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It’s Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

November 26, 2019 0 Comments cisa, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, dotgov bill, dotgov.gov, exeterri.gov, john levine, The Coming Storm, town.exeter.ri.us, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, u.s. general services administration, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:08:55 +0000

Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at least more stringent verification requirements involved in obtaining a .gov domain versus a commercial one ending in .com or .org. But a recent experience suggests this trust may be severely misplaced, and that it is relatively straightforward for anyone to obtain their very own .gov domain.

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Sale of 4 Million Stolen Cards Tied to Breaches at 4 Restaurant Chains

November 26, 2019 0 Comments Data Breaches, focus brands, gemini advisory, Joker's stash, krystal breach, mcalister's deli breach, moe's breach, payment card industry security standards, pci, schlotsky's breach, The Coming Storm, verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:32:21 +0000

On Nov. 23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. KrebsOnSecurity has learned this latest batch of cards was siphoned from four different compromised restaurant chains that are most prevalent across the midwest and eastern United States.

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110 Nursing Homes Cut Off from Health Records in Ransomware Attack

November 22, 2019 0 Comments alex holden, Hold Security, karen christianson, Ransomware, The Coming Storm, vcpi

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 05:02:32 +0000

A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management to more than 100 nursing homes across the United States. The ongoing attack is preventing these care centers from accessing crucial patient medical records, and the IT company’s owner says she fears this incident could soon lead not only to the closure of her business, but also to the untimely demise of some patients.

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Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

November 7, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, department of health and human services, hhs, leo scanlon, owen graduate school of management, pbs, The Coming Storm, the new england journal of medicine, vanderbilt university, WannaCry

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:48:03 +0000

Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the findings should prompt a larger review of how security — or the lack thereof — may be impacting patient outcomes.

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NCR Barred Mint, QuickBooks from Banking Platform During Account Takeover Storm

November 3, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, credential replay attacks, digital insight, intuit, Mint, ncr corp, quickbooks online, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:41:48 +0000

Banking industry giant NCR Corp. [NYSE: NCR] late last month took the unusual step of temporarily blocking third-party financial data aggregators Mint and QuicBooks Online from accessing Digital Insight, an online banking platform used by hundreds of financial institutions. That ban, which came in response to a series of bank account takeovers in which cybercriminals used aggregation sites to surveil and drain consumer accounts, has since been rescinded. But the incident raises fresh questions about the proper role of digital banking platforms in fighting password abuse.

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Cachet Financial Reeling from MyPayrollHR Fraud

October 24, 2019 0 Comments The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:50:44 +0000

When NY based cloud payroll provider MyPayrollHR unexpectedly shuttered its doors last month and disappeared with $26 million worth of customer payroll deposits, its payments processor Cachet Financial Services ended up funding the bank accounts of MyPayrollHR client company employees anyway, graciously eating a $26 million loss which it is now suing to recover.

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

September 2, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Adconion Direct, Amir Golestan, Amobee, ARIN, Blackstar Media LLC, CAN-SPAM, Daniel Dye, HostWinds, Jacob Bychak, Kim Perell, Mark Manoogian, Media Breakaway, Micfo, Mohammed Abdul Qayyum, Optinrealbig, Peter Holden, Petr Pacas, Scott Richter, SingTel, Spam Nation, spamhaus, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:52:00 +0000

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the charges are likely just the opening salvo in a much larger, ongoing federal investigation into the company’s commercial email practices.

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Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers

August 30, 2019 0 Comments Anti-Phishing Working Group, Ashwin Vamshi, cloud customer relationship management, CRM phishing, Latest Warnings, Netskope, Pardot, Salesforce, The Coming Storm, United Rentals, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:21:59 +0000

Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals.

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

August 27, 2019 0 Comments 202-643-8533, 868-360-9983, A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Breadcrumbs, Hackforums, Hexproxy, Hyas, IAPS Security Services, Joshua Powder, joshua.powder@gmail.com, Laskh Cybersecurity and Defense LLC, Men Danil Valentinovich, Profitvolt, Residential Networking Solutions LLC, residential proxies, Resnet, resnetworking, Serversget, shoe bots, sneaker bots, The Coming Storm, Wireless Data Service Provider Corporation

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:03:32 +0000

Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is the story of a sprawling “bulletproof residential VPN” service that appears to have been built by acquiring chunks of Internet addresses from some the largest ISPs and mobile data providers in the United States and abroad.

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SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp.

August 27, 2019 0 Comments Ben Shoval, Data Breaches, First American Financial Corp., The Coming Storm, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:30:17 +0000

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. that exposed more than 885 million personal and financial records tied to mortgage deals going back to 2003, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.