Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. Booking.com did not respond to questions about that, and its current account security advice urges customers to enable 2FA.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“This scale, combined with quick operational turnover of compromised credentials between CovertNetwork-1658 and Chinese threat actors, allows for the potential of account compromises across multiple sectors and geographic regions.” The average uptime for a CovertNetwork-1658 node is approximately 90 days.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2021

That account is on "the cloud" and when they're using the custom app, they're communicating with said cloud which is then communicating with the devices. The other is Smart Life which is the one used in the demos where the keys are pulled from it.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This breach is also being publicly shared on the internet. Now, a cybercriminal using the monicker Jurak, leaked sensitive information related to roughly 12 million accounts, which allegedly stems from a breach that happened last year. They also shared samples of the source code they had stolen as proof of the new breach.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group. ” Orn advertising Araneida Scanner in Feb.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina. Click to enlarge.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Employees of these companies were tricked into clicking malicious attachments and links and filling in their email account login information on fake sites. From calendar years 2020 to 2022, there was a 27% increase in victim reports to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of BECs with a real estate nexus.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Matter is intended to be the lingua franca for the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is a huge new platform for amazing innovation,” Hanna observes. This has resulted in an exponential expansion of a network’s attack surface; every connection represents an attack vector that must be accounted for. Baked-in security.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums. The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

The core Manipulaters product is Heartsender , a spam delivery service whose homepage openly advertised phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365 , Yahoo , AOL , Intuit , iCloud and ID.me , to name a few.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

French internet service provider (ISP) Free disclosed a cyber attack, threat actors allegedly had access to customer personal information. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. ” Source X account SaxX The company has promptly taken measures to mitigate the security breach.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 16, 2025

A notice from MassDOT cautions that “the targeted phone numbers seem to be chosen at random and are not uniquely associated with an account or usage of toll roads.” It remains unclear how the phishers have selected their targets, or from where their data may be sourced.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Before diving into the specifics of dormant accounts, it's important to take a step back and discuss a prerequisite: gaining cross-platform visibility into identity and access management data. And finally, individual users often have multiple accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) Why are dormant accounts a risk?

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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. Another path had "ve", so it was off to Caracas and the Venezuelan victim's account was confirmed. You get the idea.

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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.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

In a world in which all databases — including hacker forums — are eventually compromised and leaked online, it can be tough for cybercriminals to maintain their anonymity if they’re in the habit of re-using the same unusual passwords across multiple accounts associated with different email addresses.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 17, 2024

The seizure messages include ways to contact the FBI about the seizure, including an email, a Telegram account, a TOX account, and a dedicated page hosted on the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). “From June 2023 until May 2024, BreachForums (hosted at breachforums.st/.cx/.is/.vc

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Gen AI threats and quantum computing exposures must be accounted for. Attacks targeting identities rose 71% last year, with valid accounts as the top entry point. Transparent, traceable, and accountable AI practices are crucial to mitigate biases and align actions with ethical standards. The drivers are intensifying.

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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. Another important innovation is the use of mass-created Apple and Google user accounts through which these phishers send their spam messages.

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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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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Hackers are using internet-connected home devices to livestream “swatting” attacks, according to the FBI. In the latest wave of attacks, hackers are using credential stuffing, where credentials from previously compromised accounts are used to gain access to internet-enabled smart home devices. “As

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At several points throughout his career, Wazawaka claimed he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on darknet narcotics bazaars. Love your country, and you will always get away with everything.” ” Still, Wazawaka may not have always stuck to that rule.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ubiquiti , a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders, security cameras and access control systems, is urging customers to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. “We do shut down abusive accounts when we find them,” Job said.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the last five years, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said it has received 3.79 million complaints for a wide range of internet scams, resulting in $37.4 However, according to our research findings, ads originating in Pakistan and Vietnam account for 90% of the fraud. Protect your online accounts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. Cortex Xpanse and Cortex XSIAM customers using the ASM module can investigate internet-exposed instances by reviewing alerts from the Firewall Admin Login attack surface rule.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. Cloud Router was previously called 911 S5.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own. Setting up Google 2FA.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2020

DDoS attacks involve flooding a target Web site with so much junk Internet traffic that it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic. “These guys are looking for low-hanging fruit — basically cash in your inbox.

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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

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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