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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

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Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S.,

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

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Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime

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Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week — “ Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet ” — in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. We’ve been fortunate that none of our swatting events ended in physical harm, and that our assailants have all faced justice.

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‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

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The core Manipulaters product these days is a spam delivery service called HeartSender , whose homepage openly advertises phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365 , Yahoo , AOL , Intuit , iCloud and ID.me , to name a few. .” A number of questions, indeed. Second I leave country already.

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Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

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These so-called “push notifications” rely on an Internet standard designed to work similarly across different operating systems and web browsers. The company’s site currently is ranked by Alexa.com as among the top 2,000 sites in terms of Internet traffic globally.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. Various 16Shop lures for Apple users in different languages. Image: Akamai.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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