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Alleged Child Porn Lord Faces US Extradition

March 22, 2019 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Brooke Donahue, Eric Eoin Marques, FBI, Firefox zero-day, Freedom Hosting, Ne'er-Do-Well News, RTE, The Coming Storm, The Irish Times, Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, Vlad Tsrklevich, wired.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:32:39 +0000

In 2013, the FBI exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to seize control over a Dark Web network of child pornography sites. The alleged owner of that ring – 33-year-old Freedom Hosting operator Eric Eoin Marques – was arrested in Ireland later that year on a U.S. warrant and has been in custody ever since. This week, Ireland’s Supreme Court cleared the way for Marques to be extradited to the United States.

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Hackers Sell Access to Bait-and-Switch Empire

March 4, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, arrestrecords.us.org, autohistorychecks.com, backgroundchecks.us.org, Breadcrumbs, carhistory.us.org, carhistoryindex.com, carinfo2.com, carrecordusa.com, census.us.org, courtrecords.us.org, criminalrecords.us.org, data breaches, deathcertificates.us.org, deathrecord.com, deathrecords.us.org, dmv.us.org, dmvinfocheck.com, dmvrecords.co, DomainTools.com, homevalue.us.org, intel471.com, jailinmates.us.org, Jason Oster, Jesse Willms, Latest Warnings, memberreportaccess.com, Mike Stef, mugshots.us.org, myfeeplan.com, myinfobill.com, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Penguin Marketing, Peter Graver, phonelookup.us.org, police.us.org, prison.us.org, propertyrecord.com, propertysearch.us.org, publicrecords.us.org, reversephonelookup.us.org, Taylor Clark, Terra Marketing Group, The Atlantic, The Coming Storm, The Dark Overlord, trafficticket.us.org, vehiclehistoryreports.us.org, vehiclereportusa.com, vinsearchusa.org, warrantcheck.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:11:33 +0000

Cybercriminals are auctioning off access to customer information stolen from an online data broker behind a dizzying array of bait-and-switch Web sites that sell access to a vast range of data on U.S. consumers, including DMV and arrest records, genealogy reports, phone number lookups and people searches. In an ironic twist, the marketing empire that owns the hacked online properties appears to be run by a Canadian man who’s been sued for fraud by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft and Oprah Winfrey, to name a few.

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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

February 28, 2019 admin Andrew Quez, betabooter, Brian Martinez, databooter, ddos-for-hire, exostress, instabooter, Ne'er-Do-Well News, OkServers LLC, polystress, quezstresser, Rasbora, Sergiy Usatyuk, zstress

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:14:05 +0000

A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. The plea deal comes almost exactly five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the admitted felon and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his son’s online activities.

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Crypto Mining Service Coinhive to Call it Quits

February 27, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Bad Packets LLC, Badges2Go UG, coinhive, coinmarketcap.com, Dominic Szablewski, monero, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Troy Mursch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:19:28 +0000

Roughly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity published a lengthy investigation into the individuals behind Coinhive[.]com, a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. On Tuesday, Coinhive announced plans to pull the plug on the project early next month.

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Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

February 26, 2019 admin chronopay, Dmitry Dokuchaev, Georgi Fomchenkov, kaspersky lab, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pavel vrublevsky, Pharma Wars, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergei Mikhailov

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:43:41 +0000

A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information about Russian cybercriminals with U.S. law enforcement officials. The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted for their part in an investigation into Pavel Vrublevsky, a convicted cybercriminal who ran one of the world’s biggest spam networks and was a major focus of my 2014 book, Spam Nation.

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Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

February 13, 2019 admin 7R1D3n7, Apophis Squad, BlankMediaGames, George Duke-Cohan, HDGZero, Ne'er-Do-Well News, opt1cz, Pl3xl3t, protonmail, Timothy Dalton Vaughn, Town of Salem breach, WantedByFeds, Xavier Farbel, xavierfarbel@gmail.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:37:06 +0000

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked.

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More Alleged SIM Swappers Face Justice

February 5, 2019 admin Ahmad Wagaafe Hared, Dawson Bakies, Joel Ortiz, Matthew Gene Ditman, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nicholas Truglia, ogusers, SIM swapping, winblo, Xzavyer Narvarez

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 05:50:07 +0000

Prosecutors in Northern California have charged two men with using unauthorized SIM swaps to steal and extort money from victims. One of the individuals charged allegedly used a hacker nickname belonging to a key figure in the underground who’s built a solid reputation hijacking mobile phone numbers for profit. According to indictments unsealed this week, Tucson, Ariz. resident Ahmad Wagaafe Hared and Matthew Gene Ditman of Las Vegas were part of a group that specialized in tricking or bribing representatives at the major wireless providers into giving them control over phone numbers belonging to people they later targeted for extortion and theft.

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250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

February 1, 2019 admin booter, ddos-for-hire, Europol, Hack Right, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Operation Power Off, stresser, Titanium Stresser, Webstresser

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:43:59 +0000

More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency. In April 2018, investigators in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands took down attack-for-hire service WebStresser[.]org and arrested its alleged administrators. Prior to the takedown, the service had more than 151,000 registered users and was responsible for launching some four million attacks over three years. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks.

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Three Charged for Working With Serial Swatter

January 25, 2019 admin Casey Viner, Logan Patten, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Neal Patel, Shane Gaskill, SWATting, Tyler Barriss, Tyler Stewart

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:24:00 +0000

The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against three U.S. men accused of swatting, or making hoax reports of bomb threats or murders in a bid to trigger a heavily armed police response to a target’s address. Investigators say the men, aged 19 to 23, all carried out the attacks with the help of Tyler Barriss, a convicted serial swatter whose last stunt in late 2018 cost an Oklahoma man his life. FBI agents on Wednesday arrested Neal Patel, 23, of Des Plaines, Ill. and Tyler Stewart, 19 of Gulf Breeze, Fla. The third defendant, Logan Patten, 19, of Greenwood, Mo., agreed to turn himself in. The men are charged in three separate indictments with conspiracy and conveying false information about the use of explosive devices.

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773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old

January 17, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, Breadcrumbs, HaveIBeenPwned.com, Hold Security, Mega.nz, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sanixer, Troy Hunt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 20:11:08 +0000

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. A story in The Guardian breathlessly dubbed it “the largest collection ever of breached data found.” But in an interview with the apparent seller, KrebsOnSecurity learned that it is not even close to the largest gathering of stolen data, and that it is at least two to three years old.

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“Stole $24 Million But Still Can’t Keep a Friend”

January 15, 2019 admin AT&T, Caleb Tuttle, Chris David, Michael Terpin, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nicholas St. Denis Truglia, Nicholas Truglia, REACT Task Force, Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team, SIM swap

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:52:34 +0000

Unsettling new claims have emerged about Nicholas Truglia, a 21-year-old Manhattan resident accused of hijacking cell phone accounts to steal tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims. The lurid details, made public in a civil lawsuit filed this week by one of his alleged victims, paints a chilling picture of a man addicted to thievery and all its trappings. The documents suggest that Truglia stole from his father and even a dead man — all the while lamenting that his fabulous new wealth brought him nothing but misery.

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