Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ 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. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2025

In today's digital world, cybercrime is a threat to our private data and security. And with Americans owning an average of 24 electronic items in their homes , neglecting to dispose of these items correctly is putting individuals at significant risk of cybercrime. What is cybercrime? It's time to change it.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2025

Microsoft is taking legal action against these defendants, dismantling their operation, and curbing misuse of its AI technology. These individuals are members of a global cybercrime ring tracked as Storm-2139 by Microsoft. The case demonstrates legal actions power in dismantling cybercrime networks.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Identity security vendors have focused narrowly on securing corporate accounts, leaving organizations vulnerable to cybercriminals exploiting the broader identity exposures of employees, consumers, and suppliers. A shift to an identity-centric perspective is needed, particularly as the scope of identity exposures continues to grow. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Free disclosed a cyber attack over the weekend after a threat actor attempted to sell the stolen data on a popular cybercrime forum. The seller listed two databases for sale one containing 19,192,948 customer accounts and another including 5.11 million IBAN details. .”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Shefel claims the true mastermind behind the Target and other retail breaches was Dmitri Golubov , an infamous Ukrainian hacker known as the co-founder of Carderplanet, among the earliest Russian-language cybercrime forums focused on payment card fraud. “I’m also godfather of his second son.” “Hi, how are you?”

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has unsealed charges against five individuals accused of orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns tied to the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime group. These types of fraudulent solicitations are ubiquitous and rob American victims of their hard-earned money with the click of a mouse.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Thai authorities arrested members of two Chinese cybercrime organizations, one of these groups carried out SMS blaster attacks. “This “SMS blasting” attack relies on using technology that impersonates cellular base stations and is capable of transmitting thousands of messages to devices within a close geographical radius.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The increasing sophistication of these technologies has made it harder than ever to distinguish real content from fake. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented in 2019 revealed that deepfakes generated by AI could deceive humans up to 60% of the time. As the technology evolves, so will its misuse.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Department of Defense. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 to sell fraudulent Outlook accounts. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit seized multiple domains used by a cybercrime group, tracked as Storm-1152, to sell fraudulent accounts. ” concludes the announcement.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2025

“On November 20, 2024, we were notified by a vendor of point-of-sale processing services for some of our retail locations that accounts with their organization had been compromised by an organized cybercrime group.” After discovering the security breach, the company investigated the incident and notified law enforcement.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs. Punchmade Dev’s shop.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Since early 2022, there has been a 49 percent rise in phishing attempts capable of evading filters, with AI-generated threats accounting for nearly 5 percent of these attacks. This surge highlights a broader trend toward automation in cybercrime and signals that no email platform is immune.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A paradigm shift in technology is hurtling towards us, and it could change everything we know about cybersecurity. When ChatGPT was unveiled to the public in late 2022, security experts looked on with cautious optimism, excited about the new technology but concerned about its use in cyberattacks. Uhh, again, that is.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This is just one of many channels involved in cybercrime, but it's noteworthy due to the huge amount of freely accessible data. It's those credentials that are then sold in the stealer logs and later used to access the victim's accounts, which is the second exploitation. You get the idea.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. The various “iboss” email accounts appear to have been shared by multiple parties. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

” “Since playing Tradewars on my Tandy 1000 with a 300 baud modem in the early ’90s, I’ve had a lifelong passion for technology, which I’ve carried with me as Deputy CISO of the world’s largest health plan,” her profile reads. Maryann’s profile says she’s from Tupelo, Miss.,

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” He also co-runs SURBL , an anti-abuse service that flags domains and Internet address ranges that are strongly associated with spam and cybercrime activity, including DDoS.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. The OTP interception service featured earlier this year — Otp[.]agency

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

911 S5’s reliability and extremely low prices quickly made it one of the most popular services among denizens of the cybercrime underground, and the service became almost shorthand for connecting to that “last mile” of cybercrime. dollars using over-the-counter vendors who wired and deposited funds into bank accounts held by Liu.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. Kislitsin also was indicted in Nevada in 2013, but the Nevada indictment does not name his alleged victim(s) in that case.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. These services, too, have been outsourced.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

su , a bustling cybercrime community of which Seleznev was a leading organizer. Klyushin is the owner of M-13 , a Russian technology company that contracts with the Russian government. Also released in the prisoner swap was Vladislav Klyushin , a 42-year-old Muscovite sentenced in September 2023 to nine years in prison for what U.S.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Dateline Cybercrime .

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 16, 2022

The same technologies that make supply chains faster and more effective also threaten their cybersecurity,” writes David Lukic , a privacy, security, and compliance consultant. The inherent complexity of the supply chain for modern technology is a reason why so many cybercrime attempts have been successful. Threat detection.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Additionally, there are also Russian cybercrime organizations that are not state-sponsored but are allowed to operate. Although there’s no one magic solution to eliminating cyberattacks and cybercrime risks, there are steps you can take to reduce the chances of becoming a victim. Accounting for humans.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. “There has been no violation of our platforms and technological infrastructure,” Banorte said. ” That statement may be 100 percent true.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

su , a bustling cybercrime community of which Seleznev was a leading organizer. Klyushin is the owner of M-13 , a Russian technology company that contracts with the Russian government. Also released in the prisoner swap was Vladislav Klyushin , a 42-year-old Muscovite sentenced in September 2023 to nine years in prison for what U.S.

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Adam Levin

JULY 15, 2020

Access to the database was made available on a dark web cybercrime marketplace for roughly $3,000. It contains the personal information of more than 142 million guests of MGM hotels, according to technology reporting site ZDNet. Earlier reports said the number of affected customers at 10.6 Source: ZDNet. Unclear is how the 10.6

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. Brookfield, Wisc.-based based Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.8

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

Authorities across Europe on Tuesday said they’d seized control over Emotet , a prolific malware strain and cybercrime-as-service operation. It propagates mainly via malicious links and attachments sent through compromised email accounts, blasting out tens of thousands of malware-laced missives daily.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. 9, 2024, U.S. Image credit: Amitai Cohen of Wiz.

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