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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

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to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches. Launched in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor , Mozilla Monitor also checks data from the website Have I Been Pwned? Shelest denied ever being associated with Spamit.

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Microsoft makes a bold move towards a password-less future

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In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. Why get rid of passwords?

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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

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com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. For several years, WeLeakInfo was the largest of several services selling access to hacked passwords. That’s about when AOL sold the platform in 2010 to Russian investor DST for $187.5

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

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.” Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks exposed databases, finds that 774748@gmail.com was used in connection with just a handful of passwords, but most frequently the password “ featar24 “ Pivoting off of that password reveals a handful of email addresses, including akafitis@gmail.com. ru in 2008.

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

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In 2010, someone with the username Pepyak on the Russian language affiliate forum GoFuckBiz[.]com In 2010, someone with the username Pepyak on the Russian language affiliate forum GoFuckBiz[.]com ” In January 2010, Pepyak asked the GoFuckBiz community where one might find a good USB-based modem in Phuket, Thailand.

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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

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A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. Constella also shows the email address zankomario@gmail.com used the password “dugidox2407.”

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.