Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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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. The experiment was done from a different computer and Internet address than the one that created the original account years ago.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

” By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. And then he got hacked. The Internet is swimming with con artists masquerading as legitimate cryptocurrency recovery experts. “I would personally advocate that nobody ever uses LastPass again: Not because they were hacked.

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