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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Security Affairs

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time. ru under the handle “ r-fac1.”

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VMware Flaw a Vector in SolarWinds Breach?

Krebs on Security

The NSA said that in order to exploit this particular flaw, hackers would already need to have access to a vulnerable VMware device’s management interface — i.e., they would need to be on the target’s internal network (provided the vulnerable VMware interface was not accessible from the Internet).

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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

Security Affairs

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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Architecture Matters When it Comes to SSE

CyberSecurity Insiders

To paraphrase a well-known movie from 2002, “SSE, it’s all about the PoPs.” Cloud changed the game in the 2010s and led the enterprise to move to an “internet as the WAN” for connectivity. As the internet is now the onramp for Cloud and SaaS-based applications/services, SSE and SASE will be the means to access them.

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To the Black Axe: #GardaWillGetYou

Security Boulevard

The pair were in communication with someone who they referred to as "the Chairman" where they discussed laundering funds, partly via bank accounts located in Germany. Bashiru Aderibigbe was found on camera on 22 occasions making withdrawals from 13 bank accounts. Bashiru Aderibigbe, 45, was sentenced to 3.5

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