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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

April 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments aleksandr ermakov, Associated Press, Breadcrumbs, data breaches, embargo, Home Depot breach, jeffrey collins, mark keel, mazafaka, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nikki haley, rescator, shtazi, target breach, tax refund fraud, tax return fraud, the post and courier, u.s. internal revenue service, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:26:55 +0000

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

December 14, 2023 admin 74957809554, A Little Sunshine, bothunter, Breadcrumbs, chronopay, ika, jsc hot spot, lev tolstoy, megaplan, mikhail borisovich shefel, mikhail lenin, mikhail shefel, pavel vrublevsky, pustota, r-fac1, target breach, v.zhabukin@freefrog-co-ru, vasily borisovich zhabykin, vera vrublevsky, zaxvatmira@gmail.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:51:39 +0000

On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “Rescator,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. Ten years later, KrebsOnSecurity has uncovered new clues about the real-life identity of Rescator.

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A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s

December 19, 2019 admin ashley madison, Ashley Madison hack, awareness, badrabbit, cambridge analytica, cryptolocker, cryptolocker ransomware, Data Privacy, Edward Snowden, emotet, Exploits, Facebook, Hacktivism, Mat Honan, NotPetya, NSA, nsa spying, nsa surveillance, NSA tools, playstation breach, playstation hack, ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk Ransomware, security fails, Shadow Brokers, social media, Sony, sony pictures hack, SURVEILLANCE, target breach, target hack, trickbot, triple threat, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:03:33 +0000

As the 2010s come to a close, we take a snarky walk down memory lane, listing the craziest, most impactful, or simply just awful cybersecurity fails of the decade.

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Credit Card Issuer TCM Bank Leaked Applicant Data for 16 Months

August 3, 2018 admin Bruce Radke, data breaches, Equifax, ICBA, ICBA Bancard, Independent Community Bankers Association, Lifelock, Symantec, target breach, TCM Bank

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:48:53 +0000

TCM Bank, a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM is a subsidiary of Washington, D.C.-based ICBA Bancard Inc., which helps community banks provide a credit card option to their customers using bank-branded cards.

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U.S. Arrests 13, Charges 36 in ‘Infraud’ Cybercrime Forum Bust

February 8, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, andrey hodirevski, Helkern, Infraud, John P. Cronan, Jose Gamboa, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Rafael101, Rector, rescator, Sergey Kozerev, Sergey Medvedev, Stells, Svyatoslav Bondarenko, target breach, TonyMontana, Unicc, Zo0mer

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:04:22 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against three dozen individuals thought to be key members of ‘Infraud,” a long-running cybercrime forum that federal prosecutors say cost consumers more than a half billion dollars. In conjunction with the forum takedown, 13 alleged Infraud members from the United States and six other countries were arrested. Started in October 2010, Infraud was short for “In Fraud We Trust,” and collectively the forum referred to itself as the “Ministry of Fraudulently [sic] Affairs.” As a mostly English-language fraud forum, Infraud attracted nearly 11,000 members from around the globe who sold, traded and bought everything from stolen identities and credit card accounts to ATM skimmers, botnet hosting and malicious software.

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4 Years After Target, the Little Guy is the Target

December 28, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Blasttt-US, data breaches, Dynamittte, Jason's Deli breach, Joker's stash, Mindwise.io, target breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:36:55 +0000

Dec. 18 marked the fourth anniversary of this site breaking the news about a breach at Target involving some 40 million customer credit and debit cards. It has been fascinating in the years since that epic intrusion to see how organized cyber thieves have shifted from targeting big box retailers to hacking a broad swath of small to mid-sized merchants that accept credit cards.

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Trump’s Dumps: ‘Making Dumps Great Again’

May 25, 2017 admin dark web, DomainTools.com, Home Depot breach, Magento, McDumpals, OpenCart, Other, Powerfront, rescator, RiskIQ, rudneva-y@mail.ua, Sally Beauty breach, target breach, Tor, Trump's-Dumps, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Senate GOP Senatorial Committee hack

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 04:45:24 +0000

It’s not uncommon for crooks who peddle stolen credit cards to seize on iconic American figures of wealth and power in the digital advertisements for these shops that run continuously on various cybercrime forums. Exhibit A: McDumpals, a hugely popular carding site that borrows the Ronald McDonald character from McDonald’s and caters to bulk buyers. Exhibit B: Uncle Sam’s dumps shop, which wants YOU! to buy American. Today, we’ll look at an up and coming credit card shop called Trump’s-Dumps, which invokes 45’s likeness and promises to “make credit card fraud great again.”

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Google Points to Another POS Vendor Breach

March 16, 2017 admin 24/7 Hospitality, Brian's Dump, Home Depot breach, Jr, Other, pos breach, POSeidon, rescator, Select Restaurants, target breach, Todd Baker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:11:57 +0000

For the second time in the past nine months, Google has inadvertently but nonetheless correctly helped to identify the source of a large credit card breach — by assigning a “This site may be hacked” warning beneath the search results for the Web site of a victimized merchant.