Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cybersecurity threat intelligence firm Intel 471 describes U-Admin as an information stealing framework that uses several plug-ins in one location to help users pilfer victim credentials more efficiently. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. “ Cl0p ” a.k.a. ”

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

Allison Nixon , chief research officer at the New York cybersecurity consultancy Unit 221B , said the increasing brazenness of many Com members is a function of how long it has taken federal authorities to go after guys like Sosa. ” NO FIXED ADDRESS The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that Urban was arrested Jan.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Which is why the best practice for many cybersecurity enthusiasts has long been to store their seed phrases either in some type of encrypted container — such as a password manager — or else inside an offline, special-purpose hardware encryption device, such as a Trezor or Ledger wallet.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In June 2024, a Mandiant employee told Bloomberg that UNC5537 members have made death threats against cybersecurity experts investigating the hackers, and that in one case the group used artificial intelligence to create fake nude photos of a researcher to harass them. ViLE In June 2024, two American men pleaded guilty to hacking into a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Allison Nixon is chief research officer for the New York City-based cybersecurity firm Unit 221B. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet. These guys have crews that go and identify people who are high net worth individuals and who have a lot to lose.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. This fact alone should make these criminal enterprises a primary target of cybersecurity firms looking to gain more timely intelligence about new malware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that oversees the registrar industry, recently sent a letter urging registrars to be more proactive, but stopped short of mandating any specific actions. .” “This is a CYA response at best, and dictates to no one that they should do anything.”

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