Ne’er-Do-Well News – Page 26 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:27:23 +0000

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher, an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering. Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.”

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July 16, 2018 admin

‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:09:51 +0000

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “LuminosityLink,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide.

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May 29, 2018 admin

Will the Real Joker’s Stash Come Forward?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 16:33:34 +0000

For as long as scam artists have been around so too have opportunistic thieves who specialize in ripping off other scam artists. This is the story about a group of Pakistani Web site designers who apparently have made an impressive living impersonating some of the most popular and well known “carding” markets, or online stores that sell stolen credit cards.

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May 24, 2018 admin

3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 17:45:52 +0000

Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.

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April 25, 2018 admin

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:41:37 +0000

Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years.

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April 20, 2018 admin

Is Facebook’s Anti-Abuse System Broken?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:59:28 +0000

Facebook has built some of the most advanced algorithms for tracking users, but when it comes to acting on user abuse reports about Facebook groups and content that clearly violate the company’s “community standards,” the social media giant’s technology appears to be woefully inadequate.

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March 29, 2018 admin

Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:08:16 +0000

Take care when typing a domain name into a browser address bar, because it’s far too easy to fat-finger a key and wind up somewhere you don’t want to go. For example, if you try to visit some of the most popular destinations on the Web but omit the “o” in .com (and type .cm instead), there’s a good chance your browser will be bombarded with malware alerts and other misleading messages — potentially even causing your computer to lock up completely. As it happens, many of these domains appear tied to a marketing company whose CEO is a convicted felon and once self-proclaimed “Spam King.”

Independent Krebs

February 27, 2018 admin

Bot Roundup: Avalanche, Kronos, NanoCore

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:10:52 +0000

It’s been a busy few weeks in cybercrime news, justifying updates to a couple of cases we’ve been following closely at KrebsOnSecurity. In Ukraine, the alleged ringleader of the Avalanche malware spam botnet was arrested after eluding authorities in the wake of a global cybercrime crackdown there in 2016. Separately, a case that was hailed as a test of whether programmers can be held accountable for how customers use their product turned out poorly for 27-year-old programmer Taylor Huddleston, who was sentenced to almost three years in prison for making and marketing a complex spyware program.