Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. .

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APRIL 4, 2024

Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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JULY 29, 2021

But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals. When a website’s user database gets compromised, that information invariably turns up on hacker forums. TARGETED PHISHING.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Here’s a look at a fairly elaborate SMS-based phishing scam that spoofs FedEx in a bid to extract personal and financial information from unwary recipients. com — from a desktop web browser redirects the visitor to a harmless page with ads for car insurance quotes. com — stopped resolving.

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MARCH 14, 2023

.” The Justice Department says Singh and Ceraolo belong to a group of cybercriminals known to its members as “ ViLE ,” who specialize in obtaining personal information about third-party victims, which they then use to harass, threaten or extort the victims, a practice known as “doxing.”

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. InfraGard , a program run by the U.S. This is a developing story.

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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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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

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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APRIL 3, 2024

The core Manipulaters product these days is a spam delivery service called HeartSender , whose homepage openly advertises phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365 , Yahoo , AOL , Intuit , iCloud and ID.me , to name a few. .” A number of questions, indeed.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. Do your research because the information must be right.” Among them is mainpage[.]me/punchmade,

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Security Boulevard

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.

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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.” Continuously educating and informing staff about the risks and methods used by cybercriminals to launch attacks and steal data. ”

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AUGUST 4, 2022

So they sent her some information about where to wire the money, and asked her to go to the bank. And when an elderly victim does report a crime, they may be unable to supply detailed information to investigators.” billion to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

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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. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. that were created from different Internet addresses in Vienna, Austria.

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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. and starovikov[.]com.

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MARCH 7, 2023

The lawsuit also seeks information about the identities of 20 different “John Does” — Freenom customers that Meta says have been particularly active in phishing attacks against Facebook , Instagram , and WhatsApp users.

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JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

19, 2024) of more than 200 domains at the Internet address 93.190.143[.]252 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.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

“The endgame was to offer a job based on successful completion of background check which obviously requires entering personal information,” Gwin said. “Even after the real Troy said they’d gotten these [LinkedIn] ads shut down, this guy was still emailing me asking for my HR information,” Siegel said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

0ktapus used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the targeted company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

The phishers behind this scheme used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the target company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule. 2, and Aug. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com said he suspected the call was a scam, but decided to play along for about an hour — all the while recording the call and coaxing information out of the scammer. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Clicking to view the “live stream” of the funeral takes one to a newly registered website that requests credit card information. The Internet address of livestreamnow[.]xyz Livestreamnow[.]xyz

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Research suggests identity thieves were able to hijack the accounts simply by signing up for new accounts at Experian using the victim’s personal information and a different email address. “We believe these are isolated incidents of fraud using stolen consumer information,” Experian’s statement reads.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cybersecurity threat intelligence firm Intel 471 describes U-Admin as an information stealing framework that uses several plug-ins in one location to help users pilfer victim credentials more efficiently. A demonstration video showing the real-time web injection capabilities of the U-Admin phishing kit.

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MAY 16, 2020

” “It is assumed the fraud ring behind this possesses a substantial PII database to submit the volume of applications observed thus far,” the Secret Service warned. The alert follows news reports by media outlets in Washington and Rhode Island about millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims in those states.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

“Plus, more employees have access to billing and invoice information, meaning that a spray-and-pray campaign can be effective,” Fuchs wrote. Linkedin’s parent company — Microsoft Corp — is by all accounts the most-phished brand on the Internet today.

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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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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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MAY 23, 2020

Worse still, the source said, many states have dramatically pared back the amount of information required to successfully request an unemployment filing. citizens, mainly because the only information required to submit a claim was name, date of birth, address and Social Security number.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the meantime, we encourage any security researchers to share any useful information they believe they may have with our Threat Intelligence team by contacting securitydisclosure@lastpass.com.” LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While there is still far more malware out there today targeting Microsoft Windows PCs, the prevalence of information-stealing trojans aimed at macOS users is growing at a steady clip. A recent report from Recorded Future finds the Lazarus Group has stolen approximately $3 billion in cryptocurrency over the past six years.

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Other information in the announcements includes the price for a single SIM-swap request, and the handle of the person who takes the payment and information about the targeted subscriber. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet. ” or “ Tmo up!

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