Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2024

AT&T also acknowledged the customer records were exposed in a cloud database that was protected only by a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed). For its part, Snowflake says it now requires all new customers to use multi-factor authentication. million current AT&T account holders and roughly 65.4

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. ” AN ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Conor Freeman of Dublin took part in the theft of more than two million dollars worth of cryptocurrency from different victims throughout 2018. From there, attackers can gain access to any accounts that allow password resets via SMS or automated calls, from email and social media profiles to virtual currency trading platforms.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

troyhunt pic.twitter.com/9FMSdvVRiL — Hagen (@hagendittmer) June 3, 2018. link] @troyhunt — Daniel Parker (@CodyMcCodeFace) June 21, 2018. This is also the advice of the @NCSC [link] — Brian Gentles (@phuzi_) June 21, 2018. However, after 3 attempts of entering an Access Code your account will be blocked.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher , an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering. In some cases, fraudulent SIM swaps succeed thanks to lax authentication procedures at mobile phone stores. A WORRIED MOM. GRAND PLANS.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. Image: USPS.com. A USPS brochure advertising the features and benefits of Informed Visibility.

Accountability 279

Accountability Authentication Identity Theft Advertising 279

Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images.

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Insurance Financial Services Penetration Testing Scams 349

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Truglia admitted to a New York federal court that he let a friend use his account at crypto-trading platform Binance in 2018 to launder more than $20 million worth of virtual currency stolen from Michael Terpin , a cryptocurrency investor who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts.

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Cryptocurrency Mobile Accountability Scams 363

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug. According to an Aug.

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Mobile Phishing Authentication Accountability 341

Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” “You can buy a bot with a real fingerprint, access to e-mail, social networks, bank accounts, payment systems!,” ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused.

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Marketing Passwords Cybercrime Banking 362

Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. billion in 2018. No authentication was required to read the documents.

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Insurance Banking Identity Theft Scams 279

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2019

Unpatched critical flaw CVE-2018-15439 could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over the device. Cisco Small Business Switch software is affected by a critical and unpatched vulnerability (CVE-2018-15439) that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over the device.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

While documenting each device that needs protection is a necessary first step, a number of recent cyberattacks on water treatment systems have been blamed on a failure to properly secure water treatment employee accounts that can be used for remote access. Image: WaterISAC.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Investigators allege that between October 2016 and May 2018, Hared and Ditman grew proficient at SIM swapping, a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. .” Winblo’s account on ogusers[.]com Soon after that, his phone went dead.

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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.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

million Pluto TV user accounts on a hacking forum for free, he claims they were stolen by ShinyHunters threat actor. Bleeping Computer, which has validated the authenticity of the archive, reported that the latest record in the database was created on October 12th, 2018. accounts exposed appeared first on Security Affairs.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In 2018, the software giant took the step of doing away with passwords for people signing into its Edge web browser, saying instead they could use a number of alternatives. Since then, the company has steadily cast off the need for passwords for various accounts, and by May 2020, 150 million people had stopped using passwords.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Banking Accountability Mobile Cryptocurrency 126

Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2022

Researchers uncovered an ongoing operation, codenamed DUCKTAIL that targets Facebook Business and Ad Accounts. Experts attribute the campaign to a Vietnamese financially motivated threat actor which is suspected to be active since 2018. The end goal is to hijack Facebook Business accounts managed by the victims.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 Poorly implemented authentication can also lead to network breaches and compliance headaches. Each connection needs to be authenticated and privileges enforced. It can also enforce two-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass officially instituted this change back in 2018, but some undisclosed number of the company’s earlier customers were never required to increase the length of their master passwords. KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. ” Indeed, the theft of $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency in July 2018 was the impetus for my interview with REACT.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Strengthening identity security Enforce phishing-resistant MFA for all privileged accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Barrie said the hacker was able to read messages and notes left on escrow.com’s account at GoDaddy that only GoDaddy employees should have been able to see. “This guy had access to the notes, and knew the number to call,” to make changes to the account, Barrie said.

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Phishing DNS Social Engineering Accountability 327

Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

The credit union said the investigation that fueled the lawsuit was prompted by a 2018 KrebsOnSecurity report about glaring security weaknesses in a Fiserv platform that exposed personal and financial details of customers across hundreds of bank Web sites. Brookfield, Wisc.-based billion in earnings last year.

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Banking Accountability Passwords Technology 237

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home.

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Phishing VPN Social Engineering Media 363

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

2FA, MFA, 2-Step They may all be familiar, but there are important differences that warrant explanation and we'll start with the acronym we most commonly see: 2FA is two-factor authentication. If someone obtains the thing that you know then it's (probably) game over and they have access to your account. It's a subset of MFA.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). “The rest is just ransom.” CRACKDOWN ON HARM GROUPS?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Just attack and destroy.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2019

Threat actors targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the past months, threat actors have targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

The ne’er-do-well who set up the account below has been paying $550 a month for a Land Lordz “basic plan” subscription at landlordz[.]site The site looks exactly like the real Airbnb, includes pictures of the requested property, and steers visitors toward signing in or to creating a new account. co.uk , airbnb.pt-anuncio[.]com

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