Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 says Fearlless first registered on Verified in February 2013.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021. Among the escapades recounted in the ChronoPay founder’s diaries are multiple stories involving the self-proclaimed “King of Fraud!

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Verified and other Russian language crime forums where MrMurza had a presence have been hacked over the years, with contact details and private messages leaked online. In 2013, U.S. For the past few years, someone using the nickname Gaihnik25 has been posting messages to the Russian-language hacking forum Gerki[.]pw

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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. 2013: Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service. 2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password. Palant said that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.” And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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