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Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being "USDoD," a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI's InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population.

Also: Internet Archive Limps Back Online, Beware Kerbertoasing and Passkey TakeupThis week, Brazilian police arrested USDoD, Internet Archive is recovering, a Microsoft warning over Kerberoasting and of mounting phishing attacks, Google touted memory safety efforts, Volkswagen said no harm after ransomware attack, and Amazon reported over 175 million customers using passkeys.

Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief Brazilian police are being cagey with the details about the arrest of a person suspected to be responsible for various high-profile data thefts.…

A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil's Polícia Federal in "Operation Data Breach". [...]

DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil The Internet Archive has come back online, in slightly degraded mode, after repelling an October 9 DDoS attack and then succumbing to a raid on users' data.…

A new spear-phishing campaign targeting Brazil has been found delivering a banking malware called Astaroth (aka Guildma) by making use of obfuscated JavaScript to slip past security guardrails

Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a surge of malicious activities involving a threat actor group that we track as Water Makara. This group is targeting enterprises in Brazil, deploying banking malware using obfuscated JavaScript to slip past security defenses.