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Utah dad wanted Hoosick Falls couple killed to stop contact

February 12, 2022/in Internet Security

ALBANY — Christopher Pence’s story sounded like reality television.

A Microsoft internet security engineer, Pence and his wife lived in a huge home on a 20-acre property in a desolate area of Utah — with 16 children.

But in October, Pence’s story became more like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. That’s when the dad with no prior criminal history was charged in U.S. District Court in Albany with trawling the dark web to arrange the murder-for-hire of a Hoosick Falls couple who are the biological parents of five of Pence’s children.

On Friday, at a hearing to determine whether Pence, 41, should remain jailed as he awaits trial, a prosecutor quoted Pence’s chilling words to an administrator on the dark web. That’s where Pence allegedly tried to pay a killer $16,000 in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to handle the murder.

“Good day Admin!” Pence said in the July 20, 2021, message, which was read aloud in court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Emmet O’Hanlon. “I have a couple targets, husband wife, that I am needing removed. However, it is known that they and I dont quite see eye-to-eye on something.

“I am a couple days away from submitting the job as an accident, but before I do, I was wondering, in your experience, even if it is an obvious accident, what kind of investigation will be ran against me, knowing that we are not on the best of terms?” Pence allegedly said. “I have the $$ in CoinBase, but is there something I can do, to help obfuscate my role in this? Will agencies be looking into my CoinBase history? Thank you in advance!”

The prosecutor said Pence made it clear he wanted the couple killed but not anyone else.

“They most likely will have 3 children in the car with them… I am really trying to avoid them from being hurt,” Pence allegedly stated. “I’m wondering if a mugging-gone-wrong might be an option. Or maybe you have another suggestion? ….They currently live in NY.Thank you for your quick response.”

As the prosecutor spoke, Pence’s relatives, including his wife, father and two young children, listened in the first-floor…

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September 25, 2021/in Computer Security

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Moscow compromises USAID Constant Contact account. Beijing continues to exploit PulseVPN vulnerabilities. Ransomware updates.

May 28, 2021/in Internet Security

Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (NYTimes) Microsoft reported that it had detected the intrusion and that the same hackers behind the earlier SolarWinds attack were responsible.

Microsoft says group behind SolarWinds hack now targeting government agencies, NGOs (Reuters) The group behind the SolarWinds (SWI.N) cyber attack identified late last year is now targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations, Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday.

Russian hackers launch major cyberattack through U.S. aid agency’s email system, Microsoft says (CNBC) The Russian hackers thought to be behind the catastrophic SolarWinds attack last year have launched another major cyberattack, Microsoft warned.

Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers target email accounts used by State Department aid agency (USA TODAY) Hackers with suspected ties to Moscow launch new assaults on email accounts used by the State Department’s international aid agency, Microsoft says.

Cozy Bear revisits one of its greatest hits, researchers say: election skulduggery (CyberScoop) It looks like the Russian government-linked hacking group Cozy Bear is back in the election trickery business. The security firm Volexity publicized a spearphishing campaign on Thursday that it identified only days ago, a scheme that uses an election fraud document as a lure.

Microsoft: SolarWinds hackers target 150 orgs with phishing (The Independent) Microsoft says the state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks this week

Another Nobelium Cyberattack (Microsoft On the Issues) This week, Microsoft observed cyberattacks by the threat actor Nobelium targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants and non-governmental organizations. These attacks appear to be a continuation of Nobelium’s intelligence gathering efforts.

Suspected APT29 Operation Launches Election Fraud Themed Phishing Campaigns (Volexity) On May 25, 2021, Volexity identified a phishing campaign targeting multiple organizations based in the…

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Waikato DHB cyber attack ‘hackers’ make contact with health bosses

May 20, 2021/in Internet Security

Waikato DHB’s IT centre is the target of a major cyber security attack. Video / Waikato DHB

Hackers claiming to be behind a cyber attack that led to surgeries being postponed at Waikato public hospitals this week have made contact with health officials.

Tuesday’s attack brought the Waikato District Health Board’s entire IT network down, with officials now hoping to get the system back up and running by the weekend.

Police were investigating the attack that had affected Waikato testing laboratories, cancer treatments and email, phone and other services.

The crippling attack was also just one among a slew of daily cyber assaults hitting New Zealand’s health and hospital network, the Ministry of Health warned.

The risk patient records had been lost or privacy breaches occurred was low, but investigators could not yet be certain of this, said Waikato District Health Board chief executive Kevin Snee.

As well as bringing in outside cyber security experts, the National Cyber Security Centre was also guiding his team in how to deal with those claiming to be the hackers, Snee said.

“We’ve had a communication, but whether that is from the … malicious actors or whether it is somebody else – we have to check the veracity of that,” he said.

Health officials also confirmed Tuesday’s attack didn’t appear to be linked to a major ransomware assault on Ireland’s health network recently.

It came as high-profile cyber attacks had increasingly made headlines around the world, including the Irish attack last Friday and another that shut down an important United States’ fuel pipeline this week.

The Ministry of Health said it had encouraged DHBs and their staff to have plans ready to deal with cyber incidents and be vigilant using the internet careful.

“All DHBS face cyber attacks in various forms daily,” a Ministry of Health spokeswoman said.

“For security reasons, we will not be commenting on the response to the Waikato DHB incident in greater detail at this time.”

Waikato DHB’s Snee said the cyber breach occurred at 2.40am

One of the leads investigators were following was that it entered the health provider’s network through an email attachment.

“That is one working assumption, but we’re not…

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