Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“The US authorities accuse the prosecuted person of extortion, bank fraud, and identity theft, among other things. In 2012, the Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was accused of being a member of a cybercrime gang known as JabberZeus Crew.

Cybercrime 108

Cybercrime Banking Identity Theft Hacking 108

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

accounts (59% of common email addresses had exactly the same password). disqus 2012 breach never disclosed, my old creds still worked! <just <just deleted account> Would never have known if not for your eagle eyes and #totallyawesome service. +10 And so Have I Been Pwned was born. It's alive! "Have

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then. Identity theft. With large amounts of identity information being leaked about the clients in this breach, criminals can use it for identity theft.

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Data breaches Insurance Identity Theft Education 123

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

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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Malware Passwords Identity Theft Data collection 108

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For persistence, RansomHub affiliates create new user accounts, reactivate disabled ones, and deploy tools like Mimikatz to harvest credentials and escalate privileges. They harvest credentials from valid accounts to escalate privileges and move laterally within the network.

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Ransomware Encryption Technology Cybercrime 88

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For persistence, RansomHub affiliates create new user accounts, reactivate disabled ones, and deploy tools like Mimikatz to harvest credentials and escalate privileges. They harvest credentials from valid accounts to escalate privileges and move laterally within the network.

Ransomware 52

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 19, 2023

Of course there's all the nasty stuff (phishing, identity theft, spam), but there are also some amazingly positive uses for data illegally taken from someone else's system. It's fascinating to see how creative people can get with breached data.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. The amount of abandoned accounts due to death can only ever go up, and nobody is really paying attention if someone accesses them illicitly. Digging into identity theft.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Accountability Social Engineering Scams 98

Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2024

Of the 159 complaints detailed there in the last year, several were from people who had used third-party identity protection services to have their information removed from Radaris, only to receive a notice a few months later that their Radaris record had been restored. Radaris has not responded to requests for comment. A Sherborn, Mass.

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