Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. Cloud Router was previously called 911 S5.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw. “Luckily for many users they don’t expose the interface to the Internet,” he said.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2020

An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico’s top tourist destinations disrupted their highly profitable business, which raked in an estimated $1.2 See the video and everything.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2021

Flash helped bring multimedia content to the Internet in the early 2000s, but, within a few years, the problems that it introduced became clear. In fact, starting on January 21, in order to protect users who do not remove the software, Adobe will begin blocking Flash content from running. Flash’s death was not unexpected.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com 2015-03-09 GODADDY.COM, LLC. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.” More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

A little bit of a change of pace this week with the video being solely on the events unfolding around removing content, people and even entire platforms from the internet. These are significant events in history, regardless of your political persuasion, and they're likely to have a very long-lasting impact on the way we communicate online.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

From 2015 to July 2022, 911 S5 sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, as “proxies” that allowed customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016. According to court testimony, Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar , Liberia’s top mobile phone and Internet provider.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. ru in its early years, but for a brief period in 2007 it appears this website was inadvertently exposing all of its file directories to the Internet.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Imagine you wanted to buy some s**t on the internet. "Anonymous" "Discreet" That was July 2015, and we all know what happened next. Not the metaphorical kind in terms of "I bought some random s**t online", but literal s**t. The kind of thing you never would have thought possible to buy online until.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service providers, online gaming platforms and Web hosting companies.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

The experiment was done from a different computer and Internet address than the one that created the original account years ago. 2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers. 2015: Experian Breach Tied to NY-NJ ID Theft Ring. 2015: At Experian, Security Attrition Amid Acquisitions.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2023

In November 2021, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation were blasted out from the FBI’s email systems and Internet addresses. Pompompurin has been something of a nemesis to the FBI for several years. Coelho was arrested in the United Kingdom on Jan. 31, 2022.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By far the most curious security weakness Microsoft disclosed today has the snappy name of CVE-2024-43491 , which Microsoft says is a vulnerability that led to the rolling back of fixes for some vulnerabilities affecting “optional components” on certain Windows 10 systems produced in 2015.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

The dark web is a part of the internet that isn't indexed by search engines. Researchers Daniel Moore and Thomas Rid of King's College in London classified the contents of 2,723 live dark web sites over a five-week period in 2015 and found that 57% host illicit material. Dark web definition.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. File encryption 2013 – 2015. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

who pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in Who knows, maybe his dad will ground him and take away his Internet privileges.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Also in the data set were mSpy user logs — including the browser and Internet address information of people visiting the mSpy Web site. In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that mSpy had been hacked and its customer data posted to the Dark Web. mSpy pledged to redouble its security efforts in the wake of the 2015 breach.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2023

It remains unclear why Freenom has stopped allowing domain registration, but it could be that the company was recently the subject of some kind of disciplinary action by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit entity which oversees the domain registrars.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended. Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Sandvine has during recent years become infamous for its support to Internet repressive regimes, such as Belarus, Azerbaijan, Egypt, where its DPI equipment is used to block independent media and human rights organizations. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Threat intelligence sharing has come a long way since Valentine’s Day 2015. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW I’ll keep watch and keep reporting. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

“Users possibly impacted by this attack include those accessing these websites from outside the airport network through Internet Explorer on a Windows-based personal device or a device not maintained by SFO.”. The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password. .”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

As first reported by Cyberscoop in 2020, a trial brief in the California investigation identified Nikulin, Kislitsin and two alleged cybercriminals — Oleg Tolstikh and Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko — as being present during a 2012 meeting at a Moscow hotel, where participants allegedly discussed starting an internet café business.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Dobbs, the alleged administrator of IPStresser, gave an interview to ZDNet France in 2015 , in which he asserted that he was immune from liability because his clients all had to submit a digital signature attesting that they wouldn’t use the site for illegal purposes. ” According to U.S. ” According to U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

In 2015, a computer breach at big three credit bureau Experian exposed the Social Security numbers and other data on 15 million people who applied for financing from T-Mobile. There’s also a database that includes credit card numbers with six digits of the cards obfuscated.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet. Woody’s complaint states that Masters also was present during his 2018 home invasion, as was another core UGNazi member: Eric “CosmoTheGod” Taylor.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

That Bankir account was registered from the Internet address 193.27.237.66 Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 found that Internet address also was used to register the account “Nordex” on the Russian hacking forum Exploit back in 2006. com account created from that same Internet address under the username “Polkas.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

To make matters worse, links included in emails sent through Sendgrid are obfuscated (mainly for tracking deliverability and other metrics), so it is not immediately clear to recipients where on the Internet they will be taken when they click. ”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

“The FBI has an Internet Crime Complaint Center, the IC3, which is our main ingest point. “Whereas they might typically receive 1,000 complaints a day through their internet portal, they’re now receiving something like 3,000 – 4,000 complaints a day not all of those are COVID-related, but a good number of those are.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

“A vulnerability in the UPnP SUBSCRIBE capability permits an attacker to send large amounts of data to arbitrary destinations accessible over the Internet, which could lead to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), data exfiltration, and other unexpected network behavior.” ” reads the alert published by CERT/CC.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com 2015-03-09 GODADDY.COM, LLC. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.” More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Babam has authored more than 270 posts since joining Exploit in 2015, including dozens of sales threads. That search shows the user bo3dom registered at ipmart-forum.com with the email address devrian27@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Vilnius, Lithuania. A rough mind map of the connections mentioned in this story.

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