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SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years

August 20, 2025 0 Comments doordash, judge harvey e. schlesinger, king bob, lastpass, mailchimp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, news4jax.com, noah michael urban, oktapus, plex, scatter swine, scattered spider, SIM swapping, sosa, star fraud, T-Mobile, the com, twilio, unc3944

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:47:22 +0000

A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Florida prosecutors alleged Urban conspired with others to steal at least $800,000 from five victims via SIM-swapping attacks that diverted their mobile phone calls and text messages to devices controlled by Urban and his co-conspirators.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

January 30, 2024 0 Comments 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, elijah, grails, group-ib, king bob, mailchimp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, noah michael urban, okta, plex, scattered spider, signal, SIM swapping, sosa, twilio, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:07:18 +0000

On Jan. 9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

September 5, 2023 0 Comments 1password, A Little Sunshine, adblock plus, ars technica, chainalysis, Data Breaches, karim toubba, lastpass breach, metamask, nicholas weaver, nick bax, plex, taylor monahan, The Coming Storm, unciphered, Web Fraud 2.0, wladimir palant

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:21:07 +0000

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led some security experts to conclude that crooks likely have succeeded at cracking open some of the stolen LastPass vaults.

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A week in security (August 22 – August 28)

August 29, 2022 0 Comments Binance, chromeos, cisa, cryptojackers, gitlab, Google, hikvision, lastpass, news, patch management, plex, reddit, Social engineering, trickbot, twitter

Categories: News

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Reset your password now! Plex suffers data breach

August 24, 2022 0 Comments breach, change password, haveibeenpwnd, news, plex, sign out, troy hunt

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Tags: Plex

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In an email sent to its users, Plex revealed that a cybercriminal accessed a limited subset of customer data, including emails and encrypted passwords.

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