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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

September 13, 2024 0 Comments 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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Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

March 31, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Apple, bloomberg, Bug, discord, facebook, Instagram, lapsus, meta, Ne'er-Do-Well News, sen. ron wyden, snapchat, twitter, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:54:45 +0000

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes.