Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2023

.” The written notice goes on to say UPS believes the data exposure “affected packages for a small group of shippers and some of their customers from February 1, 2022 to April 24, 2023.” “It seems likely to me that UPS is leaking information somehow about upcoming deliveries.” info , legodelivery[.]info

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Wyden’s quote above references a story published here in July 2022, which broke the news that identity thieves were hijacking consumer accounts at Experian.com just by signing up as them at Experian once more, supplying the target’s static, personal information (name, DoB/SSN, address) but a different email address. ” Sen.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Among the most common ways that thieves extract cash from stolen credit card accounts is through purchasing pricey consumer goods online and reselling them on the black market. Kareem said he was instructed to create an account at a website called portal-ctsi[.]com

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In August 2023, security researcher Randy McEoin blogged about a scam he dubbed ClearFake , which uses hacked WordPress sites to serve visitors with a page that claims you need to update your browser before you can view the content. Previously, the group had stored its malicious update files on Cloudflare, Guard.io

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. io seem like a legitimate website.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

According to the latest figures from Check Point Software , Microsoft was by far the most impersonated brand for phishing scams in the second quarter of 2023, accounting for nearly 30 percent of all brand phishing attempts.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. Then on Aug. But on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This means that stealing someone’s phone number often can let cybercriminals hijack the target’s entire digital life in short order — including access to any financial, email and social media accounts tied to that phone number.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

28, 2023, researchers at the Chinese security firm DarkNavy published a blog post purporting to show evidence that a major Chinese ecommerce company’s app was using this same three-exploit chain to read user data stored by other apps on the affected device, and to make its app nearly impossible to remove. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. ” Sholtis said he clicked the attachment in one of the messages, which then launched a web page that looked exactly like a Microsoft Office 365 login page.

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