Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to constantly create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. However, far more interesting is their program for rewarding people who choose to sell Kopeechka usernames and passwords for working email addresses.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 16, 2025

Those who fall for the scam are asked to provide payment card data, and eventually will be asked to supply a one-time password sent via SMS or a mobile authentication app. 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.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . But on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Criminals ripping off other crooks is a constant theme in the cybercrime underworld; Accountz Club’s slogan — “the best autoshop for your favorite shops’ accounts” — just normalizes this activity by making logins stolen from users of various cybercrime shops for sale at a fraction of their account balances.

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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

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

MAY 5, 2021

After a user logs in, the link prompts them to install a malicious but innocuously-named app that gives the attacker persistent, password-free access to any of the user’s emails and files, both of which are then plundered to launch malware and phishing scams against others. Image: Proofpoint.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2019

Account + password = free lifetime use. Log in with the original password and the official website will ask you to change your password! Be sure to remember the modified new password. Once you forget your password, you will lose Office365! Your account information: * USERMANE : (sent username).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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Krebs on Security

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

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

First, the Verified administrators warned Apathyp he had violated the forum’s rules barring the use of multiple accounts by the same person, and that Verified’s automated systems had detected that Apathyp and Fearlless were logging in from the same device. ” But the triploo@mail.ru However, in Sept. and gezze@mail.ru.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For the past three years, the source — we’ll call him “Bill” to preserve his requested anonymity — has been watching one group of threat actors that is mass-testing millions of usernames and passwords against the world’s major email providers each day. Why go after hotel or airline rewards?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

That ban, which came in response to a series of bank account takeovers in which cybercriminals used aggregation sites to surveil and drain consumer accounts, has since been rescinded. But the incident raises fresh questions about the proper role of digital banking platforms in fighting password abuse.

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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. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

agency , a once popular online service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passcodes (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency A statement published Aug. 30 by the U.K.’s Just hang up, full stop.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies into giving away credentials needed to remotely access and modify customer account information. Prosecutors say Jordan K.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. In a blog post earlier this month, Cloudflare said it detected the account takeovers and that no Cloudflare systems were compromised. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug. According to an Aug.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

. “But a registrar should not act on instructions coming from a random email address or other account that is not even connected to the domain in question.” 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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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. According to an Aug.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. A search on jesus.fn.christ@gmail.com at Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks compromised databases, shows this email address is tied to an account at the fundraising platform omaze.com, for a Brian Shotliff from Chesterland, Ohio. Hope you are doing well.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These web injects allowed malware to rewrite the bank’s HTML code on the fly, and copy and/or intercept any data users would enter into a web-based form, such as a username and password. Most Web browser makers, however, have spent years adding security protections to block such nefarious activity.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. An analysis of the webpage reveals it would check any submitted credentials at the real Microsoft website, and return an error if the user entered bogus account information.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to Constella Intelligence [currently an advertiser on KrebsOnSecurity], Oleg used the same password from his iboss32@ro.ru The various “iboss” email accounts appear to have been shared by multiple parties. But that same now-defunct Upwork account link is still listed as the profile of a “Dmitry C.”

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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

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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Randall said she didn’t notice at the time because she was in the middle of switching careers, didn’t have any active photography clients, and had gotten out of the habit of checking that email account. “I still don’t have access to it because I don’t have access to the email account tied to my old domain. .

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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. But this assurance may ring hollow if you wake up one morning to find your checking accounts emptied by card thieves after shopping at a breached merchant with a debit card.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com). SPAMMY BEAR.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity published a brief writeup about the brazen Manipulaters team, noting that they openly operated hundreds of web sites selling tools designed to trick people into giving up usernames and passwords, or deploying malicious software on their PCs. ” A number of questions, indeed.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. Running up-to-date security solutions and ensuring that your computers are protected with the latest security patches against vulnerabilities. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. io seem like a legitimate website.

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