Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2019

Street thieves who specialize in cashing out stolen credit and debit cards increasingly are hedging their chances of getting caught carrying multiple counterfeit cards by relying on Fuze Cards , a smartcard technology that allows users to store dozens of cards on a single device, the U.S. Secret Service warns. Image: Fuzecard.com.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In one recent engagement, a client of Nick’s said they’d reached out to an investor from Switzerland — The Private Office of John Bernard — whose name was included on a list of angel investors focused on technology startups. Also, we asked to see an investment portfolio.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 24, 2021

As stated by prosecutors, an information technology consulting firm hired Deepanshu Kher from 2017 through May 2018. In 2017, this firm was hired by the unidentified Carlsbad company to assist with its migration to a Microsoft Office 365 (MS O365) environment.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. Those sources say the attackers stole administrative credentials that PCM uses to manage client accounts within Office 365 , a cloud-based file and email sharing service run by Microsoft Corp.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

From AI-generated voices to realistic websites and stolen accounts, scams today are slick, fast, and global. How Scammers Exploit Emotion and Technology Scammers rely on emotional manipulation and increasingly tech to catch people off guard especially when were distracted, tired, or just trying to get through a busy day.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com and rurimeter[.]com

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

Among the more notable Russian hackers released in the prisoner swap is Roman Seleznev , 40, who was sentenced in 2017 to 27 years in prison for racketeering convictions tied to a lengthy career in stealing and selling payment card data. Klyushin is the owner of M-13 , a Russian technology company that contracts with the Russian government.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that North Korean information technology (IT) workers obtained illegal employment and amassed millions in cryptocurrency for the benefit of the North Korean government, all as a means of evading U.S. accounts to hide their origins. since 2017. sanctions placed on North Korea.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. federal agencies like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet. . ” reported ZDNet.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

29, 2018, the attackers broke in through a compromised login account on Christmas Eve and quickly began infecting servers with the Ryuk ransomware strain. In 2017, cloud hosting provider Cloudnine was hit by a ransomware attack , leading to an outage that lasted for several days.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

Among the more notable Russian hackers released in the prisoner swap is Roman Seleznev , 40, who was sentenced in 2017 to 27 years in prison for racketeering convictions tied to a lengthy career in stealing and selling payment card data. Klyushin is the owner of M-13 , a Russian technology company that contracts with the Russian government.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised. 911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. In a 2017 discussion on fl.l33t[.]su in the British Virgin Islands. su between 2016 and 2019.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Seceon will again be participating with AGC Partners in its 14th Annual Boston Technology Growth Conference to be held on Thursday, November 9th. The AGC Partner Conference is a premier showcase for fast growing, predominantly private technology companies.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Seceon will again be participating with AGC Partners in its 14th Annual Boston Technology Growth Conference to be held on Thursday, November 9th. The AGC Partner Conference is a premier showcase for fast growing, predominantly private technology companies.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say measurably dampened demand for such services by explaining that their use to harm others is illegal and can land potential customers in jail. Google told KrebsOnSecurity that it relies on a combination of technology and people to enforce its policies.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3 There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. billion in 2016, for instance.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

An undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology named Bill Demirkapi discovered the most recent security failure. Equifax, 2017: A data breach impacted almost 150 million Equifax customers, who subsequently reported identity-related crimes using that data. Takeaways .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM Bank , a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). Abusewith[.]us Abusewith[.]us

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies. Fast forward to 2017. Whoever was behind NotPetya, notably, leveraged the stolen NSA tools, to completely destroy global shipping company Maersk’s computer network in 2017.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released NIST Special Publication 800-63B Digital Identity Guidelines to help organizations properly comprehend and address risk as it relates to password management on the part of end users.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Not long after that WordPress site was erected, its author(s) began charging for the software, accepting payments via a variety of means, including PayPal , Bitcoin and even wire transfer to several bank accounts in Turkey. That Twitter profile also shows up on a Facebook account for a Mustafa can Ozaydin from Turkey.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2021

Interestingly, the compromise of the telecom equipment was carried out after compromising Microsoft Exchange Servers in between 2017 to 2021. Mr. Lior Div released a public statement yesterday via his social media account that the digital compromise was so much that it can shut down a portion or the entire section of network.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com and rurimeter[.]com

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

“Here is what we know about the situation today: On August 20, 2019, we learned from a third party of a data exposure that impacts a subset of customers of our Cloud WAF product who had accounts through September 15, 2017. Elements of our Incapsula customer database through September 15, 2017 were exposed.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

WaPost : Depriving rivals of American-made technology also threatens the future global prospects of an industry that has driven U.S. Russia has been working on creating its own isolated Internet for some time—tests have been conducted since at least 2017. It makes sense for companies to cut off Russia.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

In October 2017, the city of Fort Worth, Texas became the target of a phishing scam. Their accounts payable department received an email that appeared to be from Imperial Construction, a company that was doing business with the city at the time. Fadipe, requested a change of account. However, this wasn’t the case.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially , upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission had an online public-commenting period for its plans to repeal net neutrality. Most likely, it'll be everybody.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind, and use multifactor authentication. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2019

The Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) project lays out in detail how a theoretical ransomware attack – dubbed the “Bashe” campaign – could improve upon the real life WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware worms that plagued thousands of organizations in 2017. “In fact, most don’t need it at all,” he says.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2024

In 2019, Facebook said it had always given control to users about the use of face recognition technology to recognize users in photos, but it wasn’t until December 2017 that Facebook introduced settings that allowed users to manage whether Facebook used face recognition technology on their photos to suggest tags.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2025

Attribution in cyberattacks is difficult, as threat actors often take steps to obscure their identities, such as using compromised infrastructure, false flags, or anonymizing technologies. Lazarus Group: a history of cybercrime The Lazarus Group is believed to be a state-sponsored hacking collective operated by the North Korean government.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The browser vendors know this and they're increasingly holding non-compliant websites to account. pic.twitter.com/FlrotYe1De — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 31, 2017. But clearly, the deeper issue is a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology on ShopCity.com's behalf. You should use it. It can go f*ck itself.

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