Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In late September 2018, the REACT Task Force spearheaded an investigation that led to the arrest of two Missouri men — both in their early 20s — who are accused of conducting SIM swaps to steal $14 million from a cryptocurrency company based in San Jose, Calif. . million customers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018. However, BEC scams succeed thanks to help from a variety of seemingly unrelated types of online fraud — most especially dating scams. BK: And where are they coming from?

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