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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

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The security firm CrowdStrike dubbed the group “ Scattered Spider ,” a recognition that the MGM hackers came from different hacker cliques scattered across an ocean of Telegram and Discord servers dedicated to financially-oriented cybercrime. ” Beige members were implicated in two stories published here in 2020.

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

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authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. technology companies during the summer of 2022. 9, 2024, U.S. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s

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But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

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The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re “Everybody is looking for an alternative, bro,” wrote a BlackHatForums user on Aug.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

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Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. These malicious note sites attract visitors by gaming search engine results to make the phishing domains appear prominently in search results for “privnote.” The real Privnote, at privnote.com.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. FORUM ACTIVITY?

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Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”

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Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as long as the proper documents are provided and the request appears to come from an email address connected to an actual police department domain name.