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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson recently announced plans for a new study of personalized pricing under Section 6(b) of the FTC Act.
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Here’s another case where the folks who were supposed to be the good guys helping you may be harming you. Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” a U.S. and Israeli national, was arraigned today in the Eastern District of New York on wire fraud charges relating to Pinhasi’s false representations……
DataBreaches.net
The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to use proprietary technology to recover encrypted data.
BleepingComputer
The investigation into the incident revealed cybercriminals were able to breach the Fines/Fees and Restitution Enforcement (FARE) Program, a statewide program that helps the court collect outstanding debts tied to traffic and criminal violations.
The Record
How a recent Supreme Court decision on geofencing influenced a federal judge to toss a sheriff’s Flock camera evidence in a drug trafficking case.
The Record
A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle “Rey,” was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of…
Krebs on Security
The individual was detained in May and has been extradited to Germany to face hacking charges.
SecurityWeek
An infrastructure engineer used his knowledge of his employer’s network to lock administrators out, disrupt servers and demand $750,000 in Bitcoin. He will now spend almost three years behind bars. A former infrastructure engineer who turned his privileged access against his employer, sabotaging its computer network before demanding ransom, has been sentenced to 32 months…
Bitdefender
Denmark is reviewing security controls around its national citizen registry after unauthorized parties exploited a company’s access credentials to harvest records on approximately 8.8 million people over a 10-day period. The breach covers people living in Denmark as well as individuals who have died or moved abroad, while people with protected names and addresses were…
CSO Online UK
Privacy International
A North Carolina musician was sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music in a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme.
BleepingComputer
The net is tightening around the Shiny Hunters cybercrime group following the reported arrest of a second member.
Malwarebytes