Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. In the days that followed, the DFS and U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. No authentication was required to read the documents. The earliest document number available on the site – 000000075 — referenced a real estate transaction from 2003.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

Phishing emails may ask for personal information like a log-in or Social Security number to authenticate your account, or they may urge you to share your credit card payment details. This enormously horrific cybercrime primarily targets older women and freshly widowed individuals. Identity-theft. Debt relief scams.

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SecureList

APRIL 11, 2023

While the majority of zero-days that we’ve discovered in the past were used by APTs, this particular zero-day was used by a sophisticated cybercrime group that carries out ransomware attacks. This file system can be used by any application and Microsoft provides an API for it.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2003, customers with eBay and PayPal were hit with phishing emails requesting them to update account information, leading customers to give out log-in information. Phishers create these links to get targets to download ransomware which can lead to spear phishing emails and other cybercrimes. How Does Phishing Work? Ignore these.

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