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Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

July 12, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, advance auto parts, allstate, anheuser-busch, at&t breach, data breaches, FBI, Latest Warnings, los angeles unified, Mitsubishi, neiman marcus, progressive, pure storage, santander bank, snowflake hack, state farm, Techcrunch, ticketmaster, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:12:20 +0000

AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people — nearly all of its customers. AT&T said it delayed disclosing the incident in response to “national security and public safety concerns,” noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent. AT&T also acknowledged the customer records were exposed in a cloud database that was protected only by a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:12:20 +0000

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Law enforcement app SweepWizard leaks data on crime suspects

January 16, 2023 admin erik mccauley, law enforcement app, news, odin intelligence, sweetwizard, wired

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Tags: SweetWizard

Tags: law enforcement app

Tags: ODIN Intelligence

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SweepWizard, an app designed to assist law enforcement is causing a bit of trouble, was found inadvertently leaking sweeping data for years.

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Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service

November 3, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, atti kurritu, hack the planet, julius kivimäki, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransom_man, vastaamo, ville tapio, william ralston, wired, zbot, zeekill

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:43:22 +0000

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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