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Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

October 18, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, CrowdStrike, data breaches, equation corp, FBI, hackread, infragard, Intel 471, national public data, Ne'er-Do-Well News, netsec, RaidForums, tecmundo, tv globo, usdod

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:33:51 +0000

Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population.

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Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown

October 17, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, ahmed salah yousif omer, alaa salah yusuuf omer, Amazon, anonsudan, anonymous sudan, ddos-for-hire, FBI, godzilla botnet, infrashutdown, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Skynet, u.s. department of justice, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:17:07 +0000

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers. One of the brothers is facing life in prison for allegedly seeking to kill people with his attacks.

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Lamborghini Carjackers Lured by $243M Cyberheist

October 9, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, angel "chi chi" borrero, anydesk, Breadcrumbs, gemini, jeandiel "box" serrano, malone "greavys" lam, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pantic, reynaldo "rey" diaz, SIM swapping, swag, the com, veer chetal, Web Fraud 2.0, wiz, zachxbt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:36:27 +0000

The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later, while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a botched plan to hold the parents for ransom.

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Patch Tuesday, October 2024 Edition

October 8, 2024 admin .NET, adobe, adobe framemaker, adobe substance 3d painter, animate, apple, Azure, commerce, cve-2024-43572, cve-2024-43573, dimension, elastic security labs, grimresource, immersive labs, incopy, indesign, Latest Warnings, lightroom, macos 15, mshtml, nikolas cemerikic, office, openssh for windows; power bi; windows hyper-v; windows mobile broadband, Satnam Narang, Security Tools, sequoia, substance 3d stager, Tenable, Time to Patch, visual studio

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:21:19 +0000

Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 117 security holes in Windows computers and other software, including two vulnerabilities that are already seeing active attacks. Also, Adobe plugged 52 security holes across a range of products, and Apple has addressed a bug in its new macOS 15 “Sequoia” update that broke many cybersecurity tools.

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A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots

October 3, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, anthropic, AWS, bedrock, chub ai, GitHub, ian ahl, lore, nsfl, permiso security, sysdig, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:05:52 +0000

Organizations that get relieved of credentials to their cloud environments can quickly find themselves part of a disturbing new trend: Cybercriminals using stolen cloud credentials to operate and resell sexualized AI-powered chat services. Researchers say these illicit chat bots, which use custom jailbreaks to bypass content filtering, often veer into darker role-playing scenarios, including child sexual exploitation and rape.

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Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

September 30, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, assad faiq, cosmothegod, dream agency, enzo zellocchi, Eric Taylor, Facebook, FBI, iris au, kenneth childs, ledger breach, Mir Islam, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rise agency, shopify, SIM swapping, tassilo heinrich, the godfather, tomi masters, Troy Woody Jr., vurg, Web Fraud 2.0, zort

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:33:10 +0000

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.

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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

September 26, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, arpa plus, briansclub, chainanlysis, cryptex, cs proxy solutions cy, dark angels, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Hold Security, Home Depot breach, Joker's stash, liberty reserve, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, novaya gazeta, orbest investments lp, organized crime and corruption project, perfect money, pinpays, pm2btc, progate solutions, rich sanders, rm everton ltd, sergey sergeevich ivanov, sergey sergeevich omelnitskii, taleon, target breach, The Coming Storm, the laundromat, timur kamilevich shakhmametov, u.s. department of justice, uaps, universal anonymous payment system, unlimited cashouts, v1pee, vega, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:54:07 +0000

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash, a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The government also indicted a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon, whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks.

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Timeshare Owner? The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You

September 25, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, datasur host, escshieldsecurity network, jalisco drug cartel, Latest Warnings, Ne'er-Do-Well News, telemarketing scams, timeshare scams

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:26:12 +0000

The FBI is warning timeshare owners to be wary of a prevalent telemarketing scam involving a violent Mexican drug cartel that tries to trick elderly people into believing someone wants to buy their property. This is the story of a couple who recently lost more than $50,000 to an ongoing timeshare scam that spans at least two dozen phony escrow, title and realty firms.