Feds Seize Over 20,500 Domain Names For Selling Counterfeit Products

In a coordinated International cyber operation, law enforcement agencies have seized over 20,520 website domains for illegally selling counterfeit products, including luxury products, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and online piracy on e-commerce platforms and social networks...

Apple iPhone X Face ID Fooled by a Mask

Apple’s Face ID technology, the centerpiece biometric authentication mechanism for the iPhone X, has been cracked a little more than a week after it was introduced to the public. Researchers from Vietnamese security company Bkav demonstrated that they could fool the technology to unlock the phone...

DDoS-for-Hire Service Launches Mobile App

In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child...

#CbChats: Eric O’ Neill Chats About Hacking as Espionage, His Time at the FBI & Ryan Phillippe

Today on CbChats, Carbon Black National Security Strategist Eric O' Neill talks about his time at the FBI, his relationship with "Breach" star Ryan Phillippe and how hacking is just the latest iteration of espionage. https://www.carbonblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/EONCbchats.mp3 About Eric...

Texas Shooter’s Phone Encrypted

Government and law enforcement officials may soon reignite the debate over encryption after the FBI today revealed that the dead suspect in Sunday’s Texas church shooting was using an encrypted cellphone. FBI special agent Christopher Comb did not reveal what type of phone alleged shooter Devin...

Daphne Caruana Galizia's Murder and the Security of WhatsApp

Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist whose anti-corruption investigations exposed powerful people. She was murdered in October by a car bomb. Galizia used WhatsApp to communicate securely with her sources. Now that she is dead, the Maltese police want to break into her phone or the app...

FBI Increases Its Anti-Encryption Rhetoric

Earlier this month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech warning that a world with encryption is a world without law -- or something like that. The EFF's Kurt Opsahl takes it apart pretty thoroughly. Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray said much the same thing. This is an ide...

FBI Asks Businesses to Share Details About DDoS Attacks

The FBI has made an appeal to organizations victimized by DDoS attacks to share details and characteristics of those incidents, echoing a similar plea made last year in the throes of a relentless wave of ransomware attacks. The bureau said victims should contact local field offices regardless of...

ATM malware is being sold on Darknet market

Disclaimer and warning ATM systems appear to be very secure, but the money can be accessed fairly easily if you know what you are doing. Criminals are exploiting hardware and software vulnerabilities to interact with ATMs, meaning they need to be made more secure. This can be achieved with the he...

PureVPN Aided FBI to Track CyberStalker by Providing His Logs

By Waqas On Friday a New Town, Massachusetts based man called Ryan This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PureVPN Aided FBI to Track CyberStalker by Providing His Logs...

FBI Arrests A Cyberstalker After Shady "No-Logs" VPN Provider Shared User Logs

FBI recently arrested a psycho cyber stalker with the help of a popular VPN service and this case apparently exposed the company's lies about the "no logs" policy. Taking down cyber stalkers and criminals is definitely a good thing, and the FBI has truly done a great job, but the VPN company whos...

Spanish Court Agrees to Extradite Russian Spam King to the United States

Spain's National Court ruled on Tuesday to extradite a 36-year-old Russian computer programmer, accused by American authorities of malicious hacking offences, to the United States, according to a court document. Peter Yuryevich Levashov, also known as Peter Severa, was arrested in April this year...

October 3, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Tom Petty” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 3, 2017 - Headlines Equifax Says Cyber Attack May Have Hit 2.5 Million...

Judge: FBI Can Keep iPhone Crack and Price Secret

The FBI can keep secret the controversial details about how much it paid and who it hired to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone 5C in 2016. In a judgment .PDF released late Saturday, Judge Tanya Chutkan for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, sided with the FBI’s reasoning tha...

Judge: FBI Doesn't Have to Reveal How It Unlocked iPhone Used by San Bernardino Terrorist

Remember the infamous encryption fight between the FBI and Apple for unlocking an iPhone belonging to terrorist Syed Farook behind the San Bernardino 2015 mass shooting that killed 14 people? The same Apple vs. FBI case where Apple refused to help feds access data on the locked iPhone and, later...

Dark-Web Drug Dealer Arrested After He Travelled US for World Beard Championships

United States authorities arrested suspected dark web drug kingpin late last month while he was travelling from his base in France to the United States of America for this year’s annual World Beard and Mustache Championships. Gal Vallerius, a 38-year-old French national, was travelling to Austin,...

Fake DHS email – “Give us $350 in the next 24 hours”

Who likes threats? Nobody, as it turns out. That hasn't stopped scammers from jumping on the menacing email train - next stop, your inbox. Every now and then, we see the 419 "Hitman deployed to kill you" missive doing the rounds. On a similar threatening note, we have a fake DHS notification...

Hurricane-Related Scams

As the peak of the 2017 hurricane season approaches, US-CERT warns users to be watchful for various malicious cyber activity targeting both disaster victims and potential donors. Users should exercise caution when handling emails that relate to recent hurricanes, even if those emails appear to...

Who Is Marcus Hutchins?

In early August 2017, FBI agents in Las Vegas arrested 23-year-old British security researcher Marcus Hutchins on suspicion of authoring and/or selling "Kronos," a strain of malware designed to steal online banking credentials. Hutchins was virtually unknown to most in the security community unti...

New Ransomware Email Scam Using FBI and IRS as Bait

By Carolina Email scams have become so common nowadays that every other This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Ransomware Email Scam Using FBI and IRS as Bait...