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‘Land Lordz’ Service Powers Airbnb Scams

Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

site that helps him manage more than 500 scam properties and interactions with up to 100 (soon-to-be-scammed) “guests” looking to book the fake listings. The Land Lordz administrative panel for a scammer who’s running dozens of Airbnb scams in the United Kingdom. The price is € 250 + €500 secure deposit.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S. political campaigns, cities and towns had paid a shady company called Web Listings Inc. The story concluded that this dubious service had been scamming people and companies for more than a decade, and promised a Part II to explore who was behind Web Listings.

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Beware of Hurricane Florence Relief Scams

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

All of the domains mentioned above have been reported to the Justice Department’s National Center for Disaster Fraud , which accepts tips at disaster@leo.gov. Let me be clear: Just because a site is listed here doesn’t mean it’s a scam (or that it will be).

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Phishers Spoof USPS, 12 Other Natl’ Postal Services

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. com , which DomainTools.com says was registered way back in September 2018 to an individual in Nigeria. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of negative consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly.

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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com said he suspected the call was a scam, but decided to play along for about an hour — all the while recording the call and coaxing information out of the scammer. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.

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US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified.US

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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.

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

. “Possible options include, for example, bot admin panels, code injection panels, shell control panels, payment card sniffers, traffic direction services, exchange services, spamming software, doorway generators, and scam pages, etc.” “Sodin” and “Sodinokibi”).

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Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S. Also,US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S.

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Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity examined a huge network of phishing sites masquerading as the top carding stores which all traced back to a web development group in Pakistan that’s apparently been stealing from thieves for years. After all, nobody who gets phished or scammed is going to report the crime to the authorities.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code). That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found. ”

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The user “ Transfer ” advertised and sold access to 911 from 2016 to 2018, amid many sales threads where they advertised expensive electronics and other consumer goods that were bought online with stolen credit cards. Both of these identities were active on the crime forum fl.l33t[.]su su between 2016 and 2019.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

According to Russian prosecutors, the scam went like this: Consumers would receive an SMS with links to sites that falsely claimed a number of well-known companies were sponsoring drawings and lotteries for people who enrolled or agreed to answer surveys. Zukhov was arrested in Bulgaria in 2018 and extradited to the United States.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. ” One of the crypto investment scam messages promoted in the spam campaigns on Mastodon this month. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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Phishers Spoof USPS, 12 Other Natl’ Postal Services

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

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