Four Floridians have been charged in connection with a child sexual abuse material (CSAM) subscription service that produced millions of images and videos of sexualized minors.  International Florida-based business Newstar Enterprise, which was founded in 2005, built, maintained, hosted, and operated what appeared to be a series of legitimate child modeling websites called Newstar Websites on servers based in the US and abroad. According to court documents, Newstar was in reality “an internet-based business aimed…

Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet. In July, researchers from Fortinet reported that a new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, might have been developed by Wizard Spider, the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. The Trickbot botnet was used by threat actors to spread the Ryuk and Conti ransomware families, experts noticed similarities between Diavol and Conti threats. Unlike Conti, Diavol doesn’t avoid infecting…

Looking for an easier way to configure SSH on your data center servers? How about Webmin? Jack Wallen walks you through some of the options for better SSH security using this web-based GUI. Nearly every Linux server I administer is done via SSH. Given that I’ve been working with Linux for over 20 years, configuring SSH with an eye on security is pretty simple for me. But most often I’m doing this on smaller deployments,…

Attackers captured the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers of millions of current, former and potential T-Mobile customers. Getty Images/iStockphoto A cyberattack against T-Mobile has compromised the personal information of almost 50 million people, according to the carrier. In an update posted on Tuesday, the company said that certain customer data had been accessed and stolen by unauthorized individuals and that the data did include some personal information for a…

A CEO from Ohio has pleaded guilty to being the operator of a darknet-based Bitcoin ‘mixer’ service that laundered more than $300m Akron resident and CEO of Bitcoin media site Coin Ninja Larry Dean Harmon was at the helm of underground cryptocurrency laundering service Helix for three years, from 2014 to 2017.  During that time, the 38-year-old creator of crypto-wallet provider DropBit conspired with darknet vendors to launder over 350,000 Bitcoin generated through drug trafficking and other illegal activities. Helix partnered with…

ThroughTek’s Kalay is used to manage security cameras, baby monitors, DVRs and more. A newly discovered flaw lets attackers watch, listen and steal recordings from hardware sold by dozens of vendors. Getty Images/iStockphoto Kalay, a P2P IoT protocol developed by Taiwanese company ThroughTek, has a serious security problem: Remote attackers are able to exploit it in order to give them total, yet nearly invisible, control over devices using the protocol. The problem isn’t a minor…