Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based Reset as you please.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Booking.com did not respond to questions about that, and its current account security advice urges customers to enable 2FA. In November 2023, the security firm SecureWorks detailed how scammers targeted booking.com hospitality partners with data-stealing malware.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000. Palant called this latest action by LastPass a PR stunt. ”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But as the mobile carriers seek to make their networks less hospitable to SIM-swappers , and as more financial platforms seek to harden user account security, today’s crypto thieves are finding they don’t need SIM-swaps to steal obscene amounts of cryptocurrency.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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