But when the FBI showed up with a search warrant, Mijangos quickly admitted to much more. He worked with a few “black hat” hackers, he said, helping them transfer money and make use of stolen credit cards. He claimed that his criminal role was deliberately kept minor “because it meant...
operational security (OPSEC) faux pas or two. Hector “Sabu” Monsegur, for example, forgot to turn Tor on just once before using IRC, and that was all it took to de-anonymize him. (It also didn’t help that he used a stolen credit card to buy car parts sent to his home add...
Home Depot reports hackers accessed 53M email addresses via stolen vendor username/password — Home Depot Hackers Exposed 53 Million Email Addresses — Hackers Used Password Stolen From Vendor to Gain Access to Retailer's Systems — The hackers behind the massive credit card breach … More: ZDNet...
While G2A pockets a portion of these illegitimate sales, the original developer is stuck paying for the credit card "chargeback" fees associated with them. The issue of stolen-key reselling started gaining prominence in the industry in 2016, when indie game developer TinyBuild said it had los...
of an Xbox 360, after which the victim told police that "I received an e-mail from Microsoft indicating that a charge was placed on my credit card to purchase Xbox 360 points. This charge originated from my Xbox Live internet account that I registered on my Xbox before it was stolen....
Classifications of potentially faulty hosts using their public key and classified host versions based on whether they never, always, or intermittently produced signatures exposing private keys.Credit: Ryan et al. Once attackers have possession of the secret key through passive observation of traffic,...
the Apple CEO was furious, saying "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong... I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this...
If I steal your car and then paint on the bumper "stolen from scorcho" still doesnt change the fact that I stole it from you. Even though I did give you credit for buying the car.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>the site is in chinese. most of the people browsing that site probably cannot ...
RATs can be entirely legitimate. Security companies have used them to help find and retrieve stolen laptops, for instance, and no one objects to similar remote login software such as LogMeIn. The developers behind RAT software generally describe their products as nothing more than tools wh...
This makes bitcoins a particularly risky asset to hold. In 2011, an early bitcoin speculator claimed that he'd had 25,000 bitcoins—they were worth around $500,000 then, and would be worth more than $400 million today—stolen by a hacker. It's a story that would repeat over and over...