Collaborate Disseminate
Bill Toulas reports: The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part… Continue reading DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
Christian Vasquez reports: The FBI is seeing progress in the fight against ransomware gangs after conducting more than 30 disruption operations this year in which officials targeted the infrastructure used by those groups, one of the bureau’s top cyber… Continue reading FBI has conducted more than 30 disruption operations in 2024
Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DD… Continue reading Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election
Catherine Belton reports: A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation… Continue reading American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show
Hurriyet Daily News reports: A court in Ankara has arrested nine additional individuals as part of a Turkish intelligence operation that dismantled an international cyber espionage network intercepting personal data. The total number of arrested suspec… Continue reading 9 more suspects jailed in MİT’s cyber spy op
Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported priva… Continue reading Google Database Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely the world’s largest botnet ever.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. Continue reading Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5, an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one’s Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later. Continue reading Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet
Abigail Carrera reports: A recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare has resulted in scammers targeting Nebraska patients. Bryan Health has received multiple reports of scammers reaching out to patients claiming to be representatives from hospitals acros… Continue reading Cyberattack on Change Healthcare has scammers targeting Nebraska patients
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to redirect to “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets. Continue reading Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers