Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Navidad: The Infectious Christmas Card

Christmas: a time for family, presents, snowball fights, cards, and malware in cards. This is the gift some people got for Christmas in 2000 that was a lot creepier than a lump of coal in the stocking.
 
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Major Columbian Energy Supplier hit by Ransomware

EPM, a major energy company in Columbia experiences website and payment portal outages as the result of potentially the biggest cyber attack in Columbian history.
 
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Dexter: The Virtual Card Skimmer

Credit card security has improved a lot, but card skimmers are still a thing. You may tug on a scanner to make sure a physical device isn't also reading your card data, but not all skimmers are physical.
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CryWiper: The Wiper Disguised as Ransomware

Ransomware is a pain, as it forces you to pay up to recover your own stolen files. But what if after paying you not only received no key, but learned your data was wiped forever and now no one has it? That is what CryWiper does.
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The International Case to Take Down iSpoof

Scam calls are common these days, but spoofing a phone number is more realistic looking than someone asking about your vehicle's extended warranty, and can cause people to lose a lot of money. Here's how one spoofing service got shut down.
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Who’s That Email Worm? It’s Pikachu!

Kids are stupid. This stupidity could lead to far more dangers than the hacking of club penguin accounts, and as demonstrated here it could lead to completely bricking a PC.Sources: https://pastebin.com/DKCQJYwH

RockYou2021: The List with more Passwords than People on Earth

RockYou2021 was an impossibly large password list, referencing the infamous RockYou data breach still used in password attacks to this day. But with more passwords in the list than humans on Earth, how is it even possible? And should we be worried about it?
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RockYou: The Data Breach that Revolutionized Hacking

Have you ever wondered how hackers crack passwords? Do they use random words? Common numbers? Combinations of both? How do you make a massive list of likely passwords? One data breach incident would contribute millions of real passwords, made by real people, to the lists still used to this very day.
 
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