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A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations.  But the tables seem to have turned somewhat for “Rey,” the moniker chosen by the technical operator and public face of the hacker group:  Last week, Rey confirmed his real life identity and agreed to an interview after KrebsOnSecurity tracked him down and contacted his father.

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One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background, and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the US consumer data broker USinfoSearch. 

Since at least February 2023, a service advertised on Telegram called USiSLookups has operated an automated bot that allows anyone to look up the SSN or background report on virtually any American.  For prices ranging from $8 to $40 and payable via virtual currency, the bot will automatically re

From Krebs On Security, 17 May 2021.[1]  Our analysts think this is important information and wish to share with our Red Sky Alliance members.  In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, Krebs On Security noted[2] that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that already has one of many types of virtual keyboards installed — such as Russian or Ukr