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Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

Krebs on Security

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. co saying he could be hired to perform fake EDRs on targets at will, provided the account was recently active.

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Discord Admins Hacked by Malicious Bookmarks

Krebs on Security

The unsuspecting Discord members click the link provided by the compromised administrator account, and are asked to connect their crypto wallet to the scammer’s site, where it asks for unlimited spend approvals on their tokens, and subsequently drains the balance of any valuable accounts.

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

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Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. “InfraGard is a social media intelligence hub for high profile persons,” USDoD said.

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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots

Krebs on Security

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. “Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.