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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

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. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. million stolen cards; 2017 saw some 4.9 Correct subject would be the data center was hacked. HACKING BACK? The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million more. million cards.

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Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

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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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams.

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

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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Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts. The hacked BriansClub database had an estimated collective street value of $566 million , and that data was subsequently shared with thousands of financial institutions.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021. In February 2017, Horohorin was released after serving four years in a U.S. Click to enlarge. prison for his role in the 2009 theft of more than $9 million from RBS Worldpay.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

net available at the Wayback Machine shows that in 2016 this domain was used for the “ ExE Bucks ” affiliate program, a pay-per-install business which catered to people already running large collections of hacked computers or compromised websites. In a 2017 discussion on fl.l33t[.]su A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies , which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. The BHProxies website.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. More greatest hits from Experian: 2017: Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

I later received an email from the seller, who said his Amazon account had been hacked and abused by scammers to create fake sales. Now that anyone can get SSL certificates for free , phishers and other scammers that ply their trade via fake Web sites are starting to up their game.

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‘ValidCC,’ a Major Payment Card Bazaar and Looter of E-Commerce Sites, Shuttered

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. ValidCC, circa 2017. “UltraRank combined attacks on single targets with supply chain attacks.”

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

In 2010, this author received a massive data dump from a source that had hacked into or otherwise absconded with more than four years of email records from ChronoPay — at the time a major Russian online payment provider whose CEO and co-founders were the chief subjects of my 2014 book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime.

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Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme

Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2024

million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. Russian news sites report that Internal Affairs officials with the FSB grew suspicious when Tsaregorodtsev became a little too interested in the case following the hacking group’s arrests.

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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

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Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

‘ValidCC,’ a Major Payment Card Bazaar and Looter of E-Commerce Sites, Shuttered

Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme

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