Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

.” According to ID.me, a major driver of phony jobless claims comes from social engineering, where people have given away personal data in response to romance or sweepstakes scams, or after applying for what they thought was a legitimate work-from-home job. “A lot of this is targeting the elderly,” Hall said.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) US phishing domains.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

. “Possible options include, for example, bot admin panels, code injection panels, shell control panels, payment card sniffers, traffic direction services, exchange services, spamming software, doorway generators, and scam pages, etc.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. domains were the worst in the world for spam, botnet (attack infrastructure for DDOS etc.) This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

years in a Russian penal colony for convincing one of his top affiliates to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a competitor that shut down the ticketing system for the state-owned Aeroflot airline. Festi also was the botnet used in the DDoS attack that sent Vrubelvsky to prison for two years in 2013.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

The SocksEscort home page says its services are perfect for people involved in automated online activity that often results in IP addresses getting blocked or banned, such as Craigslist and dating scams, search engine results manipulation, and online surveys.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

DDoS attacks from rivals are common, so several domains working together keeps things ticking over. We’ve noted the gradual emergence of Bitcoin ATMs in scams previously; here, cryptocurrency ATMs are more popular as a payment method to SSNDOB than other dubious online services.

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