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Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked?

Krebs on Security

To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. The HaveIBeenPwned project, which collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps containing information about billions of leaked accounts, has incorporated the data into his service. According to a Jan.

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U.K. Arrest in ‘SMS Bandits’ Phishing Service

Krebs on Security

.” The proprietors of the phishing service were variously known on cybercrime forums under handles such as SMSBandits, “ Gmuni ,” “ Bamit9 ,” and “ Uncle Munis.” One of SMS Bandits’ key offerings: An “auto-shop” web panel for selling stolen account credentials.

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The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots

Krebs on Security

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. The OTP interception service featured earlier this year — Otp[.]agency

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Dateline Cybercrime .

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

Krebs on Security

Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Back when the WDSPC was first created, there were quite a few mobile wireless data companies. Traditionally, those connections have been mainly hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers.

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UScellular discloses the second data breach in a year

Security Affairs

UScellular, one of the largest wireless carriers in the US, has disclosed a data breach after the hack suffered in December 2021. United States Cellular Corporation, is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with over 4.9 million customers in 426 markets in 23 states as of the second quarter of 2020.

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Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data

Krebs on Security

This means that stealing someone’s phone number often can let cybercriminals hijack the target’s entire digital life in short order — including access to any financial, email and social media accounts tied to that phone number. This may require stepping through the website’s account recovery or lost password flow.

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