Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

There are some scams on Steam which have stood the test of time. Like Steam phishing campaigns, this particular Steam scam—referred to loosely as the “I accidentally reported you” or “I accidentally reported your account” scam—has been coming and going since initial reports of it emerged in late 2018.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. com , which DomainTools.com says was registered way back in September 2018 to an individual in Nigeria. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of negative consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. 30, 2018 through Oct. 26, 2018 — 58 days’ worth of spam.” “Talos extracted all messages from these two sextortion campaigns that were received by SpamCop from Aug.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

From there, the attackers can reset the password for any online account that allows password resets via SMS. In the days following the Twitter mass-hack, O’Connor was quoted in The New York Times denying any involvement in the Twitter bitcoin scam. “I don’t care,” O’Connor told The Times.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

Terpin alleges that crooks stole almost $24 million worth of cryptocurrency after fraudulently executing a “SIM swap” on his mobile phone account at AT&T in early 2018. He soon learned his AT&T password had been changed remotely after 11 attempts in AT&T stores had failed.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. DigitalOcean said the MailChimp incident resulted in a “very small number” of DigitalOcean customers experiencing attempted compromises of their accounts through password resets. Image: Cloudflare.com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ALWAYS IN DISCORD.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2021

There’s been a number of scams targeting fans of major upcoming video game releases over the last week or two. Early access, where players are granted first look at a title by paying or for free, is where our latest scam lies. This is perfect bait for younger gamers who may not be aware of this type of scam attempt.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2023

You may have seen a worrying report of Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used in a virtual kidnapping scam. Unfortunately, with the daughter out of sight this just made the scam seem more believable. Virtual kidnapping scams have been around for many years , but this is a new spin on a well-worn technique. A plausible alert.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. The Apollon market , one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming, vendors and customers reported suspicious behavior of its administrators. ” continues Darknetstats.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The last bit is particularly important as I logon and would firstly, like my password not to be eavesdropped on and secondly, would also like to keep my financial information on the website secure. However, moments later: Amazing to see these scams still running after all these years.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. In the world of online scams, criminals care about one thing: Your money. Don’t lose thousands upon thousands of dollars.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. Examples of typosquatting are easy to come by.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You may recall we’ve covered a lot of Discord scams previously. This week it’ll be a bot promoting a “red hot” offer from 2018. Depending on the scam, they could also be used to send spam messages to an even bigger audience. All from friend accounts, all the same stupid language none of them use, all the same fake scam links.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The.RAR is password protected, with the password being supplied in the YouTube description. In 2018, Fortnite gamers were targeted by scammers pushing Trojan.Malpack files as Fortnite freebies. Target machines are scanned for card details, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets and other forms of data. Tips to avoid scams.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

It does not appear USPS account passwords were exposed via this API, although KrebsOnSecurity conducted only a very brief and limited review of the API’s rather broad functionality before reporting the issue to the USPS. “This could easily be leveraged to build up mass targeted spam or spear phishing,” Hansen said.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

link] — Nodestack (@NodestackUK) April 12, 2018. In the case above, HostGator was being taken to task for storing passwords in a retrievable fashion (i.e. gdlinux — Guardian Digital (@gdlinux) April 13, 2018. — Jason Snelders (@JasonSnelders) April 12, 2018. I'll come back to that.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?,

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The current website for Saim Raza’s Fud Tools (above) offers phishing templates or “scam pages” for a variety of popular online sites like Office365 and Dropbox. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters. Shahzad’s postings on Facebook are even more revelatory: On Aug.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Time is of the essence in these attacks because many companies that rely on VPNs for remote employee access also require employees to supply some type of multi-factor authentication in addition to a username and password — such as a one-time numeric code generated by a mobile app or text message.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 24, 2021

We’ve received a number of similar reports from people that have been scammed or simply wanted to alert us. They asked us to download TeamViewer and share the ID and password so they could connect. They typically use the SysKey Windows utility to put a password that only they know. Fake renewal notifications.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The user “ Transfer ” advertised and sold access to 911 from 2016 to 2018, amid many sales threads where they advertised expensive electronics and other consumer goods that were bought online with stolen credit cards. 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

OCTOBER 2, 2018

No secret access or password was needed to view the documents. Just like my speaker bureau, Apollo had simply put all this data up on an Amazon server that anyone on the Internet could access without providing a password. And in any case the whole thing was starting to smell like a shakedown or scam. No passwords, sorry.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

Lately there has been a media-driven craze in the fraud community to call every crypto-investment scam "Pig Butchering." While the term has been used in Chinese media since at least 2018, it really became famous after the courageous actions of a human trafficking victim who was caught up in the game. pán or "butchering plate.")

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. As part of this mindset, more consumers are subscribing to a personal VPN service which they use to shield themselves from disinformation sweeps and to protect themselves from Covid 19-related hacks and scams.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

“As of April 2018, Yakubets was in the process of obtaining a license to work with Russian classified information from the FSB,” notes a statement from the Treasury. Some tips from Europol on how to spot money mule recruitment scams dressed up as legitimate job offers. This is interesting because the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

. “At the same time, we brought in information technology consultants to review the security and stability of our system, change all passwords, and verify the integrity of our databases and other pertinent information.” ” Stec added. “They have determined the breach was limited to only two email accounts.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“The British Council takes its responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) very seriously. ” The impacted individuals are exposed to a broad range of malicious activities, including identity theft, phishing attacks, and scams. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

billion data records were compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018 – a 72 percent rise in the number of lost, stolen or compromised records reported in the first six months of 2017. Stolen usernames and passwords are loaded up on botnets, which then relentlessly test them on account logon pages.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. Examples of typosquatting are easy to come by.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This allowed them to access many apps and ask for password resets, which often confirm the request is intended for the correct user by sending a "Two Factor Authentication" request in the form of an SMS message. How do Phone Company Insiders enable these scams?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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