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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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T-Mobile Store Owner Made $25M Illegally Unlocking Cellphones

SecureWorld News

Department of Justice (DOJ) says Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, was found guilty of 14 federal criminal charges for the scheme he ran from 2014 to 2019 that netted $25 million in criminal proceeds. Very often he would socially engineer employees at the IT help desk to get their credentials. How was he unlocking these phones?

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Ex-NASA contractor pleaded guilty for cyberstalking crimes

Security Affairs

Richard Bauer of Los Angeles, who worked at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Southern California, pleaded guilty for stalking, computer hacking, and aggravated identity theft. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” states the Associated Press. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3 Mellen: This deal seems to be betting on the importance of offering a consolidated consumer security portfolio that incorporates identity theft protection, antivirus, and other security tools like VPNs. billion in 2016, for instance.

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350 million decrypted email addresses left exposed on an unsecured server

Security Affairs

They can then conduct elaborate phishing and social engineering attacks to gain access to the victims’ accounts on other digital services such as entertainment and shopping platforms or even online banking. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hacker stole $1m from Silicon Valley executive via SIM swap

Security Affairs

“ The man has been charged with a total of 21 crimes, including identity theft, fraud, embezzlement, and attempted grand theft. Typically the attacker gathers the information to respond the questions through social engineering or through OSINT activities. although his attempts to rob them ultimately failed.

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More than 737 million medical radiological images found on open PACS servers

Security Affairs

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes the report.