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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The Texas Record

APRIL 26, 2021

I don’t want to spoil too much because it’s an enjoyable tale of the crimes big and small, but I wanted to meditate for a moment on the power of paper. Heck, there’s no way the student could have used metadata tags and targeted search terms to divine which of the invoices were legit, and which were self-dealing.

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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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Archives Blogs

MAY 2, 2018

DeHays, a private researcher, stole and sold identification tags and related items from files of American servicemen whose planes were downed in Europe during World War II, as well as other original records from the National Archives at College Park. I am pleased that Judge Chuang gave DeHays a stiff punishment for his crimes.

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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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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 24, 2011

According to EPIC’s complaint, Facebook’s Tag Suggestions feature recognizes individuals’ faces based on photographs already on Facebook, then suggests that users “confirm Facebook’s identification of facial images in user photos” when they upload new photos to their Facebook profiles.

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ARMA International

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Pacemakers, smart speakers, fitness trackers, internet-enabled appliances, smart phones, and data retrieved from a vehicle crash data recorder have all served as “witnesses” to crimes. CSI Alexa: The smart home has become the new crime scene witness.” Types of Devices and What They are Gathering. Body-inserted devices (“embeddables”).

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

The price tag can add up quickly. In those instances, the company should make sure that it has a valid legal reason to do so, like a newspaper reporting on crimes that perpetrators would rather conceal. .” The CCPA empowers Californians to prevent the sale of their data and have it deleted at their request, among other rights.

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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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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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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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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

International operation takes down cyber crime market Düsseldorf Police has seized control of Crimemarket, a German-language criminal trading platform with over 180,000 users. The ICO has issued an enforcement notice and a warning to the Home Office. The fine is the largest the Garante has issued to date.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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