began at 2022-07-20 22:50 UTC.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

2022 by Google researcher Luca Nagy. In June 2022, KrebsOnSecurity showed how the malware proxy services RSOCKS and AWMProxy were entirely dependent on the Glupteba botnet for fresh proxies, and that the founder of AWMProxy was Dmitry Starovikov — one of the Russian men named in Google’s lawsuit.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. In late September 2022, KrebsOnSecurity warned about the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations.

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JULY 29, 2022

The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022. re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. .

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

on Jan 2, 2022, McGovern-Allen and an unidentified co-conspirator fired multiple handgun rounds into a residence in West Chester, Pa. Justin Active’s version of events seems to be supported by a reference in the criminal complaint to an April 2, 2022 chat in which Tongue explained the reason for the shooting.

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MARCH 28, 2023

In mid-December 2022, the U.S. The NCA campaign comes closely on the heels of an international law enforcement takedown involving four-dozen websites that made powerful DDoS attacks a point-and-click operation. men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of popular DDoS-for-hire services.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Disneyland Team’s Web interface, which allows them to interact with malware victims in real time to phish their login credentials using phony bank websites. For example, one domain the gang has used since March 2022 is ushank[.]com The Disneyland Team uses common misspellings for top bank brands in its domains.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

billion ads in 2022, and restricted more than 4.3 The company’s latest ad safety report says Google in 2022 blocked or removed 1.36 We’ll continue to monitor and apply our protections.” Google says it removed 5.2 billion ads and suspended over 6.7 million advertiser accounts.

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JULY 10, 2024

A 2022 deep dive on Fin7 from the Swiss threat intelligence firm Prodaft (PDF). ” Further reading: Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

10, 2022, the relatively new cybercrime forum Breached featured a bombshell new sales thread: The user database for InfraGard, including names and contact information for tens of thousands of InfraGard members.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. Abdalla Khafagy’s LinkedIn profile says he was “global director of community” at Crypto.com for about a year ending in January 2022. The website BHProxies[.]com million from private investors.

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JULY 10, 2022

Turner said that in early June 2022 he received an email from Experian saying the email address on his account had been changed. Emory Roan , policy counsel for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse , said Experian not offering multi-factor authentication for consumer accounts is inexcusable in 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Throughout 2022, LAPSUS$ would hack and social engineer their way into some of the world’s biggest technology companies , including EA Games, Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta , Samsung , and T-Mobile. .’s West Midlands Police as part of a joint investigation with the FBI into the MGM hack.

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MARCH 7, 2023

Meta initially filed this lawsuit in December 2022, but it asked the court to seal the case, which would have restricted public access to court documents in the dispute. Although Freenom is based in The Netherlands, some of its other sister companies named as defendants in the lawsuit are incorporated in the United States.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

com was registered in 2022 via Singapore-based Alibaba.com , but the registrant city and state listed for that domain says “Georgia, AL,” which is not a real location. DomainTools.com indicates this website name was registered by phishers based in Indonesia. DomainTools says the above-mentioned USPS phishing domain stamppos[.]com

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AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 3, 2022, someone using the alias “ Holistic-K1ller ” posted on Breached a thread selling data allegedly stolen from Grupo Financiero Banorte , Mexico’s second-biggest financial institution by total loans.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that Venus ransomware attacks were targeting a number of U.S. healthcare organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) levied sanctions today against PM2BTC under a powerful new “Section 9714” authority included in the Combating Russian Money Laundering Act , changes enacted in 2022 to make it easier to target financial entities involved in laundering money for Russia.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and identified approximately 30,000.US As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) and illicit or harmful content. US phishing domains.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and found 30,000.US That’s according to The Interisle Consulting Group , which gathers phishing data from multiple industry sources and publishes an annual report on the latest trends. US phishing domains.US

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APRIL 4, 2024

info , a website erected after Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022 that doxed Russians perceived to have helped the Ukrainian cause. Virtually all of those domains were registered through one of two registrars — Hong Kong-based Nicenic and Singapore-based WebCC — and almost all appear to be phishing or pill-spam related.

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MAY 22, 2023

According to the FBI , financial losses from cryptocurrency investment scams dwarfed losses for all other types of cybercrime in 2022 , rising from $907 million in 2021 to $2.57 billion last year.

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JULY 18, 2022

2022 closure of LuxSocks , another malware-based proxy network. That’s according to Riley Kilmer , co-founder of Spur.us — a security company that monitors anonymity services. Kilmer said 911 also gained an influx of new customers after the Jan. “And it’s not hard to see why.

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JULY 25, 2023

Preserving bandwidth for both customers and victims was a primary concern for SocksEscort in July 2022, when 911S5 — at the time the world’s largest known malware proxy network — got hacked and imploded just days after being exposed in a story here. “Probably, they wanted to keep that revenue stream going.”

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JUNE 6, 2023

According to the FBI , financial losses from cryptocurrency investment scams dwarfed losses for all other types of cybercrime in 2022 , rising from $907 million in 2021 to $2.57 The ScamDoc fake reputation websites, which were apparently used to help make fake crypto investment platforms look more trustworthy. Image: Trend Micro.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

A search in Constella on 16Shop’s domain name shows that in mid-2022, a key administrator of the phishing service infected their Microsoft Windows desktop computer with the Redline information stealer trojan — apparently by downloading a cracked (and secretly backdoored) copy of Adobe Photoshop.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2023

Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal appeared first on Security Boulevard. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. The post Two U.S.

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JULY 21, 2022

. “The fraud is named for the way scammers feed their victims with promises of romance and riches before cutting them off and taking all their money,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned in April 2022.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

14, 2022 breach notification letter from tribal lender Mountain Summit Financial. MSF said the personal information involved in this incident may have included name, date of birth, government-issued identification numbers (e.g., A portion of the Jan.

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