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Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty

September 12, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aza siddeeque, callum picari, national crime agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, otp agency, RaidForums, smsranger, vijayasidhurshan vijayanathan, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:46:35 +0000

Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency, a once popular online service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passcodes (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. Launched in November 2019, OTP Agency was a service for intercepting one-time passwords needed to log in to various websites. Scammers would enter the target’s phone number and name, and the service would initiate an automated phone call to the target that alerts them about unauthorized activity on their account.

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FBI’s LockBit Takedown Postponed a Ticking Time Bomb in Fulton County, Ga.

February 28, 2024 0 Comments an-security breach, cnn, donald trump, europol, FBI, fulton county hack, george chidi, lockbit, lockbitsupp, national crime agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, vx-underground, XSS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 02:17:55 +0000

The FBI’s takedown of the LockBit ransomware group last week came as LockBit was preparing to release sensitive data stolen from government computer systems in Fulton County, Ga. But LockBit is now regrouping, and the gang says it will publish the stolen Fulton County data on March 2 unless paid a ransom. LockBit claims the cache includes documents tied to the county’s ongoing criminal prosecution of former President Trump, but court watchers say teaser documents published by the crime gang suggest a total leak of the Fulton County data could put lives at risk and jeopardize a number of other criminal trials.

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Fake DDoS services set up to trap cybercriminals

March 28, 2023 0 Comments booter, DDoS, distributed denial of service, national crime agency, nca, news, underground

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The British National Crime Agency has been setting up fake DDoS services to teach people a lesson in what not to do online.

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UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

March 28, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, booter, DDoS-for-hire, national crime agency, operation power off, stresser, u.s. department of justice, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:26:07 +0000

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services.

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RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

April 12, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, diogo santos coelho, europol, FBI, national crime agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, omnipotent, operation tourniquet, raidforums seizure, subvirt, t-mobile breach, u.s. department of justice, unrivaled@pm.me, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:29:33 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums — 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho, of Portugal — with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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Online Safety Bill’s provisions for “legal but harmful” content described as “censor’s charter”

March 18, 2022 0 Comments .org, "legal but harmful", Awareness, cyberflashing, free speech, jim killock, nadine dorries, national crime agency, nca, ofcom, online safety bill, open rights group, the bill

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:02:28 +0000

The revised Online Safety Bill has just reached the UK parliament and its determination to tackle “legal but harmful” content is making waves.

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US and UK call out Russian hackers for Georgia attacks

February 21, 2020 0 Comments Georgia, Government security, gru, nation state hacking, national crime agency, nca, russia, russian hacking, sandworm, security threats, uk, US

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:43:24 +0000

The US and UK governments have both accused Russia of launching a cyber attack against the Georgian government last year.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/k1GSfrG1_cs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Council returns to using pen and paper after cyberattack

February 18, 2020 0 Comments Government security, local government, malware, national crime agency, nca, ncsc, Ransomware, redcar and cleveland council, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:44:46 +0000

Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OeNzmMzg6c4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>