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A week in security (April 10 – 16)

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Categories: News

Tags: Lock and Code S04E09

Tags: Bennett Cyphers

Tags: Apple vulnerability

Tags: phone charging station

Tags: FBI

Tags: Yum! Brands

Tags: KFC

Tags: Pizza Hut

Tags: Patch Tuesday

Tags: sextortion

Tags: malvertising

Tags: Weebly

Tags: AI

Tags: virtual kidnapping

Tags: ransomware review

Tags: ransomware in the UK

Tags: ransomware in France

The most interesting security related news from the week of April 10 – 16.

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Independent Krebs Security 

Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:27:56 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about “juice jacking,” a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile device into a public charging kiosk. It remains unclear what may have prompted the alerts, but the good news is that there are some fairly basic things you can do to avoid having to worry about juice jacking.

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Sextortion “assistance” scammers con victims further

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Categories: News

Tags: FBI

Tags: extortion

Tags: sextortion

Tags: crime

Tags: criminal

Tags: nude

Tags: nudes

Tags: photographs

Tags: images

Tags: video

Tags: photo

Tags: scam

Tags: payment

Tags: profit

Tags: assistance

Tags: help

We take a look at an FBI warning regarding for-profit entities making money from people targeted by sextortion attacks.

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Don’t plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI

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Categories: Awareness

Categories: News

Tags: FBI

Tags: juice jacking

Tags: public chargers

The FBI warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have managed to hijack public chargers to infect devices with malware.

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Independent Krebs Security 

FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:04:11 +0000

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with “dozens” of arrests in the United States and abroad targeting those who allegedly operated the service, as well as suppliers who continuously fed Genesis Market with freshly-stolen data.

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BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

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Tags: BreachForums

Tags: Pompompurin

Tags: FBI

Tags: Dark Web

Tags: data breaches

After the arrest of the administrator of the Dark Web site BreachForums there was talk about keeping it alive, but now the forums will be shut down for fear of law enforcement infiltration.

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Independent Krebs Security 

Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:39:22 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “Pompompurin” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums is widely considered a reincarnation of RaidForums, a remarkably similar crime forum that the FBI infiltrated and dismantled in 2022.

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MalwareBytes Security 

Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

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Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: FBI

Tags: IC3

Tags: 2022

Tags: report

Tags: investment fraud

Tags: crypto-investment fraud

Tags: pig butchering

Tags: hacked socail media

According to the FBI’s annual report, investment fraud overtook business email compromise as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud in 2022.

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Independent Krebs Security 

Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:52:25 +0000

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the defendant in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the NetWire website has been leaking information about the likely true identity and location of its owner for the past 11 years.

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