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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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You’ve probably never heard of “16Shop,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you.

Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. INTERPOL said authorities in Indonesia arrested the 21-year-old proprietor and one of his alleged facilitators, and that a third suspect was apprehended in Japan. Continue reading Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop→

INTERPOL Dismantles Infamous ’16shop’ Phishing-as-a-Service Platform

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The cybercrime platform 16shop sold hacking tools and other malicious tools used to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries.
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What goes around comes around: Researchers find backdoor in pirated Apple phishing kit

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Criminals accustomed to planting backdoors in software may be getting a taste of their own medicine. Researchers at cybersecurity company Akamai Technologies have found a backdoor in a bootlegged version of 16Shop, a popular phishing kit marketed to criminals targeting Apple users. The data leaks to a channel on the encrypted messaging service Telegram, meaning a victim’s data could be stolen by anyone using the pirated kit, but also by anyone accessing the channel. “Someone spent a lot of time and effort to build a really good toolkit and to get more money out of that” by planting the backdoor, said Or Katz, principal lead security researcher at Akamai, which published research on 16Shop on Tuesday. The phishing kit consists of hundreds of files, including login pages that spoof targeted platforms. Industry analysts have been tracking 16Shop since at least last year, and have traced the kit’s development to an Indonesian […]

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