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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Security Affairs

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. ” MICROBILT.

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Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online

Security Affairs

“Our initial investigation has found that this data was scraped from LinkedIn and other various websites and includes the same data reported earlier this year in our April 2021 scraping update,” reads the LinkedIn statement. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online.

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Not the Invasion They Warned Us About: TikTok and the Continued Erosion of Online Privacy

Approachable Cyber Threats

social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap). Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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Doxing in the corporate sector

SecureList

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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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. rar archive files. Dangerous email.

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Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data

Security Affairs

The naming of ElasticSearch indices inside the Thomson Reuters server suggests that the open instance was used as a logging server to collect vast amounts of data gathered through user-client interaction. That includes documents with corporate and legal information about specific businesses or individuals. Media giant with $6.35

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