Bite Sized Cyber Crime Chloe Thonus

MFA is becoming more and more common, but with every security innovation, threat actors figure out ways around them. Recently it came out that an unknown actor was bribing employees at T-Mobile and Verizon to perform SIM swapping attacks, which can compromise SMS based MFA codes.
 
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In 2007 clickbait emails could make you part of a botnet that silenced cybersecurity professionals and performed attacks for anyone on the dark web willing to pay. Not a worm, but a Trojan, this is how the Storm Worm was ahead of its time.
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There's a reason you should use a unique password for every website you use, but most people simply don't. How are you supposed to make and remember dozens of passwords for each site that are completely unique and can't be written down?
What if I told you it doesn't have to be that difficult?

XZ Utils is an inconspicuous program in many Linux distributions that allows you to compress files. However, it seems one maintainer of the open source project had much more malicious plans.
 
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Denial of Service attacks are annoying at best, and can endanger people at worst. Usually you need a lot of manpower to launch one, but a new method was developed recently that requires just one machine.
 
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Change Healthcare is a major medical clearinghouse, nearly half of all insurance transactions go through them, so when ransomware struck the effect was felt all over the healthcare industry. However it gets stranger, as the group responsible seems to have scammed their affiliates and faked a takedown.
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