Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

said he was disappointed — but not at all surprised — to hear about yet another cybersecurity lapse at Experian. “Just last year, Experian ignored repeated briefing requests from my office after you revealed another cybersecurity lapse the company.” ” Sen. . ” Sen.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

“This is dangerous, Apollo.io, Signalhire, and Cybersecurity Ventures.” In a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity, LinkedIn said its teams were actively working to take these fake accounts down. Mason said LinkedIn also needs a more streamlined process for allowing employers to remove phony employee accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

The reason lame domains are problematic is that a number of Web hosting and DNS providers allow users to claim control over a domain without accessing the true owner’s account at their DNS provider or registrar. “We do shut down abusive accounts when we find them,” Job said. Image: Infoblox.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This candid view inside the Disneyland Team comes from Alex Holden , founder of the Milwaukee-based cybersecurity consulting firm Hold Security. Holden’s analysts gained access to a Web-based control panel the crime group has been using to keep track of victim credentials (see screenshot above). .”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“The FBI and CISA [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ] are aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account,” reads the FBI statement. Until sometime this morning, the LEEP portal allowed anyone to apply for an account.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

re abruptly announced it was permanently closing after a cybersecurity breach allowed unknown intruders to trash its servers and delete customer data and backups. The various “iboss” email accounts appear to have been shared by multiple parties. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re is no longer active.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

” Dean Marks is executive director and legal counsel for a group called the Coalition for Online Accountability , which has been critical of the NTIA’s stewardship of.US. “We will continue to work with registrars, cybersecurity firms and other stakeholders to make progress with this complex challenge.”

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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. But this history was either overlooked or ignored by Group-IB , the Singapore-based cybersecurity firm apparently hired by Banorte to help respond to the data breach.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.” ” Technically, what my source did was wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet/telephone/fax through false pretenses); had he done it through the U.S. mail, he could be facing mail fraud charges if caught. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cybersecurity threat intelligence firm Intel 471 describes U-Admin as an information stealing framework that uses several plug-ins in one location to help users pilfer victim credentials more efficiently. Perhaps the biggest selling point for U-Admin is a module that helps phishers intercept multi-factor authentication codes.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. Holden’s team gained visibility into discussions among members of two different ransom groups: CLOP (a.k.a.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2019, someone hacked BriansClub and relieved the fraud shop of more than 26 million stolen payment cards — an estimated one-third of the 87 million payment card accounts that were on sale across all underground shops at that time. Alex Holden is founder of the Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm Hold Security.

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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. ViLE In June 2024, two American men pleaded guilty to hacking into a U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This means that stealing someone’s phone number often can let cybercriminals hijack the target’s entire digital life in short order — including access to any financial, email and social media accounts tied to that phone number. Allison Nixon is chief research officer for the New York City-based cybersecurity firm Unit 221B.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” Bringing things full circle, Constella Intelligence shows that various online accounts tied to the email address unforgiven57@mail.ru .” Crypt[.]guru’s

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB published a report last year detailing the activities of ValidCC, noting the gang behind the crime shop was responsible for plundering nearly 700 e-commerce sites. SPR claims his site lost access to a significant inventory — more than 600,000 unsold stolen payment card accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

On March 7, the newly created Github account Davinci1010 published a technical analysis claiming that until recently Pinduoduo’s source code included a “backdoor,” a hacking term used to describe code that allows an adversary to remotely and secretly connect to a compromised system at will. and Western interests.

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