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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

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Facebook told KrebsOnSecurity it seized hundreds of accounts — mainly on Instagram — that have been stolen from legitimate users through a variety of intimidation and harassment tactics, including hacking, coercion, extortion, sextortion , SIM swapping , and swatting. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

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“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. Correct subject would be the data center was hacked. HACKING BACK? “When people talk about ‘hacking back,’ they’re talking about stuff like this,” Nixon said. BRIANS CHAT.

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Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

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For example, a Google search earlier this week for the free graphic design program FreeCAD produced the following result, which shows that a “Sponsored” ad at the top of the search results is advertising the software available from freecad-us[.]org. million advertiser accounts. Google says it removed 5.2

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

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For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. Notices posted for Faceless users, advertising an email flooding service and soliciting zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet of Things devices. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

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Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. -based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

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Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. In September 2018, a user by the name “ ципа ” (phonetically “ Zipper ” in Russian) registered on the Russian hacking forum Lolzteam using the edgard0111012@gmail.com address.

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Malicious Office 365 Apps Are the Ultimate Insiders

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This week, messaging security vendor Proofpoint published some new data on the rise of these malicious Office 365 apps, noting that a high percentage of Office users will fall for this scheme [full disclosure: Proofpoint is an advertiser on this website]. A cybercriminal service advertising the sale of access to hacked Office365 accounts.