Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

But O’Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by “ SIM swapping ,” a crime wherein fraudsters trick a mobile provider into diverting a customer’s phone calls and text messages to a device they control.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

This phishing gang apparently had great success targeting employees of all the major mobile wireless providers, but most especially T-Mobile. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance. ” On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The FBI and other agencies warned in March that the Cyclops Blink malware was built to replace a threat called “ VPNFilter ,” an earlier malware platform that targeted vulnerabilities in a number of consumer-grade wireless and wired routers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers. Allison Nixon , chief research officer with New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Unit221B , recalled what happened in the weeks leading up to Dec.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2018

have arrested and charged a 19-year-old area man on suspicion hijacking mobile phone numbers as part of a scheme to steal large sums of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Authorities in Santa Clara, Calif. Xzavyer Clemente Narvaez was arrested Aug.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2024

Current analysis indicates that the data includes, for these periods of time, records of calls and texts of nearly all of AT&T’s wireless customers and customers of mobile virtual network operators (“MVNO”) using AT&T’s wireless network.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In May 2018, ZDNet ran a story about the discovery of a glaring vulnerability in the Web site for wireless provider T-Mobile that let anyone look up customer home addresses and account PINs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. In March 2020, the wireless carrier T-Mobile was victims of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Cisco addressed CVE-2019-1663 RCE flaw in wireless routers. Cisco WebEx Meetings affected by a new elevation of privilege flaw. PDF zero-day samples harvest user data when opened in Chrome. Ransomware, Trojan and Miner together against PIK-Group.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Or they can simply use these printers to mine cryptocurrency, ramping up their victims’ electricity bills in the process. Secure your printing ports and limit your printer’s wireless connections to your router. Securing your printer. To quote the security guide we printed on tens of thousands of unsecured printers, “here’s how”: 1.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Threat actors are leveraging the flaw in the attempt to install the CNRig cryptocurrency miner. Volexity has observed at least one threat actor attempting to exploit CVE-2018-11776 en masse in order to install the CNRig cryptocurrency miner.” ” states the report published by Volexity. and 167.114.171.27,” . “The

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2019

Description CVE-2019-1663 is a vulnerability in the web-based management interface of the Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, Cisco RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router, and Cisco RV215W Wireless-N VPN Router that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on an affected device.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2019

She is a small business owner, traveler and investor of cryptocurrencies. She writes for publications like GlobalSign, Tripwire, SecurityAffairs , SecurityToday and CyberDefenseMagazine. Susan’s inbox is open for new ideas and stories, feel free to share story ideas to susanalexandra67@gmail.com.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Users can enter a simple slash command to enable different scripts aimed at services – called “modes” – that can target specific bands, a wireless carrier and payment apps like PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay. They pay for access to the bot and can use it by entering commands similar to those used on Slack’s workforce collaboration tool.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Aircrack-ng is the go-to tool for analysis and cracking of wireless networks. encrypted private keys (SSH, GnuPG, cryptocurrency wallets, etc.), While it flags potential weaknesses, a pen testing tool is still required to exploit them. Read more: Wireshark: Pen Testing Product Overview and Analysis. Aircrack-ng.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies. Wireless network attacks: These target weaknesses in wireless networks , such as unauthorized access, eavesdropping, or man-in-the-middle attacks on Wi-Fi connections.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

ECC is used for email encryption, cryptocurrency digital signatures, and internet communication protocols. While not as popular as the RSA standard (see below), ECC can generate equivalent encryption strength with smaller key sizes, which enables faster encryption and decryption.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

You see, no weapons rendered the Dread Pirate Westly sailed ashore toward an entirely new crew and he stayed aboard for wireless first mate for the time calling me Roberts once the crew believed he left the ship and I had been Roberts ever since. For that you're going to need cryptocurrency. This is cryptocurrency laundering.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Basically iPhones, iPads, Macs and Watches use a protocol called Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) to create mesh networks. Guido has also researched cryptocurrencies, like Etherium. In brief, the vulnerability allowed anyone exploiting it to instantly take over someone’s device without touching it at al.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Basically iPhones, iPads, Macs and Watches use a protocol called Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) to create mesh networks. Guido has also researched cryptocurrencies, like Etherium. In brief, the vulnerability allowed anyone exploiting it to instantly take over someone’s device without touching it at al.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Basically iPhones, iPads, Macs and Watches use a protocol called Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) to create mesh networks. Guido has also researched cryptocurrencies, like Etherium. In brief, the vulnerability allowed anyone exploiting it to instantly take over someone’s device without touching it at al. Learn More Request Demo.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead. A copy of his complaint is here (PDF).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

resident Ahmad Wagaafe Hared and Matthew Gene Ditman of Las Vegas were part of a group that specialized in tricking or bribing representatives at the major wireless providers into giving them control over phone numbers belonging to people they later targeted for extortion and theft. According to indictments unsealed this week, Tucson, Ariz.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

On Telegram, the Aspertaine/Couch alias frequented several popular SIM-swapping channels, where they initially were active as a “holder” — a low-level but key SIM-swapping group member who agrees to hold stolen cryptocurrency after an account takeover is completed.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. Unauthorized SIM swapping is a scheme in which fraudsters trick or bribe employees at wireless phone companies into redirecting the target’s text messages and phone calls to a device they control.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

CISA adds new Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance Vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ivanti warns of a new actively exploited Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) flaw International law enforcement operation dismantled criminal communication platform Ghost U.S.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

While cryptominers mine a mobile phone's CPU/GPU for cryptocurrency and drain its battery, ransomware freezes devices or encrypts files for ransom. Other non-USB options include external batteries, wireless charging stations, and power banks, which are devices that can be charged to hold enough power for several recharges of your phone.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

Unsettling new claims have emerged about Nicholas Truglia , a 21-year-old Manhattan resident accused of hijacking cell phone accounts to steal tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims. Truglia allegedly struck up a conversation about booking private jets with his cryptocurrency. “Gradually, I got to know Nick.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Cable: This was then when I was in high school as a sophomore, was working on building an integration for a cryptocurrency website.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Cable: This was then when I was in high school as a sophomore, was working on building an integration for a cryptocurrency website.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It would then attempt to spread via wireless Bluetooth signals. The advent of untraceable digital payment methods like cryptocurrency was a boon to hackers looking to extort as much money as they could from their targets without being caught. 2004 saw the first worm designed to infect cell phones in Cabir.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ransomware was a relatively obscure form of malware until the early 2010s , but it has increased in scope and the amount of damage it has caused year after year, aided by a proliferation of botnets , cryptocurrencies , and sophisticated criminal enterprises. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

CISA adds new Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance Vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ivanti warns of a new actively exploited Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) flaw International law enforcement operation dismantled criminal communication platform Ghost U.S.

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