Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2022

AMLBot , a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology to help cybercrooks avoid detection by anti-money laundering systems.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. ” In response to a request for comment, the FBI confirmed the unauthorized messages, but declined to offer further information.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. And all of them operate via Telegram , a cloud-based instant messaging system. org) for a checkup.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. of spam and scam.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft. Click to enlarge.

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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. Services like SWAT are known as “Drops for stuff” on cybercrime forums. The contact information for Kareem , a young man from Maryland, was listed as an active drop.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. Group-IB believes UltraRank is responsible for a slew of hacks that other security firms previously attributed to at least three distinct cybercrime groups.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

. “Cybercriminals are likely gaining access to compromised US and foreign government email addresses and using them to conduct fraudulent emergency data requests to US based companies, exposing the personal information of customers to further use for criminal purposes,” the FBI warned. Don’t be discouraged.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals. When a website’s user database gets compromised, that information invariably turns up on hacker forums. customers this month.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Clicking to view the “live stream” of the funeral takes one to a newly registered website that requests credit card information. One of the many scam funeral group pages on Facebook. co or skysports[.]live.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website. In an email to KrebsOnSecurity, booking.com confirmed one of its partners had suffered a security incident that allowed unauthorized access to customer booking information.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes. 30, Bug posted a sales thread to the cybercrime forum Breached[.]co “Information we can get: emails, IPs, phone numbers, photos. .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

The tip about the Experian weakness came from Jenya Kushnir , a security researcher living in Ukraine who said he discovered the method being used by identity thieves after spending time on Telegram chat channels dedicated to cybercrime. To make matters worse, a majority of the information in that credit report is not mine.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

.” The Justice Department says Singh and Ceraolo belong to a group of cybercriminals known to its members as “ ViLE ,” who specialize in obtaining personal information about third-party victims, which they then use to harass, threaten or extort the victims, a practice known as “doxing.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re “Everybody is looking for an alternative, bro,” wrote a BlackHatForums user on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device. ” or “ Tmo up! ” message to channel participants.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

Worse still, the source said, many states have dramatically pared back the amount of information required to successfully request an unemployment filing. citizens, mainly because the only information required to submit a claim was name, date of birth, address and Social Security number. ” CANARY IN THE GOLDMINE.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

All of the card data stolen from BriansClub was shared with multiple sources who work closely with financial institutions to identify and monitor or reissue cards that show up for sale in the cybercrime underground. The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million card records for sale. million more. BRIANS CHAT.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Picari was the owner, developer and main beneficiary of the service, and his personal information and ownership of OTP Agency was revealed in February 2020 in a “dox” posted to the now-defunct English-language cybercrime forum Raidforums. The NCA said it began investigating the service in June 2020. Just hang up, full stop.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

is overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive branch agency of the U.S. .” Since then, they found that whoever is responsible for running the service has used.US for approximately 55 percent of the total domains created, with several dozen new malicious.US domains registered daily.US

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices. ” MRMURZA Faceless is a project from MrMurza , a particularly talkative member of more than a dozen Russian-language cybercrime forums over the past decade. In 2013, U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. Whether that HeartSender program was somehow compromised and used to infect the service’s customers is unknown.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. Department of Justice.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges. which shows an LASD deputy unlawfully added E.Z.’s

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Proxy services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. SocksEscort[.]com SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for interfering in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. The judge in the case was not amused, found for the plaintiff, and ordered the defendants and their U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Venus indicated it recently had success with a method that involves carefully editing one or more email inbox files at a victim firm — to insert messages discussing plans to trade large volumes of the company’s stock based on non-public information. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how. .”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

Mike Barlow , information security manager for the City of Memphis, confirmed the Memphis Police’s systems were sharing their Microsoft Windows credentials with the domain, and that the city was working with Caturegli to have the domain transferred to them. .” Caturegli said setting up an email server record for memrtcc.ad

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

This email address is also connected to accounts on several Russian cybercrime forums, including “ __edman__ ,” who had a history of selling “logs” — large amounts of data stolen from many bot-infected computers — as well as giving away access to hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

. “Some visitors will attempt to make purchases, entering their payment information into the payment form where the skimmer copies it and sends it to a drop server. Credit card data stolen by these various Magecart groups invariably gets put up for sale at online cybercrime shops, the security firms found.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. The post Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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