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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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Watch out for tech support scams lurking in sponsored search results

May 2, 2024 admin 1-844-476-5780, Amazon, CNN, news, scams, sponsored ads, tech support scams, Wall Street Journal, yojoy network technology

Our researchers found fake sponsored search results that lead consumers to a typical fake Microsoft alert site set up by tech support scammers.

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Malvertising: This cyberthreat isn’t on the dark web, it’s on Google

February 28, 2024 admin Amazon, browser guard, malvertising, malwarebytes browser guard, news, notepad++, personal, rufus, State of Malware, state of malware 2024, tradingview, weebly

Malvertising made a resurgence in 2023, with cybercriminals creating malicious ads and websites imitating Amazon, TradingView, and Rufus.

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Can TVs, smartphones, and smart assistants eavesdrop on your conversations? | Kaspersky official blog

January 16, 2024 admin Alexa, Amazon, apple, eavesdropping, google, IoT, privacy, Siri, smart home, Smart TV, Technology, Threats, Tips

Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:57:01 +0000

Can advertisers show personalized ads based on eavesdropped conversations, and, if so — what to do about it?

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“Amazon got hacked” messages are a false alarm

December 11, 2023 admin Amazon, hack, hub locker, news, personal

A message about extra delivery addresses getting added to Amazon accounts has gone wild on social media. Luckily, it’s nothing to worry about.

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Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Edition

October 10, 2023 admin adam barnett, Amazon, apple, CloudFlare, cve-2023-35349, cve-2023-36563, cve-2023-36778, cve-2023-41763, cve-2023-44487, Damian Menscher, google, immersive labs, ios 17.0.3, ipados 17.0.3, libvpx, microsoft, natalie silva, patch tuesday october 2023, rapid reset attack, Rapid7, Security Tools, skype for business, Time to Patch, windows, WordPad

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:51:31 +0000

Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related software, including four flaws that are already being exploited. In addition, Apple recently released emergency updates to quash a pair of zero-day bugs in iOS.

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