A Little Sunshine – PossibleThreat Articles

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

July 30, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, b-ball blitz, beast games, discord, Latest Warnings, mr. beast, scambling, silent push, thereallo, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:46:34 +0000

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites.

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Phishers Target Aviation Execs to Scam Customers

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, association for financial professionals, BEC, Breadcrumbs, business email compromise, domaintools, financial fraud kill chain, internet crime complaint center, justy john, Ne'er-Do-Well News, palo alto networks, roomservice801@gmail.com, silverterrier, target: small businesses, unit 42

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:57:06 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss’s email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company’s customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker’s infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian cybercrime group that is actively targeting established companies in the transportation and aviation industries.

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Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aramark, Data Breaches, hive systems, ian carroll, lockheed martin, lowes, mcdonalds, nexus stealer, paradox.ai, pepsi, sam curry, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:23:20 +0000

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 companies. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story.

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DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, business insider, Data Breaches, doge, gitguardian, github, grok, marko elez, philippe caturegli, president trump, seralys, techcrunch, The Coming Storm, the new york times, the wall street journal, the washington post, twitter, vice president j.d. vance, x, xai

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:23:43 +0000

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.

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Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

July 25, 2025 0 Comments @nicelizhi, A Little Sunshine, facebook, funnull technology inc., github, gmail, hotmail, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, liu "steve" lizhi, mark rasch, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nexamerchant, nice lizhi, Paypal, twitter, unit 221b, Web Fraud 2.0, xxl4, youtube, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:06:05 +0000

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused continues to openly operate accounts at a slew of American tech companies, including Facebook, Github, LinkedIn, PayPal and Twitter/X.

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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Apple, bill marczak, citizen lab, cve-2025-43200, emerita melissa hortman, federal bureau of investigation, Google, international computer science institute, john hoffman, kash patel, Latest Warnings, lockdown mode, lorenzo francheschi-bicchierai, nicholas weaver, security tools, sen. ron wyden, susie wiles, The Coming Storm, the wall street journal, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:33:59 +0000

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren’t doing enough to recommend more appropriate security protections that are already built into most consumer mobile devices.

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Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adspro, aimed global, bropush, bytecore ag, dollyway, doppelganger, godaddy, help tds, holacode, infoblox, lospollos, Ne'er-Do-Well News, partners house, qurium, renee burton, rexads, richads, skyforge digital ag, smartlinks, spamshield, tacoloco, teknology sa, vextrio, Web Fraud 2.0, Wordpress

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:14:00 +0000

Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more resilient and incestuous than previously known.

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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

March 7, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, chris larsen, Data Breaches, FBI, karim toubba, lastpass breach, nick bax, ripple, taylor monahan, U.S. Secret Service, zachxbt

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:20:05 +0000

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing this week, U.S. federal agents investigating a spectacular $150 million cryptocurrency heist said they had reached the same conclusion.

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Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?

March 6, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, branden spikes, california russian association, congress of russian americans, constellation of humanity, cyberinc, department of government efficiency, diana fishman, donald j. trump, elon musk, inc., ivan y. podvalov, jacqueline sweet, maye musk, natalia haldeman, natalia spikes, radaris, reeve haldeman, russian american media, russian heritage foundation, russian orthodox church outside of russia, scott haldeman, spacex, spikes security, u.s. digital service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:54:40 +0000

At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also among Musk’s most loyal employees. Here’s a closer look at this trusted Musk lieutenant, whose Russian ex-wife was once married to Elon’s cousin.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alfa bank, bearhost, gootloader, interisle consulting group, intrinsec, kaspersky lab, kentik, Ne'er-Do-Well News, prospero ooo, Ransomware, securehost, silent push, SocGholish, spamhaus, The Coming Storm, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:14:58 +0000

One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing its operations through networks run by the Russian antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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