Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Silent Push said Araneida is being advertised by an eponymous user on multiple cybercrime forums. ” According to Intel 471, this same Discord account was advertised in 2019 by a person on the cybercrime forum Cracked who used the monikers “ ORN ” and “ ori0n.” 2023 on the forum Cracked.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

com were paid for by the same account advertising a number of scam websites selling logo and web design services. Those website names were then fed into spyfu.com , a competitive intelligence company that tracks the reach and performance of advertising keywords. The Google ads promoting quranmasteronline[.]com

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The original October 31 post from abyss0, where they advertise the sale of data from several large banks that are customers of a large financial software company. A review of abyss0’s posts to BreachForums reveals this user has offered to sell databases stolen in several dozen other breaches advertised over the past six months.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 18, 2025

From there, it’s likely the scammers will empty the bank account and move on to their next victim. These scammers demand immediate payment or action to avoid further impacts, which can dupe individuals into inadvertently sending money to a fraudulent account. On X we see invites like these several times a week.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to constantly create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. The service in question — kopeechka[.]store ” “Are you working on large volumes and are costs constantly growing? The service in question — kopeechka[.]store

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The 122 services targeted in Sanders’ research include some of the more prominent businesses advertising on the cybercrime forums today, such as: -abuse-friendly or “bulletproof” hosting providers like anonvm[.]wtf, wtf, and PQHosting ; -sites selling aged email, financial, or social media accounts, such as verif[.]work

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that's targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus Google ads that aim to take them to phishing pages that are capable of harvesting their credentials.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While hard to measure precisely, tech support scams accounted for $924M, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report. We’ve identified specific advertiser accounts that make up the bulk of fraudulent ads we have reported to Google this past year.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals. “Hi, how are you?” ” he inquired.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In addition, the government seized the domain names for two popular anonymity services that were heavily advertised on Cracked and Nulled and allowed customers to rent virtual servers: StarkRDP[.]io The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com. io , and rdp[.]sh. lol and nulled[.]it.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2025

But a new report finds the accused continues to operate a slew of established accounts at American tech companies — including Facebook , Github , PayPal and Twitter/X. Lizhi’s case makes clear, just because someone is sanctioned doesn’t necessarily mean big tech companies are going to suspend their online accounts.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2025

Google is spying on Android users, starting from even before they have logged in to their Google account. The researchers found that multiple identifiers are used to track the user of an Android handset, even before they have opened a Google app or signed in to their Google account. Ever considered not telling them who I am?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

Also, the apps will persist in a user’s Office 365 account indefinitely until removed, and will survive even after an account password reset. “Now, they’re compromising accounts in credible tenants first,” Proofpoint explains. A cybercriminal service advertising the sale of access to hacked Office365 accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Shutterstock Telecommunications giant AT&T disclosed this month that a breach at a marketing vendor exposed certain account information for nine million customers. AT&T’s disclosure said the information exposed included customer first name, wireless account number, wireless phone number and email address.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

“smishing”) service for the mass sending of text messages designed to phish account credentials for different popular websites and steal personal and financial data for resale. One of SMS Bandits’ key offerings: An “auto-shop” web panel for selling stolen account credentials. Image: osint.fans.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher’s ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google’s automated anti-fraud systems suspend the user’s AdSense account for suspicious traffic. A redacted extortion email targeting users of Google’s AdSense program.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Stolen information offered for sale on the carding website included bank account, credit card, and debit card numbers and associated information for conducting transactions. seized $283,000 in cryptocurrency from an account linked to Sami as part of actions against the illicit activities of PopeyeTools. million in revenue.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 28, 2025

They are meant to guard accounts against malicious access of accounts. Multi-Account Management Made Easy There is no need to purchase more SIM cards and pay more money or use unsafe applications. The use of temporary numbers simplifies the creation of multiple accounts. Key Benefits of Using Temporary Numbers 1.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. Fingerprinting is considered a necessary practice to fight challenges such as fake accounts and the misuse of internet services. At the same time, the profile that advertisers can create reveals a lot.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We’d like to thank GitHub for their quick response in taking down the malicious accounts we reported to them. Scammers are creating several accounts on GitHub with one or multiple repositories with the same fraudulent index.html template: During an active campaign, they can easily swap phone numbers in case one got reported and blocked.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. “We’ve reviewed the ads in question, removed those that violated our policies, and suspended the associated accounts. million advertiser accounts. Google says it removed 5.2

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. Notices posted for Faceless users, advertising an email flooding service and soliciting zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet of Things devices. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 17, 2025

Human marketers can collect data and predict what types of people will respond to certain advertisements. This capability is important commercially; advertising is a trillion-dollar market globally. A familiar example is ad targeting and personalization. This is how the modern ad-tech industry works. Scope Next, scope.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. The Facebook ad blitz was paid for by Hodson Event Entertainment , an account tied to Chris Hodson , a deejay based in Chicago. On the evening of Monday, Nov. Image: Chris Hodson.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2020

Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. Both are avid gamers on Microsoft’s Xbox platform, and for years their father managed their accounts via his own Microsoft account.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Apple will start requiring standardized privacy labels for apps in its app store, starting in December: Apple allows data disclosure to be optional if all of the following conditions apply: if it’s not used for tracking, advertising or marketing; if it’s not shared with a data broker; if collection is infrequent, unrelated to the app’s (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Rockstar 2FA targets Microsoft 365 accounts and bypasses multi-factor authentication with adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. Authors advertise Rockstar 2FA as a phishing-as-a-service toolkit that bypasses 2FA, harvests cookies, and features FUD links, antibot tools, and custom themes. ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Unlike any other season in America, election season might bring the highest volume of advertisements sent directly to people’s homes, phones, and email accounts—and the accuracy and speed at which they come can feel invasive. The reasons could be obvious. Instead, it may point to how people interpret “cyber interference.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The service is currently advertising access to more than 150,000 devices globally. “We believe we are only seeing part of the full botnet, which may lead to more than 150,000 infected computers as advertised by BHProxies’ operators,” Arnoud wrote. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2022

That same ToX ID was claimed by a user called “ smiseo ” on the Russian forum BHF, in which smiseo advertises “clipper” malware written in Rust that swaps in the attacker’s bitcoin address when the victim copies a cryptocurrency address to their computer’s temporary clipboard. I AM DUCKERMAN.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Much of my summer was spent reporting a story about how advertising and marketing firms have created a global free-for-all where anyone can track the daily movements and associations of hundreds of millions of mobile devices , thanks to the ubiquity of mobile location data that is broadly and cheaply available.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

” Fake file converters and download tools may perform advertised tasks but can provide resulting files containing hidden malware, giving criminals access to victims’ devices. If users fall victim to this scam, immediately contact their financial institutions, secure their accounts, and change all passwords using a trusted device.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2025

A report from the Pakistani media outlet Dawn states that authorities there arrested 21 people alleged to have operated Heartsender, a spam delivery service whose homepage openly advertised phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365, Yahoo, AOL, Intuit, iCloud and ID.me.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. Advertising was the obvious business model, if never the best one. Big Tech needs something to persuade advertisers to keep spending on their platforms. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

net , a service that advertised to cybercriminals seeking to obfuscate their malicious software so that it goes undetected by all or at least most of the major antivirus products on the market. net , which advertised “free unlimited internet file-sharing platform” for those who agreed to install their software.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Whoever compromised the shop siphoned data on millions of card accounts that were acquired over four years through various illicit means from legitimate, hacked businesses around the globe — but mostly from U.S. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1 Source: NYU.

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