The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3 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. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. LW: Anything else?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family. Severa was a moderator on the Russian spam community Spamdot[.]biz.

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Antivirus Cybercrime Identity Theft Scams 302

SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2022

The RFJ describes their crimes: "[They] developed components of the NotPetya malware used by the Russian government on June 27, 2017, to infect computer systems of critical infrastructure facilities worldwide. organizations. Among the targeted systems were those of U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer.

Identity Theft 72

Identity Theft Government Phishing Manufacturing 72

Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

Individuals’ personal information (PII) such as full names, dates of birth, emails, phone numbers, and home addresses can be exploited for identity theft, spear phishing attacks, and other sorts of fraud,” our researchers warned. However, the leaky bucket dates back to 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Lithuanian citizen Evaldas Rimasauskas (48) was arrested in March 2017 by local authorities. In 2017, the US Law enforcement requested the arrest because the man has stolen by the two IT giants a huge amount of money by posing as large Asia-based hardware vendor Quanta Computer Inc. ” .

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Identity Theft Banking Advertising Accountability 65

SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2024

Agnidipta Sarkar, Vice President, CISO Advisory, at ColorTokens: "Because the data supposedly contains information about systems purchased from Dell between 2017-2024, and it contains personal information such as full names, addresses, cities, etc., Cybersecurity experts in the vendor space had additional comments.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

” , we mentioned that a cybercriminal could attack their victim by using targeted phishing e-mails to obtain access to the victim’s data. For example, in July of 2017, the data of 14 million Verizon users was breached due to incorrectly configured buckets. Example phishing e-mail. Phone phishing.

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Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 99

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A Texas man found guilty of hacking the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) computer system and used it to send out phishing emails. A Texas man, Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba (33), was found guilty of hacking the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) computer system and abusing it to send out roughly 2 million phishing messages.

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Hacking Phishing Identity Theft Advertising 51

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Even so, anti-phishing company PhishLabs found in a survey last year that more than 80% of respondents believed the green lock indicated that a website was either legitimate and/or safe. Be on guard against phishing and malware schemes that take advantage of shopper distraction and frenzy during the holidays. CHCEK THE SHIPPING.

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Scams Wireless Phishing Banking 276

Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

indictment in December that accused two Chinese nationals of identity theft and fraud. Even is HPE has been hacked multiple times since 2010, most of the hack occurred between 2015 and 2017. .” reads a report published by the Reuters agency. “The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S.

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Identity Theft Hacking System Administration Advertising 83

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

, aka Baobeilong, aka Zhang Jianguo, aka Atreexp, both nationals of the People’s Republic of China (China), with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft was announced today. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Computers and Electronics Identity Theft Technology Manufacturing 79

The Security Ledger

JULY 26, 2018

At the risk of oversimplifying: without a foundation of strong identity, there can be no real security. We know that intuitively just from our experiences online, where phishing attacks and identity theft are rampant – often taking advantage of weak identities like user names and passwords, or Social Security Numbers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.

Cybersecurity 78

Cybersecurity IoT Artificial Intelligence Cyber threats 78

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. This is valuable personal data that can be used for anything from targeted advertising to identity theft in extreme cases. Cross-Site Scripting & SQL Injection.

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Backups Passwords Identity Theft Malware 98

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. WannaCry 2017 is well-known for the stir and panic it caused in May 2017 by affecting thousands of NHS hospitals, delaying critical medical procedures, and rerouting ambulances. Less common types.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. WannaCry 2017 is well-known for the stir and panic it caused in May 2017 by affecting thousands of NHS hospitals, delaying critical medical procedures, and rerouting ambulances.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 107

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

Successful attackers can then use the credentials to leverage stored credit card data to make fraudulent purchases, steal gift cards saved on the customer’s account, use the information in phishing attempts against victims or sell the login information and personal data to other bad actors.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Another widely used tactic for information gathering is phishing or the engagement and manipulation of another user’s trust. Apple stated the threat actor executed spear-phishing attacks to access the vendor’s cloud services suite, iCloud. Publishing Documents. Notable Doxing Attacks.

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Data breaches Media Accountability Passwords 127

eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Securing edge devices with identity authentication. Mitigating risk of false key propagation and identity theft. Launched in 2017, Mumbai-based Block Armour offers a cybersecurity platform for unifying network access across enterprise and IoT environments. Decentralized data storage that removes the need for a honeypot.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2019

Going back many months through its data, Gemini determined that the site has likely been hacked for more than two years — allowing intruders to extract around 4,000 CVVs from the site’s customers each month, and approximately 35,000 accounts in total since February 2017.

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Retail Hacking Marketing Identity Theft 230

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. . 2015 — Anthem — Anthem reports theft of personal information on up to 78.8 2017 — Equifax — Equifax, one of the largest U.S. presidential election.

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