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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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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.

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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

September 13, 2024 admin 2992, 303, 404, 545, 555, 6996, 7997, 8884, advance auto parts, ali winston, alphv, aspertaine, AT&T, beige group, black cat, Bloomberg, breachforums, Breadcrumbs, chumlul, court, CrowdStrike, cultist, cvlt, Der Spiegel, discord, Doxbin, ea games, h3ll, harm nation, james thomas andrew mccarty, judische, kalana limkin, kaskar, kayte, kingbob, kt, kya christian nelson, leak society, lending tree, Mandiant, mark rasch, mgm resorts, microsoft, Minecraft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neiman marcus, nicholas "convict" ceraolo, nmk, noah michael urban, nvidia, Okta, owen david flowers, pompompurin, RCMP, recorder, roblox, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sagar "weep" singh, Samsung, santander bank, scattered spider, SIM swapping, slit town, snowflake, sosa, star chat, steam, SWATting, T-Mobile, telegram, the com, The Washington Post, ticketmaster, Twitch, u.s. department of justice, u.s. drug enforcement agency, unc5537, unit 221b, vile, violence-as-a-service, vsphere, waifu, Web Fraud 2.0, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:16:45 +0000

A cyberattack that shut down some of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023: It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that made-for-Hollywood narrative has eclipsed a far more hideous trend: Many of these young, Western cybercriminals are also members of fast-growing online groups that exist solely to bully, stalk, harass and extort vulnerable teens into physically harming themselves and others.

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Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty

September 12, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, aza siddeeque, callum picari, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, otp agency, RaidForums, smsranger, vijayasidhurshan vijayanathan, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:46:35 +0000

Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency, a once popular online service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passcodes (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. Launched in November 2019, OTP Agency was a service for intercepting one-time passwords needed to log in to various websites. Scammers would enter the target’s phone number and name, and the service would initiate an automated phone call to the target that alerts them about unauthorized activity on their account.