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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io , a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. also is a favored marketplace for people involved in selling phony social media accounts.

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Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’?

Krebs on Security

to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com. Constella says that email address is tied to a Twitter/X account for Shoppy Ecommerce in Israel. lol and nulled[.]it.

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Dirt-Cheap, Legit, Windows Software: Pick Two

Krebs on Security

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who’d just purchased a copy of Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus from a seller on eBay for less than $4. Let’s call this Red Flag #1, as a legitimately purchased license of Microsoft Office 2016 is still going to cost between $70 and $100. Sounds legit, right?

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Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated

Malwarebytes

The rise of bad bots Traffic from bad bots those created with malicious intentfirst surpassed good bot traffic in 2016, Imperva’s research said, and it’s been getting worse. Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. These account takeover attacks have skyrocketed lately. Protect your PC.

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How Long is Long Enough? Minimum Password Lengths by the World's Top Sites

Troy Hunt

I've been giving a bunch of thought to passwords lately. Here we have this absolute cornerstone of security - a paradigm that every single person with an online account understands - yet we see fundamentally different approaches to how services handle them. Some won't let you paste a password. Some have strict complexity rules.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

Krebs on Security

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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