Collaborate Disseminate
Authorities say they’ve gained “full access” to the hackers’ servers.
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U.S. authorities said they are investigating “unauthorized access to telecommunications infrastructure” by hackers linked to China.
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Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population. Continue reading Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach
The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers. One of the brothers is facing life in prison for allegedly seeking to kill people with his attacks. Continue reading Sudanese Brothers Arrested in ‘AnonSudan’ Takedown
A criminal complaint says the group jeopardized lives via DDoS attack, with 35,000 attacks since the beginning of 2023.
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An international advisory says that the purpose of the “brute force” attacks is to sell the info to cybercrime forums.
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The SVR is conducting its targeting both specifically and broadly, the U.S. and U.K. cyber agencies said.
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A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012. Continue reading Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi
Intelligence officials said Monday that generative AI has thus far been a “malign influence accelerant” and not a “revolutionary” tool.
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Read more about a China-linked threat actor that has compromised more than 260 000 devices worldwide to facilitate DDoS and other targeted attacks. Continue reading China-Linked Attack Hits 260,000 Devices, FBI Confirms