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USB charging stations – can you trust them? What are the real risks, and how can you keep your data safe on the road? Continue reading FBI and FCC warn about “Juicejacking” – but just how useful is their advice?
KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about “juice jacking,” a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile device into a public charging kiosk. It remains unclear what may have prompted the alerts, but the good news is that there are some fairly basic things you can do to avoid having to worry about juice jacking. Continue reading Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?
Everyone’s talking juice-jacking – but has anyone ever been juice-jacked? Uber suffers yet another data breach, but it hasn’t been hacked. And Carole hosts the “AI-a-go-go or a no-no?” quiz for Dave and Graham.
All this and much much more is discuss… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #317: Another Uber SNAFU, an AI chatbot quiz, and is juice-jacking genuine?
Travellers are being told to be wary when plugging their smartphones and laptops into USB chargers.
But has anyone ever actually been juice-jacked in the real world? Continue reading Plenty of juice-jacking scare stories, but precious little juice-jacking
The FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations, worrying that the combination power-data port can be used to inject malware onto the devices:
Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels, or shopping centers. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices that access these ports. Carry your own charger and USB cord and use an electrical outlet instead.
How much of a risk is this, really? I am unconvinced, although I do carry a USB condom for charging stations I find suspicious…
Continue reading FBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations
By Waqas
APT28, or Fancy Bear, is a Russian government-backed nefarious hacking group known for using spear-phishing campaigns against its targets.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukrainian Hackers Breach Email of APT28 Leader,… Continue reading Ukrainian Hackers Breach Email of APT28 Leader, Who’s Wanted by FBI
Sextortion victims are already in a vulnerable position, and shady companies are taking advantage of this vulnerability to offer “sextortion assistance” services for huge sums – services that they may be unable to render or that won&#… Continue reading Beware of companies offering paid sextortion assistance
Genesis Market is shut down:
Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials.
But earlier today, multiple domains associated with Genesis had their homepages replaced with a seizure notice from the FBI, which said the domains were seized pursuant to a warrant issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin…
By Waqas
The FBI and European authorities have seized Genesis Market’s clearnet domains as part of the ongoing Operation Cookie…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Genesis Market’s Clearnet domain seized; Dark We… Continue reading Genesis Market’s Clearnet domain seized; Dark Web site still online
Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with “dozens” of arrests in the United States and abroad targeting those who allegedly operated the service, as well as suppliers who continuously fed Genesis Market with freshly-stolen data. Continue reading FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers