Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 says Fearlless first registered on Verified in February 2013. account isn’t connected to much else that’s interesting except a now-deleted account at Vkontakte , the Russian answer to Facebook. ” But the triploo@mail.ru However, in Sept.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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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. In 2013, U.S. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in Over the years he’s had several partners in the project, including two very high-profile cybercriminals (or possibly just one, as we’ll see in a moment) who until recently operated under the hacker aliases “ upO ” and “ Lebron.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

A Twitter account for Web Listings Inc. has posts dating back to 2010, and points to even more Web Listings domains, including weblistingsinc.org. I found a similar pattern with domains stemming from a Crunchbase company profile on Web Listings Inc. Image: Better Business Bureau.

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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.

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