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[Link] Law Enforcement Seizes RaidForums, One of the Most Important Hacking Sites
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies led by the U.S. Department of Justice have seized RaidForums, a nexus for a wealth of stolen data and hacks, and arrested the site’s administrator, the DOJ announced on Tuesday.
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[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces
Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.
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[Link] Bored Ape Yacht Club, Other Major NFT Project Discords Hacked by Scammers
Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com
Early Friday morning, the Discords of multiple major NFT projects were hacked as part of a phishing scam to trick users into handing over their digital jpegs. Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki, and Shamanz confirmed Discord hacks in tweets.
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[Link] Lid blown off Conti ransomware gang after leaked internal files analyzed
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
It was a Ukrainian security specialist who apparently turned the tables on the notorious Russia-based Conti, and leaked the ransomware gang's source code, chat logs, and tons of other sensitive data about the gang's operations, tools, and costs.
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[Link] Canadian accused of unleashing NetWalker ransomware extradited to US
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
US prosecutors on Thursday said they have extradited a Canadian man to America to face charges that he conspired to distribute ransomware. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, of Gatineau, Quebec, was detained by Canadian authorities on January 27, 2021.
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[Link] CoinDesk CMS Vulnerability Let Hackers Trade on Nonpublic Info
Read: 5/2/2022 www.vice.com
“The issue is now fixed and added safeguards have been put in place. We regret this unintended deviation from our commitment to level playing fields in crypto markets,” Worth added.
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[Link] FBI Arrests Man For Fraudulently Obtaining Leaks of 100s of Pre-Release Books
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The FBI has arrested a man who impersonated publishers and literary agents in order to fraudulently obtain hundreds of pre-release novels and other books in electronic form.
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[Link] A Hacker Is Negotiating With Victims on the Blockchain After $1.4M Heist
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in a blockchain service to steal around $1.4 million from users earlier this week.
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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you
Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.
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[Link] Researcher Found Way to Brute Force Verizon Customer PINs Online
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
An independent security researcher discovered a way to brute force Verizon PINs online, meaning they could potentially break into Verizon customer accounts. In response, Verizon has taken the impacted web pages offline.
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[Link] Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119 Million
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
The hack on BadgerDAO took advantage of an old-school web-based attack: the hacker was able to steal an API key that gave them control of BadgerDAO’s account on Cloudflare, the project’s content delivery network for its site.
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[Link] Hackers Steal $119M From ‘Web3’ Crypto Project With Old School Attack
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Notably, the hack did not involve complicated smart contract exploits. Instead, it was a front-end attack targeting BadgerDAO's web infrastructure, in particular its Cloudflare account, BadgerDAO’s content delivery network.
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[Link] Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday a Finnish court ruled that chat messages secretly gathered by the FBI from encrypted phone company Anom can’t be used as evidence against two particular suspects, according to a report from Finnish outlet Iltalehti.
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[Link] Canadian teen nabbed in $36.5M crypto heist – possibly the biggest haul yet by a single individual
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A Canadian teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing $37 million worth of cryptocurrency ($46M Canadian) via a SIM swap scam, making it the largest virtual cash heist affecting a single person yet, according to police.
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[Link] Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement.
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[Link] Maryland Mayor Accused of Posting Revenge Porn to r/needysluts Reddit Forum
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
The mayor of a Maryland city was just charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of a woman to Reddit while in office, according to a charging document released Monday.
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[Link] SA Ambulance Service patients' personal information stolen
Read: 11/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The SA Ambulance Service says the personal details of 28,000 patients have been stolen but there is no indication they have been misused. The patient records are linked to about 32,000 ambulance call-outs between 2000 and 2003.
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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.
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[Link] Hackers Apologize to Arab Royal Families for Leaking Their Data
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Among the data Conti leaked, there were sensitive files belonging to celebrities like David Beckham, Oprah Winfrey, and Donald Trump, according to The Daily Mail. There was also, according to the hackers themselves, information belonging to the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi royal families.
