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Defending Against UNC3944: Cybercrime Hardening Guidance from the Frontlines UNC3944, which overlaps with public reporting on Scattered Spider, is a financially-motivated threat actor characterized by its persistent use of social engineering and brazen communications with victims. In early operations, UNC3944 largely targeted telecommunications-related organizations to support SIM swap operations. However, after shifting to ransomware and […]

When French law enforcement announced the arrest of four individuals alleged to be part of ShinyHunters, they also noted that a fifth individual, a British national known as “IntelBroker,” was arrested in France in February and detained. Hours later, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Intelbroker, whose real […]

Multiple French news outlets are reporting that four men in their 20’s, alleged to be members of the ShinyHunters hacking group, have been arrested. Their real names have not been released publicly, but their online monikers were “ShinyHunters,” “Noct,” “Depressed,” and “Hollow.” French law enforcement has not issued any official statement confirming any arrests or […]

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to a $177-million settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T T.N over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal information belonging to tens of millions of the telecom company’s customers. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas said in a ruling that the class-action settlement was fair and reasonable. […]

Bleeping Computer responds to headlines from another site: News broke today of a “mother of all breaches,” sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. To be clear, this is not a […]

Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to Website Planet about an unencrypted and non-password-protected database that contained 170,360 records with a total size of 116.24GB.  Fowler reports: Fowler reports that although the data appear to belong to Income Property Investments Inc., he could not determine whether they are responsible for the data storage misconfiguration or if a vendor […]