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Another One Bites the Dust: The (Apparent) End of Breach Forums

Another One Bites the Dust: The (Apparent) End of Breach Forums

| | Breach Forums, cyber threat intelligence, Illicit communities, pompompurin, threat actors, Threat Intelligence
The cycle of fraud venue shutdowns continued on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, when Breach Forums administrator Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka “pompompurin”), was arrested and charged with a single count of conspiracy to ...
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Flashpoint Year In Review: 2022 Breaches and Malware Threat Landscape

Flashpoint Year In Review: 2022 Breaches and Malware Threat Landscape

| | Breach Forums, breaches, cyber threat intelligence, Data breaches, ddos, Ransomware, threat actors, Threat Intel, Threat Intelligence
Mostly motivated by greed, threat actors will target any organization regardless of sector. Therefore, data breaches provide key insights into the methods and tactics of hackers—since they will do whatever it takes ...
Threat Intelligence Blog | Flashpoint

Breach Forums Is Marketing Itself as a Raid Forums Successor

| | AgainstTheWest, Blog, Breach Forums, cybercrime, pompompurin, Raid Forums
On March 16, just about three weeks after Raid Forums was seized, a threat actor named “pompompurin,” previously highly active on Raid Forums, launched an alternative illicit hacking community called Breach Forums ...
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