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NCR Barred Mint, QuickBooks from Banking Platform During Account Takeover Storm

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That ban, which came in response to a series of bank account takeovers in which cybercriminals used aggregation sites to surveil and drain consumer accounts, has since been rescinded. based credit union and Digital Insight customer who said his institution just had several dozen customer accounts hacked over the previous week.

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Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

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At issue are forged “emergency data requests,” (EDRs) sent through hacked police or government agency email accounts. ” Tuesday’s story showed how fraudulently obtained EDRs were a tool used by members of LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta and Samsung.

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Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

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” Islam and Woody were both core members of UGNazi, a hacker collective that sprang up in 2012 and claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile websites. ” who said Iza hired him to surveil Zelocchi but ultimately refused to pay him for much of the work. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that T.H.

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Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware

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Google said it believes the exploit chain for Samsung devices belonged to a “commercial surveillance vendor,” without elaborating further. The highly technical writeup also did not name the malicious app in question. That analysis includes links to archived versions of Pinduoduo’s app released before March 5 (version 6.50

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

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The reality that teenagers are now impersonating law enforcement agencies to subpoena privileged data on their targets at whim is evident in the dramatic backstory behind LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked into some of the world’s most valuable technology companies , including Microsoft , Okta , NVIDIA and Vodafone.