Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and more than $5 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Raoult and two other co-conspirators were charged with having hacked into protected computers of corporate entities and for the theft of stolen proprietary information.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. The City of Philadelphia announced it is investigating a data breach after attackers that threat actors broke some of City email accounts containing personal and protected health information.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

This story is about the victims of a particularly aggressive business ID theft ring that’s spent years targeting small businesses across the country and is now pivoting toward using that access for pandemic assistance loans and unemployment benefits. For 2020, the company estimates an overall 258 percent spike in the crime.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020.” The company confirmed that the an investigation into the hack is still ongoing. The post 3.4

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2020

A 31-year-old man from Dallas, Texas, was sentenced last week to 57 months in prison for crimes related to the hacking of a major tech firm in New York. King (31), from Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for crimes related to the hacking of an unnamed major tech company based in New York. King’s accomplice, Ashley St.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2021, the exclusive Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked. A review of this user’s hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU , the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation. The Facebook account for Aleksey Safronov.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The report also stated that the FBI received more than 1,600 SIM swap complaints in 2021, dramatically up from 320 from 2018 to 2020. Fraudsters use these means to obtain your personal information and access your cellular, bank, credit or other financial accounts. Minimizing SIM Swapping Attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, disclosed an email hack of its employee email system, which may have exposed the personal information of thousands of patients. When your information is exposed in a hospital data breach, you need to take steps to help protect your identity and personal accounts. Monitor Your Credit.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

US Department of Justice announced indictments against 5 Chinese nationals alleged members of a state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41. They have been also charged with identity theft, access device fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). 35, and Tan Dailin (???),

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Researchers uncovered a possible credential stuffing campaign that is targeting Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million login credentials. Security experts from vpnMentor have uncovered a possible credential stuffing operation that affected some Spotify accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Spotify). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their email system. The company is offering to the impacted individuals free fraud detection and identity theft protection through Equifax’s Complete Premier services for two years. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EWA).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Data breach at @Staples pic.twitter.com/gvLndAJV2P — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 14, 2020. The data accessed by the hackers did not include account credentials and full payment card data. Exposed data could be abused by threat actors to carry out malicious activities, including identity theft and phone call scams.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The Blackbaud data breach was the largest health care-related incident of 2020, impacting an estimated two dozen providers and well over 10 million patients. In February 2020, threat actors hacked into its self-hosted environment, stealing data as they proliferated across the network. Photo captured from Alina Lodge website ).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A Russian national was extradited to the US from Switzerland after he was charged for trading information stolen from hacked U.S. ” Between January 2018 and September 2020, the defendants allegedly agreed to trade in the securities of publicly traded companies, based on non-public information obtained by hacking into systems at two U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The leaked records include Clubhouse user IDs, names, usernames, Twitter handles, Instagram handles, number of followers, number of people followed by the users, accounts’ creation date, and invited by user profile names. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all your online accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Clubhouse).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers for 2015 Bundestag hack. A significant amount of data was stolen and the email accounts of several members of parliament, including that of Chancellor Angela Merkel , were affected.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Bundestag).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

On 2 November 2020 vpnMentor experts discovered that the 21 Buttons app was using a misconfigured AWS bucket that has exposed the data of hundreds of influencers. bank account numbers, PayPal email addresses), photos, and videos. 2020 Dates vendors contacted: 5th Nov., 2020 Dates Amazon Contacted: 10th Nov.,

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. .

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 16, 2023

The operation included the court-authorized seizure by German authorities of two domains, a GitHub account belonging to ChipMixer, and more than $46 million in cryptocurrency. The mixer was recently shut down by a coalition of law enforcement agencies across Europe and the U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

With all that transpired over the last few months, and even with the SolarWinds cyberattack making headlines , it might be easy to forget that data breaches and hacks continue to expose the personal information of millions. This leaves victims of the data breaches vulnerable to identity theft. million customer accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For the first time in the history of 2020-21, a hacker reportedly stole patient data and then wiped it off from the database of a hospital in New Mexico. The post Hacker steals and wipes off patient data appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

“During the 2020 holiday shopping season, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 17,000 complaints regarding the non-delivery of goods, resulting in losses over $53 million,” reads a public service announcement published by the FBI. Never use the same password on multiple accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Kvashuk used email accounts associated with other Microsoft employees for his fraudulent activity. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft worker). The man was involved in the testing of Microsoft’s online retail sales platform and abused testing access to steal “currency stored value” (CSV) such as digital gift cards. Attorney Brian T.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The leak comes more than four months after Humana, the third-largest health insurance company in the US, notified 65,000 of its health plan members about a security breach where “a subcontractor’s employee disclosed medical records to unauthorized individuals” between October 12, 2020, and December 16, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of accounts registered between February and April 2020, as well as logs of accesses in the same period. SecurityAffairs – Le Figaro, hacking). billion records.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Many third-party security solutions are designed to account for exactly this type of behavior. Even strong security can’t prevent an account from being hacked if account credentials are stolen in a phishing attack, one of the most common causes of identity theft.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Taking into account unknowables, we’re talking about a ballpark cost of roughly $75,000 per BEC-related complaint. The new direct deposit information generally routes to a pre-paid card account.”

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

According to BlueVoyant’s Cybersecurity in Higher Education 2021 report , ransomware attacks on colleges increased twofold between 2019 and 2020. Those behind the attack published online screenshots of personal information onto a website called Clop, which ranged from Social Security numbers to bank account information. It goes deeper.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Dutch police started the investigation in March 2021 following a complaint of data theft and threats from a large Dutch company. The investigation revealed that probably thousands of national and international small and large organizations were hacked by the suspects that also attempted to extort money from the victims.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. So did the 2020 Twitter hack. Spear Phishing.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Vary login credentials across accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Attackers have stolen personal identifiable information (PII), including names and/or Social Security numbers (and/or other tax identification numbers), financial account information, driver’s license information, and/or passport information. . The company also notified the issuer of the cards of impacted accounts. “We

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

“He is charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and multiple counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. You might think that this kind of information would be useless for an attack on a company because this personal info is not actually related to the company and contains no data that could actually compromise the company or the account owner.

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