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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

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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. “A lot of global police agencies don’t have stringent cybersecurity hygiene, but even U.S. dot-gov emails get hacked.

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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

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” Perm is the current administrator of Star Fraud , one of the more consequential cybercrime communities on Telegram and one that has emerged as a foundry of innovation in voice phishing attacks. As we’ll see in a moment, that phishing kit is operated and rented out by a cybercriminal known as “ Perm ” a.k.a.

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China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks

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But experts say these groups are now directly targeting customers of international financial institutions, while dramatically expanding their cybercrime infrastructure and support staff. Their ability to scale operations globally and evasion techniques pose significant challenges to cybersecurity defenses.” Image: Prodaft.

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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. But this history was either overlooked or ignored by Group-IB , the Singapore-based cybersecurity firm apparently hired by Banorte to help respond to the data breach.

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Amid an Embarrassment of Riches, Ransom Gangs Increasingly Outsource Their Work

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But judging from the proliferation of help-wanted ads for offensive pentesters in the cybercrime underground, today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion: The real challenge seems to be hiring enough people to help everyone profit from the access already gained. THE DOCTOR IS IN.

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

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Indeed, those messages show Sosa/King Bob was obsessed with finding new “ grails ,” the slang term used in some cybercrime discussion channels to describe recordings from popular artists that have never been officially released. “I got the most music in the com,” King Bob bragged in a Discord server in November 2022.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

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re abruptly announced it was permanently closing after a cybersecurity breach allowed unknown intruders to trash its servers and delete customer data and backups. re abruptly announced it was permanently closing after a cybersecurity breach allowed unknown intruders to trash its servers and delete customer data and backups.

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