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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw pw was their domain.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. A search at DomainTools.com for privatenote[.]io com , privatemessage[.]net

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

Krebs on Security

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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