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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

billion ads in 2022, and restricted more than 4.3 The company’s latest ad safety report says Google in 2022 blocked or removed 1.36 The apparent owner of that photography website did not respond to requests for comment, but it’s also likely his Google advertising account was hacked and used to run these malicious ads.

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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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Krebs on Security

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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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

AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 3, 2022, someone using the alias “ Holistic-K1ller ” posted on Breached a thread selling data allegedly stolen from Grupo Financiero Banorte , Mexico’s second-biggest financial institution by total loans. There was no reason to believe Holistic-K1ller had fabricated their breach claim.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. Abdalla Khafagy’s LinkedIn profile says he was “global director of community” at Crypto.com for about a year ending in January 2022. The website BHProxies[.]com million from private investors.

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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

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. 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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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. 2022 closure of LuxSocks , another malware-based proxy network.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. ”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2024

million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. The protection scheme was exposed in 2022 when Russian authorities arrested six members of the group, which sold millions of stolen payment cards at flashy online shops like Trump’s Dumps.

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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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