Exposing the ransomware lie to “leave hospitals alone”
Ransomware gangs are getting more ruthless to increase the pressure on their victims. Now, even swatting cancer patients seems to be on the table.
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Swatting-as-a-Service is a growing and complicated problem to solve
Categories: News Tags: swatting Tags: caller ID spoofing Tags: telegram Tags: cryptocurrency Tags: AI generated voice Using a false call to deploy emergency services to the address of a victim or a school has been turned into Swatting-as-a-Service |
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Read moreBotched Crypto Mugging Lands Three U.K. Men in Jail
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:55:25 +0000
Three men in the United Kingdom were arrested this month after police responding to an attempted break-in at a residence stopped their car as they fled the scene. The authorities found weapons and a police uniform in the trunk, and say the trio intended to assault a local man and force him to hand over virtual currencies.
Read moreViolence-as-a-Service: Brickings, Firebombings & Shootings for Hire
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:59:13 +0000
A 21-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with stalking in connection with a federal investigation into groups of cybercriminals who are settling scores by hiring people to carry out physical attacks on their rivals. Prosecutors say the defendant recently participated in several of these schemes — including firing a handgun into a Pennsylvania home and torching a residence in another part of the state with a Molotov Cocktail.
Read moreKrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:58:56 +0000
Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week — “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet” — in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. The debut episode explores the far-too-common harassment tactic of “swatting” — wherein fake bomb threats or hostage situations are phoned in to police as part of a scheme to trick them into visiting potentially deadly force on a target’s address.
Read moreHackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:01:36 +0000
Law enforcement believes that these hackers duping major tech companies are teenagers. But they are causing severe harm.
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Read moreLeaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:09:39 +0000
KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects. T-Mobile says no customer or government information was stolen in the intrusion. LAPSUS$ is known for stealing data and then demanding a ransom not to publish or sell it. But the leaked chats indicate this mercenary activity was of little interest to the tyrannical teenage leader of LAPSUS$, whose obsession with stealing and leaking proprietary computer source code from the world’s largest tech companies ultimately led to the group’s undoing.
Read moreMan Who Hired Deadly Swatting Gets 15 Months
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:59:02 +0000
An Ohio teen who recruited a convicted serial swatter to fake a distress call that ended in the police shooting an innocent Kansas man in 2017 has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
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