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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

March 14, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, convict, data breaches, Doxbin, emergency data request, kt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nicholas ceraolo, ominus, Phobia, Ryan Stevenson, sagar steven singh, u.s. drug enforcement agency, vile, Web Fraud 2.0, weep

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:25:20 +0000

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. 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.

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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

March 9, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, domaintools, dugidox, FBI, mario zanko, Ne'er-Do-Well News, netwire rat

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:52:25 +0000

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the defendant in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the NetWire website has been leaking information about the likely true identity and location of its owner for the past 11 years.

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Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations

March 7, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Facebook, freenom, ICANN, instagram, meta, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:19:26 +0000

The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just days after the Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy

March 2, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, ballistic ventures, brian fox, chips act, emotet, executive order (eo) 13984, Internet of Things, Keith Alexander, national cyber investigative joint task force, national cybersecurity strategy 2023, solar winds breach, sonatype, ted schlein, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 01:33:06 +0000

The Biden administration today issued its vision for beefing up the nation’s collective cybersecurity posture, including calls for legislation establishing liability for software products and services that are sold with little regard for security. The White House’s new national cybersecurity strategy also envisions a more active role by cloud providers and the U.S. military in disrupting cybercriminal infrastructure, and names China as the single biggest cyber threat to U.S. interests.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

February 28, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Allison Nixon, data breaches, International Computer Science Institute, Minecraft, Nicholas Weaver, roblox, Security Keys, SIM swapping, T-Mobile, tmo up, unit 221b, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:14:57 +0000

Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device.

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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

February 26, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, escrow.com, godaddy breach december 2022, godaddy breach march 2020, godaddy breach november 2020, godaddy breach november 2021, Ne'er-Do-Well News, vishing, voice phishing, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:15:15 +0000

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

February 24, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, abdala tawfik, abdalla khafagy, bhproxies, bitsight, constella intelligence, hassan_isabad_subar, Intel 471, lewklabs, minerva labs, mylobot, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:51:23 +0000

A security firm has discovered that a five-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be responsible for operating the BHProxies service.

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New Protections for Food Benefits Stolen by Skimmers

February 17, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, consolidated appropriations act of 2023, deborah harris, ebt fraud, ebt skimming, electronic benefits transfer, homeless persons representation project, michelle salomon madaio, The Coming Storm, the massachusetts law reform institute, u.s. department of agriculture

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:09:07 +0000

Millions of Americans receiving food assistance benefits just earned a new right that they can’t yet enforce: The right to be reimbursed if funds on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards are stolen by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and grocery store checkout lanes.