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.

DNS 269

DNS Internet Internet Computers and Electronics 269

Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

. “Possible options include, for example, bot admin panels, code injection panels, shell control panels, payment card sniffers, traffic direction services, exchange services, spamming software, doorway generators, and scam pages, etc.” “Sodin” and “Sodinokibi”).

Malware 351

Malware Cybercrime Ransomware Marketing 351

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code). That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found. ”

Mobile 341

Mobile Phishing Authentication Accountability 341

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

According to Russian prosecutors, the scam went like this: Consumers would receive an SMS with links to sites that falsely claimed a number of well-known companies were sponsoring drawings and lotteries for people who enrolled or agreed to answer surveys. Zukhov was arrested in Bulgaria in 2018 and extradited to the United States.

Banking 232

Banking Marketing DDOS Risk 232

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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Scams Marketing Internet Internet 296

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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Phishing Scams Passwords Web Fraud 328

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity examined a huge network of phishing sites masquerading as the top carding stores which all traced back to a web development group in Pakistan that’s apparently been stealing from thieves for years. After all, nobody who gets phished or scammed is going to report the crime to the authorities.

Phishing 362

Phishing Cybercrime Accountability Advertising 362

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.

VPN 351

VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 351

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S. Also,US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S.

Phishing 294

Phishing Telecommunications Government DNS 294