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

AUGUST 15, 2024

We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida. One of those domains is recordscheck.net (formerly recordscheck.info ), which advertises “instant background checks, SSN traces, employees screening and more.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

?Ragnar Locker Ransomware operators have started to run Facebook advertisements to force their victims into paying the ransom. Ragnar Locker Ransomware operators are improving their extortion technique and started running Facebook advertisements to make pressure on their victims and force them to pay the ransom. 9, on Facebook. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. A screenshot of a Discord discussion between the key Twitter hacker “Kirk” and several people seeking to hijack high-value Twitter accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. [ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. The starting bid was $800. A screenshot shared by the dark web seller.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The ICRC said the hacked servers contained data relating to the organization’s Restoring Family Links services, which works to reconnect people separated by war, violence, migration and other causes. In their online statement about the hack (updated on Feb. “Mr. .” Image: Ke-la.com. and other western audiences.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled , English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com. io , and rdp[.]sh. lol and nulled[.]it.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Stolen information offered for sale on the carding website included bank account, credit card, and debit card numbers and associated information for conducting transactions. seized $283,000 in cryptocurrency from an account linked to Sami as part of actions against the illicit activities of PopeyeTools. million in revenue.

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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.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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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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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

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts and bypasses multi-factor authentication with adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. Authors advertise Rockstar 2FA as a phishing-as-a-service toolkit that bypasses 2FA, harvests cookies, and features FUD links, antibot tools, and custom themes. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale account databases containing an aggregate total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. A data breach broker is selling account databases containing a total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A joint law enforcement operation led to the seizure of 39 domains tied to a Pakistan-based HeartSender cybercrime group (aka Saim Raza and Manipulators Team) known for selling hacking and fraud tools. The HeartSender group advertised its tools as fully undetectable by antispam software.

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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. ” the company said on X.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20. More than 500,000 Activision accounts may have compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by the gaming firm on September 20, reported the eSports site Dexerto. ” concludes Dexerto.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Here’s a look at the havoc that lag has wrought, as seen through the purchasing patterns at one of the underground’s biggest stolen card shops that was hacked last year. In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing. merchants.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Unlike any other season in America, election season might bring the highest volume of advertisements sent directly to people’s homes, phones, and email accounts—and the accuracy and speed at which they come can feel invasive. The reasons could be obvious. Instead, it may point to how people interpret “cyber interference.

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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

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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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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 threat actor is now offering for sale the stolen data on a the popular hacking forum Breached Forums. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Twitter). Threat actor leaked data of 5.4 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election.

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. But in all likelihood, there will be more than a handful of domain subscribers who take issue with that volume of people data sitting there in one corpus easily downloadable via a clear web hacking forum.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

“These vulnerabilities may allow locally managed accounts within Device Manager to be susceptible to dictionary attacks due to weak cipher implementation (CVE-2020-6925) and allow a malicious actor to remotely gain unauthorized access to resources (CVE-2020-6926), and/or allow a malicious actor to gain SYSTEM privileges (CVE-2020-6927).”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts and bypasses multi-factor authentication with adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. Authors advertise Rockstar 2FA as a phishing-as-a-service toolkit that bypasses 2FA, harvests cookies, and features FUD links, antibot tools, and custom themes. ” concludes the report.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. said investigators determined the breach began on Aug.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Overview Scammers are creating ads impersonating PayPal from various advertiser accounts that may have been hacked. This is not a coincidence of course, and is why search advertising is worth billions of dollars. The ad displays the official website for PayPal, yet is completely fraudulent.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2021

The crime gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained the cryptocurrency from an account the group uses to pay affiliates. The word ‘ransomware’ has been put on a par with a number of unpleasant phenomena, such as geopolitical tensions, extortion, and government-backed hacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

A critical flaw in the wpDiscuz WordPress plugin could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take over the hosting account. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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