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Airline DMARC Policies Lag, Opening Flyers to Email Fraud
More than half of global airlines do not have DMARC policies in place, opening their customers up to email fraud attacks, a new report found. DMARC Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance is considered the industry standard for email authentication to prevent attackers from...
Malicious Package
Overview MintegralAdSDK is a malicious package. The SDK distributed by the company contains malicious functionality that tracks any URL opened by the app and reports it back to the company, along with performing advertisement attribution fraud. Mintegral can remotely activate hooks on the...
The Ritz London’s customers hit by phone scams after data breach
By Deeba Ahmed London’s top hotel ‘s clients became vulnerable to phone-based identity fraud attacks after the hotel reported data breach. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Ritz Londons customers hit by phone scams after data breach...
Why & Where You Should Plant Your Flag
Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. This post examines some of the key places where everyone should plant their virtual flags. As KrebsOnSecurit...
SBA phishing scams: from malware to advanced social engineering
A number of threat actors continue to take advantage of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic through phishing scams and other campaigns distributing malware. In this blog, we look at 3 different phishing waves targeting applicants for Covid-19 relief loans. The phishing emails impersonate the US Smal...
U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling
The U.S. government is concerned about foreign interference in the 2020 election, so much so that it will offer a reward of up to $10 million for anyone providing information that could lead to tracking down potential cybercriminals aiming to sabotage the November vote. The U.S. Department of...
Chrome extensions with 80 million+ users found engaging in ad fraud
By Sudais Asif Another day, another large scale ad fraud through Chrome extensions. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chrome extensions with 80 million+ users found engaging in ad fraud...
17-Year-Old 'Mastermind', 2 Others Behind the Biggest Twitter Hack Arrested
A 17-year-old teen and two other 19 and 22-year-old individuals have reportedly been arrested for being the alleged mastermind behind the recent Twitter hack that simultaneously targeted several high-profile accounts within minutes as part of a massive bitcoin scam. According to the U.S. Departme...
17-Year-Old 'Mastermind', 2 Others Behind the Biggest Twitter Hack Arrested
A 17-year-old teen and two other 19 and 22-year-old individuals have reportedly been arrested for being the alleged mastermind behind the recent Twitter hack that simultaneously targeted several high-profile accounts within minutes as part of a massive bitcoin scam. According to the U.S. Departme...
Obscured by Clouds: Insights into Office 365 Attacks and How Mandiant Managed Defense Investigates
With Business Email Compromises BECs showing no signs of slowing down, it is becoming increasingly important for security analysts to understand Office 365 O365 breaches and how to properly investigate them. This blog post is for those who have yet to dip their toes into the waters of an O365 BEC...
Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing
Most of the civilized world years ago shifted to requiring computer chips in payment cards that make it far more expensive and difficult for thieves to clone and use them for fraud. One notable exception is the United States, which is still lurching toward this goal. Heres a look at the havoc tha...
Deepfakes or not: new GAN image stirs up questions about digital fakery
Subversive deepfakes that enter the party unannounced, do their thing, then slink off into the night without anybody noticing are where it’s at. Easily debunked clips of Donald Trump yelling THE NUKES ARE UP or something similarly ludicrous are not a major concern. We’ve already dug into why that...
Adversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA
I just co-authored a paper on the legal risks of doing machine learning research, given the current state of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Abstract: Adversarial Machine Learning is booming with ML researchers increasingly targeting commercial ML systems such as those used in Facebook, Tesla,...
21-Year-Old Cypriot Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over Fraud and Extortion Charges
The United States Department of Justice has extradited two criminals from the Republic of Cyprus—one is a computer hacker suspected of cyber intrusions and extortion, and the other is a money launderer with known connections to the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Both suspects—Joshua Polloso...
Tax Day Fraud: “Identity Theft Subscriptions” in High Demand on the Dark Web
With billions of stolen usernames, passwords, banking information and more circulating on the dark web, identity theft is an evolving and lucrative business, one notorious for exploiting vulnerable times and vulnerable populations. COVID-19 was no exception, opening up a world of new opportunitie...
Man convicted for identity theft & fraud against US Military, veterans
By Zara Khan The perpetrator was blatantly involved in victimizing thousands... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man convicted for identity theft & fraud against US Military, veterans...
TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They're Infected
TrickBot, the infamous info-stealing trojan, has been trying out a test module that accidentally pops up fraud alerts to victims. A sandboxed sample of the trojan, obtained by MalwareHunterTeam and analyzed by Advanced Intelligence’s Vitali Kremez, turns out to contain a new module, called “modul...
Secret Service Creates Cyber Fraud Task Forces
The U.S. Secret Service has created the Cyber Fraud Task Forces CFTFs, aimed at preventing, detecting and mitigating complex cyber-enabled financial crime – including making arrests and convictions. The CFTF is the result of a formal merging of two of the Secret Service’s existing units into a...
streaming.zaiko.io Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1222203
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
