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Original News Cast at CBSNews.com
Kevin Mallory was a down on his luck former clandestine case officer for the CIA when he was approached by a man the department of justice believes was a Chinese spy. Officials say Mallory was a prime target for recruitment. He was out of work, three months behind on his mortgage, and thousands of dollars in debt. But as the Chinese would discover, Kevin Mallory wasn't exactly James Bond. The Department of Justice agreed to show us how they caught Mr. Mallory and why they believe his recruitment by China is part of a massive clandestine campaign to steal not just national security secrets from the U.S. government, but industrial and technological secrets from American companies.
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Original article at BBC.com
Customers could use the sites to pick targets and then pay to have the domain, web business or individual taken offline. Generally, the bigger the payment, the more data traffic was pointed at a target. Banks, large corporations, web retailers, government agencies and many others have been hit by DDoS attacks over the past few years. The services advertised their ability to find individuals' net addresses so the data barrages could be tightly targeted. Also, many people have turned to booter services to punish others who have beaten them in online games. U. S. charges Chinese hackers in alleged theft of vast trove of confidential data in 12 countries12/19/2018 Original article at MSN.com
The hackers employed a technique known as “spear-phishing,” tricking computer users at the business and government offices into opening malware-infected emails giving them access to log-in and password details. Original article at the BBC
The US has launched a crackdown on Chinese attempts to steal secrets. American officials say the Chinese state is boosting its own companies. But in the UK there's no equivalent crackdown. Original article at BleepingComputer.com
A widespread and sneaky phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be a purchase confirmation from the Apple App store. These emails contain a PDF attachment that pretends to be a receipt for an app that was purchased by your account for $30 USD and tells you to click a link if the transaction was unauthorized. Once a user clicks the link, down the rabbit hole they go. Original article at BleepingComputer.com
A new campaign has been spotted by researchers at ProofPoint that instead of containing a bitcoin address to send a blackmail payment to, they instead prompt you to download a video they made of you doing certain "activities". The downloaded zip file, though, contains a executable that will install malware onto the computer. |
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