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Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown

October 17, 2024 0 Comments 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 0 Comments 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 0 Comments 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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“Amazon got hacked” messages are a false alarm

December 11, 2023 0 Comments 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.

Independent Krebs Security

Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Edition

October 10, 2023 0 Comments 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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Amazon in-van delivery driver footage makes its way online

July 20, 2023 0 Comments amazon, camera, delivery, driver, footage, news, online, Privacy, recording, van

Categories: News

Tags: driver

Tags: delivery

Tags: amazon

Tags: van

Tags: camera

Tags: recording

Tags: footage

Tags: online

Tags: privacy

In-van delivery driver footage is reportedly finding its way to the internet. Are privacy issues at play, or is a valuable safety tool?

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Malvertising via brand impersonation is back again

May 23, 2023 0 Comments ads, amazon, cloaking, Google, malvertising, threat intelligence

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: malvertising

Tags: google

Tags: ads

Tags: amazon

Tags: cloaking

Ads containing the official website of an impersonated brand are running again, allowing fraudsters to scam users.

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The post Malvertising via brand impersonation is back again appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn’s URL shortener

February 24, 2023 0 Comments amazon, email, gmail, hotmail, LinkedIn, news, outlook, payment details, phish, phishing, Scam, scammers, scams, slinks

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: LinkedIn

Tags: Slinks

Tags: phish

Tags: phishing

Tags: email

Tags: payment details

Tags: amazon

Tags: gmail

Tags: outlook

Tags: hotmail

Tags: scam

Tags: scammers

The email claims if you not update your card information in the next 24 hours, your membership benefits will be cancelled.

MalwareBytes Security

New streaming ad technology plays hide-and-seek with gamers

October 27, 2022 0 Comments advert, advertising, amazon, gamer, Gaming, in-game, news, prime, streaming, twitch

Categories: News

Tags: Amazon

Tags: Twitch

Tags: Prime

Tags: streaming

Tags: gamer

Tags: gaming

Tags: advert

Tags: advertising

Tags: in-game

We take a look at new form of ad tech for Twitch streaming viewers, but not players. How does it work? Can it even be successful?

Independent Krebs Security

Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

October 20, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, amazon, anastacia brown, Apple, Binance, employment fraud, indeed, jay pinho, LinkedIn, mandiant, nicholas weaver, signalhire, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:34 +0000

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users.

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