Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Transactions on the dark web are typically conducted using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to maintain anonymity. You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2

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Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Image: Shutterstock.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs.

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Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 118

Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

The term was first used by Brian Krebs in 2011 after a proof of concept was conducted at DEF CON by Wall of Sheep. There are crawlers that can search your phone for personally identifiable information (PII), account credentials, banking-related or credit card data in seconds.

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Mobile Banking Malware Spyware 98

ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. For that you're going to need cryptocurrency.

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Hacking Mobile Cryptocurrency VPN 52

SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In particular, advertisers can display targeted offerings, and attackers can access accounts with various services, such as online banking. It stole credentials for various financial systems including online banking applications and cryptocurrency wallets in Brazil. Attacks on personal data. Their enduring relevance is a surprise.

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Mobile Malware Adware Banking 132

Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. The shared secret is used to encrypt the GZipped memory stream using a xor-based algorithm in a compress-then-encrypt fashion.

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Malware Social Engineering Encryption Marketing 83