Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com, super-socks[.]com,

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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. Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. That user advertised a service called “ Quot Project ” which said they could be hired to write programming scripts in Python and C++. A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw pw was their domain.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But judging from the proliferation of help-wanted ads for offensive pentesters in the cybercrime underground, today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion: The real challenge seems to be hiring enough people to help everyone profit from the access already gained. ” WHO IS DR. SAMUIL?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

” On April 5, 2021, Everlynn posted a new sales thread to the cybercrime forum cracked[.]to Everlynn advertising a warrant/subpoena service based on fake EDRs. ” which advertised the ability to send email from a federal agency within the government of Argentina. ” The price: $100 to $250 per request.

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