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Law Enforcement's Cybercrime Honeypot Maneuvers Paying Off

Data Breach Today

Closing EncroChat and Sky, Plus Careful Word-of-Mouth Management, Drove Anom Uptake The global law enforcement "Anom" honeypot operation racked up impressive statistics for the number of criminals tricked into using the encrypted communications service.

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Encrypted Communications Network 'Anom' Was Sting Operation

Data Breach Today

FBI Developed Smartphone-Based Platform as Honeypot for Criminals Thousands of suspected criminals have been relying on the "Anom" encrypted communications platform to coordinate their efforts.

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TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

Security Affairs

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. ” continue the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name. Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me. krebsonsecurity[.]top top (NOT a safe domain, hence the hobbling).

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UK newspaper The Telegraph exposed a 10TB database with subscriber data

Security Affairs

The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. Please reply asap.

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Hiding Devices Using Port Knocking or Single-Packet Authorization (SPA)

eSecurity Planet

Similarly, SPA installs a service, such as the open-source fwknop service, on a server or gateway to listen for specific instructions in an encrypted packet. A cloud-based data server storing backups or security log files. The typical attack scan will miss the hidden server and lead to a focus on the honeypot. Stalling for Time.

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How Cybercriminals are Targeting free Wi-Fi Users?

Security Affairs

All the cybercriminals are always on the lookout to get their hands on users’ personal or financial data or they look for vulnerabilities to get access to their devices. They can setup rouge Wi-Fi networks, which gives them all the data and the access to users’ device or system. Fake Honeypots. Fake Wi-Fi Access Points.