Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. yandex.ru, mail.ru).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. In September 2018, a user by the name “ ципа ” (phonetically “ Zipper ” in Russian) registered on the Russian hacking forum Lolzteam using the edgard0111012@gmail.com address.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

If the attachment is opened, the malicious document proceeds to quietly download additional malware and hacking tools to the victim machine ( here’s one video example of a malicious Microsoft Office attachment from the malware sandbox service any.run ). The domain registration records for ruskod[.]net

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. The “ drops ” are people who have responded to work-at-home package reshipping jobs advertised on craigslist.com and job search sites.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

But the site is noticeably devoid of any SSL certificate (the entire site is [link] not [link] and the products for sale are all advertised for roughly half their normal cost. It’s now advertising running shoes. which looked at a network of hacked sites that fit the Magecart profile. So what’s going here? .”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

The reality that teenagers are now impersonating law enforcement agencies to subpoena privileged data on their targets at whim is evident in the dramatic backstory behind LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked into some of the world’s most valuable technology companies , including Microsoft , Okta , NVIDIA and Vodafone.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Also known as “ Assad Faiq” and “ The Godfather ,” Iza is the 30-something founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology. “ JoshTheGod ,” referred to in the Iza complaint as “M.I.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Image: Spur.us. SocksEscort is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Each advertises their claimed access to T-Mobile systems in a similar way. The prices advertised for a SIM-swap against T-Mobile customers in the latter half of 2022 ranged between USD $1,000 and $1,500, while SIM-swaps offered against AT&T and Verizon customers often cost well more than twice that amount.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BHProxies sells access to “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for their Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. WHO’S BEHIND BHPROXIES? The website BHProxies[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. But Intel 471 finds that after his critical review of VIP Crypt, Kerens did not post publicly on Exploit again for another four years until October 2016, when they suddenly began advertising Cryptor[.]biz.

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

The request for the last four of the customer’s credit card number was consistent with my own testing, which relied upon on a caller ID spoofing service advertised in the cybercrime underground and aimed at a Citi account controlled by this author. ” Image: Next Caller.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

Charitable cybercriminal endeavors were the subject of a report released this week by cyber intel firm Digital Shadows , which looked at various ways computer crooks are promoting themselves and their hacking services using COVID-19 themed discounts and giveaways.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Adopting a shopping strategy of simply buying from the online merchant with the lowest advertised prices can be a bit like playing Russian Roulette with your wallet, for the simple reason that there are tons of completely fake e-commerce sites out there looking to separate the unwary from their credit card details. CHCEK THE SHIPPING.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. One source who had at least two employees fall for the scheme forwarded KrebsOnSecurity a response from UR’s privacy division, which blamed the incident on a third-party advertising partner.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021. ” A native of Donetsk, Ukraine, Horohorin told KrebsOnSecurity he hacked and shared the ChronoPay Confluence installation because Vrublevsky had threatened a family member.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. Correct subject would be the data center was hacked. HACKING BACK? “When people talk about ‘hacking back,’ they’re talking about stuff like this,” Nixon said. BRIANS CHAT.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

net available at the Wayback Machine shows that in 2016 this domain was used for the “ ExE Bucks ” affiliate program, a pay-per-install business which catered to people already running large collections of hacked computers or compromised websites. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net in the British Virgin Islands. 911 TODAY.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2020

Earlier today, KrebsOnSecurity alerted the 10th largest food distributor in the United States that one of its Web sites had been hacked and retrofitted with code that steals credit card and login data. A script that references an external JavaScript, hosted on a malicious site (in this case, http[.]ps).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

Sure enough, I found that Yalishanda was actively advertising on cybercrime forums, and that his infrastructure was being used to host hundreds of dodgy sites. Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz:

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

An ad posted to the Russian-language hacking forum BHF last month touted Cryptohost as a “bulletproof hosting provider for all your projects,” i.e., it can be relied upon to ignore abuse complaints about its customers. Cryptohost also controls several other address ranges, including 194.31.98.X, “Why choose us?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“All four sites frequently advertised one another, which is generally atypical for two card marketplaces competing in the same space,” Flashpoint analysts wrote. But Flashpoint found that all of the domains seized by Dept. were registered and hosted through Zaitsev’s company — Get-net LLC. financial institutions.

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