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.

Hacking 289

Hacking Government Media Accountability 289

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2021

bitcoins from one account to another — by pasting the lengthy payment address he’d just copied — the malware replaced his bitcoin payment address with a different address controlled by the young men. When Schober went to move approximately 16.4 None of the parties to this lawsuit responded to requests for comment.

Cryptocurrency 349

Cryptocurrency Malware Mobile Accountability 349

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

Scams 249

Scams Advertising Accountability Phishing 249

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“According to the analysis of foreign law enforcement agencies, more than 50% of all phishing attacks in 2019 in Australia were carried out thanks to the development of the Ternopil hacker,” the attorney general’s office said, noting that investigators had identified hundreds of U-Admin customers. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

Phishing 307

Phishing Scams Banking Mobile 307

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2024

” Swag was reportedly involved in executing the early stages of the crypto heist — gaining access to the victim’s Gmail and iCloud accounts. The attackers also spoofed a call from account support representatives at the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini , claiming the target’s account had been hacked.

Cryptocurrency 267

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Accountability Mobile 267

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. Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication.

Phishing 219

Phishing Marketing Accountability DNS 219

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. at , a thriving fraud bazaar named after this author. million more. million cards.

Hacking 232

Hacking Cybercrime Marketing Banking 232

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Petersburg does, and she has a photo on her Vktontake page that shows the two of them in 2019 flying over Lake Ladoga, a large body of water directly north of St. Sergey “Taleon” Ivanov (right) in 2019 in his helicopter with the woman he lives with, flying over a lake north of St. Petersburg. Petersburg, Russia.

Cryptocurrency 260

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Retail Government 260

Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

involving computers not directly connected to ICS/SCADA equipment) of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (Wolf Creek) in Burlington, Kansas, which operates a nuclear power plant,” the DOJ’s account continues. ” HYDRA.

Marketing 287

Marketing Energy and Utilities Malware Ransomware 287

Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. io seem like a legitimate website.

Phishing 255

Phishing Cryptocurrency DDOS Internet 255

Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

DomainTools says the malware infections on Manipulaters PCs exposed “vast swaths of account-related data along with an outline of the group’s membership, operations, and position in the broader underground economy.” In 2019, The Manipulaters failed to renew their core domain name — manipulaters[.]com

Phishing 260

Phishing Cybercrime Malware Advertising 260

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

DNS 247

DNS Internet Internet Computers and Electronics 247

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

In late 2019, BriansClub changed its homepage to include doctored images of my Social Security and passport cards, credit report and mobile phone bill information. That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts. Like Mitch.

Phishing 363

Phishing Cybercrime Accountability Advertising 363

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. su between 2016 and 2019. Both of these identities were active on the crime forum fl.l33t[.]su

VPN 326

VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 326

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

A Twitter account for Web Listings Inc. has posts dating back to 2010, and points to even more Web Listings domains, including weblistingsinc.org. 2019 a director in HMGT Services Ltd. At some point, each of these domains changes the owner’s name from James Madison to “ Mark Carter.”

Scams 274

Scams Marketing Internet Internet 274