Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. In a filing with the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

billion bad ads in 2018, including 58.8 million phishing ads for violation of its policies. Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, aiming at protecting users from scams and other fraudulent activities (i.e. million phishing ads. . million phishing ads. . million phishing ads. “We took down 2.3

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. CVE-2018-13379: The Eternal Exploit What is CVE-2018-13379?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals. Stamford, Ct.-based

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Impacts vary depending on users’ browsers, cookies, and third-party account activity. The company pointed out that no Social Security numbers, financial accounts, or credit/debit card information were affected. added Atrium Health. Affected individuals were notified in September.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. Lured in by similar color schemes, company logos, and familiar layouts, victims log in to their account by entering their username and password.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. In August 2018, financial industry giant Fiserv Inc.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. During that timeframe, unapproved third parties gained unauthorized access into over 60 email accounts hosted in the cloud belonging to Cetera Employees. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

A crook involved in a spear phishing scheme and that was in Kenya is facing up to 20 years in the US federal prison for stealing thousands of dollars from US universities. Amil Hassan Raage, 48, pleaded guilty last week in a southern California court to fraudulently receiving almost $750,000 as part of a spear phishing scheme.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Wondering whether he might receive email communications to that address if he registered the domain, Vegh snapped it up for a few dollars, set up a catch-all email account for it, and waited. “My accounts were hacked and if any funding is gone your [sic] sued from me and federal trade commission,” one wrote.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I would like to opt-out of here to reduce the SPAM and Phishing emails. DemandScience is what we refer to as a "data aggregator" in that they combine identity data from multiple locations, bundle it up, and then sell it. If, like me, you're part of the 99.5%

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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.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 26, 2018

It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards: Should I respond? ?? pic.twitter.com/lifCZRcICF — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. I couldn’t help myself pic.twitter.com/zvx3myyItn — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. Ooh, he’s good!

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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. ” A SIM card is the tiny, removable chip in a mobile device that allows it to connect to the provider’s network. A WORRIED MOM. GRAND PLANS.

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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

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). ” reads the study published by Proofpoint.

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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 But when the interested party inquires about the listing, they are sent a link to a site that looks like Airbnb.com but which is actually a phishing page. co.uk , airbnb.pt-anuncio[.]com

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Manipulaters’ core brand in the underground is a shared cybercriminal identity named “ Saim Raza ,” who for the past decade across dozens of cybercrime sites and forums has peddled a popular spamming and phishing service variously called “ Fudtools ,” “ Fudpage ,” “ Fudsender ,” etc.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2022

Another day, another dollar, another phishing scam that'll make you holler. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the conviction of a California man who stole more than $23 million from the Department of Defense (DOD) through a complex phishing scam. On October 10, 2018, the DOD transferred $23.5

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

link] — Nodestack (@NodestackUK) April 12, 2018. Having watched this pattern play out over the years, the offending Twitter accounts do seem to eventually realise that the strategy is either ineffective or simply pisses too many people off and cease the spam after a little while. — Nodestack (@NodestackUK) April 12, 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

Google announced to have warned users of almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks during 2019. Google shared data on alerts related to state-sponsored attacks, the tech giant revealed that it issued almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks to its users during 2019.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Over 90 percent of the users identified by Google were targeted via “credential phishing emails” that attempt to trick victims into providing their password or other account credentials to hijack their Google account. It doesn’t mean that hackers successfully compromised their Google accounts.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Bahrain, 08.04.2019 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , and NGN International, a global system integrator, analyzed cybersecurity landscape in Gulf countries in 2018. According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Researchers at Cisco Talos discovered the groups using the same sophisticated methods I employed last year — running a search on Facebook.com for terms unambiguously tied to fraud, such as “spam” and “phishing.” I long ago stopped providing personal information via any Facebook account.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

However, research indicates that phishing attacks are the most common threat — by far. Microsoft’s “ Security Intelligence Report, Volume 24 ” shows a 250% increase in the number of phishing emails and attacks since 2018. To avoid becoming a victim, it’s critical to prevent phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Experts from SecureWorks discovered a large phishing campaign targeting universities carried out by an Iran-linked threat actor COBALT DICKENS. Many of the domains used by COBALT DICKENS were registered between May and August 2018, most of them resolved to the same IP address and DNS name server. “In March 2018, the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With stolen passwords, the impact is even broader; hackers could wire funds from a breached online banking account into their own, or masquerade as someone on social media to ask friends and family for money. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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