Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S.,

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2022

Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week — “ Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet ” — in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. “What starts out virtual can get real all too quickly — and when the web is worldwide, so are the consequences.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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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

MARCH 23, 2020

Cached versions of weblistingsinc.org at archive.org show logos similar to the one featured on the Web Listings mailer, and early versions of the site reference a number of “business partners” in India that also perform SEO services. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

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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. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

The experiment was done from a different computer and Internet address than the one that created the original account years ago. 2013: Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service. More greatest hits from Experian: 2017: Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN. 2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers.

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