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MARCH 14, 2023

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. “Victims are extorted into paying CC-1 to have their information removed from Forum-1,” prosecutors allege.

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JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

It also shows that phishers are attempting to sign up for new Coinbase accounts by the millions as part of an effort to identify email addresses that are already associated with active accounts. Rather, the bad guys understood that any attempts to sign up using an email address tied to an existing Coinbase account would fail.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Department of Defense. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Images from Punchmade Dev’s Twitter/X account show him displaying bags of cash and wearing a functional diamond-crusted payment card skimmer. Punchmade Dev’s most controversial mix — a rap called “Wire Fraud Tutorial” — was taken down by Youtube last summer for violating the site’s rules.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Criminals ripping off other crooks is a constant theme in the cybercrime underworld; Accountz Club’s slogan — “the best autoshop for your favorite shops’ accounts” — just normalizes this activity by making logins stolen from users of various cybercrime shops for sale at a fraction of their account balances.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. co saying he could be hired to perform fake EDRs on targets at will, provided the account was recently active.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. But on Nov. But on Nov.

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JULY 31, 2024

Those records are crucial because they allow Web browsers to find the Internet address of the hosting provider that is serving that domain. “As of the time of writing, numerous DNS providers enable this through weak or nonexistent verification of domain ownership for a given account,” Eclypsium wrote. Image: Infoblox.

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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. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

But when I tried to get my report from Experian via annualcreditreport.com, Experian’s website said it didn’t have enough information to validate my identity. In response to information shared by KrebsOnSecurity, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) It wouldn’t even show me the four multiple-guess questions. ” Sen.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sent by abusing insecure code in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities. Until sometime this morning, the LEEP portal allowed anyone to apply for an account.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

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., One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. Exposed was built with the help of identity information obtained and/or stolen from ssndob dot ru.

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MARCH 29, 2022

It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. Department of Justice.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

The phishers behind this scheme used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the target company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

After she logged into her bank and savings accounts with scammers watching her screen, the fraudster on the phone claimed that instead of pulling $160 out of her account, they accidentally transferred $160,000 to her account. So they sent her some information about where to wire the money, and asked her to go to the bank.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

” Swag was reportedly involved in executing the early stages of the crypto heist — gaining access to the victim’s Gmail and iCloud accounts. The attackers also spoofed a call from account support representatives at the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini , claiming the target’s account had been hacked.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. of spam and scam.”

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Jim told MSF and others who called or emailed that identity thieves had applied for the funds using his name and information; that he would never take out a payday loan; and would they please remove his information from their database? Jim says MSF assured him it would, and the loan was never issued. Then on Nov.

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APRIL 18, 2023

In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices. MrMurza also told the admin that his account number at the now-defunct virtual currency Liberty Reserve was U1018928. 2012, from an Internet address in Magnitogorsk, RU.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The idea is that even if the user’s password gets stolen, the attacker still can’t access the user’s account without that second factor — i.e. without access to the victim’s mobile device or phone number. agency — advertised a web-based bot designed to trick targets into giving up OTP tokens.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Among the most common ways that thieves extract cash from stolen credit card accounts is through purchasing pricey consumer goods online and reselling them on the black market. The contact information for Kareem , a young man from Maryland, was listed as an active drop. He has just turned a $10 investment into more than $700.

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APRIL 28, 2020

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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JANUARY 25, 2024

And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. “We’ve reviewed the ads in question, removed those that violated our policies, and suspended the associated accounts. million advertiser accounts. com , filezillasoft[.]com com , keepermanager[.]com

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com found himself on the phone with one of the GoDaddy hackers, after someone who claimed they worked at GoDaddy called and said they needed him to authorize some changes to the account. “He was literally reading off the tickets to the notes of the admin panel inside GoDaddy.”

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MAY 23, 2020

In too many cases, he said, the deposits are going into accounts where the beneficiary name does not match the name on the bank account. Worse still, the source said, many states have dramatically pared back the amount of information required to successfully request an unemployment filing. ” Image: Agari.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

” Infoblox determined that until May 2023, domains ending in.info accounted for the bulk of new registrations tied to the malicious link shortening service, which Infoblox has dubbed “ Prolific Puma.” is overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive branch agency of the U.S.

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MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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MAY 21, 2021

“The endgame was to offer a job based on successful completion of background check which obviously requires entering personal information,” Gwin said. “Even after the real Troy said they’d gotten these [LinkedIn] ads shut down, this guy was still emailing me asking for my HR information,” Siegel said.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies into giving away credentials needed to remotely access and modify customer account information. Prosecutors say Jordan K.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

There’s an old adage in information security: “Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure.” To wit: “There is huge insider information on the companies which we target, including information if there are tape drives and clouds (for example, Datto that is built to last, etc.),

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. “Plus, more employees have access to billing and invoice information, meaning that a spray-and-pray campaign can be effective,” Fuchs wrote.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee account on Telegram, who said there was some kind of technology issue with the video platform, and that their IT people suggested using a different meeting link.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another.

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JULY 29, 2021

But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals. When a website’s user database gets compromised, that information invariably turns up on hacker forums. customers this month.

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MAY 16, 2020

” “It is assumed the fraud ring behind this possesses a substantial PII database to submit the volume of applications observed thus far,” the Secret Service warned. ” The surge in fraud comes as many states are struggling to process an avalanche of jobless claims filed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

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