Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. DigitalOcean said the MailChimp incident resulted in a “very small number” of DigitalOcean customers experiencing attempted compromises of their accounts through password resets. ”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2022

” Hardaway said he has since wiped her computer, reinstalled the operating system and changed her passwords. The FBI says that represents a 74 percent increase in losses over losses reported in 2020. But my mom went over to the neighbor’s house and they saw it for what it was — a scam.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Indeed, the leaked OGUsers databases — which include private messages on the forum prior to June 2020 — offer a small window into the overall value of the hijacked social media account industry. In his posts, Beam says he has brokered well north of 10,000 transactions. WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Shotliff shared an April 2014 password reset email from Black Hat World, which shows he forwarded the plaintext password to the email address legendboy2050@yahoo.com. Before that, the resume says he was operations manager of TikTok’s Middle East and North Africa region for approximately seven months ending in April 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers. Dijkxhoorn said his company first learned of the domain theft on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

” The 30-year-old Donahue said he left the FBI in April 2020 to start Kodex because it was clear that social media and technology companies needed help validating the increasingly large number of law enforcement requests domestically and internationally. Apple’s compliance with EDRs was 93 percent worldwide in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For the past three years, the source — we’ll call him “Bill” to preserve his requested anonymity — has been watching one group of threat actors that is mass-testing millions of usernames and passwords against the world’s major email providers each day. What do you do?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

However, far more interesting is their program for rewarding people who choose to sell Kopeechka usernames and passwords for working email addresses. Kopeechka also has multiple affiliate programs, including one that pays app developers for embedding Kopeechka’s API in their software.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“We don’t know users’ balances, or your account logins or passwords, or the [credit cards] you purchased, or anything else! 16, 2020, several of Joker’s long-held domains began displaying notices that the sites had been seized by the U.S. “We don’t know anything!,” ” SPR pleaded.

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