Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Thieves are combining SMS-based phishing attacks with new “cardless” ATMs to rapidly convert phished bank account credentials into cash. The text messages contained a link to unlock their accounts and led customers to a Web site that mimicked the legitimate Fifth Third site. Image: Mastercard.us.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. CVE-2018-13379: The Eternal Exploit What is CVE-2018-13379?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The interplay of domestic and international regulations presents significant challenges for organizations, demanding significant investments in technology, personnel, and processes. This challenge is especially prevalent for UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which account for 99.9% of the UK's business population, 5.5

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

troyhunt pic.twitter.com/9FMSdvVRiL — Hagen (@hagendittmer) June 3, 2018. link] @troyhunt — Daniel Parker (@CodyMcCodeFace) June 21, 2018. This is also the advice of the @NCSC [link] — Brian Gentles (@phuzi_) June 21, 2018. However, after 3 attempts of entering an Access Code your account will be blocked.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

The ISAC found when it comes to IT systems tied to “operational technology” (OT) — systems responsible for monitoring and controlling the industrial operation of these utilities and their safety features — just 30.5 percent of utilities have identified all IT-networked assets, with an additional 21.7 Image: WaterISAC.

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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. 2, 2018 shows the company is still struggling to restore services more than a week after the attack began.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reached for comment, Terpin said his assailant got off easy. ” Pinksy could not be immediately reached for comment.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. based Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.8 billion in earnings last year.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. Image: USPS.com. A USPS brochure advertising the features and benefits of Informed Visibility.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Here’s the story of one such goof committed by Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ], a $15 billion firm that provides online banking software and other technology solutions to thousands of financial institutions. “My accounts were hacked and if any funding is gone your [sic] sued from me and federal trade commission,” one wrote.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Barrie said the hacker was able to read messages and notes left on escrow.com’s account at GoDaddy that only GoDaddy employees should have been able to see. “This guy had access to the notes, and knew the number to call,” to make changes to the account, Barrie said.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

Klyushin is the owner of M-13 , a Russian technology company that contracts with the Russian government. government says four of Klyushin’s alleged co-conspirators remain at large, including Ivan Ermakov , who was among 12 Russians charged in 2018 with hacking into key Democratic Party email accounts. Image: USDOJ.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Social network giant Facebook revealed it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by “bad actors” and that five percent of active accounts are fake. billion accounts in the first quarter of 2019, the number if doubled respect the number of accounts blocked in the prior quarter. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

Klyushin is the owner of M-13 , a Russian technology company that contracts with the Russian government. government says four of Klyushin’s alleged co-conspirators remain at large, including Ivan Ermakov , who was among 12 Russians charged in 2018 with hacking into key Democratic Party email accounts. Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A source close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity that NVA was hit with Ryuk , a ransomware strain first spotted in August 2018 that targets mostly large organizations for a high-ransom return. The technology team continues to set up interim workstations at each affected hospital while they prepare to rebuild servers.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. ” Indeed, the theft of $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency in July 2018 was the impetus for my interview with REACT.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In 2018, the software giant took the step of doing away with passwords for people signing into its Edge web browser, saying instead they could use a number of alternatives. Since then, the company has steadily cast off the need for passwords for various accounts, and by May 2020, 150 million people had stopped using passwords.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started with the seven commandments , or steps, laid out in a 2018 New York Times opinion video series on "Operation Infektion," a 1980s Russian disinformation campaign. In 2016, this consisted of creating social media accounts run either by human operatives or automatically by bots, making them seem legitimate, gathering followers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

they then began to use the stolen credentials to launch automated account takeovers. “So So if you were participating in that environment, and you were looking for a relationship, then your account might get taken over. We were able to stop the account takeovers that would then sometimes lead to these romance scams.”

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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. billion in revenue in 2018. -based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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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. The post IT contractor sent to jail after deleting 1,200 Microsoft Office 365 accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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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 , buydudu[.]com

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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

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). SPAMMY BEAR.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

The expanding threat landscape: vulnerabilities and attack types The aviation ecosystem is an intricate web of airlines, airports, air navigation service providers, maintenance suppliers, and third-party technology vendors. A cyberattack on any link, be it a ground-handling contractor or a software provider, can trigger cascading failures.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data. The carrier states that personal financial account information and call records were not affected by the security breach. The security breach poses a major national security risk.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

There are a few random, non-technology businesses tied to the phone number listed for the Hendersonville address, and the New Mexico address was used by several no-name web hosting companies. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. The website Domainnetworks[.]com and another address in Santa Fe, N.M.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Because the location of WordCamp Baltimore was on Pier 5 at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) , it meant that we were surrounded by all sorts of activities and amazing views like the one below: The Sessions. Warner (@wpmodder) October 7, 2018. Dwayne McDaniel (@McDwayne) October 6, 2018.

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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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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

LinkedIn knows it has a problem with bots and fake accounts, and has acknowledged this on more than one occasion. In 2018, LinkedIn rolled out a way to automatically detect fake accounts. Accounts with positive detections will be removed before they can be used to reach out to members. What's new?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

SiteLock (@SiteLock) August 12, 2018. Guillaume Hamel (@guihamel) August 12, 2018. Consider searcher intent and consumer intent to account for what people will really say and mean. Don’t forget to visit us at the SiteLock booth to enter our raffle for an Amazon Gift Card and to chat #website #Security pic.twitter.com/uXnseB5kBb.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Assistive technologies such as screen readers, magnifiers, and voice assistants are terrific, but these tools are cold comfort when a website's design doesn't support them. In 2018, hackers compromised a popular text-to-speech plugin by Texthelp called "Browsealoud" and poisoned it with crypto-mining JavaScript code.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In August 2018, computer security firm LastLine said it witnessed a 100 percent increase in Agent Tesla instances detected in the wild over just a three month period. That Gmail address is tied to a Youtube.com account for a Turkish individual by the same name who has uploaded exactly three videos over the past four years.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug. According to an Aug. In an Aug.

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