2017 Accountability Web Fraud 
Krebs on Security
JULY 10, 2022
Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies , which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.
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Krebs on Security
JANUARY 9, 2023
Wyden’s quote above references a story published here in July 2022, which broke the news that identity thieves were hijacking consumer accounts at Experian.com just by signing up as them at Experian once more, supplying the target’s static, personal information (name, DoB/SSN, address) but a different email address. ” Sen.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
The general manager of Escrow.com found himself on the phone with one of the GoDaddy hackers, after someone who claimed they worked at GoDaddy called and said they needed him to authorize some changes to the account. “He was literally reading off the tickets to the notes of the admin panel inside GoDaddy.”
Krebs on Security
APRIL 7, 2022
The other indictment named Russians affiliated with a skilled hacking group known as “Triton” or “Trisis,” which infected a Saudi oil refinery with destructive malware in 2017, and then attempted to do the same to U.S. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. ” HYDRA. .
Krebs on Security
MAY 18, 2020
His final post on Exploit in May 2017 somewhat jokingly indicated he was joining an upstart ransomware affiliate program. 2016 and July 2017 that sought to corner the increasingly lucrative and competitive market for ransomware-as-a-service offerings. . RANSOMWARE DREAMS.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 7, 2020
Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. The phishing lure starts with a link that leads to the real login page for a cloud email and/or file storage service. com sometime around Dec.
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