Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying they’re eligible to claim a class action payment in connection with the 2017 megabreach at consumer credit bureau Equifax. Justice Department indicted four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for perpetrating the 2017 Equifax hack.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Hermann’s deep expertise in identity theft protection, credit and financial education and leveraging data to implement scalable business solutions will immediately benefit Entryway as the organization works to create efficiencies through data collection to serve a greater number of at-risk individuals and families across all of its program markets.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

On January 4, 2017, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), located in Cleveland, Ohio, became aware of an infection on more than 100 of its computers. On January 10 2017, and unaware of this ongoing investigation, Malwarebytes became aware of the Mac version of the malware that would become known as FruitFly.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

For example, in July of 2017, the data of 14 million Verizon users was breached due to incorrectly configured buckets. Identity theft. One result of doxing aimed at an individual employee may also be theft of their identity. Let’s examine one of the potential attack scenarios involving identity theft.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s experienced explosive growth since it first appeared in 2017, and is now said to have well over 1.5 The EFF argues that the bill will not stop the sharing of data but it will reduce online rights in a way that is unconstitutional. billion users , with an estimated 170 million of them in the US.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. The cybercrooks might also use the data to contact their victims later, staging a more convincing swindle. This trick makes it harder to keep track of malicious emails, and the victim is more likely to fall for it.

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