Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a result, the government was able to charge Golestan with 20 counts of wire fraud — one for each payment made by the phony companies that bought the IP addresses from ARIN. Golestan initially sought to fight those charges. Prosecutors estimated those addresses were valued at between $10 million and $14 million.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

We don’t know much about the source of the November 2021 incident, other than GoDaddy’s statement that it involved a compromised password, and that it took about two months for the company to detect the intrusion. What else do we know about the cause of these incidents?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

In a report released July 12, researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs called the AVrecon botnet “one of the largest botnets targeting small-office/home-office (SOHO) routers seen in recent history,” and a crime machine that has largely evaded public attention since first being spotted in mid-2021. com, sscompany[.]net,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“Experian now sometimes does require MFA for me now if I use a new browser or have my VPN on,” Rishi said, but he’s not sure if Experian’s free service would have operated differently. “We believe these are isolated incidents of fraud using stolen consumer information,” Experian’s statement reads.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bill said that in the first week of April 2021, he identified 15,000 compromised Office365 accounts being accessed by this group, spread over 6,500 different organizations that use Office365. “But what are the detection signatures you have available for detecting malicious logins via IMAP?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. ” Russian corporate records indicate this entity was liquidated in 2021. The proxy lookup page inside the malware-based anonymity service Faceless.

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