Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service

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A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish authorities rarely name suspects in an investigation, but they were willing to make an exception for Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki, …

Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion

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October 31, 2022 0 Comments A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords …

Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

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On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at …

How Card Skimming Disproportionally Affects Those Most In Need

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October 18, 2022 0 Comments When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM, gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal, they may face hassles or delays in recovering any lost …

Anti-Money Laundering Service AMLBot Cleans House

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October 15, 2022 0 Comments AMLBot, a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that …

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2022 Edition

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Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 85 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a new zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is being actively exploited. However, noticeably absent from this …

Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

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When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released …

Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots

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A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which …

Microsoft: Two New 0-Day Flaws in Exchange Server

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Microsoft Corp. is investigating reports that attackers are exploiting two previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server, a technology many organizations rely on to send and receive email. Microsoft says it is expediting work on software patches to plug the security …

Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s

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September 29, 2022 0 Comments Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs …