Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

site that helps him manage more than 500 scam properties and interactions with up to 100 (soon-to-be-scammed) “guests” looking to book the fake listings. The Land Lordz administrative panel for a scammer who’s running dozens of Airbnb scams in the United Kingdom.

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Scams Advertising Accountability Phishing 271

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Prosecutors say on June 26, 2019, “Bryan called the Baltimore County Police Department and falsely reported that he, purporting to be a resident of the Milleson family residence, had shot his father at the residence.” Interestingly, the conspiracy appears to have unraveled over a business dispute between the two men.

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Scams Wireless Identity Theft Mobile 342

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

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. 2019 a director in HMGT Services Ltd.

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Scams Marketing Internet Internet 297

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.

Cryptocurrency 364

Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering 364

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. “At one stage in 2019 we had a couple of hundred SMS phishing campaigns tied to just this particular actor. The U-Admin phishing panel interface.

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Phishing Scams Banking Mobile 334

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”).

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Malware Cybercrime Ransomware Marketing 351

Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Back in 2019, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about thieves employing this method to seize control over thousands of domains registered at GoDaddy, and using those to send bomb threats and sextortion emails (GoDaddy says they fixed that weakness in their systems not long after that 2019 story).

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DNS Internet Internet Phishing 315