FBI Hacker Dropped Stolen Airbus Data on 9/11

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:22:05 +0000

In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “USDoD” had infiltrated the FBI’s vetted information sharing network InfraGard, and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. The FBI responded by reverifying all InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold. But on Sept. 11, 2023, USDoD resurfaced after a lengthy absence to leak sensitive employee data stolen from the aerospace giant Airbus, while promising to visit the same treatment on top U.S. defense contractors.

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Qakbot botnet infrastructure suffers major takedown

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Qakbot

Tags: FBI

Tags: law enforcement

Tags: takedown

Tags: removal tool

Tags: HIBP

Tags: Spamhaus

The Qakbot botnet has suffered a major setback after its infrastructure was heavily disrupted by US and European law enforcement agencies.

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U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:35:25 +0000

The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:58:56 +0000

You’ve probably never heard of “16Shop,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. INTERPOL said authorities in Indonesia arrested the 21-year-old proprietor and one of his alleged facilitators, and that a third suspect was apprehended in Japan.

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Beware malware posing as beta versions of legitimate apps, warns FBI

Categories: News

Tags: FBI

Tags: warning

Tags: beta-testing

Tags: malicious code

Tags: crypto recovery

Tags: scammers

The FBI has issued a warning about two related types of fraud, malicious beta-testing apps and crypto recovery schemes.

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Warning: Victims’ faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam

Categories: Personal

Tags: sextortion

Tags: deepfake

Tags: FBI

Tags: blackmail

Tags: extortion

Tags: fake

Tags: fakes

Tags: synthetic

We take a look at some new developments in sextortion cases via a warning issued by the FBI.

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Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 14:05:44 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters.

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How to protect your small business from social engineering

Categories: Personal

Tags: Small Business Week 2023

Tags: Small Business Week

Tags: phishing

Tags: pretexting

Tags: baiting

Tags: tailgating

Tags: BEC

Tags: CEO fraud

Tags: business email compromise

Tags: O’Neill Bragg & Staffin

Tags: 2022 Internet Crime Report

Tags: FBI

Tags: most reported fraud

Tags: most damaging fraud

Small businesses are frequent targets of social engineering. Here’s what it is and how to protect against it.

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