Cyber Crime Anonymous: Operation Beast purpose is to bring down websites and social media accounts that create and distribute beastiality images and video. Surprisingly, not all states and countries have laws against beastiality partly making Operation Beast a political movement. I had the opportunity to speak with two of the leaders of the operation – Priscilla, and Rekt.
https://twitter.com/AnonyOpBEAST/status/952928676315885568
Cyber Crime A relationship between Alex Pelzer, a musician, and a young girl began on YouTube through the music he created and the innocent comments she would leave. On the surface, this case appears to be a musician that lures underage girls into a sexual relationship through the Internet, but there is a lot more than meets the eye. This story details how a rape case was buried, and the possible ties to a pedophile ring in Washington D.C. The real name of MommaBear and the name of her daughter and the details about their life are not used so that their identities will remain protected. Read more “How a rape case was buried”
Cyber Crime At the beginning of every year the Ponemon Institute releases a study on data breaches for the previous year. IBM Security has sponsored the study the last few years and this year is no different. 419 companies across 13 countries were interviewed that includes the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, France, Brazil, Japan, Italy, India, Canada, South Africa, the Middle East (includes UAE and Saudi Arabia), and the ASEAN region (Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia). The overall results are disappointing and equally hopeful, so it’s safe to say that the 2017 data breaches show the good and bad of what companies are doing with their security programs. Read more “2017 data breaches: good and bad”
Cyber Crime Proofpoint has been tracking a botnet that mines a cryptocurrency called Monero. What makes Monero attractive for attackers is that it’s a private digital currency that is advertised as secure, private, and untraceable. Bitcoin has been dropping in value while Ethereum and Monero have gained value, and Bitcoin doesn’t have complete anonymity making it less usable for the commission of a crime. Today, I’m covering a Monero mining botnet called Smominru. Read more “Monero mining botnet is making a fortune”
Cyber Crime I covered WordPress keylogger scripts served from the domain cloudflare[.]solutions in a previous article that we published. Well, the script authors are back at it again, and this time they have registered three domains to server up and control their malware. Read more “A WordPress keylogger has returned”
Cyber Crime The hacking group Anonymous came to the forefront of America’s consciousness in 2008 when they took on the Church of Scientology. Anonymous is known as a hacktivist group in which they create operations or projects for specific activist causes. Of all the operations, Operation Child Safety and other pedophile hunting teams discover the most gruesome images that can quickly cause mission fatigue, but they press on. Read more “Anonymous: Operation Child Safety”
Cyber Crime Sorry Mac users, you’re not as secure as you’ve been lead to believe. Granted, Linux being insecure has always been the case and isn’t a recent development.
The fruitfly malware has been in operation for 13 years and was created by a man from Ohio, and the creator and distributor, Phillip Durachinsky, faces a 16 count indictment. Read more “Fruitfly malware spied on Mac users”
Cyber Crime I’ve written about IoT threats in the past about Huwaei Gateways, Netgear routers, and IP cameras, but this time I’m covering the must-have device over the past couple years. Smart speakers. Read more “Shodan Adventures Part 4 – Smart Speakers”