Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee account on Telegram, who said there was some kind of technology issue with the video platform, and that their IT people suggested using a different meeting link.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

28, 2023, researchers at the Chinese security firm DarkNavy published a blog post purporting to show evidence that a major Chinese ecommerce company’s app was using this same three-exploit chain to read user data stored by other apps on the affected device, and to make its app nearly impossible to remove. .

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. Then on Aug. But on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. According to an Aug.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In August 2023, security researcher Randy McEoin blogged about a scam he dubbed ClearFake , which uses hacked WordPress sites to serve visitors with a page that claims you need to update your browser before you can view the content. Previously, the group had stored its malicious update files on Cloudflare, Guard.io

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. io seem like a legitimate website.

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