Lawrence Abrams reports that in an unsealed indictment in the Southern District of New York, the Department of Justice claimed that Joseph O’Connor, a/k/a “PlugwalkJoe,” and co-conspirators used SIM swaps to gain access to accounts for a Manhattan-based cryptocurrency company. Using this access, the alleged hackers stole $784,000 Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin from…
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Facebook sues Ukrainian who scraped the data of 178 million users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data of more than 178 million users on an underground cybercrime forum. According to court documents filed today, the man was identified as Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko, a resident of Kirovograd, Ukraine. Facebook alleges that Solonchenko…
U.S. Extradites Convicted Russian Hacker Aleksei Burkov To Russia
RFE/RL reports: The United States has extradited to Russia a Russian national sentenced to nine years in prison for cybercrimes, the Russian news agency RIA cited Russia’s Interior Ministry as saying on September 28. Aleksei Burkov was sentenced in June last year by a U.S. district court in Virginia for operating two websites that sold stolen, mostly…
Cybercriminals Abuse Donation Sites for Card Testing
From the what-will-they-think-of-next department. Researchers at GeminiAdvisory.io have an interesting report out this morning about how criminals use donation sites to see if stolen card numbers are working. As a past victim of stolen card numbers, I am used to seeing fraudsters make small charges on the card just to see if it’s working. But I…
Chinese hackers behind July 2021 SolarWinds zero-day attacks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In mid-July this year, Texas-based software provider SolarWinds released an emergency security update to patch a zero-day in its Serv-U file transferring technology that was being exploited in the wild. At the time, SolarWinds did not share any details about the attacks and only said that it learned of the bug from…
Data breach at Coalinga State Hospital reveals private information on nearly 1,800 patients
KFSN reports: On Friday, the State Hospital Department announced a privacy breach at Coalinga State Hospital. Employees have improperly provided confidential information about approximately 1,800 patients now and in the past to the US District Court in the Eastern District of California, officials said. The breach occurred on July 21, 2013, October 12, 2016, and…