Bosque Animal Rescue Kennels (BARK) is trying to alert people after their website was hacked and scammers started posting pictures of purebred puppies available for adoption. If people were interested, they would fill out an adoption application with their personal information, but that information went not to the rescue center, but to the scammers, as…
Category: Phishing
Phishing attack hits L.A. County public health agency, jeopardizing 200,000-plus residents’ personal info
Hannah Fry reports: The personal information of more than 200,000 people in Los Angeles County was potentially exposed after a hacker used a phishing email to steal the login credentials of 53 public health employees, the county announced Friday. Details that were possibly accessed in the February data breach include the first and last names,…
Davis County high school students are hacking the hackers behind phishing schemes
Don Brinkerhoff reports: A group of high school juniors in Davis County are hacking the hackers to protect phishing victims. “All my friends and peers around me got hacked,” said Charles Mortensen a Davis County student. Mortensen said in one case, a friend who’s in foster care had her Instagram account hacked. That was the…
Cops Are Just Trolling Cybercriminals Now
Matt Burgess reports: Russian cybercriminals are almost untouchable. For years, hackers based in the country have launched devastating ransomware attacks against hospitals, critical infrastructure, and businesses, causing billions in losses. But they’re out of reach of Western law enforcement and largely ignored by the Russian authorities. When police do take the criminals’ servers and websites offline, they’re often…
International investigation disrupts phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost – EUROPOL
This week, law enforcement from 19 countries severely disrupted one of the world’s largest phishing-as-a-service platform, known as LabHost. This year-long operation, coordinated at the international level by Europol, resulted in the compromise of LabHost’s infrastructure. Between Sunday 14 April and Wednesday 17 April a total of 70 addresses were searched across the world, resulting…
Hackers target FCC, crypto firms in advanced Okta phishing attacks
Bill Toulas reports: A new phishing kit named CryptoChameleon is being used to target Federal Communications Commission (FCC) employees, using specially crafted single sign-on (SSO) pages for Okta that appear remarkably similar to the originals. The same campaign also targets users and employees of cryptocurrency platforms, such as Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini, using phishing pages…