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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “ Hieupc ” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world’s top data brokers. Ngo’s former identity theft service, superget[.]info. Secret Service.

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Alleged FruitFly malware creator ruled incompetent to stand trial

Malwarebytes

Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky. In 2012, as a senior soon to graduate with a physics degree, he worked on a project with faculty member Robert W.

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