A Little Sunshine – Page 15 – PossibleThreat Articles

Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

January 9, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, annualcreditreport.com, Data Breaches, experian, jenya kushnir, Ne'er-Do-Well News, sen. ron wyden, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:05:15 +0000

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number.

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

December 13, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, breached, Data Breaches, FBI, infragard, pompompurin, RaidForums, usdod, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:54:21 +0000

InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself.

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Judge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google

December 5, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, dmitry starovikov, glupteba botnet, Google, halimah delaine prado, igor litvak, Ne'er-Do-Well News, royal hansen, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:44:50 +0000

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for tortious interference in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. The judge in the case was not amused, found for the plaintiff, and ordered the defendants and their U.S. attorney to pay Google’s legal fees.

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ConnectWise Quietly Patches Flaw That Helps Phishers

December 1, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, connectwise, cybir, goto, ken pyle, lastpass, Latest Warnings, tarran street, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:35:11 +0000

ConnectWise, a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link. The warning comes just days after the company quietly patched a vulnerability that makes it easier for phishers to launch these attacks.

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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

November 28, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, arello-mobile, army times, constella intelligence, foreign adtech, intelligence authorization act for 2023, Latest Warnings, max konev, national training center, pincer trojan, pushwoosh, reuters, The Coming Storm, u.s. army, yuri shmakov, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:08:21 +0000

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan, malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices.

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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

November 17, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, cybersecurity & infrastructure security agency, digital ocean, FBI, joel lathrop, lance james, Ransomware, security tools, unit 221b, zeppelin decryptor, zeppelin ransomware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:30:26 +0000

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things,… Read More »

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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

November 16, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alex holden, disneyland team, gozi trojan, Hold Security, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0, web injects

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:32:00 +0000

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic and Ukrainian.

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Lawsuit Seeks Food Benefits Stolen By Skimmers

November 10, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, deborah harris, supplemental nutrition and assistance program, the center for law and social policy, the massachusetts law reform institute, u.s. department of agriculture

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:11:10 +0000

A nonprofit organization is suing the state of Massachusetts on behalf of thousands of low-income families who were collectively robbed of more than a $1 million in food assistance benefits by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and grocery store checkout lanes across the state. Federal law bars states from replacing these benefits using federal funds, and a recent rash of skimming incidents nationwide has disproportionately affected those receiving food assistance via state-issued prepaid debit cards.

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LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates

November 4, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, employment fraud, security tools

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:09:52 +0000

For whatever reason, the majority of the phony LinkedIn profiles reviewed by this author have involved young women with profile photos that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. We’re seeing rapid advances in AI-based synthetic image generation technology and we’ve created a deep learning model to better catch profiles made with this technology. AI-based image generators can create an unlimited number of unique, high-quality profile photos that do not correspond to real people. Fake accounts sometimes use these convincing, AI-generated profile photos to make their fake LinkedIn profile appear more authentic.

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Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service

November 3, 2022 0 Comments 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.