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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security
FBI · Oregon

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren…See the Story

Pakistan Arrests 21 in ‘Heartsender’ Malware Service

100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Authorities in Pakistan have arrested 21 individuals accused of operating “Heartsender,” a once popular spam and malware dissemination service that operated for more than a decade. The main clientele for HeartSender were organized crime groups that tried to trick victim companies into making payments to a third party, and its alleged proprietors were publicly identified by KrebsOnSecurity in 2021 after they inadvertently infected their computers…Cybercrimes · LahoreSee the Story

U.S. Sanctions Funnull for Role in $200M Pig Butchering Scam, Crypto Wallets Linked to Huione

Coverage: 5 sources
The wallets received payments directly from Huione Pay, a subsidiary of Huione Group.Feds · PhilippinesSee the Story

Feds Charge 16 Russians Allegedly Tied to Botnets Used in Cyberattacks and Spying

80% Center coverage: 5 sources
The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking operations as varied as ransomware, wartime cyberattacks in Ukraine, and spying against f…Department of JusticeSee the Story

KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS

100% Center coverage: 1 sources
KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. Read on for more about the botnet, the attack, and the apparent…Germany · GermanySee the Story

Breachforums Boss to Pay $700k in Healthcare Breach

100% Center coverage: 1 sources
In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. “Pompompurin,” is slated for resentencing next month after pleading guilty to access device fraud and possession of child sexual abuse mate…Concord, California · ConcordSee the Story

KRQE Newsfeed: Federal investigation, Lingering rain, Teens arrested, Broadcasting cuts, Park project

60% Center coverage: 5 sources
Wednesday's Top Stories Free rides on the New Mexico justice train ‘Largest fentanyl bust ever’: DEA recovers millions of pills in Albuquerque APD investigating fatal stabbing in northwest Albuquerque Report: New Mexico tree deaths doubled in 2024 Construction at intersection begins ahead of Rio Bravo Bridge replacement What to know about the New Mexico Pro Hockey Club Most travelers must have a REAL ID now to fly in US, or face extra screening…Pam BondiSee the Story

xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

100% Center coverage: 1 sources
An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Image: Shutterstock, @sdx15. Philippe Caturegli, “chief hacking officer” at the security c…SpaceX · San FranciscoSee the Story

Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S.

100% Center coverage: 1 sources
A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and co-conspirators hacked into dozens of companies in the United States and abroad, and that he personally controlled more than $26 million stolen from victims. Scattered …Los Angeles, California · Los AngelesSee the Story

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