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A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish authorities rarely name suspects in an investigation, but they were willing to make an exception for Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki, a notorious hacker who — at the tender age of 17 — had been convicted of more than 50,000 cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating botnets, and calling in bomb threats.

Independent Krebs

The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

April 6, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, advanced persistent teenagers, amit yoran, APT, cisa, FBI, lapsus$, microsoft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nvidia, Okta, Samsung, Tenable, The Coming Storm, twitter hack, vishing, voice phishing, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:55:38 +0000

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. But few organizations have a playbook for responding to the kinds of virtual “smash and grab” attacks we’ve seen recently from LAPSUS$, a juvenile data extortion group whose short-lived, low-tech and remarkably effective tactics are putting some of the world’s biggest corporations on edge.

Independent Krebs

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

August 7, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Aaron Mackey, Andy Greenberg, AT&T, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, Google Voice, Nicholas Truglia, robocalls, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:43:58 +0000

Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. A noticeable uptick in SIM-swapping attacks that lead to multi-million dollar cyberheists. If you are somehow under the impression that you — the customer — are in control over the security, privacy and integrity of your mobile phone service, think again. And you’d be forgiven if you assumed the major wireless carriers or federal regulators had their hands firmly on the wheel.

Independent Krebs

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.

Independent Krebs

Simple Banking Security Tip: Verbal Passwords

November 6, 2017 admin Aite Group, Andy Greenberg, avivah litan, gartner, Julie Conroy, KBA, Other, verbal password, voice biometrics, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:53:03 +0000

There was a time when I was content to let my bank authenticate me over the phone by asking for some personal identifiers (SSN/DOB) that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground. At some point, however, I decided this wasn’t acceptable for institutions that held significant chunks of our money, and I began taking our business away from those that wouldn’t let me add a simple verbal passphrase that needed to be uttered before any account details could be discussed over the phone.

Security Wired

A New Way to Securely Send Information to WIRED

April 20, 2017 admin securedrop, Security, Threat Level, wired

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:00:38 +0000

A New Way to Securely Send Information to WIRED

Announcing WIRED’s new installation of SecureDrop, a better way to securely send us sensitive tips and leaks. The post A New Way to Securely Send Information to WIRED appeared first on WIRED.

Independent Krebs

Dual-Use Software Criminal Case Not So Novel

April 4, 2017 admin Aeonhack, Allison Nixon, Blackshades RAT, Blackshades trojan, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Flashpoint, Hackforums, justice department, Kevin Poulsen, Limitless Keylogger, Mark Rumold, Mephobia, NanoCore, Net Seal, Other, Rat, remote access trojan, remote administration tool, Taylor Huddleston, TeamViewer and VNC, The Daily Beast, wired, Zachary Shames

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:41:33 +0000

“He built a piece of software. That tool was pirated and abused by hackers. Now the feds want him to pay for the computer crooks’ crimes.” The above snippet is the subhead of a story published last month by the Daily Beast titled “FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One.” The subject of that piece — a 26-year-old American named Taylor Huddleston — faces felony hacking charges connected to two computer programs he authored and sold: An anti-piracy product called Net Seal, and a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called NanoCore that he says was a benign program designed to help users remotely administer their computers. The author of the Daily Beast story, former black hat hacker and Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen, argues that Huddelston’s case “raises a novel question: When is a programmer criminally responsible for the actions of his users? Some experts say [the case] could have far reaching implications for developers, particularly those working on new technologies that criminals might adopt in unforeseeable ways.” But a closer look at the government’s side of the story — as well as public postings left behind by the accused and his alleged accomplices — paints a more complex and nuanced picture that suggests this may not be the case to raise that legal question in a meaningful way.

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