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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

March 14, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, convict, Data Breaches, doxbin, emergency data request, kt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nicholas ceraolo, ominus, phobia, ryan stevenson, sagar steven singh, u.s. drug enforcement agency, vile, Web Fraud 2.0, weep

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:25:20 +0000

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.

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Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations

March 7, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, facebook, freenom, icann, Instagram, meta, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0, whatsapp

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:19:26 +0000

The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just days after the Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

February 28, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, allison nixon, Data Breaches, international computer science institute, minecraft, nicholas weaver, roblox, security keys, SIM swapping, T-Mobile, tmo up, unit 221b, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:14:57 +0000

Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device.

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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

February 26, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, escrow.com, godaddy breach december 2022, godaddy breach march 2020, godaddy breach november 2020, godaddy breach november 2021, Ne'er-Do-Well News, vishing, voice phishing, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:15:15 +0000

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

February 24, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, abdala tawfik, abdalla khafagy, bhproxies, bitsight, constella intelligence, hassan_isabad_subar, intel 471, lewklabs, minerva labs, mylobot, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:51:23 +0000

A security firm has discovered that a five-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be responsible for operating the BHProxies service.

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Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days

January 25, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Data Breaches, experian, experian breach, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:58:46 +0000

On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about the incident for a month. This week, however, Experian acknowledged that the security failure persisted for nearly seven weeks, between Nov. 9, 2022 and Dec. 26, 2022.

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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

January 9, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, annualcreditreport.com, Data Breaches, experian, jenya kushnir, Ne'er-Do-Well News, sen. ron wyden, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:05:15 +0000

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number.

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

December 13, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, breached, Data Breaches, FBI, infragard, pompompurin, RaidForums, usdod, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:54:21 +0000

InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

December 8, 2022 0 Comments alex holden, cl0p, clop ransomware, emsisoft, fabian wosar, Hold Security, Ransomware, ta505, The Coming Storm, tripwire, venus ransomware, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:25:04 +0000

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading.

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Judge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google

December 5, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, dmitry starovikov, glupteba botnet, Google, halimah delaine prado, igor litvak, Ne'er-Do-Well News, royal hansen, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:44:50 +0000

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for tortious interference in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. The judge in the case was not amused, found for the plaintiff, and ordered the defendants and their U.S. attorney to pay Google’s legal fees.