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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 16:48:18 +0000

On Dec. 6, 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of Bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash, a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies. As the investigation into the heist nears the end of its second week, many Nice-Hash users have expressed surprise to learn that the company’s chief technology officer recently served several years in prison for operating and reselling a massive botnet, and for creating and running ‘Darkode,” until recently the world’s most bustling English-language cybercrime forum.

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December 13, 2017 admin

Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:23:18 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called “Internet of Things” devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks designed to knock Web sites and entire networks offline (including multiple major attacks against this site).

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December 12, 2017 admin

Patch Tuesday, December 2017 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:57:23 +0000

The final Patch Tuesday of the year is upon us, with Adobe and Microsoft each issuing security updates for their software once again. Redmond fixed problems with various flavors of Windows, Microsoft Edge, Office, Exchange and its Malware Protection Engine. And of course Adobe’s got another security update available for its Flash Player software.

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December 7, 2017 admin

Phishers Are Upping Their Game. So Should You.

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:35:24 +0000

Not long ago, phishing attacks were fairly easy for the average Internet user to spot: Full of grammatical and spelling errors, and linking to phony bank or email logins at unencrypted (http:// vs. https://) Web pages. Increasingly, however, phishers are upping their game, polishing their copy and hosting scam pages over https:// connections — complete with the green lock icon in the browser address bar to make the fake sites appear more legitimate.

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December 5, 2017 admin

Anti-Skimmer Detector for Skimmer Scammers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:37:22 +0000

Crooks who make and deploy ATM skimmers are constantly engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with financial institutions, which deploy a variety of technological measures designed to defeat skimming devices. The latest innovation aimed at tipping the scales in favor of skimmer thieves is a small, battery powered device that provides crooks a digital readout indicating whether an ATM likely includes digital anti-skimming technology.

Independent Krebs

December 3, 2017 admin

Hacked Password Service Leakbase Goes Dark

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:39:53 +0000

Leakbase, a Web site that indexed and sold access to billions of usernames and passwords stolen in some of the world largest data breaches, has closed up shop. A source close to the matter says the service was taken down in a law enforcement sting that may be tied to the Dutch police raid of the Hansa dark web market earlier this year.

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December 2, 2017 admin

Former NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Taking Classified Data

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:44:21 +0000

A former employee for the National Security Agency pleaded guilty on Friday to taking classified data to his home computer in Maryland. According to published reports, U.S. intelligence officials believe the data was then stolen from his computer by hackers working for the Russian government.

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December 1, 2017 admin

Carding Kingpin Sentenced Again. Yahoo Hacker Pleads Guilty

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 01:15:15 +0000

Roman Seleznev, a Russian man who is already serving a record 27-year sentence in the United States for cybercrime charges, was handed a 14-year sentence this week by a federal judge in Atlanta for his role in a credit card and identity theft conspiracy that prosecutors say netted more than $50 million. Separately, a Canadian national has pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal more than a billion user account credentials from Yahoo.