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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

Krebs on Security

One English-speaking cybercriminal who goes by the nicknames “ Pwnstar ” and “ Pwnipotent ” has been selling fake EDR services on both Russian-language and English cybercrime forums. Others simply sell access to hacked government or police email accounts, and leave it up to the buyer to forge any needed documents.

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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

Krebs on Security

We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website. Booking.com did not respond to questions about that, and its current account security advice urges customers to enable 2FA. A full, defanged list of domains is available here.

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Storm-1152: A Continuing Battle Against Cybercrime

Security Boulevard

December 2023: The Initial Disruption Last December, insights from the Arkose Cyber Threat Intelligence Research (ACTIR) unit partnered with the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit to disrupt the notorious cybercrime group, Storm-1152. One […] The post Storm-1152: A Continuing Battle Against Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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US charges hacker for breaching brokerage accounts, securities fraud

Bleeping Computer

Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged Idris Dayo Mustapha for a range of cybercrime activities that took place between 2011 and 2018, resulting in financial losses estimated to over $5,000,000. [.].

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Cybercriminals bypass 2FA and OTP with robocalling and Telegram bots

CSO Magazine

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has been widely adopted by online services over the past several years and turning it on is probably the best thing users can do for their online account security.

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Darwinium upgrades its payment fraud protection platform

CSO Magazine

The company claims that the update ensures customers remain in control of users’ data while also preventing Darwinian from becoming a target of cybercrime. Use cases for the Darwinium platform include account security, scam detection, account takeover, fraudulent new accounts, synthetic identities, and bot intelligence.

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Hacker hijacked Orange Spain RIPE account causing internet outage to company customers

Security Affairs

The hacker explained that he did it to “prevent an actual bad threat actor from finding the account and compromising it”. I have fixed your RIPE admin account security. “We encourage account holders to please update their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication for their accounts. .

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