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28 Aug, 2020

Sendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, CAUCE, Invaluement.com, Kromatix, Neil Schwartzman, Rob McEwen, Sendgrid, Steve Pugh, The Coming Storm, Twilio

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. …

27 Aug, 2020

Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Hieu Minh Ngo, identity theft, Lance Ealy, Matt O'Neill, Ne'er-Do-Well News, tax refund fraud, U.S. Secret Service

Yesterday’s piece told the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo, a hacker the U.S. Secret Service described as someone who caused more material financial harm to more Americans than any other convicted cybercriminal. Ngo was recently deported back to his home country after serving more than seven years in prison for running multiple identity theft services. He now says he wants to use his experience to convince other cybercriminals to use their skills for good. Here’s a look at what happened after he got busted. …

26 Aug, 2020

Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Court Ventures, Experian, Findget, Global Investigative Operations Center, Hieu Minh Ngo, hieupc, Matt O'Neill, MicroBilt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Superget, TLO, Trans Union, U.S. Info Search, U.S. Secret Service

At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “Hieupc” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world’s top data brokers. That is, until his greed and ambition played straight into an elaborate snare set by the U.S. Secret Service. Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. …

21 Aug, 2020

FBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat

Cybersecurity CISA, COVID-19, fbi, Latest Warnings, Security Tools, The Coming Storm, vishing

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “vishing” attacks targeting companies. The advisory came less than 24 hours after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at a crime group offering a service that people can hire to steal VPN credentials and other sensitive data from employees working remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic. …

19 Aug, 2020

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

Cybersecurity Allison Nixon, domaintools, Latest Warnings, Security Keys, The Coming Storm, Unit 221B, urlscan.io, vishing, VPN phishing, Yubico, Yubikey, Zack Allen, ZeroFOX

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. …

19 Aug, 2020

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

Cybersecurity Allison Nixon, domaintools, Latest Warnings, Security Keys, The Coming Storm, Unit 221B, urlscan.io, vishing, VPN phishing, Yubico, Yubikey, Zack Allen, ZeroFOX

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. …

17 Aug, 2020

Cybersecurity adobe acrobat, adobe reader, Black Hat, CVE-2020-1048, CVE-2020-1337, CVE-2020-1380, CVE-2020-1464, CVE-2020-1472, Dustin Childs, Internet Explorer zero-day, Latest Warnings, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2020, Other, Satnam Narang, Tenable, Time to Patch, Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

s0x • Austin Managed IT Services

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Sendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts

Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II

Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

FBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years

Medical Debt Collection Firm R1 RCM Hit in Ransomware Attack

Why & Where You Should You Plant Your Flag

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2020 Edition

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