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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:01:41 +0000
Much has been written about the need to further secure our elections, from ensuring the integrity of voting machines to combating fake news. But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts used by election officials at the state and local level.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:39:33 +0000
Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database listing the personal information of people who threaten their views. This group specializes in encouraging others to harass those targeted by their ire, and has claimed responsibility for dozens of bomb threats and “swatting” incidents, where police are tricked into visiting potentially deadly force on the target’s address.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:27:11 +0000
Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here’s a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for you, and what it says about the value of your identity.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:40:07 +0000
Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. Unfortunately for iNSYNQ, the company appears to be turning a deaf ear to the increasingly anxious cries from its users for more information about the incident.
Read MoreCredit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:59:09 +0000
KrebsOnSecurity has seen some creative yet truly bizarre ads for cybercrime services in the underground, but the following animated advertisement for a popular credit card fraud shop likely takes the cake.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:34:31 +0000
For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “Yalishanda,” “Downlow” and “Stas_vl” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers. What follows are a series of clues that point to the likely real-life identity of a Russian man who appears responsible for enabling a ridiculous amount of cybercriminal activity on the Internet today.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:58:30 +0000
The cybercriminals behind the GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering recently announced they were closing up shop and retiring after having allegedly earned more than $2 billion in extortion payments from victims. But a growing body of evidence suggests the GandCrab team have instead quietly regrouped behind a more exclusive and advanced ransomware program known variously as “REvil,” “Sodin,” and “Sodinokibi.”
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:41:21 +0000
The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today companies can offer discounted cybersecurity services to political campaigns without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided they already do the same for other non-political entities. The decision comes amid much jostling on Capitol Hill over election security at the state level, and fresh warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election.
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