Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2025

The Docusign Application Programming Interface (API) allows customers to send emails that come from genuine Docusign accounts, and they can use templates to impersonate reputable companies. Weve identified an unauthorized transaction made from your PayPal account to Coinbase: Amount: $755.38 It doesnt even exist. What can I do?

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 8, 2025

More from TrendMicro While we wont be going into model poisoning or AI jailbreaks in this post, we will cover a method to abuse excessive Storage Account permissions to get code execution in notebooks that run in the AML service. The supporting Storage Account is named after the AML workspace name (netspitest) and a 9-digit number.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The 8Base ransomware group attacked Croatia’s Port of Rijeka, stealing sensitive data, including contracts and accounting info. The ransomware gang claims to have stolen sensitive data including accounting info and contracts. The Port of Rijeka (Luka Rijeka d.d.),

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 29, 2024

The investigation indicates they were initially targeting email accounts for information related to Midnight Blizzard itself. The investigation indicates they were initially targeting email accounts for information related to Midnight Blizzard itself.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2021

Identifying the person behind Bitcoin Fog serves as an illustrative example of how hard it is to be anonymous online in the face of a competent police investigation: Most remarkable, however, is the IRS’s account of tracking down Sterlingov using the very same sort of blockchain analysis that his own service was meant to defeat.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

On October 17, 2024, Rahman stole and leaked Top-Secret documents on a U.S. The CIA analyst photographed the classified documents and transmitted them to individuals he knew were not authorized to view them. Rahman has access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). “After Oct.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

One of the worst of all the bugs they found would have allowed criminals to create a worm that would automatically steal all the photos, videos, and documents from someone’s iCloud account and then do the same to the victim’s contacts. So far, they have received $289K.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In 2016, Uber faced a cybersecurity crisis that ended up reshaping the conversation around data breaches and accountability. Follow your incident response protocols Most companies have a set incident response protocol for good reason: it keeps us on track, ensures accountability, and is designed to prevent exactly this type of fallout.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com. The Justice Department said the Nulled marketplace had more than five million members, and has been selling stolen login credentials, stolen identification documents and hacking services, as well as tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud, since 2016.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite: Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts, seven of which are in Texas, showing that administrators paid as much $11,582 for the controversial surveillance technology.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many companies had uploaded sensitive customer records to accounts at the cloud data storage service Snowflake that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

for phishing scams that stole millions by hacking email accounts. A Nigerian national was sentenced to 26 years in prison in the US for stealing millions by compromising the email accounts of real estate businesses. for phishing scams that resulted in the compromise of millions of email accounts. million in restitution.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

“Between August 17 and August 19, a third party accessed and obtained certain information without authorization using two customer accounts that they had recently established. Please note that this incident did not involve any access to your Fidelity account(s).”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S. federal court system, according to a memo released Wednesday by the Administrative Office (AO) of the U.S.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 15, 2024

Squarespace bought all assets of Google Domains a year ago, but many customers still haven’t set up their new accounts. Experts say malicious hackers learned they could commandeer any migrated Squarespace accounts that hadn’t yet been registered, merely by supplying an email address tied to an existing domain.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While hard to measure precisely, tech support scams accounted for $924M, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report. We’ve identified specific advertiser accounts that make up the bulk of fraudulent ads we have reported to Google this past year. While the organic result looks more trustworthy, it does appear under.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2025

A cybercriminal campaign linked to Russia is deploying QR codes to access the WhatsApp accounts of high-profile targets like journalists, members of think tanks, and employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), according to new details revealed by Microsoft. WhatsApp will double-check whether you want to add a device to the account.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. account and share the experience here. account). If your documents get accepted, ID.me Some of the primary and secondary documents requested by ID.me. The IRS says it will require ID.me for all logins later this summer. McLean, Va.-based

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2020

In a post on Twitter , DDoSecrets said the BlueLeaks archive indexes “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources,” and that “among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. The HaveIBeenPwned project, which collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps containing information about billions of leaked accounts, has incorporated the data into his service. According to a Jan.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. ” In short, although you may not be required to create online accounts to manage your affairs at your ISP, the U.S. .”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2021

Many online services allow users to reset their passwords by clicking a link sent via SMS, and this unfortunately widespread practice has turned mobile phone numbers into de facto identity documents. Which means losing control over one thanks to a divorce, job termination or financial crisis can be devastating.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

warns that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions to seize control over PCs when users open a malicious document or visit a booby-trapped website. “The attacker would then have to convince the user to open the malicious document. Microsoft Corp.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Will Cathcart of WhatsApp called the ruling a major privacy victory, emphasizing accountability for spyware firms after a five-year legal battle. ” reads the court document. WhatsApp won a legal case against NSO Group in a U.S. court over exploiting a vulnerability to deliver Pegasus spyware. ” The U.S.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Accessible : Employees need seamless access to policies to foster adherence and accountability. Maintain a comprehensive audit trail for accountability. This document should outline governance structures, approval workflows, and ownership responsibilities to maintain consistency across the board.

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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 18, 2025

Merrill has been studying the evolution of several China-based smishing gangs, and found that most of them feature helpful and informative video tutorials in their sales accounts on Telegram. ” The rise of so-called “ghost tap” mobile software was first documented in November 2024 by security experts at ThreatFabric.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2021

Happily, identifying and tracking these fake reviewer accounts is often the easiest way to spot scams. After hearing from a reader about a phony Microsoft Authenticator extension that appeared on the Google Chrome Store , KrebsOnSecurity began looking at the profile of the account that created it. “It’s great!,”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems. What’s more, Syrén seemed to downplay the severity of the exposure.

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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. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

This is the latest example of why spyware companies must be held accountable for their unlawful actions. Will Cathcart of WhatsApp called the ruling a major privacy victory, emphasizing accountability for spyware firms after a five-year legal battle. reads the court document.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Hydra trafficked in illegal drugs and financial services, including cryptocurrency tumbling for money laundering, exchange services between cryptocurrency and Russian rubles, and the sale of falsified documents and hacking services. Incredibly, the day after our initial interview via Telegram, Shefel proposed going into business together.

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