Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

When a reliable method of scamming money out of people, companies or governments becomes widely known, underground forums and chat networks tend to light up with activity as more fraudsters pile on to claim their share. And that’s exactly what appears to be going on right now as multiple U.S. ” Image: Agari.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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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. ” A review of the email’s message headers indicated it had indeed been sent by the FBI, and from the agency’s own Internet address.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. SSL/TLS certs). that have such misconfigured assets.” Image: Defcon.org.

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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. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. “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

JULY 21, 2022

REACTs’ West said while there are a large number of pig butchering victims reporting their victimization to the FBI, very few are receiving anything more than instructions about filing a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which keeps track of cybercrime losses and victims.

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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. cryptocurrency holdings online. attorney general.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. The government alleges that on May 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log into a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

According to the government, in each case the men impersonating the foreign police departments told those platforms the request was urgent because the account holders had been trading in child pornography or engaging in child extortion. Pompompurin had been a nemesis to the FBI for several years. DOMESTIC TERRORISM?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

Donahue is co-founder of Kodex , a company formed in February 2021 that builds security portals designed to help tech companies “manage information requests from government agencies who contact them, and to securely transfer data & collaborate against abuses on their platform.” Image: Kodex.us. Image: Meta Transparency Report.

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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. ” A month prior on Cracked, Everlynn posted a sales thread, “1x Government Email Account || BECOME A FED!,”

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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. . “It’s either that or the government gets involved. ” The U.S. and Mazie K.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

. “The Molotov cocktail caused the immediate surrounding area to ignite, including the siding of the house, grass, and the wooded chair,” the government’s complaint against McGovern-Allen states. ” The government mentions the victims only by their initials — “K.M.”

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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. Image: Intel471. Intel 471’s Passwater said something similar happened in December 2016, when authorities in the U.S.,

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