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35 million US voter records available for sale in a hacking forum

Security Affairs

Millions of voter records are available for sale on the Dark Web, experts discovered over 35 million US voter records for sale in a hacking forum. Millions of voter records are available for sale on the Dark Web , experts from Anomali and Intel 471 discovered 35 million US voter records for sale in a hacking forum.

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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

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The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive. .'” Adconion was acquired in June 2014 by Amobee , a Redwood City, Calif.

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Commercial spyware vendors are behind most zero-day exploits discovered by Google TAG

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The surveillance industry is experiencing exponential growth, fueled by the sustained demand from rogue governments, intelligence agencies, and malicious actors for sophisticated malware and surveillance tools. Out of the 72 known in-the-wild 0-day exploits targeting Google products since mid-2014, 35 of them were used by CSVs.

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French court indicted Nexa Technologies for complicity in acts of torture

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The cybersurveillance equipment was used by the Egyptian government to track down opponents. This was based on a survey by the magazine Telerama revealing the sale in March 2014 of surveillance equipment, called Cerebro, that was used against the Muslim Brotherhood. The contract was signed in March 2014.

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DoJ charged 19 individuals in a transnational cybercrime investigation xDedic Marketplace

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In January 2019, law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace , an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. The black marketplace has been active since 2014, it was first analyzed by experts at Kaspersky Lab in 2016.

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Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

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McCoy’s work in probing the credit card systems used by some of the world’s biggest purveyors of junk email greatly enriched the data that informed my 2014 book Spam Nation , and I wanted to make sure he and his colleagues had a crack at the BriansClub data as well. Source: NYU. Nearly all cards issued by the top ten largest U.S.

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Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. energy facilities. energy facilities.

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