Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The idea is that even if the user’s password gets stolen, the attacker still can’t access the user’s account without that second factor — i.e. without access to the victim’s mobile device or phone number. agency — advertised a web-based bot designed to trick targets into giving up OTP tokens.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It also shows that phishers are attempting to sign up for new Coinbase accounts by the millions as part of an effort to identify email addresses that are already associated with active accounts. Rather, the bad guys understood that any attempts to sign up using an email address tied to an existing Coinbase account would fail.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

Images from Punchmade Dev’s Twitter/X account show him displaying bags of cash and wearing a functional diamond-crusted payment card skimmer. Punchmade Dev’s most controversial mix — a rap called “Wire Fraud Tutorial” — was taken down by Youtube last summer for violating the site’s rules.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

The missives — which come from Paypal.com and include a link at Paypal.com that displays an invoice for the supposed transaction — state that the user’s account is about to be charged hundreds of dollars. Both the email and the invoice state that “there is evidence that your PayPal account has been accessed unlawfully.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Scammers who had already stolen someone’s bank account credentials could enter the target’s phone number and name, and the service would initiate an automated phone call to the target that warned them about unauthorized activity on their account. Just hang up, full stop.

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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 based technology companies.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation. The administrator responded to this empty threat by purchasing the stolen banking data and leaking it on the forum for everyone to download.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

27 — Thanksgiving Day weekend — Jim got a series of rapid-fire emails from MSF saying they’ve received his loan application, that they’d approved it, and that the funds requested were now available at the bank account specified in his MSF profile. Then on Nov. Take a look at that 546.56 A portion of the Jan.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to this comprehensive breakdown of the phishing toolkit , the U-Admin control panel isn’t sold on its own, but rather it is included when customers contact the developer and purchase a set of phishing pages designed to mimic a specific brand — such as a bank website or social media platform.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee account on Telegram, who said there was some kind of technology issue with the video platform, and that their IT people suggested using a different meeting link.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2021

customers only, wherein they will be eligible for a reimbursement of up £150,000 if someone gains unauthorized access to their account and steals funds. When Schober went to move approximately 16.4 But perhaps in response to the CNBC story, Coinbase said it was introducing a new pilot “guarantee” for U.K.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. OG accounts typically can be resold for thousands of dollars. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES.

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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 23, 2018

I later received an email from the seller, who said his Amazon account had been hacked and abused by scammers to create fake sales. Sure, the card associations and your bank are quick to point out that you’re not liable for fraudulent charges that you report in a timely manner, whether it’s debit or a credit card.

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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. The emails encouraged recipients to click a link to accept the cash back offer, and the link went to a look-alike domain that requested bank information. customers this month.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. Ronnie Tokazowski (RT): The why is that there’s a lot of money being lost to this type of fraud.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2024

” Swag was reportedly involved in executing the early stages of the crypto heist — gaining access to the victim’s Gmail and iCloud accounts. Sushil Chetal’s LinkedIn profile says he is a vice president at the investment bank Morgan Stanley. charging two of the men he named as involved in the heist.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication.

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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

JULY 29, 2022

.” According to 911, the service was hacked in early July, and it was discovered that someone manipulated the balances of a large number of user accounts. 911 said the intruders abused an application programming interface (API) that handles the topping up of accounts when users make financial deposits with the service.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

” Infoblox determined that until May 2023, domains ending in.info accounted for the bulk of new registrations tied to the malicious link shortening service, which Infoblox has dubbed “ Prolific Puma.” “We have not found any legitimate content served through their shorteners.” domains registered daily.US

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim's funds via Zelle, a "peer-to-peer" (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. ’s phone and spent the remainder of his bank balance. The government alleges Iza and Au paid the LASD officers using Zelle transfers from accounts tied to two different entities incorporated by one or both of them: Dream Agency and Rise Agency.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

.” Multiple people who reviewed the database shared by my source confirmed that the same credit card records also could be found in a more redacted form simply by searching the BriansClub Web site with a valid, properly-funded account. STOLEN BACK FAIR AND SQUARE. I’m the real Brian Krebs here.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com million of her own money over nearly four months, Nolan found her account was suddenly frozen. She was then issued a tax statement saying she owed nearly $500,000 in taxes before she could reactivate her account or access her funds.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Vega also became known as someone who had the inside track on “ unlimited cashouts ,” a globally coordinated cybercrime scheme in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines to rapidly withdraw millions of dollars in just a few hours.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

One breach taking your login from a gaming forum can quickly become something that exposes Government service logins or bank accounts. Password reuse is one big reason for credential stuffing (using stolen data across additional sites) being so popular. Tips for locking down after an SSN breach.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2020

You will need to receive cash atm or at your bank branch.” ” What happens next is the employee then receives an electronic transfer of money into his bank account, is asked to withdraw the cash, and to keep 150 Canadian dollars for himself. I remind you that you do not need to use your funds to buy bitcoins.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

wtf, and PQHosting ; -sites selling aged email, financial, or social media accounts, such as verif[.]work The site Verif dot work, which processes payments through Cryptomus, sells financial accounts, including debit and credit cards. work and kopeechka[.]store store ; -anonymity or “proxy” providers like crazyrdp[.]com

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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.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose credit card they’re about to charge at some website, or whose bank account they’re about to empty. Both of these identities were active on the crime forum fl.l33t[.]su su between 2016 and 2019.

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