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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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FBI Seizes BreachForums Website

Schneier on Security

The seizure messages include ways to contact the FBI about the seizure, including an email, a Telegram account, a TOX account, and a dedicated page hosted on the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). “From June 2023 until May 2024, BreachForums (hosted at breachforums.st/.cx/.is/.vc

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Reading the 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report

Security Affairs

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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Cybersecurity Report: July 7, 2015

SiteLock

Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests that U.S. Scott Sweetow, a deputy assistant director for strategic intelligence and information at Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters in Washington, is under investigation for allegedly sending employee information to his personal email account.

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GoDaddy discloses a data breach, web hosting account credentials exposed

Security Affairs

GoDaddy has been notifying its customers of a data breach, threat actors might have compromised their web hosting account credentials. GoDaddy has been notifying its customers of a data breach, attackers might have compromised users’ web hosting account credentials. ” reads the data breach notice submitted by the company.

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SEC Sanctions Several Companies over Email Account Hacking

Hacker Combat

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. During that timeframe, unapproved third parties gained unauthorized access into over 60 email accounts hosted in the cloud belonging to Cetera Employees. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Europol seized 30,506 Internet domain names for IP Infringement

Security Affairs

Europol announced another success in the fight against cybercrime, the agency shut down 30,506 Internet domain names for distributing counterfeit and pirated items. Europol announced the shutdown of 30,506 Internet domain names for distributing counterfeit and pirated items as part of the ‘In Our Sites’ (IOS) operation launched in 2014.