Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 20:08:04 +0000
We take a look at a Runescape-themed phishing mail targeting players of the smash MMORPG title, and explain how they steal the data.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 10:20:30 +0000
The most important and interesting stories in security from the last seven days.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 16:29:52 +0000
We take a look at reports that the Discord channel for the OpenSea NFT marketplace has been compromised and used to send out rogue links.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:01:36 +0000
Law enforcement believes that these hackers duping major tech companies are teenagers. But they are causing severe harm.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:27:35 +0000
When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the agency to launch a startup that aims to help tech companies do a better job screening out phony law enforcement data requests — in part by assigning trustworthiness or “credit ratings” to law enforcement authorities worldwide.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:54:45 +0000
On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:07:27 +0000
There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death.
Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:21:14 +0000
We take a look at a YouTube spam campaign claiming to offer up Valorant cheat tools, while in reality pushing malware.
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