Ne’er-Do-Well News – Computer Security Articles

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

January 15, 2019 admin 0 Comments 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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Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS

January 14, 2019 admin 0 Comments bbc, Cellcom, Daniel Kaye, ddos, ddos-for-hire, GovRAT, Haaretz, Lonestar, Martin Gottesfeld, Mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:37:32 +0000

Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014. Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016.

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Serial Swatter and Stalker Mir Islam Arrested for Allegedly Dumping Body in River

December 23, 2018 admin cyberstalking, Josh the God, Mir Islam, MrOsama, Ne'er-Do-Well News, SWATting, Tomi Michelle Masters, Troy Woody, Troy Woody Jr., UGNazi

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 20:24:29 +0000

A 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks — including a 2013 swatting incident at my home — was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping a friend dump the body of a housemate into a local river.

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Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years

December 7, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Apophis Squad, ddos-for-hire, George Duke-Cohan, Ne'er-Do-Well News, protonmail

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 01:38:49 +0000

The alleged ringleader of a gang of cyber hooligans that made bomb threats against hundreds of schools and launched debilitating denial-of-service attacks against Web sites (including KrebsOnSecurity on multiple occasions) has been sentenced to three years in a U.K. prison, and faces the possibility of additional charges from U.S.-based law enforcement officials.

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Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Swatting Case, Faces 20+ Years in Prison

November 14, 2018 admin Andrew Finch, Call of Duty, Casey Viner, justice department, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Shane Gaskill, Stephen McAllister, SWATting, swautistic, Tyler Barriss

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:27:01 +0000

A California man who pleaded guilty Tuesday to causing dozens of swatting attacks — including a deadly incident in Kansas last year — now faces 20 or more years in prison.

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Bug Bounty Hunter Ran ISP Doxing Service

November 9, 2018 admin aoler, Hackforums, Joel Ortiz, Mat Honan, Microsoft Xbox, Ne'er-Do-Well News, O&G, ogusers, Phobia, Phobias, Ryan, Ryan Stevenson, SIM swap, T-Mobile, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:52:01 +0000

A Connecticut man who’s earned “bug bounty” rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security holes in their Web sites secretly operated a service that leveraged these same flaws to sell their customers’ personal data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service

November 8, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, eSafe@usps.gov, Identity Theft, Informed Delivery, informeddelivery@custhelp.com, Latest Warnings, Ne'er-Do-Well News, The Coming Storm, U.S. Secret Service, USPS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 07:28:45 +0000

A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that lets residents view scanned images of all incoming mail, was likely to be abused by identity thieves and other fraudsters unless the USPS beefed up security around the program and made it easier for people to opt out. This week, the U.S. Secret Service issued an internal alert warning that many of its field offices have reported crooks are indeed using Informed Delivery to commit various identity theft and credit card fraud schemes.

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Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks

October 29, 2018 admin ddos-for-hire, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Paras Jha, Robert Stahl, Rutgers University

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:36:21 +0000

The convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University, his former alma mater.

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Naming & Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai

October 9, 2018 admin 9Trading, A Little Sunshine, A-ZONE, Abowone, AHWVSE, ANRAN, ASECAM, Autoeye, AZISHN, BESDER, BESDERSEC, BESSKY, Bestmo, BFMore, BOAVISION, BULWARK, CANAVIS, Cisco Systems, CWH, DAGRO, Dahua, datocctv, DEFEWAY, digoo, DiySecurityCameraWorld, DONPHIA, ENKLOV, ESAMACT, ESCAM, EVTEVISION, Fayele, FLOUREON, Funi, GADINAN, GARUNK, HAMROL, HAMROLTE, Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., Hauwei, Highfly, Hiseeu, HISVISION, HMQC, IHOMEGUARD, Internet of Things, IoT, ISSEUSEE, iTooner, JENNOV, Jooan, Jshida, JUESENWDM, JUFENG, JZTEK, KERUI, KKMOON, Koenig & Bauer AG, KONLEN, Kopda, Lenyes, LESHP, LEVCOECAM, LINGSEE, LOOSAFE, MA, Metrohm AG, MIEBUL, Mirai, MISECU, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nextrend, OEM, OLOEY, OUERTECH, P2P, QNTSQ, SACAM, SANNCE, SANSCO, SEC Consult, SecTec, Shell film, sifsecurityvision, Sifvision, smar, SMTSEC, SSICON, SUNBA, Sunivision, Susikum, TECBOX, Techage, Techege, The Coming Storm, TianAnXun, Time to Patch, TMEZON, TVPSii, Unique Vision, unitoptek, USAFEQLO, VOLDRELI, Westmile, Westshine, Wistino, Witrue, WNK Security Technology, WOFEA, WOSHIJIA, WUSONLUSAN, XIAO, XinAnX, Xiongmai, xloongx, XMEye, YiiSPO, YUCHENG, YUNSYE, zclever, zilnk, ZJUXIN, zmodo, ZRHUNTER

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:41:56 +0000

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai — a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras.

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When Security Researchers Pose as Cybercrooks, Who Can Tell the Difference?

October 2, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, All American Entertainment, AngelList, Apollo, Arnie, data breaches, exactis, Facebook, Kickass, LinkedIn, Ne'er-Do-Well News, NightLion Security, Salesforce, Soundcard, TDO, Techcrunch, The Coming Storm, The Dark Overlord, Twitter, Vinny Troia, wired.com, Yelp

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:42:24 +0000

A ridiculous number of companies are exposing some or all of their proprietary and customer data by putting it in the cloud without any kind of authentication needed to read, alter or destroy it. When cybercriminals are the first to discover these missteps, usually the outcome is a demand for money in return for the stolen data. But when these screw-ups are unearthed by security professionals seeking to make a name for themselves, the resulting publicity often can leave the breached organization wishing they’d instead been quietly extorted by anonymous crooks.

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Mirai Botnet Authors Avoid Jail Time

September 19, 2018 admin click fraud, Dalton Norman, Elliott Peterson, FBI, Internet of Things, IoT, Josiah White, justice department, Mirai botnet, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Paras Jha

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:54:40 +0000

Citing “extraordinary cooperation” with the government, a court in Alaska on Tuesday sentenced three men to probation, community service and fines for their admitted roles in authoring and using “Mirai,” a potent malware strain used in countless attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — including an enormously powerful attack in 2016 that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days.

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