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Popular Illicit Shop Genesis Market Seized by Law Enforcement

On April 4, 2023, the FBI, alongside multiple international partners, reportedly seized domains associated with ...

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WT1SHOP: Authorities Seize Online Marketplace Selling Stolen Login Credentials and Other PII

The United States Department of Justice released a notice on Tuesday detailing the seizure of an online ...

Your Data, Their Gain: How Threat Actors Leverage Tax Season to Commit Fraud

In 2020, the IRS identified over US$2.3 billion in tax fraud schemes, including tax return fraud. And in 2021, we ...

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Brute Force and Credential Stuffing Attacks: How Cyber Threat Actors Gain Access to Accounts—Plus Best Practices for Detection and Prevention

Brute force and credential stuffing attacks are constant threats to organizations across the private and public ...

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When Every Day Is Valentine’s Day: How Threat Actors Prey on Lonely Hearts

Theoretically, there isn’t anything wrong with Valentine’s Day. But let’s just say it like it is: Nobody ...

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OCR, Cybersecurity, and Threat Intelligence: Using Optical Character Recognition and Machine Learning to Identify Risk

Optical character recognition (OCR) can immediately help security and fraud teams augment their data collections ...

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The Flashpoint Guide to Card Fraud: How Financial Institutions Can Better Detect, Mitigate, and Prevent Fraud

Card Fraud, or carding, describes the process by which threat actors gain access to, and then leverage, stolen ...

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Your Threat Intelligence Program is Critical to Mitigating Ransomware and Cyber Extortion Risks

Ransomware and cyber extortion are responsible for billions of dollars in losses each year across industries. ...

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Preventing and Combating Online Recruitment Fraud

Last week, I was asked again about an online recruitment fraud scheme. Threat actors are reaching out to job ...

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The Vulnerability of Passwords: a Glimpse into 35 Billion Credentials

How can organizations protect themselves and their customers from dictionary, replay, and password spraying ...

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Potential Link of Compromised Zoom Accounts to Previously Compromised Credentials

Flashpoint analysts are aware of recent claims that a few thousand compromised Zoom accounts have been made ...

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Compromised Credentials: New Flashpoint Offering Brings Proactive Insight to Password Hygiene

The tendency of people to use the same password for multiple accounts presents a vexing challenge for teams ...