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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

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In the United States, when federal, state or local law enforcement agencies wish to obtain information about an account at a technology provider — such as the account’s email address, or what Internet addresses a specific cell phone account has used in the past — they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena.

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How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

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Then one day, while scouring the Internet for signs that others may have been phished by Daniel, he encountered Griffin posting on Reddit about the phone number involved in his recent bitcoin theft. This process, he explained, essentially self-selects people who are more likely to be susceptible to their social engineering schemes. [It

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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

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In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

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NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

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political campaigns, cities and towns had paid a shady company called Web Listings Inc. after receiving what looked like a bill for search engine optimization (SEO) services rendered on behalf of their domain names. Since at least 2007, Web Listings Inc. In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S. Helpmego.to

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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

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GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

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Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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