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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

Krebs on Security

The 122 services targeted in Sanders’ research include some of the more prominent businesses advertising on the cybercrime forums today, such as: -abuse-friendly or “bulletproof” hosting providers like anonvm[.]wtf, wtf, and PQHosting ; -sites selling aged email, financial, or social media accounts, such as verif[.]work

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U.S. Justice Department Cracks Down on Scattered Spider Phishing Ring

SecureWorld News

" "The defendants allegedly preyed on unsuspecting victims in this phishing scheme and used their personal information as a gateway to steal millions in their cryptocurrency accounts," said Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.

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Operation Phobos Aetor: Police dismantled 8Base ransomware gang

Security Affairs

The 8Base ransomware group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. Source Nation Thailand The gang compromised at least 17 Swiss companies using the Phobos ransomware between April 2023 and October 2024.

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Exposed eyes: 40,000 security cameras vulnerable to remote hacking

Security Affairs

Excluding telecommunications, the technology sector has the most exposed cameras (28.4%), followed by media (19.6%), utilities (11.9%), business services (10.7%), and education (10.6%). “It’s no surprise that the Telecommunications sector accounts for the majority of exposed cameras we found.

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Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise

Zero Day

In an interview, Lansweeper , an IT asset discovery and inventory company, revealed to ZDNET that, in its analysis of over 15 million identified consumer desktop operating systems, it found that Linux desktops currently account for just over 6% of PC market share.  The research suggests 2.5% of these newer machines run Linux.

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Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

com , which says it belongs to a Las Vegas-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing concern generically named both United Business Service and United Business Services. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. and Renton, Wash.

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Over 3.1 million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts

CyberSecurity Insiders

million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts. And most of them were malware related followed by account hijackings and targeted attacks against vulnerabilities. Legal, Real Estate and transportation and business service accounts remain in the second place on the list. The post Over 3.1