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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

December 19, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, acunetix, altug sara, altugsara321@gmail.com, araneida scanner, bilitro yazilim, Breadcrumbs, domaintools, Fin7, invicti security, matt sciberras, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neil roseman, ori0nbusiness@protonmail.com, silent push, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of health and human services, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:07:30 +0000

Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey.

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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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The Stark Truth Behind the Resurgence of Russia’s Fin7

July 10, 2024 0 Comments 7-zip, advanced ip scanner, aimp, anydesk, autodesk, bastion secure, bitwarden, blackberry, Combi Security, esentire, Fin7, malwarebytes, Microsoft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, node.js, notepad++, pgadmin, prodaft, protectedpdfviewer, putty, python, Ransomware, rest proxy, russia's war on ukraine, silent push, spearphishing, stark industries solutions, sublime text, typosquatting, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:22:59 +0000

The Russia-based cybercrime group dubbed “Fin7,” known for phishing and malware attacks that have cost victim organizations an estimated $3 billion in losses since 2013, was declared dead last year by U.S. authorities. But experts say Fin7 has roared back to life in 2024 — setting up thousands of websites mimicking a range of media and technology companies — with the help of Stark Industries Solutions, a sprawling hosting provider is a persistent source of cyberattacks against enemies of Russia.

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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

November 28, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, arello-mobile, army times, constella intelligence, foreign adtech, intelligence authorization act for 2023, Latest Warnings, max konev, national training center, pincer trojan, pushwoosh, reuters, The Coming Storm, u.s. army, yuri shmakov, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:08:21 +0000

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan, malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices.