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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

November 1, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, booking.com, Latest Warnings, phishing, secureworks, spear phishing, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:12:38 +0000

A number of cybercriminal innovations are making it easier for scammers to cash in on your upcoming travel plans. This story examines a recent spear-phishing campaign that ensued when a California hotel had its booking.com credentials stolen. We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website.

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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

October 30, 2024 0 Comments alphv, anthem inc., blackcat, Data Breaches, Equifax, experian, hipaa journal, idx, Latest Warnings, ransomhub, sen. mark warner, sen. ron wyden, The Coming Storm, transunion, u.s. department of health and human resources, united health group

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:34:08 +0000

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information.

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The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

October 23, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, accuweather, adx, android advertising id, app tracking transparency, Apple, associated press, bid request, br24, daniel's law, Electronic Frontier Foundation, eva galperin, fog reveal, gasbuddy, Google, grindr, identifier for advertisers, judge andrew f. wilkinson judicial security act, justin sherman, justyna maloney, Latest Warnings, macy's, maid, mobile advertising id, myfitnesspal, netzpolitik.org, scott maloney, sen. ron wyden, silentpush, tangles, The Coming Storm, troutman pepper, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, webloc, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:30:18 +0000

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

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

September 26, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alex holden, arpa plus, briansclub, chainanlysis, cryptex, cs proxy solutions cy, dark angels, financial crimes enforcement network, Hold Security, home depot breach, Joker's stash, liberty reserve, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, novaya gazeta, orbest investments lp, organized crime and corruption project, perfect money, pinpays, pm2btc, progate solutions, rich sanders, rm everton ltd, sergey sergeevich ivanov, sergey sergeevich omelnitskii, taleon, target breach, The Coming Storm, the laundromat, timur kamilevich shakhmametov, u.s. department of justice, uaps, universal anonymous payment system, unlimited cashouts, v1pee, vega, Web Fraud 2.0

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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New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’

August 27, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, black lotus labs, bronze silhouette, christopher wray, cve-2024-39717, cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency, federal bureau of investigation, insidious taurus, internet of things (iot), kv-botnet, Latest Warnings, lumen technologies, michael horka, National Security Agency, ryan english, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of justice, versa director 22.1.4, volt typhoon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:26:41 +0000

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China.

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Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide

August 23, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, active directory, andorra, dns name devolution, Latest Warnings, memphis real-time crime center, memrtcc.ad, mike barlow, mike o'connor, namespace collision, philippe caturegli, seralys, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0, web proxy auto-discovery protocol, wpad.ad, wpad.dk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:12:31 +0000

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn’t exist at the time. Meaning, they are continuously sending their Windows usernames and passwords to domain names they do not control and which are freely available for anyone to register. Here’s a look at one security researcher’s efforts to map and shrink the size of this insidious problem.

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National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords

August 19, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, atlas data privacy corp., Breadcrumbs, creationnext, Data Breaches, national public data breach, npd.pentester.com, npdbreach.com, salvatore verini, The Coming Storm, usinfosearch.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:23:31 +0000

New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

August 15, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, atlas data privacy corp., Data Breaches, FBI, haveibeenpwned.com, infragard, instant checkmate, jerico pictures, national criminal data llc, national public data breach, peopleconnect, recordscheck.net, sal verini, salvatore verini, shadowglade llc, sxul, The Coming Storm, trinity entertainment, troy hunt, truthfinder, twisted history llc, usdod, vx-underground

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:38:36 +0000

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida.

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Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice

July 23, 2024 0 Comments .top, A Little Sunshine, Anti-Phishing Working Group, dave piscitello, interisle consulting group, internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, jiangsu bangning science & technology co. ltd, Latest Warnings, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:41:51 +0000

The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its license to sell domains. The warning comes amid the release of new findings that .top was the most common suffix in phishing websites over the past year, second only to domains ending in “.com.”

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‘Operation Endgame’ Hits Malware Delivery Platforms

May 30, 2024 0 Comments 911 s5, europol, icedid, lockbit, matt burgess, Ne'er-Do-Well News, operation endgame, Ransomware, smokeloader, The Coming Storm, trickbot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 15:19:44 +0000

Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today announced Operation Endgame, a coordinated action against some of the most popular cybercrime platforms for delivering ransomware and data-stealing malware. Dubbed “the largest ever operation against botnets,” the international effort is being billed as the opening salvo in an ongoing campaign targeting advanced malware “droppers” or “loaders” like IcedID, Smokeloader and Trickbot.

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