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Krebs on Security
AUGUST 16, 2022
Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 13, 2022
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. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached. Department of Defense.
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Krebs on Security
JANUARY 30, 2024
In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.
Krebs on Security
JULY 29, 2022
re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022.
Krebs on Security
JULY 29, 2021
Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database. started receiving emails with a “cash back” offer.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 14, 2023
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. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
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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