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Feds Bust Up Dark Web Hub Wall Street Market

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Federal investigators in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands announced today the arrest and charging of three German nationals and a Brazilian man as the alleged masterminds behind the Wall Street Market (WSM), one of the world’s largest dark web bazaars that allowed vendors to sell illegal drugs, counterfeit goods and malware.

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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

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According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. 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.

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How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

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At issue is a “redirect” feature available to businesses that chose to market through LinkedIn.com. Here’s the very first Slink created: [link] which redirects to the homepage for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. Image: Urlscan.io.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

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based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. The domain Vip72[.]org

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

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The now-defunct homepage of xtb-market[.]com, Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com Platinum plans on xtb-market promised a whopping 45 percent ROI, with a minimum investment of $265,000. The now-defunct xtb-market[.]com. When those generated hefty returns, Nolan made bigger deposits.

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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

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A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

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Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. The user simply waves their phone at a local payment terminal that accepts Apple or Google pay, and the app relays an NFC transaction over the Internet from a phone in China.

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