Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. In late September 2022, KrebsOnSecurity warned about the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In mid-June 2022, a flood of SMS phishing messages began targeting employees at commercial staffing firms that provide customer support and outsourcing to thousands of companies. The messages began at 2022-07-20 22:50 UTC. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2021 post about the change. ”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

Here’s what part of their current homepage looks like: The SocksEscort home page says its services are perfect for people involved in automated online activity that often results in IP addresses getting blocked or banned, such as Craigslist and dating scams, search engine results manipulation, and online surveys.

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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 domains registered daily.US US phishing domains.

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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 ” Almost a month later, another FreeCAD user reported getting stung by the same scam. We’ll continue to monitor and apply our protections.” Google says it removed 5.2

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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. . “Who does it? Instead of helping, they pushed the organization from the hill.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Last year, researchers at Minerva Labs spotted the botnet being used to blast out sextortion scams. 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 The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and found 30,000.US This is noteworthy because.US

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

” The service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes. 2022 closure of LuxSocks , another malware-based proxy network. Kilmer said 911 also gained an influx of new customers after the Jan.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

The SocksEscort home page says its services are perfect for people involved in automated online activity that often results in IP addresses getting blocked or banned, such as Craigslist and dating scams, search engine results manipulation, and online surveys. “Probably, they wanted to keep that revenue stream going.”

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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

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. ” One of the crypto investment scam messages promoted in the spam campaigns on Mastodon this month. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2025

In October 2024, the security firm Silent Push published a lengthy analysis of how Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were providing services to Funnull, a two-year-old Chinese content delivery network that hosts a wide variety of fake trading apps, pig butchering scams , gambling websites, and retail phishing pages.

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