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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

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MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. The government alleges that on May 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log into a U.S. On May 12, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that hackers had gained access to a DEA portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. ” Image: USDOJ.

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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. GoDaddy’s latest SEC filing indicates the company had nearly 7,000 employees as of December 2022.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. But by the time we got to claims made in the middle of May 2022, completing the rest of the year’s timeline seemed unnecessary.

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

10, 2022, the relatively new cybercrime forum Breached featured a bombshell new sales thread: The user database for InfraGard, including names and contact information for tens of thousands of InfraGard members. This is a developing story. Updates will be noted here with timestamps.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

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JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

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JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

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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. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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. One of this user’s Facebook pages says Rizky is the chief executive officer and founder of an entity called BandungXploiter , whose Facebook page indicates it is a group focused mainly on hacking and defacing websites.

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Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

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JANUARY 25, 2024

19, 2024) of more than 200 domains at the Internet address 93.190.143[.]252 Hegel noted that the spike in malicious software-themed ads came not long after Microsoft started blocking by default Office macros in documents downloaded from the Internet. billion ads in 2022, and restricted more than 4.3 How do we know freecad-us[.]org

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911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

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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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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

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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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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

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MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. that were created from different Internet addresses in Vienna, Austria. pw was their domain. billion last year.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. The website BHProxies[.]com million from private investors.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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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. Turner said that in early June 2022 he received an email from Experian saying the email address on his account had been changed.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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