Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant (recently acquired by Google ) told Bloomberg that hackers working for the North Korean government have been copying resumes and profiles from leading job listing platforms LinkedIn and Indeed, as part of an elaborate scheme to land jobs at cryptocurrency firms. of spam and scams.

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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. government agencies. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified.US

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

As a result, domain name registrars are under increasing pressure to do more to combat scams and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s either that or the government gets involved. government may well soon get more involved. ” The U.S. Earlier this week, Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.),

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

of spam and scam.” None of the profiles listed here responded to requests for comment (or to become a connection). . “In our transparency report we share how our teams plus automated systems are stopping the vast majority of fraudulent activity we detect in our community – around 96% of fake accounts and around 99.1%

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The researchers concluded that 911 is supported by a “mid scale botnet-like infrastructure that operates in several networks, such as corporate, government and critical infrastructure.” Highlighting the risk that 911 nodes could pose to internal corporate networks, they observed that “the infection of a node enables the 911.re

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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 31, 2024

“Hijacked domains have been used directly in phishing attacks and scams, as well as large spam systems,” reads the Infoblox report, which refers to lame domains as “ Sitting Ducks.” ” “There is evidence that some domains were used for Cobalt Strike and other malware command and control (C2).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

According to Russian prosecutors, the scam went like this: Consumers would receive an SMS with links to sites that falsely claimed a number of well-known companies were sponsoring drawings and lotteries for people who enrolled or agreed to answer surveys. “I do not think that it was a reason for his arrest,” Artimovich said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late last year — were made possible thanks to an authentication weakness at GoDaddy.com , the world’s (..)

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

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. Chainalysis also notes a potential connection between SSNDOB and another dark web market trading in credit cards which called it quits in 2021.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. Domain names ending in “.US” This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S. Also,US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than previously requested by the states, such as images of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service. To screen out fraudsters, ID.me

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