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

Krebs on Security

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. employed a number of people involved in the SEO business.

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Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life

Krebs on Security

” Indeed, KrebsOnSecurity first covered RLO-based phishing attacks back in 2011 , and even then it wasn’t a new trick. . “When the same email is sent through Mimecast, Mimecast is smart enough to detect the encoding and it renames the attachment to ‘ fdp.eml.’

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Russian Govt. Continues Carding Shop Crackdown

Krebs on Security

Stas Alforov is director of research for Gemini Advisory , a New York firm that monitors underground cybercrime markets. Debuting in 2011, Ferum Shop is one of the oldest observed dark web marketplaces selling “card not present” data (customer payment records stolen from hacked online merchants), according to Gemini.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” PANOV Constella Intelligence , a threat intelligence firm that tracks breached databases, says lesstroy@mgn.ru

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Krebs on Security

Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz: The one or two domain names registered to Aleksandr Volosovyk and that mail.ru The nickname Yalishanda means “Alexander” in Mandarin (????).