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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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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

February 14, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, data breaches, Hold Security, Latest Warnings, securence, travis carter, u.s. internet corp.

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:45:46 +0000

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

December 8, 2022 admin alex holden, cl0p, clop ransomware, emsisoft, fabian wosar, Hold Security, ransomware, ta505, The Coming Storm, Tripwire, venus ransomware, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:25:04 +0000

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading.

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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

November 16, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, disneyland team, gozi trojan, Hold Security, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0, web injects

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:32:00 +0000

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic and Ukrainian.

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It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

August 11, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, AT&T, at&t internet, bellsouth.net, Bleeping Computer, data breaches, databreaches.net, Hold Security, Lawrence Abrams, new jersey cybersecurity & communications integration cell, sbcglobal.net, shinyhunters, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, u-verse, white house market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:45:31 +0000

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm’s analysis of the data suggests it corresponds to current and former customers of AT&T. The telecommunications giant stopped short of saying the data wasn’t theirs, but it maintains the records do not appear to have come from its systems and may be tied to a previous data incident at another company.

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The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases

August 10, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, allekabels, data breaches, email alias, HaveIBeenPwned.com, Hold Security, rtl nieuws, Security Tools, Troy Hunt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:10:59 +0000

One way to tame your email inbox is to get in the habit of using unique email aliases when signing up for new accounts online. Adding a “+” character after the username portion of your email address — followed by a notation specific to the site you’re signing up at — lets you create an infinite number of unique email addresses tied to the same account. Aliases can help users detect breaches and fight spam. But not all websites allow aliases, and they can complicate account recovery. Here’s a look at the pros and cons of adopting a unique alias for each website.

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Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

March 17, 2022 admin alex holden, GitHub, Hold Security, protestware, russia's war on ukraine, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:33:21 +0000

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “protestware” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine” messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part I: Evasion

March 1, 2022 admin alex holden, alla witte, conti, conti breach, conti ransomware, contileaks, emercoin, emerdns, hof, Hold Security, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, revil ransomware, stern, The Coming Storm, trickbot, Ukraine

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:50:30 +0000

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. The chat logs offer a fascinating glimpse into the challenges of running a sprawling criminal enterprise with more than 100 salaried employees. The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments.

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