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FBI’s LockBit Takedown Postponed a Ticking Time Bomb in Fulton County, Ga.

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 02:17:55 +0000

The FBI’s takedown of the LockBit ransomware group last week came as LockBit was preparing to release sensitive data stolen from government computer systems in Fulton County, Ga. But LockBit is now regrouping, and the gang says it will publish the stolen Fulton County data on March 2 unless paid a ransom. LockBit claims the cache includes documents tied to the county’s ongoing criminal prosecution of former President Trump, but court watchers say teaser documents published by the crime gang suggest a total leak of the Fulton County data could put lives at risk and jeopardize a number of other criminal trials.

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Fake DDoS services set up to trap cybercriminals

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Categories: News

Tags: NCA

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Tags: DDoS

Tags: distributed denial of service

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The British National Crime Agency has been setting up fake DDoS services to teach people a lesson in what not to do online.

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UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:26:07 +0000

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. 

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RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:29:33 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums — 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho, of Portugal — with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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MalwareBytes Security 

Online Safety Bill’s provisions for “legal but harmful” content described as “censor’s charter”

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Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:02:28 +0000

The revised Online Safety Bill has just reached the UK parliament and its determination to tackle “legal but harmful” content is making waves.

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Security Sophos 

US and UK call out Russian hackers for Georgia attacks

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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:43:24 +0000

The US and UK governments have both accused Russia of launching a cyber attack against the Georgian government last year.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/k1GSfrG1_cs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Council returns to using pen and paper after cyberattack

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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:44:46 +0000

Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OeNzmMzg6c4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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