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Hundreds of C-level executives credentials available for $100 to $1500 per account

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A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose credit card they’re about to charge at some website, or whose bank account they’re about to empty.

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Russian cybercriminal Aleksandr Brovko sentenced to 8 years in jail

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The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

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The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 3: The Ease of Disclosure

Troy Hunt

I try the "report abuse" feature (the closest thing I could find to a contact form) except that error'd out because I allegedly had an account with them and wasn't logged on (I later learned that someone else had created an account using my email address). — Michael Kan (@Michael_Kan) February 28, 2017. Yes you do!

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Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

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The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. ’ The CERT-UA also reported that the state-sponsored hackers used compromised VPN accounts that weren’t protected by multi-factor authentication. “Note (!)

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Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks

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Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 In December 2017, Group-IB published the first report on this group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5