Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While the FBI’s InfraGard system requires multi-factor authentication by default, users can choose between receiving a one-time code via SMS or email. “If it was only the phone I will be in [a] bad situation,” USDoD said. “Because I used the person[‘s] phone that I’m impersonating.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Lookout researchers discovered multiple voice phishing groups were using a new phishing kit that closely mimicked the single sign-on pages for Okta and other authentication providers. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as well as those working at the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance. “ Annie.”

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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. mail server responds “OK” = successful access).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. And as the phishing examples above demonstrate, many of today’s phishing scams use elements from hacked databases to make their lures more convincing. Urgency should be a giant red flag.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

After logging in, the user might see a prompt that looks something like this: These malicious apps allow attackers to bypass multi-factor authentication, because they are approved by the user after that user has already logged in. A cybercriminal service advertising the sale of access to hacked Office365 accounts. Image: Proofpoint.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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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. “I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. T-Mobile declined to answer questions about what it may be doing to beef up employee authentication. “And we are constantly working to fight against it,” the statement reads. ” TMO UP! .”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

At issue are forged “emergency data requests,” (EDRs) sent through hacked police or government agency email accounts. ” Tuesday’s story showed how fraudulently obtained EDRs were a tool used by members of LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta and Samsung.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

As it turned out, calling the phone number on the back of the credit card from the phone number linked with the card provided the most recent transactions without providing any form of authentication.” “I was appalled that Citi would do that. .” ” Image: Next Caller.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” And then he got hacked. “I would personally advocate that nobody ever uses LastPass again: Not because they were hacked.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. 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.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. healthcare organizations.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To automatically populate the appropriate credentials at any website going forward, you simply authenticate to LastPass using your master password. .” A basic functionality of LastPass is that it will pick and remember lengthy, complex passwords for each of your websites or online services. ”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

The post Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

But a new report from researchers at DomainTools.com finds that several computers associated with The Manipulaters have been massively hacked by malicious data- and password-snarfing malware for quite some time. .” Exactly what that “new work” might entail, Saim Raza wouldn’t say.

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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. Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

based credit union and Digital Insight customer who said his institution just had several dozen customer accounts hacked over the previous week. NCR wouldn’t say, but it seems clear the hacked accounts are tied to customers re-using their online banking passwords at other sites that got hacked.

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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. EDR OVERLOAD?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The attackers also spoofed a call from account support representatives at the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini , claiming the target’s account had been hacked. From there the target was social engineered over the phone into resetting multi-factor authentication and sending Gemini funds to a compromised wallet.

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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. For example, KrebsOnSecurity got taken for hundreds of dollars just last year after trying to buy a pricey Sonos speaker from an established Amazon merchant who was selling it new and unboxed at huge discount.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. Here's a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While MGM was still trying to evict the intruders from its systems, an individual who claimed to have firsthand knowledge of the hack contacted multiple media outlets to offer interviews about how it all went down. ’s West Midlands Police as part of a joint investigation with the FBI into the MGM hack.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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