Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based proxy services have chosen to block new registrations to avoid swamping their networks with a sudden influx of customers. com , a malware-based proxy network that has been in existence since at least 2010. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re

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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. ” According to Kilmer, AVrecon is the malware that gives SocksEscort its proxies.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the software. In November 2022, Google documented these three same vulnerabilities being used together to compromise Samsung devices. The three Samsung exploits that DarkNavy says were used by the malicious app.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for interfering in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. 2022 by Google researcher Luca Nagy. Another slide from Google researcher Luca Nagy’s September 2022 talk on Glupteba.

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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. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified.US As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022. re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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