Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

But as luck would have it, sometime last year the administrator of apkdownloadweb.com managed to infect their Windows PC with password-stealing malware. These so-called “stealer logs” are mostly generated by opportunistic infections from information-stealing trojans that are sold on cybercrime markets.

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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. But roughly two weeks ago, VIP72’s online storefront — which ironically enough has remained at the same U.S.-based

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the user BHProxies also used the handle “ hassan_isabad_subar ” and marketed various software tools, including “Subar’s free email creator” and “Subar’s free proxy scraper.” The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2024

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. “They create a password-locked LAN with automatic network address translation,” the researchers wrote of cellular hot-spots.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. “You need to create this file and inject into the machine(s) like this so that metadata would say that they were created on his computer,” they continued. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches. It also appears many of their businesses have ties to a California marketing firm that works with a Russian state-run media conglomerate currently sanctioned by the U.S. government. based data brokers that sell personal information on Americans.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. “Now, we provide you with an even easier way to connect to our VPN servers. form [sic] hackers on public networks.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to Constella Intelligence [currently an advertiser on KrebsOnSecurity], Oleg used the same password from his iboss32@ro.ru The domain was registered in 2010 to an Oleg Iskushnykh from Omsk, who used the email address iboss32@ro.ru.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

Chainalysis also notes a potential connection between SSNDOB and another dark web market trading in credit cards which called it quits in 2021. Password reuse is one big reason for credential stuffing (using stolen data across additional sites) being so popular. The threat of stolen PII.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One account of the hack came from a 17-year-old in the United Kingdom, who told reporters the intrusion began when one of the English-speaking hackers phoned a tech support person at MGM and tricked them into resetting the password for an employee account. James Thomas Andrew McCarty , Charlotte, N.C., DOMESTIC TERRORISM?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. 911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. in the British Virgin Islands.

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