Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

On March 14, KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people. Onerep and Shelest did not respond to requests for comment on that story.

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Healthcare Privacy Data breaches Government 270

Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? Image: Archive.org.

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Healthcare Passwords Sales Ransomware 252

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As detailed in my 2014 book Spam Nation , Vrublevsky not-so-secretly ran a pharmacy affiliate spam program called Rx-Promotion , which paid spammers and virus writers to blast out tens of billions of junk emails advertising generic Viagra and controlled pharmaceuticals like pain relief medications. ru under the handle “ r-fac1.”

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Computer and Electronics Marketing Sales Healthcare 233

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2020

“North Korean hackers have targeted at least six pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., “ Nation-state actors are targeting healthcare organizations “every single minute of every single day,” Marene Allison, the Chief Information Security Officer at Johnson & Johnson, said Thursday at the online Aspen Cyber Summit.

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