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Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data

August 25, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, blockfi, data breaches, ftx, kroll breach, Latest Warnings, SIM swapping, T-Mobile

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:05:10 +0000

Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. And there are indications that fraudsters may already be exploiting the stolen data in phishing attacks. Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi and the now-collapsed crypto trading platform FTX each disclosed data breaches this week thanks to a recent SIM-swapping attack targeting an employee of Kroll — the company handling both firms’ bankruptcy restructuring.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

July 18, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, abusewithus, agentjags, Ashley Madison hack, ashleymadison.com, constella intelligence, data breaches, domaintools, eric malek, Hulu, impact team, Jordan Evan Bloom, LeakedSource, Ne'er-Do-Well News, near-reality.com, noel biderman, ownagegaming1@gmail.com, pictrace, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Runescape, trevor sykes

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:57:04 +0000

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 — less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users — and launched LeakedSource three months later.

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SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge

July 13, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Ashley Madison hack, data breaches, Hulu, impact team, Ne'er-Do-Well News, william webster harrison

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:45:02 +0000

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days.

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BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

March 23, 2023 admin breachforums, dark web, data breaches, FBI, news, pompompurin

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After the arrest of the administrator of the Dark Web site BreachForums there was talk about keeping it alive, but now the forums will be shut down for fear of law enforcement infiltration.

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Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware

March 22, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, breachforums, bytedance, darknavy, data breaches, google, Latest Warnings, liu huafang, pdd holdings, pinduoduo, project zero, temu, TikTok, Web Fraud 2.0, weibo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:11:08 +0000

Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce app sought to seize total control over affected devices by exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in a variety of Android-based smartphones.

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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

March 20, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, CCPA, cpni, custom experience plus, customer proprietary network information, data breaches, Electronic Privacy Information Center, enhanced relevant advertising program, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, gavin wright, maids, mashable, mobile advertising ids, T-Mobile, techtarget, Verizon, verizon custom experience plus, verizon selects, Verizon Wireless

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:47:56 +0000

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection. Here’s a primer on why you might want to do that, and how. Certain questions might be coming to mind right now, like “What the heck is CPNI?” And, ‘If it’s so ‘customer proprietary,’ why is AT&T sharing it with marketers?” Also maybe, “What can I do about it?” Read on for answers to all three questions.

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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

March 14, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, convict, data breaches, Doxbin, emergency data request, kt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nicholas ceraolo, ominus, Phobia, Ryan Stevenson, sagar steven singh, u.s. drug enforcement agency, vile, Web Fraud 2.0, weep

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:25:20 +0000

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

February 28, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, Allison Nixon, data breaches, International Computer Science Institute, Minecraft, Nicholas Weaver, roblox, Security Keys, SIM swapping, T-Mobile, tmo up, unit 221b, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:14:57 +0000

Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device.