Category Archives: doxing

The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus

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The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus:

This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header. This is personal information that the credit bureaus Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion have on most adults in America via their credit cards. Through a complex web of agreements and purchases, that data trickles down from the credit bureaus to other companies who offer it to debt collectors, insurance companies, and law enforcement…

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US Charges Two Men Over Use of Hacked Law Enforcement Database for Doxing

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Sagar Singh and Nicholas Ceraolo have been charged for their alleged roles in a doxing operation that involved hacking a law enforcement platform and email account.
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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

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In this report, we propose to go over the various activities that were observed in cyberspace in relation to the conflict in Ukraine, understand their meaning in the context of the current conflict, and study their impact on the cybersecurity field as a whole. Continue reading Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022→

Kiwi Farms Goes Offline amid DDoS Attack and Hosting Issues

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By Waqas
According to Kiwi Farms, prior to service disruption, the forum was targeted by a “DDoS attack and other forms of attempted network intrusion.”
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IT threat evolution Q1 2021

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SolarWinds attacks, MS Exchange vulnerabilities, fake adblocker distributing miner, malware for Apple Silicon platform and other threats in Q1 2021. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q1 2021→

Ransomware Is Getting Ugly

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Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. The DC police are the victims of this ransomware, and the criminals have just posted personnel records — “including the results of psychological assessments and polygraph tests; driver’s license images; fingerprints; social security numbers; dates of birth; and residential, financial, and marriage histories” — for two dozen police officers.

The negotiations don’t seem to be doing well. The criminals want $4M. The DC police offered them $100,000…

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Dox, steal, reveal. Where does your personal data end up?

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In this report, we will dig deeper into two major consequences of (willing and unwilling) sharing personal data in public — doxing and the selling of personal data on the dark web — and try to untangle the connection between the two. Continue reading Dox, steal, reveal. Where does your personal data end up?→