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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

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FROM AXACT TO ABTACH Many of Abtach’s employees are former associates of a similar company in Pakistan called Axact that was shut down by Pakistani authorities for fraud in 2015. Also charged by the FIA was Junaid Mansoor , the owner of Digitonics Labs in Karachi. Mansoor’s U.K.-registered Junaid Mansoor.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

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But Farsight says the domain was in 2015 hosted at the Internet address 54.77.128.87 , along with just 70 other domains, including the same list of domains mentioned above, chrisniarchos.net, redwoodsadvance.net, gdsinternationalus.com, et cetera. web-listings.net 2007-04-24 ENOM, INC.,ENOM, web-listingsinc.com 2015-11-06 ENOM, INC.,ENOM,

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers. 2015: Experian Breach Tied to NY-NJ ID Theft Ring. 2015: At Experian, Security Attrition Amid Acquisitions. 2015: Experian Hit With Class Action Over ID Theft Service. More greatest hits from Experian: 2017: Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN.

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Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

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Security experts say both VPNFilter and Cyclops Blink are the work of a hacking group known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear , the same Russian team blamed for disrupting Ukraine’s electricity in 2015. billion euros in 2020 alone.

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Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams

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The scam artist John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. man who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. But Bernard would adopt a slightly different approach to stealing from Freidig Shipping Ltd. ,

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RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

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Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015.

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Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations

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In June 2015, ICANN suspended Freenom’s ability to create new domain names or initiate inbound transfers of domain names for 90 days. ” ICANN has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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