U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

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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You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:25:49 +0000

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after Google rolled out a new policy enabling people under the age of 18 (or a parent/guardian) to request removal of their images from Google search results.

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Hackers hack card details from BriansClub carding site

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:06:06 +0000

They stole 26 million credit cards from the massive black market site, and now financial institutions are ensuring the cards can’t be abused.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/RIxUWTXL53k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:13:42 +0000

Cybercrime forums have been abuzz this week over news that BriansClub — one of the underground’s largest shops for stolen credit and debit cards — had been hacked, and its inventory of 26 million cards leaked to security contacts in the banking industry. Now it appears this brazen heist may have been the result of one of BriansClub’s longtime competitors trying to knock out a rival.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000

“BriansClub,” a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly’s likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.

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