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BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

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Categories: News

Tags: BreachForums

Tags: Pompompurin

Tags: FBI

Tags: Dark Web

Tags: data breaches

After the arrest of the administrator of the Dark Web site BreachForums there was talk about keeping it alive, but now the forums will be shut down for fear of law enforcement infiltration.

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Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:39:22 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “Pompompurin” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums is widely considered a reincarnation of RaidForums, a remarkably similar crime forum that the FBI infiltrated and dismantled in 2022.

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Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

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Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: FBI

Tags: IC3

Tags: 2022

Tags: report

Tags: investment fraud

Tags: crypto-investment fraud

Tags: pig butchering

Tags: hacked socail media

According to the FBI’s annual report, investment fraud overtook business email compromise as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud in 2022.

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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:52:25 +0000

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the defendant in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the NetWire website has been leaking information about the likely true identity and location of its owner for the past 11 years.

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DoppelPaymer ransomware group disrupted

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Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Europol

Tags: FBI

Tags: police

Tags: arrests

Tags: DoppelPaymer

Tags: Emotet

Tags: Dridex

In cooperation with the FBI, European police agencies have made arrests that have disrupted the DoppelPaymer ransomware operation

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DoppelPaymer ransomware group disrupted by FBI and European police agencies

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Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Europol

Tags: FBI

Tags: police

Tags: arrests

Tags: DoppelPaymer

Tags: Emotet

Tags: Dridex

In cooperation with the FBI, European police agencies have made arrests that disrupt the DoppelPaymer ransomware operation

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ION starts bringing customers back online after LockBit ransomware attack

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Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: LockBit

Tags: ransomware

Tags: LockBit ransomware group

Tags: FBI

Tags: Todd Conklin

Tags: Financial Conduct Authority

Tags: FCA

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Tags: Prudential Regulation Authority

Tags: PRA

Tags: Tom Kellermann

Tags: Joseph Schifano

Pernicious ransomware group, LockBit, is making headlines again. Less than a month after attacking HACLA, it hit the derivatives trading division of ION Group, a financial software company.

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Hive! Hive! Hive! Ransomware site submerged by FBI

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Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: DoJ

Tags: FBI

Tags: Europol

Tags: HIve

Tags: ransomware

Tags: RDP

Tags: Patch management

Tags: Vulnerability

Tags: phishing

The DoJ, FBI, and Europol have released details about a months-long international disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group

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