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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

” Launched in 2017, eWorldTrade[.]com com were paid for by the same account advertising a number of scam websites selling logo and web design services. Searchengineland.com writes the changes are aimed at increasing accountability in digital advertising. com now features a seizure notice from the DOJ.

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Scams Marketing Advertising Technology

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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.

Accountability

Accountability Passwords Authentication Password Management

Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies , which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

Accountability

Accountability Advertising Marketing Malware

Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts. com, and was wondering when the funds would be reflected in the balance of his account on the shop.

Phishing

Phishing Cybercrime Accountability Advertising

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose credit card they’re about to charge at some website, or whose bank account they’re about to empty.

VPN

VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software

This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

His final post on Exploit in May 2017 somewhat jokingly indicated he was joining an upstart ransomware affiliate program. 2016 and July 2017 that sought to corner the increasingly lucrative and competitive market for ransomware-as-a-service offerings. . RANSOMWARE DREAMS.

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Malware Cybercrime Ransomware Marketing

When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com found himself on the phone with one of the GoDaddy hackers, after someone who claimed they worked at GoDaddy called and said they needed him to authorize some changes to the account. “He was literally reading off the tickets to the notes of the admin panel inside GoDaddy.”

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Hacking Social Engineering Phishing Scams

Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The other indictment named Russians affiliated with a skilled hacking group known as “Triton” or “Trisis,” which infected a Saudi oil refinery with destructive malware in 2017, and then attempted to do the same to U.S. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. ” HYDRA. .

Marketing

Marketing Energy and Utilities Malware Ransomware

Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Wyden’s quote above references a story published here in July 2022, which broke the news that identity thieves were hijacking consumer accounts at Experian.com just by signing up as them at Experian once more, supplying the target’s static, personal information (name, DoB/SSN, address) but a different email address. ” Sen.

Identity Theft

Identity Theft Accountability Authentication Web Fraud

Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. The phishing lure starts with a link that leads to the real login page for a cloud email and/or file storage service. com sometime around Dec.

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Phishing Passwords Accountability Authentication

How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

I later received an email from the seller, who said his Amazon account had been hacked and abused by scammers to create fake sales. But this assurance may ring hollow if you wake up one morning to find your checking accounts emptied by card thieves after shopping at a breached merchant with a debit card.

Scams

Scams Wireless Phishing Banking

U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

26, 2017 on the now-defunct carding site Joker’s Stash has been tied to a breach at Sonic Drive-In. . “Hi, there is work on d+p, unlimited,” Vega wrote in a private message to another user on Verified in Dec. This batch of some five million cards put up for sale Sept.

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Retail Government

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

DNS

DNS Internet Internet Computers and Electronics

Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. In 2017, Taylor was sentenced to three years probation for participating in multiple swatting attacks, including the one against my home in 2013. attorney general. The group also swatted many of the people they doxed.

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency Government Internet Internet

Scary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

27 — Thanksgiving Day weekend — Jim got a series of rapid-fire emails from MSF saying they’ve received his loan application, that they’d approved it, and that the funds requested were now available at the bank account specified in his MSF profile. Then on Nov. Take a look at that 546.56 A portion of the Jan.

Financial Services

Financial Services Banking Accountability Identity Theft

‘ValidCC,’ a Major Payment Card Bazaar and Looter of E-Commerce Sites, Shuttered

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

ValidCC, circa 2017. SPR claims his site lost access to a significant inventory — more than 600,000 unsold stolen payment card accounts. “We don’t know users’ balances, or your account logins or passwords, or the [credit cards] you purchased, or anything else! “We don’t know anything!,”

Cybercrime

Cybercrime Media Accountability Hacking

“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

.” Multiple people who reviewed the database shared by my source confirmed that the same credit card records also could be found in a more redacted form simply by searching the BriansClub Web site with a valid, properly-funded account. million stolen cards; 2017 saw some 4.9 million card records for sale. million more.

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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

Actions Target Russian Govt. Botnet, Hydra Dark Market

Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

Scary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide

‘ValidCC,’ a Major Payment Card Bazaar and Looter of E-Commerce Sites, Shuttered

“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

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