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Month: November 2022

Global Police Celebrate $130m Cyber Busts

Almost 1000 arrested in Haechi III operation

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Experts Find 1600+ Malicious Docker Hub Images

Shared repository is also a hidden source of malware

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  • November 25, 2022

U.K. Police Arrest 142 in Global Crackdown on ‘iSpoof’ Phone Spoofing Service

A coordinated law enforcement effort has dismantled an online phone number spoofing service called iSpoof and arrested 142 individuals linked to the operation. The websites, ispoof[.]me and ispoof[.]cc, allowed the crooks to “impersonate trusted corporations or contacts to access sensitive information from victims,” Europol said in a press statement. Worldwide losses exceeded €115 million ($

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  • November 25, 2022

Interpol Seized $130 Million from Cybercriminals in Global “HAECHI-III” Crackdown Operation

Interpol on Thursday announced the seizure of $130 million worth of virtual assets in connection with a global crackdown on cyber-enabled financial crimes and money laundering. The international police operation, dubbed HAECHI-III, transpired between June 28 and November 23, 2022, resulting in the arrests of 975 individuals and the closure of more than 1,600 cases. This comprised two […]

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Operation Elaborate – UK police text 70,000 people thought to have fallen victim to iSpoof bank fraudsters

UK police are texting 70,000 people who they believe have fallen victim to a worldwide scam that saw fraudsters steal at least £50 million from bank accounts. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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  • November 24, 2022

Love Technical Writing

How to support your favorite tech and cybersecurity authors An opportunity arose that caused me to work on a home project and during that time nearly depleted all my pre-written posts on my latest blog series — automating cybersecurity metics. I’m trying to catch up and get that going again. But I finally have my house back […]

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Bahamut Spyware Group Compromises Android Devices Via Fake VPN Apps

The app used as part of the campaign was a trojanized version of SoftVPN or OpenVPN

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  • November 24, 2022

Cyber Blog Series by Teri Radichel

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Software Development I decided to summarize all my blog posts series here because with close to 500 posts I’m finding it harder and harder to find something I wrote in the past that I want to reference. Blog posts arranged by recurring topics below… Cybersecurity for Executives Series complete. I published a book […]

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