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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

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The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

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Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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.” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020. A LinkedIn profile for Rizky says he is a backend Web developer in Bandung who earned a bachelor’s degree in information technology in 2020.

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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

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As it turned out, calling the phone number on the back of the credit card from the phone number linked with the card provided the most recent transactions without providing any form of authentication.” ” The incident Jim described happened in late January 2020, and Citi may have changed its procedures since then.

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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

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Like most cybercrime forums, OGUsers is overrun with shady characters who are there mainly to rip off other members. Indeed, the leaked OGUsers databases — which include private messages on the forum prior to June 2020 — offer a small window into the overall value of the hijacked social media account industry.

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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

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Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. 22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers.

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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

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” The 30-year-old Donahue said he left the FBI in April 2020 to start Kodex because it was clear that social media and technology companies needed help validating the increasingly large number of law enforcement requests domestically and internationally. Apple’s compliance with EDRs was 93 percent worldwide in 2020.

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