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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling "catastrophic destruction" at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company's primary and backup data in the United States. The firm's founder says he now fears some 18 years' worth of customer email may be...

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New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer? Not Really

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 days ago in BlogsSecurity

Fraud investigators say they've uncovered a sophisticated new breed of credit card skimmers being installed at gas pumps that is capable of relaying stolen card data via mobile text message, thereby enabling fraudsters to collect it from anywhere in the...

A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

From krebsonsecurity.com 5 days ago in BlogsSecurity

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data...

Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 week ago in BlogsSecurity

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried...

Patch Tuesday, February 2019 Edition

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

Microsoft on Tuesday issued a bevy of patches to correct at least 70 distinct security vulnerabilities in Windows and software designed to interact with various flavors of the operating system. This month's patch batch tackles some notable threats to enterprises...

Phishers Target Anti-Money Laundering Officers at U.S. Credit Unions

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

A highly targeted, malware-laced phishing campaign landed in the inboxes of multiple credit unions last week. The missives are raising eyebrows because they were sent only to specific anti-money laundering contacts at the credit unions, and many credit union sources...

More Alleged SIM Swappers Face Justice

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

Prosecutors in Northern California have charged two men with using unauthorized SIM swaps to steal and extort money from victims. One of the individuals charged allegedly used a hacker nickname belonging to a key figure in the underground who's built...

Crooks Continue to Exploit GoDaddy Hole

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

Godaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest GoDaddy's fix hasn't gone far enough, and that...

250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency. In...

Three Charged for Working With Serial Swatter

From krebsonsecurity.com 4 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against three U.S. men accused of swatting, or making hoax reports of bomb threats or murders in a bid to trigger a heavily armed police response to a target's address. Investigators say the...

How the U.S. Govt. Shutdown Harms Security

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 month ago in BlogsSecurity

The ongoing partial U.S. federal government shutdown is having a tangible, negative impact on cybercrime investigations, according to interviews with federal law enforcement investigators and a report issued this week by a group representing the interests of FBI agents. Even...

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