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Nov 3, 20211 min read
FBI Memo Warns of Hacktivist Attacks Against Several Government Agencies
An FBI memo seen by Reuters makes reference to Anonymous attacks and compromised data from multiple government agencies including the...


Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20211 min read
Anonymous Stratfor Hacker Sentenced to 10 Years
Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, associated with the hacker groups Anonymous and Antisec, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on November 15th...

Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20212 min read
Fraudsters Used Spear Phishing Tactics to Initiate Attacks Against New York Times and Other Websites
In a high profile attack led by the Syrian Electronic Army against the New York Times and other websites, users accessing the affected...


Fraud Practice
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Anonymous Posts Bank Exec Data Stolen from the Federal Reserve
The personal information of over 4,000 banking executives was stolen from a compromised server at the Federal Reserve and then posted...

Fraud Practice
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Anonymous Warns They Will be Active in 2013, but McAfee Report Predicts their Decline
Over the final weekend of 2012 hacktivist group Anonymous released a video and statement that they will be busy in 2013 citing the...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Amidst Organized Attacks Against Two Major Banks, Cyber Threat Level Raised to “High”
After distributed denial of service attacks disrupted Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase websites in late September the Financial...


David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min read
AntiSec Hackers Claim Data from 12 million Apple Users Stolen from FBI
The hactivist group AntiSec, associated with Anonymous, released a list of one million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) while...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20215 min read
PRESS RELEASE: 2011: The Year Of The Data Breach
Sarasota, FL, January 6, 2012 / Internal Release - While companies focus their fraud prevention efforts on direct third party fraud, they...


David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Anonymous Continues Holiday Hacking Spree
Hactivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec continue their holiday hacking routine called LulzXmas after stealing sensitive data from...


David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Anonymous Hacks UN, Threatens Banks
The high profile data breaches continue in 2011 as Anonymous posted 1,000 user names and passwords taken from the United Nations. A...
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