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Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Crack Down on Storm-1152's Cybercrime Network
2023-12-14 05:46

Microsoft on Wednesday said it obtained a court order to seize infrastructure set up by a group called Storm-1152 that peddled roughly 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and tools through a...

U.S. DoJ Cracks Down on North Korean IT Scammers Defrauding Global Businesses
2023-10-20 05:12

The U.S. government has announced the seizure of 17 website domains used by North Korean information technology (IT) workers as part of an illicit scheme to defraud businesses across the world,...

Rockstar Games reportedly sold games with Razor 1911 cracks on Steam
2023-09-06 22:10

In an ironic twist, Rockstar Games reportedly uses pirated software cracks to remove its DRM from some games they sell on Steam. [...]

Police cracks down on DDoS-for-hire service active since 2013
2023-06-16 19:27

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Serious Security: That KeePass “master password crack”, and what we can learn from it
2023-05-31 19:39

Simply put, the CVE-2023-32784 vulnerability means that a KeePass master password might be recoverable from system data even after the KeyPass program has exited, because sufficient information about your password might get left behind in sytem swap or sleep files, where allocated system memory may end up saved for later. A long-term password leak in memory also means that the password could, in theory, be recovered from a memory dump of the KeyPass program, even if that dump was grabbed long after you'd typed the password in, and long after the KeePass itself had no more need to keep it around.

Cops crack gang that used bots to book and resell immigration appointments
2023-05-16 07:18

Police have arrested 69 people alleged to have used bots to book up nearly all of Spain's available appointments with immigration officials, and then sold those meeting slots for between €30 and €200 to aspiring migrants. Those arrested include the four alleged leaders of the crime ring, plus lawyers, managers, advisors, recruiters, and intermediaries, who reportedly received "Large amounts of money" from the sale of the immigration appointments.

'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats
2023-05-13 07:14

European police arrested three people in Belgrade described as "The biggest" drug lords in the Balkans in what cops are chalking up to another win in dismantling Sky ECC's encrypted messaging app last year. Sky ECC was a subscription-based, end-to-end encrypted messaging app made by Sky Global and bundled on Google, Apple, Nokia, and BlackBerry handsets stripped of their GPS units, cameras, and microphones - the idea being that you could chat via text with other users without fear of being snooped on by the cops and others.

Microsoft and Fortra crack down on malicious Cobalt Strike servers
2023-04-06 17:04

"We will need to be persistent as we work to take down the cracked, legacy copies of Cobalt Strike hosted around the world," said Amy Hogan-Burney, the head of Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit. Last Friday, March 31, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a court order allowing the coalition to seize the domain names and take down the IP addresses of servers hosting cracked versions of Cobalt Strike.

FBI Cracks Down on Genesis Market: 119 Arrested in Cybercrime Operation
2023-04-06 09:01

"Account access credentials advertised for sale on Genesis Market included those connected to the financial sector, critical infrastructure, and federal, state, and local government agencies," the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. DoJ called Genesis Market one of the "Most prolific initial access brokers in the cybercrime world."

DoJ cracks down on cryptocurrency fraud, seizes $112 million in linked funds
2023-04-04 08:41

The Department of Justice declared the confiscation of digital currency valued at approximately $112 million connected to fraudulent cryptocurrency investments. In these schemes, fraudsters cultivate long-term relationships with victims met online, eventually enticing them to make investments in fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platforms.