Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “ Hieupc ” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world’s top data brokers. Ngo’s former identity theft service, superget[.]info. Secret Service.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Collecting information about a company from public sources. The first and simplest step that can be taken by cybercriminals is to gather data from publicly accessible sources. Identity theft. One result of doxing aimed at an individual employee may also be theft of their identity.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. The cybercrooks might also use the data to contact their victims later, staging a more convincing swindle. Cybercriminals chased seed phrases, used for recovering access to virtual funds.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On the other hand, we saw the repeal of Roe vs Wade and the subsequent controversy surrounding female reproductive health data in the US as well as investigations into companies selling fine-grained commercial data and facial recognition services to law enforcement. One way to do that might be to insure yourself against data breaches.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., That type of information can be extremely valuable for things like identity theft.”. Pictured: a Dome Series security camera from Verkada. When surveillance leads to spying.

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