Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. NetWire has been sold openly on the same website since 2012: worldwiredlabs[.]com. org , also registered in 2012.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. 5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com The website BHProxies[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. ” PicTrace appears to have been a service that allowed users to glean information about anyone who viewed an image hosted on the platform, such as their Internet address, browser type and version number.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This information includes website login usernames and passwords, as well as personal autofill data such as name, address, phone number, company, and job title. In contrast, the second thread periodically attempts to select a random internet IP address, with the following exclusions: Bogon networks like 0.0.0.0/8, 8, 10.0.0.0/8,

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. " It means "this is private." " You may be having a private conversation with Satan.

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