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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

A Twitter account for Web Listings Inc. Searching the Internet for some of these Web listing domains mentioned in the company’s Twitter account brings up a series of press releases once issued on behalf of the company. Cached versions of this site from 2011 show it naming Web Listings Inc. as a business partner.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

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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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. ” MICROBILT.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. Image: Shutterstock.

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Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

Krebs on Security

Those included spreadsheets chock full of bank account details tied to some of the world’s most active cybercriminals, and to a vast network of shell corporations created by Vrublevsky and his co-workers to help launder the proceeds from their various online pharmacy, spam and fake antivirus operations.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io.