Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. More recently in late 2021, Jeremy Fuchs of Avanan wrote that the use of a LinkedIn URL may mean that any profession — the market for LinkedIn — could click.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

This identity has been highly active on Breached and its predecessor RaidForums for more than two years, mostly selling databases from hacked Mexican entities. ” The administrator of Breached is “ Pompompurin ,” the same individual who alerted this author in November 2021 to a glaring security hole in a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

A September 2021 story here checked in on The Manipulaters, and found that Saim Raza and company were prospering under their FudCo brands, which they secretly managed from a front company called We Code Solutions. “Please remove this article,” Sam Raza wrote, linking to the 2021 profile. “Why you post us? But on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

.” But over the years as trading in hacked databases became big business, RaidForums emerged as the go-to place for English-speaking hackers to peddle their wares. “Members could also earn credits through other means, such as by posting instructions on how to commit certain illegal acts.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. By 2004, v1pee had adopted the moniker “ Vega ” on the exclusive Russian language hacking forum Mazafaka , where this user became one of the more reliable vendors of stolen payment cards.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. Nevertheless, Cyberthreat reported that Devilscream was arrested by Indonesian police in late 2021 as part of a collaboration between INTERPOL and the U.S. Image: ZeroFox. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. 1, 2021: 15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark. Image: Spur.us. The disruption at 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Verified and other Russian language crime forums where MrMurza had a presence have been hacked over the years, with contact details and private messages leaked online. ” Russian corporate records indicate this entity was liquidated in 2021. A new member of the Russian hacking forum Nohide[.]Space The address gaihnik@mail.ru

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that Venus ransomware attacks were targeting a number of U.S. healthcare organizations. “They are targeting a lot of U.S.

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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. A few days after that April 2021 story, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that an Experian API was exposing the credit scores of most Americans.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021. Click to enlarge. What Pavel does is he blackmails those Ukrainian banks using his connections and knowledge.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

net available at the Wayback Machine shows that in 2016 this domain was used for the “ ExE Bucks ” affiliate program, a pay-per-install business which catered to people already running large collections of hacked computers or compromised websites. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy's admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. The post When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. A sample Kodex dashboard. Image: Kodex.us.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

At issue are forged “emergency data requests,” (EDRs) sent through hacked police or government agency email accounts. ” Tuesday’s story showed how fraudulently obtained EDRs were a tool used by members of LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked Microsoft , NVIDIA , Okta and Samsung.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While MGM was still trying to evict the intruders from its systems, an individual who claimed to have firsthand knowledge of the hack contacted multiple media outlets to offer interviews about how it all went down. ’s West Midlands Police as part of a joint investigation with the FBI into the MGM hack. million customers.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The complaint references a November 2021 incident wherein Iza and E.Z. ” Islam and Woody were both core members of UGNazi, a hacker collective that sprang up in 2012 and claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile websites. They’re active-duty.” at Iza’s behest. to hand over his phone. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

An ad posted to the Russian-language hacking forum BHF last month touted Cryptohost as a “bulletproof hosting provider for all your projects,” i.e., it can be relied upon to ignore abuse complaints about its customers. Cryptohost also controls several other address ranges, including 194.31.98.X, “Why choose us?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. -based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

In November 2022, researchers at Google’s Project Zero warned about active attacks on Samsung mobile phones which chained together three security vulnerabilities that Samsung patched in March 2021, and which would have allowed an app to add or read any files on the device.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

The reality that teenagers are now impersonating law enforcement agencies to subpoena privileged data on their targets at whim is evident in the dramatic backstory behind LAPSUS$ , the data extortion group that recently hacked into some of the world’s most valuable technology companies , including Microsoft , Okta , NVIDIA and Vodafone.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

This email address is also connected to accounts on several Russian cybercrime forums, including “ __edman__ ,” who had a history of selling “logs” — large amounts of data stolen from many bot-infected computers — as well as giving away access to hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices. pw was their domain.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In August 2021, T-Mobile acknowledged that hackers made off with the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and driver’s license/ID information on more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. .”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2025

Hummel said it used to be that “noisy” and frequently disruptive malicious traffic — such as automated application layer attacks, and “brute force” efforts to crack passwords or find vulnerabilities in websites — came mostly from botnets, or large collections of hacked devices.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Debuting in 2011, Ferum Shop is one of the oldest observed dark web marketplaces selling “card not present” data (customer payment records stolen from hacked online merchants), according to Gemini. “In this time period, roughly 66% of Ferum Shop’s records have been from United States financial institutions. .

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