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19-Year-Old Teen Arrested for Using Leaked Optus Breach Data in SMS Scam

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 6th 2022 at 08:25
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for allegedly attempting to leverage the data leaked following the Optus data breach late last month to extort victims. The suspect is said to have carried out a text message blackmail scam, demanding that the recipients transfer $2,000 to a bank account or risk getting their personal information misused for
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BEC Scammer Gets 25-Year Jail Sentence for Stealing Over $9.5 Million

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 4th 2022 at 12:23
A 46-year-old man in the U.S. has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of laundering over $9.5 million accrued by carrying out cyber-enabled financial fraud. Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor of Norcross, Georgia, operated a money laundering network that opened at least 50 business bank accounts for illicitly receiving funds from unsuspecting individuals and businesses after
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Researchers Uncover Classiscam Scam-as-a-Service Operations in Singapore

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 8th 2022 at 13:37
A sophisticated scam-as-a-service operation dubbed Classiscam has now infiltrated into Singapore, more than 1.5 years after expanding to Europe. "Scammers posing as legitimate buyers approach sellers with the request to purchase goods from their listings and the ultimate aim of stealing payment data," Group-IB said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The cybersecurity firm called the
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Dahua IP Camera Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Take Full Control Over Devices

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 29th 2022 at 10:49
Details have been shared about a security vulnerability in Dahua's Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) standard implementation, which, when exploited, can lead to seizing control of IP cameras.  Tracked as CVE-2022-30563 (CVSS score: 7.4), the "vulnerability could be abused by attackers to compromise network cameras by sniffing a previous unencrypted ONVIF interaction and replaying the
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