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MESSAGETAP: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages?

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Dissent

Raymond Leong, Dan Perez, and Tyler Dean report: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a Chinese APT group) that is designed to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers, IMSI numbers and keywords for subsequent theft. Named MESSAGETAP, the tool was deployed by APT41 in a telecommunications network…

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South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Dissent

From the Department of Justice: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, October 16, 2019 South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin Dozens of Minor Victims Who Were Being Actively Abused by the Users of the Site Rescued Jong Woo Son,…

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Phorpiex botnet made $115,000 in five months just from mass-spamming sextortion emails

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Researchers at cyber-security firm Check Point say they’ve tracked one of the sources of the recent rise in sextortion emails to a good ol’ friend — the Phorpiex spam botnet, also known as Trik. Check Point says that since April, they’ve seen the botnet send out multiple spam campaigns with a “sextortion” lure —…

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ANNOUNCE: Trying to build your resume as an ethical researcher and whitehat? Now there’s some help for you.

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Dissent

I won’t have much time to update news over the next few days while I am in Washington DC for the Privacy and Security Forum, but I just couldn’t wait until I got back to share what I hope is encouraging news for some of you. I know that there are a number of young…

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Together at Last: Welcome, Lee Johnstone!

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

I am absolutely delighted to welcome Lee Johnstone as a contributor to DataBreaches.net.  Lee – better known to some of you as @Cyber_War_News on Twitter  – and I have teamed up over the past 8 years or so on a number of projects or analyses. As of today, Lee’s web site, cyberwarnews.info, has been imported…

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New Extortion Scam Threatens to Ruin a Website’s Reputation

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: A new extortion scam campaign is underway that is targeting websites owners and stating that if they do not make a payment, the attacker will ruin their site’s reputation and get them blacklisted for spam. We all know, or should know, about the sextortion emails people are receiving where the sender states…

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