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[Link] Ukraine Doxes Russian Government Hackers’ Phone Calls
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ukraine’s Security Service published the conversations on its official YouTube channel on Thursday.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came from PayPal’s fraud prevention system. Someone had tried to use my PayPal account to spend $58.82, according to the automated voice on the line. PayPal needed to verify my identity to block the transfer.
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[Link] Hackers Disrupt Gas Stations in Iran and Deface Billboards to Blame Supreme Leader
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
It’s unclear who is behind the attack. But the methods and impact are reminiscent of a hack in July that paralyzed Iran’s train system.
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[Link] FBI, others crush REvil using ransomware gang’s favorite tactic against it
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Four days ago, the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site, known as the “Happy Blog,” went offline. Cybersecurity experts wondered aloud what might have caused the infamous group to go dark once more. One theory was that it was an inside job pulled by the group’s disaffected former leader.
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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Ransomware Gang Says the Real Ransomware Gang Is the Federal Government
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Friday, a competing ransomware gang that calls itself Conti released a statement titled “ReviLives,” in support of the REvil gang, which was the target of the international operation.
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[Link] Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The SIM swapper, 20-year-old Kyell Bryan ended up doxing and swatting his former partner, according to the hacker’s guilty plea.
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[Link] Sinclair Broadcast 'Disrupted’ by Ransomware Attack
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
The TV giant Sinclair Broadcast Group said it was hacked. According to a press release on Monday, the company said it detected a ransomware attack on Saturday.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history.
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[Link] Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Police in Europe arrested 106 people accused of working for several Italian Mafia groups and laundering more than 10 million euros they made through various cybercrimes.
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[Link] FTC Orders Spyware Vendor to Stop Business
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
The FTC has banned a stalkerware vendor called SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from working in the surveillance business, the agency said in an announcement on Wednesday.
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[Link] A Third of Global Companies Have Experienced Ransomware Attack, Survey Finds
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
Analysts surveyed almost 800 companies and found that companies based in the U.S. experienced ransomware attacks at a much lower rate (7 percent) than international companies (37 percent) this past year. The survey focused on companies with more than 500 employees.
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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source
Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com
We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.
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[Link] Conti ransomware affiliate goes rogue, leaks “gang data”
Read: 15/8/2021 nakedsecurity.sophos.com
If you like a touch of irony in your cybersecurity news, then this has been the week for it. And if that’s not enough to bring a wry smile to your lips, then there’s more.
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[Link] With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
Read: 3/8/2021 arstechnica.com
Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive data. The attack worked by registering the domain xn--brav-yva[.
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[Link] Automation projects held back by security and data concerns
Read: 1/8/2021 betanews.com
A new report shows that 70 percent of automation initiatives are being hindered by security concerns and data silos, as organizations increasingly look to automation to improve efficiency and productivity.
[Link] Cybercriminals work together to drive greater profits
Read: 1/8/2021 betanews.com
Cybercrime is getting more organized than ever, as threat actors increase collaboration and adapt methods to drive greater monetization, selling access to breached systems to organized criminal groups and ransomware gangs.
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[Link] Iranian state-backed hackers posed as flirty Scouser called Marcy to target workers in defence and aerospace
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study.
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[Link] Malware for Macs Is Getting Bigger, More Dangerous, and It’s Dirt Cheap
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools — the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer.
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[Link] Most wanted: The top 5 online crime gangs running ransomware
Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com
An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists.
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[Link] FBI nuked web shells from hacked Exchange Servers without telling owners
Read: 15/4/2021 www.bleepingcomputer.com
A court-approved FBI operation was conducted to remove web shells from compromised US-based Microsoft Exchange servers without first notifying the servers' owners.
[Link] Scammers target desperate renters on Sunshine Coast as housing crisis continues
Read: 12/4/2021 www.abc.net.au
Scammers are taking advantage of the desperate rental situation on the Sunshine Coast, where the vacancy rate has dipped as low as 0.5 per cent in some areas.