Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. “Free services make it easier [to exploit] at scale. .” Image: Infoblox.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 28, other Ubiquiti employees spotted the unusual downloads, which had leveraged internal company credentials and a Surfshark VPN connection to hide the downloader’s true Internet address.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. “Among these 48 recovered residential proxies IP addresses, 28 (58.3%) of those were already present in our sinkhole systems, associated with the Mylobot malware family,” Arnoud continued.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

But there is a similarly serious zero-day flaw present in a much broader range of newer Western Digital MyCloud network storage devices that will remain unfixed for many customers who can’t or won’t upgrade to the latest operating system. The researchers said Western Digital never responded to their reports.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to a security advisory from Redmond, the security hole CVE-2021-40444 affects the “MSHTML” component of Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions. There is currently no official patch for the flaw, but Microsoft has released recommendations for mitigating the threat.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. 1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Many modern vehicles let owners use the Internet or a mobile device to control the car’s locks, track location and performance data, and start the engine. They did, and Marulla was presented with an online dashboard showing the current location of his old ride and its mileage statistics.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. The backdoor web shell is verifiably present on the networks of thousands of U.S.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate. Based on my own research and feedback from that initial attempt, I have modified those steps to bring them into the present day.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. Ever present threats. Internet and email fraud. Perhaps elderly folks who haven’t spent a lot of time online are easier to deceive.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 6, 2024

Men report facing more pressure than women—and more threats of retaliation—to grant access to their locations and online accounts when in a committed relationship, according to a new analysis of data released this summer by Malwarebytes. Access our full “Modern Love in the Digital Age” guidance hub below. That rate was 12% for women.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

This annual college basketball bonanza presents a prime opportunity for scammers to capitalize on excitement, urgency, and, of course, the lure of easy money. Attackers are mimicking tournament brackets, betting promotions, and registration formstricking users into handing over credentials or linking bank accounts to fraudulent sites.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

From the telemarketer’s perspective, the TCPA can present something of a legal minefield in certain situations, such as when a phone number belonging to someone who’d previously given consent gets reassigned to another subscriber.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password burden on Internet users, but caution that a true passwordless future may still be years away for most websites. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.” Image: Blog.google.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. Soon after, the attackers were able to use their control over his mobile number to reset his Gmail account password. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For the most popular operating system in the world—which is Android and it isn’t even a contest —there’s a sneaky cyberthreat that can empty out a person’s bank accounts to fill the illicit coffers of cybercriminals. The ATS framework uses the harvested credentials to initiate unauthorized money transfers to accounts held by the attacker.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Kaspersky presented detailed technical analysis of this case in three parts. was used by tens of millions of websites approximately 4% of all sites on the internet which highlights the severity of the incident, whose full impact is yet to be determined. Kaspersky products detect malicious objects related to the attack.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2019

Nixon said countless companies have essentially built their customer authentication around the phone number, and that a great many sites still let users reset their passwords with nothing more than a one-time code texted to a phone number on the account. And every other account associated with that Yahoo account.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 was also used to register an account at the online game stalker[.]so The above accounts, as well as the email address semen_7907@mail.ru , were all registered or accessed from the same Yekaterinburg Internet address mentioned previously: 31.192.175.63.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

One might even say passwords are the fossil fuels powering most IT modernization: They’re ubiquitous because they are cheap and easy to use, but that means they also come with significant trade-offs — such as polluting the Internet with weaponized data when they’re leaked or stolen en masse. TARGETED PHISHING.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. Or maybe they’re groomed in order to set up a bank account for their lovers.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

In an increasingly interconnected world, the evolution of the automotive industry presents an exciting yet daunting prospect. The physical safety of things like airbags, rearview mirrors, and brakes is well accounted for; yet cybersecurity auto safety concerns are rising to the fore.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The affected system was a Windows server exposed to the internet, with only two ports open. Open ports exposed to the Internet Identification and containment In October 2024, telemetry alerts from our MDR technology revealed attempts by an internal IP address to access registry hives via an admin account on a customer’s Windows server.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

. “CVE-2021-36948 is a privilege escalation vulnerability – the cornerstone of modern intrusions as they allow attackers the level of access to do things like hide their tracks and create user accounts,” said Kevin Breen of Immersive Labs.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2018

Many people, particularly older folks, proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. Postal Service or the Social Security Administration.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The NSA said that in order to exploit this particular flaw, hackers would already need to have access to a vulnerable VMware device’s management interface — i.e., they would need to be on the target’s internal network (provided the vulnerable VMware interface was not accessible from the Internet). ” Also on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

On April 10, Sisense Chief Information Security Officer Sangram Dash told customers the company had been made aware of reports that “certain Sisense company information may have been made available on what we have been advised is a restricted access server (not generally available on the internet.)”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. com — is different from the one I saw in late December, but it was hosted at the same Internet address as officesuited[.]com

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Customized decryption ABE builds upon digital certificates and the Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) that underpins secure communications across the Internet. It can differentiate departments, such as HR, accounting or the executive suite, as well as keep track of user roles, such as manager, clerk or subcontractor.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Relying on shared secrets doesn’t work anymore, because we have too many accounts and no one can remember hundreds of passwords.” Passwordless access to company resources goes something like this: Instead of a logon prompt asking for a username and password, the employee gets presented with a QR Code. Our brains just won’t do it.”.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 9, 2017

From that moment, the timeline in their public disclosure began which I highlighted in this tweet: 23 hours and 42 minutes from initial private disclosure to @disqus to public notification and impacted accounts proactively protected pic.twitter.com/lctQEjHhiH — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 6, 2017.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

When you consider how easy it is to buy a domain name, the threat begins to seem a little more real and a lot more present. Domain names are a sizable part of a company’s attackable surface, and companies or individuals who ignore their own presence on the internet, as well as how it’s represented, do so at their peril.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

The file it attempted to download — 212b3d4039ab5319ec.js — appears to be named after an affiliate identification number designating a specific account that should get credited for serving advertisements. Ads support most of the internet we all use and love; without them, the internet we have today would simply not exist.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

This is an excellent primer from Catalin Cimpanu, and it describes how in order to circumvent the aforementioned fraud protection measures, cybercriminals are increasingly relying on obtaining more abstract pieces of information from victims in order to gain access to their accounts. Remove all cookies and temporary internet files.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The vulnerability at hand is listed as: CVE-2023-20198 ( CVSS score 10 out of 10: Cisco is aware of active exploitation of a previously unknown vulnerability in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software when exposed to the internet or to untrusted networks. The attacker can then use that account to gain control of the affected system.

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