Whodunnit? Cybercrook gets 6 years for ransoming his own employer
Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 16:15:37 +0000
Not just an active adversary, but a two-faced one, too.
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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.
Read moreHow 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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Read moreA week in security (April 10 – 16)
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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Read moreFBI and FCC warn about “Juicejacking” – but just how useful is their advice?
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:17:46 +0000
USB charging stations – can you trust them? What are the real risks, and how can you keep your data safe on the road?
Read moreWhy is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?
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.
Read moreSextortion “assistance” scammers con victims further
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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Read moreDon’t plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI
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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Read moreFBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers
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.
Read moreBreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration
Categories: News 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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