CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

US Treasury has endorsed the news and tagged it as one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists of all time. And hackers funded by Kim were seen involving such cyber crimes to produce weapons meant for mass destructions. Highly placed sources say that the steal of funds was made to find the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong UN.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2021

Every Year only those who pass out with flying colors are moved to Universities where they are trained in related fields such as computer science and military warfare and after that they are tagged as a member of elite army comprising 7000 individuals (for now) who are well versed in spreading digital chaos and confusion on the World Wide Web.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses. The impact of ransomware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.” Let’s remind that accessing these IP cameras could be considered a serious crime, where the victims are under the age of 16, the users could be charged for child pornography. “As

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

While we couldn’t rule out financial crime as the actor’s potential motive, it didn’t appear that the actor leveraged any normal financial crime tools.”. ” A review of Majidi’s Facebook profile shows that phrase as his tag line, and that he has signed several of his posts over the years as “Fatal.001.”

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 3, 2022

And that's when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime - robbing me of my time - which means that I, in turn, need to rob them of their time. I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. With the smallest possible overhead on my time, of course.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The detective pays no attention to the license plate, instead looking for clues to a crime such as signs of forced entry, being parked in a suspicious location or having an obfuscated vehicle identification number (VIN). Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! Keeping with this analogy, behavioral analysis would be the detective.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2019

Shade is considered one of the most dangerous threats in the cyber crime scenario, it has been active at least since 2014 when a massive infection was observed in Russian. “AutoFocus has a Shade ransomware tag that identifies any items associated with Shade.” ” reads the analysis published by Paloalto Networks.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 14, 2021

price tag, and it has been performing remarkably well. The adversary puts cybersecurity in the same realm as crime and terrorism. There is a lot of money on this business, but it is spread thin and unevenly. . Second, it is a moving target. It came with a $2.5B Or Jupiter? . The Curiosity Mars Rover. We can't just "solve it". .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

In a report released July 12, researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs called the AVrecon botnet “one of the largest botnets targeting small-office/home-office (SOHO) routers seen in recent history,” and a crime machine that has largely evaded public attention since first being spotted in mid-2021. SocksEscort[.]com

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags. And for good reason.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

You would not even notice when you will be tagged with chips or your DNA will be the only was to access the new digital world. How do they go from being young people who love technology into a life of crime? You are slowly turning into a controllable flock. As it will be the only place you can leave in, to get paid and consume.”.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. There should be an expansion of the “ persistent engagement ” strategy to financial crime. Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In such a case the redirection script pushes to one of the following domains by introducing the HTML meta “refresh” tag, pointing the browser URL to a random choice between 4 different entries belonging to the following two domains: http[://com-kl96.net net http[://com-mk84.net. Possible Link with TA-505. 66.133.129.5)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The Google TAG uses uncovered phishing attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. “ However, for the first time, TAG has observed COLDRIVER campaigns targeting the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Centre of Excellence.” In one case observed by the TAG team.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

And I’m not talking about services that can quote remove your buddy’s Instagram photos where you are tagged doing something Not Safe For Work. But if the police ever suspect you for some reason of a crime, they can use your home Wi-Fi as an identifier to link you to the laptop that was doing some crime online.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you think about right around 2014 when the first bits of ransomware started dealing with harming sophisticated businesses, organized crime was determined to take down business information, hold data for ransom, and profit off of it.". Now we're looking at loss prevention in a different way with these RFID tags and readers," Miller said. "So

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. And now, a 10th birthday blog post about what really sticks out a decade later. You know why it's called "Have I Been Pwned"?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2023

Some of you may have heard that students in UAB's Investigating Online Crimes class have been researching Crypto Investment Scam websites. using our tag "CryptoScam" (as of this writing we have 3600+ sites on the list -- hosting companies and registrars, please take action!)

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The same with social media apps, I have to go through various settings to make sure that I'm not tagged without my permission, or in some cases even block a person now and again. Things like tagging, others, they seem like a great idea at the time but later, maybe not so. That would be something to consider.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. It's from an organization called Hacking is not a crime. It's a federal crime, you're gonna go to jail, you know, all this stuff. Vamosi: So along with the idea of hacking is not a crime. It's mine. For me, I guess.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

This outcome is hardly surprising given that the accused’s alleged alter ego has been relentless in seeking media attention for this global crime machine. “Looks like somebody tagged you on Twitter pretending to be from ProxyPipe — likely the attacker? 2018 that Schuchman was Nexus Zeta.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

“The timer it [sic] ticking and in in next 8 hours your price tag will go up to $60 million,” the crooks replied. The crime gang responded that its own rules prohibit it from giving away a decryption key before full payment is made, but they agree to the rest of the terms. When the victim counter-offered to pay just $2.25

Ransomware 363

Ransomware Advertising Healthcare Penetration Testing 363

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 1, 2023

Belgium government has made an official announcement that Beijing launched cyber-attacks on a prominent MP of the nation and tagged the activity as a “Crime against Humanity”. And the only buzz was in the western media that was eventually tagged as a political witchcraft by both Beijing and Moscow.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2021

Note 2 – In the year 2017, EU planned to conduct mass surveillance by taking the help of Artificial Intelligence in order to curb crime physical and virtual note. But since 2018, some privacy advocates raised their voice against the use of AI in the mass surveillance system that was to be held similar to that of China.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2019

Facial recognition technology is improving all the time, made easier by the enormous stockpile of tagged photographs we give to Facebook and other social media sites, and the photos governments collect in the process of issuing ID cards and drivers licenses. Computers can also identify people.

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Architect Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

If you post a photo to Facebook, its own enormous custom facial recognition database can identify other Facebook users, and in some cases it will prompt you to tag them. If you have uploaded any non–GPS tagged images to Google Photos, you may have noticed that they may still show location information.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

CryptoWall in particular was enough of a menace for the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to issue an alert warning citizens about the malware. IC3’s 2021 Internet Crime Report found that ransomware inflicted more than $49.2 Copycat ransomware like TorrentLocker and CryptoWall starting springing up.

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