Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“The FBI and CISA [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ] are aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account,” reads the FBI statement. Until sometime this morning, the LEEP portal allowed anyone to apply for an account. ” the FBI’s site enthuses.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Randall said she didn’t notice at the time because she was in the middle of switching careers, didn’t have any active photography clients, and had gotten out of the habit of checking that email account. “I still don’t have access to it because I don’t have access to the email account tied to my old domain. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In a blog post earlier this month, Cloudflare said it detected the account takeovers and that no Cloudflare systems were compromised. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called “ Land Lordz ,” which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings. co.uk , airbnb.pt-anuncio[.]com

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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

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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

If you’re thinking of donating money to help victims of Hurricane Florence , please do your research on the charitable entity before giving: A slew of new domains apparently related to Hurricane Florence relief efforts are now accepting donations on behalf of victims without much accountability for how the money will be spent.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose credit card they’re about to charge at some website, or whose bank account they’re about to empty. Both of these identities were active on the crime forum fl.l33t[.]su su between 2016 and 2019.

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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. based United Rentals [ NYSE:URI ] is the world’s largest equipment rental company, with some 18,000 employees and earnings of approximately $4 billion in 2018. Stamford, Ct.-based

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

” Dean Marks is executive director and legal counsel for a group called the Coalition for Online Accountability , which has been critical of the NTIA’s stewardship of.US. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US . “This indicates a possible problem with the administration or application of the nexus requirements.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

” Infoblox determined that until May 2023, domains ending in.info accounted for the bulk of new registrations tied to the malicious link shortening service, which Infoblox has dubbed “ Prolific Puma.” As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US domains registered daily.US and illicit or harmful content.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Intel 471 says a rumor has been circulating on Exploit and other forums upO frequented that he was the mastermind behind GandCrab , another ransomware-as-a-service affiliate program that first surfaced in January 2018 and later bragged about extorting billions of dollars from hacked businesses when it closed up shop in June 2019.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

In May 2018, the FBI executed a similar strategy to dismantle VPNFilter, which had spread to more than a half-million consumer devices. On April 1, ASUS released updates to fix the security vulnerability in a range of its Wi-Fi routers. . ” HYDRA.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2019, someone hacked BriansClub and relieved the fraud shop of more than 26 million stolen payment cards — an estimated one-third of the 87 million payment card accounts that were on sale across all underground shops at that time. net that has emerged as a major mover of ill-gotten crypto coins.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S. political campaigns, cities and towns had paid a shady company called Web Listings Inc. The story concluded that this dubious service had been scamming people and companies for more than a decade, and promised a Part II to explore who was behind Web Listings.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. In December 2018, a then 21-year-0ld Troy Woody Jr. Woody’s complaint states that Masters also was present during his 2018 home invasion, as was another core UGNazi member: Eric “CosmoTheGod” Taylor. and refers to T.W.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru show that in 2018 the domains were forwarding incoming email to the address obelisk57@gmail.com. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” .” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

.” Multiple people who reviewed the database shared by my source confirmed that the same credit card records also could be found in a more redacted form simply by searching the BriansClub Web site with a valid, properly-funded account. million cards added; 2018 brought in 9.2 million card records for sale. million more.

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