Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account. This seller claims to help people monetize hacked booking.com partners, apparently by using the stolen credentials to set up fraudulent listings.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Asked to comment for this story, Apple said there has been no breach, hack, or technical exploit of iCloud or Apple services, and that the company is continuously adding new protections to address new and emerging threats. One “autodoxer” service advertised on Telegram that promotes a range of voice phishing tools and services.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. And as the phishing examples above demonstrate, many of today’s phishing scams use elements from hacked databases to make their lures more convincing. Urgency should be a giant red flag.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” In an interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Pompompurin said the hack was done to point out a glaring vulnerability in the FBI’s system. We continue to encourage the public to be cautious of unknown senders and urge you to report suspicious activity to www.ic3.gov gov or www.cisa.gov.” ” Pompompurin said.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic. But you also know they are accessing their email exclusively through an email client.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. -based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One of the oldest malware tricks in the book — hacked websites claiming visitors need to update their Web browser before they can view any content — has roared back to life in the past few months.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Security experts say both VPNFilter and Cyclops Blink are the work of a hacking group known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear , the same Russian team blamed for disrupting Ukraine’s electricity in 2015. SANDWORM AND TRITON. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

The reality that teenagers are now impersonating law enforcement agencies to subpoena privileged data on their targets at whim is evident in the dramatic backstory behind LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked into some of the world’s most valuable technology companies , including Microsoft , Okta , NVIDIA and Vodafone.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. Intel 471 found that Kerens used the email address pepyak@gmail.com , which also was used to register Kerens accounts on the Russian language hacking forums Verified and Damagelab.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. Zoobashop is also a presently hacked e-commerce site. In case anyone’s wondering, all of the hacked sites mentioned here have been notified.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” SlowMist said the malware downloaded by the malicious link in their case comes from a North Korean hacking group dubbed “ BlueNoroff , which Kaspersky Labs says is a subgroup of the Lazarus hacking group.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. By 2004, v1pee had adopted the moniker “ Vega ” on the exclusive Russian language hacking forum Mazafaka , where this user became one of the more reliable vendors of stolen payment cards.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

At issue are forged “emergency data requests,” (EDRs) sent through hacked police or government agency email accounts. ” Tuesday’s story showed how fraudulently obtained EDRs were a tool used by members of LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta and Samsung.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

This identity has been highly active on Breached and its predecessor RaidForums for more than two years, mostly selling databases from hacked Mexican entities. There was no reason to believe Holistic-K1ller had fabricated their breach claim.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. The login page for the criminal reshipping service SWAT USA Drop.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. Here’s the very first Slink created: [link] which redirects to the homepage for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

.” But over the years as trading in hacked databases became big business, RaidForums emerged as the go-to place for English-speaking hackers to peddle their wares. “Members could also earn credits through other means, such as by posting instructions on how to commit certain illegal acts.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

.” The report tracks the work of Magecart — the name given to a collective of at least seven cybercrime groups involved in hacking Web sites to steal payment card data. which looked at a network of hacked sites that fit the Magecart profile. 4, KrebsOnSecurity published Who’s in Your Online Shopping Cart?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

That changed recently when Punchmade’s various video and social media accounts began promoting a new web shop that is selling stolen payment cards and identity data, as well as hacked financial accounts and software for producing counterfeit checks. Punchmade Dev’s shop. Among them is mainpage[.]me/punchmade,

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Verified and other Russian language crime forums where MrMurza had a presence have been hacked over the years, with contact details and private messages leaked online. For the past few years, someone using the nickname Gaihnik25 has been posting messages to the Russian-language hacking forum Gerki[.]pw The address gaihnik@mail.ru

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

On at least two occasions in the past few years, the OGusers forum was hacked and its user database — including private messages between forum members — were posted online. Bryan allegedly used the nickname “Champagne” on OGusers. In a private message dated Nov.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

” According to 911, the service was hacked in early July, and it was discovered that someone manipulated the balances of a large number of user accounts. Its [sic] confirmed that the recharge system was also hacked the same way. “Not sure how did the hacker get in,” the 911 message reads.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

” Islam and Woody were both core members of UGNazi, a hacker collective that sprang up in 2012 and claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile websites. . “ JoshTheGod ,” referred to in the Iza complaint as “M.I.” had some personal problems and checked himself into rehab.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC , a dark web bazaar run by a cybercrime group that for more than six years hacked online merchants and sold stolen payment card data, abruptly closed up shop last week. Group-IB believes UltraRank is responsible for a slew of hacks that other security firms previously attributed to at least three distinct cybercrime groups.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

A cybercriminal service advertising the sale of access to hacked Office365 accounts. The service also advertised the ability to extract and filter emails and files based on selected keywords, as well as attach malicious macros to all documents in a user’s Microsoft OneDrive. Image: Proofpoint.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And then he got hacked. “The two are combined on-device to encrypt your vault data and are never sent to 1Password,” explains a 1Password blog post ‘ What If 1Password Gets Hacked? “I would personally advocate that nobody ever uses LastPass again: Not because they were hacked.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Image: Spur.us. The disruption at 911[.]re

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The post Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts appeared first on Security Boulevard. The coordinated action seized hundreds of accounts the companies say have played a major role in facilitating the trade and often lucrative resale of compromised, highly sought-after usernames.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

.” SHOPPING FOR ‘CVVs’ Fraud experts say the scammers behind the types of calls that targeted Jim’s family are most likely fueled by the rampant sale of credit card records stolen from hacked online merchants. ” Image: Next Caller.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. One of this user’s Facebook pages says Rizky is the chief executive officer and founder of an entity called BandungXploiter , whose Facebook page indicates it is a group focused mainly on hacking and defacing websites.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

If the attachment is opened, the malicious document proceeds to quietly download additional malware and hacking tools to the victim machine ( here’s one video example of a malicious Microsoft Office attachment from the malware sandbox service any.run ).

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