Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to constantly create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. The service in question — kopeechka[.]store ” “Are you working on large volumes and are costs constantly growing? The service in question — kopeechka[.]store

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that's targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads that aim to take them to phishing pages that are capable of harvesting their credentials.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a campaign uncovered by security researcher Jrme Segura from Malwarebytes, cybercriminals have been using fraudulent Google Ads The post Cybercriminals Exploit Fake Google Ads to Ransack Advertiser Accounts appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Facebook advertisers in Vietnam are the target of a previously unknown information stealer dubbed VietCredCare at least since August 2022.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

Also, the apps will persist in a user’s Office 365 account indefinitely until removed, and will survive even after an account password reset. “Now, they’re compromising accounts in credible tenants first,” Proofpoint explains. A cybercriminal service advertising the sale of access to hacked Office365 accounts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“smishing”) service for the mass sending of text messages designed to phish account credentials for different popular websites and steal personal and financial data for resale. One of SMS Bandits’ key offerings: An “auto-shop” web panel for selling stolen account credentials. Image: osint.fans.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher’s ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google’s automated anti-fraud systems suspend the user’s AdSense account for suspicious traffic. A redacted extortion email targeting users of Google’s AdSense program.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Shutterstock Telecommunications giant AT&T disclosed this month that a breach at a marketing vendor exposed certain account information for nine million customers. AT&T’s disclosure said the information exposed included customer first name, wireless account number, wireless phone number and email address.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 29, 2024

Health insurance giant Kaiser has announced it will notify millions of patients about a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers. That’s nice for the advertisers, but the information gathered by these pixels tells them a lot about your browsing behavior, and a lot about you.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. Fingerprinting is considered a necessary practice to fight challenges such as fake accounts and the misuse of internet services. At the same time, the profile that advertisers can create reveals a lot.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We’d like to thank GitHub for their quick response in taking down the malicious accounts we reported to them. Scammers are creating several accounts on GitHub with one or multiple repositories with the same fraudulent index.html template: During an active campaign, they can easily swap phone numbers in case one got reported and blocked.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Apple will start requiring standardized privacy labels for apps in its app store, starting in December: Apple allows data disclosure to be optional if all of the following conditions apply: if it’s not used for tracking, advertising or marketing; if it’s not shared with a data broker; if collection is infrequent, unrelated to the app’s (..)

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing malvertising campaign that abuses Meta's advertising platform and hijacked Facebook accounts to distribute information known as SYS01stealer. The hackers behind the campaign use trusted brands to expand their reach," Bitdefender Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2020

Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. Both are avid gamers on Microsoft’s Xbox platform, and for years their father managed their accounts via his own Microsoft account.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. The Facebook ad blitz was paid for by Hodson Event Entertainment , an account tied to Chris Hodson , a deejay based in Chicago. On the evening of Monday, Nov. Image: Chris Hodson.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2025

Just days after we uncovered a campaign targeting Google Ads accounts, a similar attack has surfaced, this time aimed at Microsoft advertisers. These malicious ads, appearing on Google Search, are designed to steal the login information of users trying to access Microsoft’s advertising platform.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. “We’ve reviewed the ads in question, removed those that violated our policies, and suspended the associated accounts. million advertiser accounts. Google says it removed 5.2

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity giant Mandiant was hacked, attackers used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and push a cryptocurrency scam. Crooks hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam. “Sorry, change password please.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

“According to a police report, someone opened fraudulent credit card accounts and charged more than $14,000 and signed her neighbors up for Informed Delivery, too,” Clickorlando’s Louis Bolden explained. The only problem was she’d never signed up for the USPS program.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2022

million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The bug exists due to the proccess of authorization used in the Android Client of Twitter, specifically in the procces of checking the duplication of a Twitter account.” Threat actor leaked data of 5.4

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. Notices posted for Faceless users, advertising an email flooding service and soliciting zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet of Things devices. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

After being provided with a list of the apps and websites connected to the scheme, Google investigated and found that dozens of the apps used its mobile advertising network. Google has removed more than 30 apps from the Play store, and terminated multiple publisher accounts with its ad networks.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2021

A wide ecosystem of these companies exist , each advertising their own ability to run text messaging for other businesses. Once the hacker is able to reroute a target’s text messages, it can then be trivial to hack into other accounts associated with that phone number. But Sakari is only one company.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Not long ago I wrote about a recent campaign to hold LinkedIn users' accounts to ransom. Since he doesn’t use the LinkedIn app on his mobile he checked his account on his laptop first thing in the morning. A reset of the account’s password worked, but failed to remove the unwanted active session.

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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. Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Whoever compromised the shop siphoned data on millions of card accounts that were acquired over four years through various illicit means from legitimate, hacked businesses around the globe — but mostly from U.S. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1 Source: NYU.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The service is currently advertising access to more than 150,000 devices globally. “We believe we are only seeing part of the full botnet, which may lead to more than 150,000 infected computers as advertised by BHProxies’ operators,” Arnoud wrote. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2022

That same ToX ID was claimed by a user called “ smiseo ” on the Russian forum BHF, in which smiseo advertises “clipper” malware written in Rust that swaps in the attacker’s bitcoin address when the victim copies a cryptocurrency address to their computer’s temporary clipboard. I AM DUCKERMAN.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Malicious actors associated with the Vietnamese cybercrime ecosystem are leveraging advertising-as-a-vector on social media platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook to distribute malware.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

To recruit soldiers to the pages, they used targeted Facebook advertising. Inside the groups, the researchers used their phony accounts to ask the real service members questions about their battalions and their work. They also used these accounts to "friend" service members.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. A USPS brochure advertising the features and benefits of Informed Visibility. Image: USPS.com.

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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

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

.” “That said, the phishing attacks stem from partners’ machines being compromised with malware, which has enabled them to also gain access to the partners’ accounts and to send the messages that your reader has flagged,” they continued. SecureWorks said these attacks had been going on since at least March 2023.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

An internet outage impacted Orange Spain after a hacker gained access to the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing. The hacker, who uses the moniker ‘Snow’, gained access to the RIPE account of Orange Spain and misconfigured the BGP routing causing an internet outage. I have fixed your RIPE admin account security.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant was likely hacked through a brute-force password attack, the company revealed. Last week, threat actors hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam. and “Check bookmarks when you get account back.”

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