Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

31 that uses Linkedin.com links to redirect anyone who clicks to a site that spoofs Adobe , and then prompts users to log in to their Microsoft email account to view a shared document. Linkedin’s parent company — Microsoft Corp — is by all accounts the most-phished brand on the Internet today. Image: Urlscan.io.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. A few months later, Bryant documented the same technique being used to take over more than 120,000 trusted domains for spam campaigns.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 15, 2024

.” The researchers say some Squarespace domains that were migrated over also could be hijacked if attackers discovered the email addresses for less privileged user accounts tied to the domain, such as “domain manager,” which likewise has the ability to transfer a domain or point it to a different Internet address.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. The document requested the Internet address history of Discord accounts tied to a specific phone number used by the target.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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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.” ” The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading. ”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet. Woody’s complaint states that Masters also was present during his 2018 home invasion, as was another core UGNazi member: Eric “CosmoTheGod” Taylor.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

19, 2024) of more than 200 domains at the Internet address 93.190.143[.]252 Hegel noted that the spike in malicious software-themed ads came not long after Microsoft started blocking by default Office macros in documents downloaded from the Internet. How do we know freecad-us[.]org org is malicious? com , filezillasoft[.]com

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2023

Meta initially filed this lawsuit in December 2022, but it asked the court to seal the case, which would have restricted public access to court documents in the dispute. Although Freenom is based in The Netherlands, some of its other sister companies named as defendants in the lawsuit are incorporated in the United States.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Unfortunately for us, Doug freaked out after deciding he’d been tricked — backing up his important documents, changing his passwords, and then reinstalling macOS on his computer. If you’re approached in a similar scheme, the response from the would-be victim documented in the SlowMist blog post is probably the best.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

There is also ample evidence to suggest that Glupteba may have spawned Meris , a massive botnet of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that surfaced in September 2021 and was responsible for some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks the Internet has ever seen. But on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba , one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

But a copy of the document obtained by KrebsOnSecurity shows the name of the federal agent who testified to it has been blacked out. The final page of Noah Michael Urban’s indictment shows the investigating agent redacted their name from charging documents. Urban’s indictment is currently sealed.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

. “It’s run by a fraud ring of cryptocurrency scammers who mine dating apps and other social media for victims and the scam is becoming alarmingly popular.” – WhatsApp: In virtually all documented cases of pig butchering, the target is moved fairly quickly into chatting with the scammer via WhatsApp.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

In addition, 16Shop employed various tricks to help its users’ phishing pages stay off the radar of security firms, including a local “blacklist” of Internet addresses tied to security companies, and a feature that allowed users to block entire Internet address ranges from accessing phishing pages. Image: ZeroFox.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

As documented by Group-IB, the group pivoted from its access to Twilio to attack at least 163 of its customers. “If governments fail to prioritize this source of threat, violence originating from the Internet will affect regular people.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

” Monahan has been documenting the crypto thefts via Twitter/X since March 2023, frequently expressing frustration in the search for a common cause among the victims. The Internet is swimming with con artists masquerading as legitimate cryptocurrency recovery experts. Then on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

But each can see if a law enforcement entity or individual tied to one of their own requests has ever submitted a request to a different Kodex client, and then drill down further into other data about the submitter, such as Internet address(es) used, and the age of the requestor’s email address.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

From there, the perpetrators accessed a Google Drive document that Ferri had used to record credentials to other sites, including a cryptocurrency exchange. Soon after, the attackers were able to use their control over his mobile number to reset his Gmail account password.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

What follows are a series of clues that point to the likely real-life identity of a Russian man who appears responsible for enabling a ridiculous amount of cybercriminal activity on the Internet today. The document shows he was born in Ukraine and is approximately 36 years old. Image: Intel471. The company says he moved to St.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In June 2024, security experts at Sysdig documented a new attack that leveraged stolen cloud credentials to target ten cloud-hosted LLMs. To carry out this research, security researchers ignored fundamental security best practices and publicly shared an access key on the internet to observe what would happen.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

. “Also, it needs to be printed on ‘official letterhead,’ which of course can be easily forged just by Googling a document from said municipality. ” Technically, what my source did was wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet/telephone/fax through false pretenses); had he done it through the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

But when the thieves tried to move $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency out of his account, Coinbase sent an email stating that the account had been locked, and that he would have to submit additional verification documents before he could do anything with it.

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