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

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One account of the hack came from a 17-year-old in the United Kingdom, who told reporters the intrusion began when one of the English-speaking hackers phoned a tech support person at MGM and tricked them into resetting the password for an employee account. ” Beige members were implicated in two stories published here in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2022

After she logged into her bank and savings accounts with scammers watching her screen, the fraudster on the phone claimed that instead of pulling $160 out of her account, they accidentally transferred $160,000 to her account. The FBI says that represents a 74 percent increase in losses over losses reported in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Whether it’s related to hotel or airline rewards or just Amazon gift cards, after they successfully log in to the account their scripts start pilfering inboxes looking for things that could be of value.” . “These guys are looking for low-hanging fruit — basically cash in your inbox.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

First, the Verified administrators warned Apathyp he had violated the forum’s rules barring the use of multiple accounts by the same person, and that Verified’s automated systems had detected that Apathyp and Fearlless were logging in from the same device. ” But the triploo@mail.ru However, in Sept.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. A search on jesus.fn.christ@gmail.com at Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks compromised databases, shows this email address is tied to an account at the fundraising platform omaze.com, for a Brian Shotliff from Chesterland, Ohio. Hope you are doing well.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This includes pivoting from or converting a single compromised Microsoft Windows user account to an administrator account with greater privileges on the target network; the ability to sidestep and/or disable any security software; and gaining the access needed to disrupt or corrupt any data backup systems the victim firm may have. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts. com, and was wondering when the funds would be reflected in the balance of his account on the shop. DomainTools’ record for briansclub[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

The messages addressed customers by name and referenced past order numbers and payment amounts tied to each account. 22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers. customers this month.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Those plug-ins include a phishing page generator, a victim tracker, and even a component to help manage money mules (for automatic transfers from victim accounts to people who were hired in advance to receive and launder stolen funds).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2020

. “But a registrar should not act on instructions coming from a random email address or other account that is not even connected to the domain in question.” 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

A screen shot from a user account at “Snowden,” a long-running reshipping mule service. It stands to reason that the virus outbreak might depress cybercriminal demand for “dumps,” or stolen account data that can be used to create physical counterfeit credit cards.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

SPR claims his site lost access to a significant inventory — more than 600,000 unsold stolen payment card accounts. “We don’t know users’ balances, or your account logins or passwords, or the [credit cards] you purchased, or anything else! The database is in the hands of the police, but it’s encrypted.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

” asked Ohad Zaidenberg , founder of CTI League , a volunteer emergency response community that emerged in 2020 to help fight COVID-19 related scams. . “Is there one person from our community that think sending cease and desist letter to a hackers forum operator is a good idea?,” “Who does it?

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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. billion euros in 2020 alone. ” HYDRA. In a statement on the Hydra takedown , the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. 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.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

But these more “hands-on” and first person attacks are becoming increasingly common within certain cybercriminal communities, particularly those engaged in SIM swapping , a crime in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victim’s various online accounts and identities.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

This is hardly the first time scammers have impersonated Wood or ARKinvest; a tweet from Wood in 2020 warned that the company would never use YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or any social media to solicit money. billion stolen by scammers in 2020, the report found. The ark-x2[.]org According to the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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