Krebs on Security

JULY 15, 2024

” The researchers have published a comprehensive guide for locking down Squarespace user accounts, which urges Squarespace users to enable multi-factor authentication (disabled during the migration). “If you bought Google Workspace via Google Domains, Squarespace is now your authorized reseller,” the help document explains.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as long as the proper documents are provided and the request appears to come from an email address connected to an actual police department domain name.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

Shanon: My partner wants to see the place before we send money over as we done this last time and someone scammed us I ain’t saying your not legit as you have send documents with details on name etc. According to twofactorauth.org , Airbnb currently does not support any type of multi-factor authentication that users can enable.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication. ” This attack comes on the heels of another targeted phishing campaign leveraging Pardot that was documented earlier this month by Netskope , a cloud security firm. .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

” This is not the first time Instagram has come for his accounts: As documented in this story in The Atlantic , some of his accounts totaling more than 1 million followers were axed in late 2018 when the platform took down 500 usernames that were stolen, resold, and used for posting memes. WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The intercepted CLOP communication seen by KrebsOnSecurity shows the group bragged about twice having success infiltrating new victims in the healthcare industry by sending them infected files disguised as ultrasound images or other medical documents for a patient seeking a remote consultation. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

A few months later, Bryant documented the same technique being used to take over more than 120,000 trusted domains for spam campaigns. Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged the authentication weakness documented by Guilmette.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

” Monahan has been documenting the crypto thefts via Twitter/X since March 2023, frequently expressing frustration in the search for a common cause among the victims. To automatically populate the appropriate credentials at any website going forward, you simply authenticate to LastPass using your master password. Then on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit. Redline infections steal gobs of data from the victim machine, including a list of recent downloads, stored passwords and authentication cookies, as well as browser bookmarks and auto-fill data. Image: ZeroFox.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers figured out that many major companies have uploaded massive amounts of valuable and sensitive customer data to Snowflake servers, all the while protecting those Snowflake accounts with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

From there, the perpetrators accessed a Google Drive document that Ferri had used to record credentials to other sites, including a cryptocurrency exchange. ” Rose said mobile phone stores could cut down on these crimes in much the same way that potential victims can combat SIM swapping: By relying on dual authentication.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As documented in last month’s deep dive on top Com members , The Com is also a place where cybercriminals go to boast about their exploits and standing within the community, or to knock others down a peg or two.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

The reader who shared this story (and copious documentation to go with it) asked to have his real name omitted to avoid encouraging further attacks against his identity. One reader’s nightmare experience spotlights what can happen when ID thieves and hackers start targeting online payday lenders. So we’ll just call him “Jim.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

Validating legal requests by domain name may be fine for data demands that include documents like subpoenas and search warrants, which can be validated with the courts. But not so for EDRs, which largely bypass any official review and do not require the requestor to submit any court-approved documents. EDR OVERLOAD?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Much of this fraud exploits weak authentication methods used by states that have long sought to verify applicants using static, widely available information such as Social Security numbers and birthdays. to shore up their authentication efforts, with six more states under contract to use the service in the coming months.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

“Also, it needs to be printed on ‘official letterhead,’ which of course can be easily forged just by Googling a document from said municipality. ” 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.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Griffin said a follow-up investigation revealed the attackers had used his Gmail account to gain access to his Coinbase account from a VPN connection in California, providing the multi-factor code from his Google Authenticator app. You may also wish to download Google Authenticator to another mobile device that you control.

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