Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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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. Linkedin’s parent company — Microsoft Corp — is by all accounts the most-phished brand on the Internet today. Here’s one example from Jan.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

The reader who shared this story (and copious documentation to go with it) asked to have his real name omitted to avoid encouraging further attacks against his identity. That worked, and once inside the account Jim could see more about the loan details: The terms of the unauthorized loan in Jim’s name from MSF. Then on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2019

Account + password = free lifetime use. Your account information: * USERMANE : (sent username). This merchant appears to be reselling access to existing Microsoft Office accounts, because in order to use this purchase the buyer must log in to Microsoft’s site using someone else’s username and password! .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. As documented by Group-IB, the group pivoted from its access to Twilio to attack at least 163 of its customers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects on LinkedIn , or abusing an encoding method that makes it easy to disguise booby-trapped Microsoft Windows files as relatively harmless documents.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called “ Land Lordz ,” which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings. co.uk , airbnb.pt-anuncio[.]com

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Those plug-ins include a phishing page generator, a victim tracker, and even a component to help manage money mules (for automatic transfers from victim accounts to people who were hired in advance to receive and launder stolen funds).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The intercepted CLOP communication seen by KrebsOnSecurity shows the group bragged about twice having success infiltrating new victims in the healthcare industry by sending them infected files disguised as ultrasound images or other medical documents for a patient seeking a remote consultation. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

They’re frequently cheap to buy , stolen in large numbers , and can be bundled with other documents such as passport, driver’s licence, email, and more. One breach taking your login from a gaming forum can quickly become something that exposes Government service logins or bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

A few months later, Bryant documented the same technique being used to take over more than 120,000 trusted domains for spam campaigns. Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged the authentication weakness documented by Guilmette. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com). SPAMMY BEAR.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. Department of Justice.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. OG accounts typically can be resold for thousands of dollars. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This includes pivoting from or converting a single compromised Microsoft Windows user account to an administrator account with greater privileges on the target network; the ability to sidestep and/or disable any security software; and gaining the access needed to disrupt or corrupt any data backup systems the victim firm may have.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

. “The fraud is named for the way scammers feed their victims with promises of romance and riches before cutting them off and taking all their money,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned in April 2022. Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com But after investing more than $4.5

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

In November 2022, Google documented these three same vulnerabilities being used together to compromise Samsung devices. The three Samsung exploits that DarkNavy says were used by the malicious app. DarkNavy likewise did not name the app they said was responsible for the attacks. That Weibo post has since been deleted.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

. “Also, it needs to be printed on ‘official letterhead,’ which of course can be easily forged just by Googling a document from said municipality. After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.” mail, he could be facing mail fraud charges if caught. Then you either mail or fax it in.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Much of this fraud exploits weak authentication methods used by states that have long sought to verify applicants using static, widely available information such as Social Security numbers and birthdays. Many states also lacked the ability to tell when multiple payments were going to the same bank accounts.

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