Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bill said this criminal group averages between five and ten million email authentication attempts daily, and comes away with anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 of working inbox credentials. “For context, our research indicates that multi-factor authentication prevents more than 99.9%

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Clearly, Experian found it simpler to respond this way, rather than acknowledging the problem and addressing the root causes (lazy authentication and abhorrent account recovery practices). A few days after that April 2021 story, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that an Experian API was exposing the credit scores of most Americans.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. T-Mobile declined to answer questions about what it may be doing to beef up employee authentication. “And we are constantly working to fight against it,” the statement reads. ” TMO UP! .”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

That was in March 2021, but there are similar fake EDR services on offer today. In July 2021, Sen. The Digital Authenticity for Court Orders Act would require federal, state and tribal courts to use a digital signature for orders authorizing surveillance, domain seizures and removal of online content.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

” On April 5, 2021, Everlynn posted a new sales thread to the cybercrime forum cracked[.]to In these attacks, the hackers will identify email addresses associated with law enforcement personnel, and then attempt to authenticate using passwords those individuals have used at other websites that have been breached previously.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

A September 2021 story here checked in on The Manipulaters, and found that Saim Raza and company were prospering under their FudCo brands, which they secretly managed from a front company called We Code Solutions. “Please remove this article,” Sam Raza wrote, linking to the 2021 profile. “Why you post us? But on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While the FBI’s InfraGard system requires multi-factor authentication by default, users can choose between receiving a one-time code via SMS or email. “If it was only the phone I will be in [a] bad situation,” USDoD said. “Because I used the person[‘s] phone that I’m impersonating.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

Donahue is co-founder of Kodex , a company formed in February 2021 that builds security portals designed to help tech companies “manage information requests from government agencies who contact them, and to securely transfer data & collaborate against abuses on their platform.” A sample Kodex dashboard. Image: Kodex.us.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In April, 2021, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how CLOP helped pioneer another innovation aimed at pushing more victims into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the ransomware victim’s customers and partners directly and warning that their data would be leaked to the dark web unless they can convince the victim firm to pay up.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

The crypto scam affiliate program “Project Impulse,” advertising in 2021. com, a website that mimics the legitimate Scamdoc.com site for measuring the trustworthiness and authenticity of various sites. com site,” the Trend researchers wrote. Image: Trend Micro. billion last year.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

Nevertheless, Cyberthreat reported that Devilscream was arrested by Indonesian police in late 2021 as part of a collaboration between INTERPOL and the U.S. 16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit. Image: ZeroFox. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers figured out that many major companies have uploaded massive amounts of valuable and sensitive customer data to Snowflake servers, all the while protecting those Snowflake accounts with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). million customers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Curiously, the fraudsters had taken out a loan in Jim’s name with MSF using his real email address — the same email address the fraudsters had used to impersonate him to MSF back in May 2021. 16, 2021, the U.S. ” Buckley notes that on Nov.

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