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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

March 7, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, chris larsen, Data Breaches, FBI, karim toubba, lastpass breach, nick bax, ripple, taylor monahan, U.S. Secret Service, zachxbt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:20:05 +0000

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion.

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Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?

March 6, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, branden spikes, california russian association, congress of russian americans, constellation of humanity, cyberinc, department of government efficiency, diana fishman, donald j. trump, elon musk, inc., ivan y. podvalov, jacqueline sweet, maye musk, natalia haldeman, natalia spikes, radaris, reeve haldeman, russian american media, russian heritage foundation, russian orthodox church outside of russia, scott haldeman, spacex, spikes security, u.s. digital service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:54:40 +0000

At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at this trusted Musk lieutenant, whose Russian ex-wife was once married to Elon’s cousin.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alfa bank, bearhost, gootloader, interisle consulting group, intrinsec, kaspersky lab, kentik, Ne'er-Do-Well News, prospero ooo, Ransomware, securehost, silent push, SocGholish, spamhaus, The Coming Storm, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:14:58 +0000

One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing its operations through networks run by the Russian antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bruce schneier, bybit, christopher stanley, Coinbase, conservative political action conference, consumer financial protection bureau, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, davi ottenheimer, department of government efficiency, department of homeland security, Department of Justice, edward coristine, gavin kliger, global investigative journalism network, hunter labs, internal revenue service, jacob silverman, jacob williams, katie arrington, kleptocapture task force, kleptocracy asset recovery initiative, Latest Warnings, leland dudek, lizardstresser, michelle king, natalya martynova, national institute of standards and technology, national treasury employees union, office of management and budget, office of personnel management, organized crime and corruption reporting project, president donald trump, project 2025, rep. andy ogles, russia's war on ukraine, sean cairncross, social security administration, starlink, The Coming Storm, treasury department, u.s. agency for international development, u.s. foreign corrupt practices act, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, valery martynov, vladimir putin, volodymyr zelensky

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:02:14 +0000

One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and data.

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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, andy chandler, Apple, csis security group, ford merrill, ghost tap, Google, grant smith, imessage, m3aawg, rcs, resecurity, secalliance, smishing, The Coming Storm, threatfabric, Web Fraud 2.0, znfc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:37:26 +0000

Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores.

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Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, dimitiri shelest, firefox, Mozilla, mozilla monitor plus, nuwber, onerep, radaris

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:14:47 +0000

In mid-March 2024, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the founder of the personal data removal service Onerep also founded dozens of people-search companies. Shortly after that investigation was published, Mozilla said it would stop bundling Onerep with the Firefox browser and wind down its partnership. But nearly a year later, Mozilla is still promoting it to Firefox users.

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Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

February 7, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, as400495, backconnect security llc, curtis gervais, diamondcdn, director of national intelligence, doge, dstat, edward coristine, elon musk, eric taylor, marshal webb, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neuralink, packetware, path networks, president trump, rivage, tesla sexy llc, the com, The Coming Storm, tucker preston, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:32:53 +0000

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

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Experts Flag Security, Privacy Risks in DeepSeek AI App

February 6, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, andrew hoog, app transport security, Apple, Artificial intelligence, bytedance, china, deepseek, deepseek ai, iOS, Latest Warnings, nowsecure, The Coming Storm, volcengine

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:12:30 +0000

New mobile apps from the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek have remained among the top three “free” downloads for Apple and Google devices since their debut on Jan. 25, 2025. But experts caution that many of DeepSeek’s design choices — such as using hard-coded encryption keys, and sending unencrypted user and device data to Chinese companies — introduce a number of glaring security and privacy risks.

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Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’?

February 4, 2025 0 Comments 1337 services gmbh, A Little Sunshine, as210558, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, cracked, domaintools, dreamdrive gmbh, finn alexander grimpe, finn@shoppy.gg, finndev, florian, florian marzahl, hrb 164175, intel 471, lucas sohn, northdata.com, nulled, olivia.messla@outlook.de, operation talent, sellix, shoppy ecommerce ltd, starkrdp

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:09:16 +0000

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled, English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums.

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FBI, Dutch Police Disrupt ‘Manipulaters’ Phishing Gang

January 31, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bec fraud, Breadcrumbs, business email compromise, cracked, domaintools, dutch national police, FBI, fudco, fudpage, fudtools, heartsender, Ne'er-Do-Well News, operation talent, saim raza, sellix, the manipulaters, u.s. department of justice, wecodesolutions

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:35:32 +0000

The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized a number of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan. The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname “The Manipulaters,” have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015. The FBI said the main clientele are organized crime groups that try to trick victim companies into making payments to a third party.

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