Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

To reduce exposure to unauthorized residential proxy networks, monitor home network traffic, check IoT devices for suspicious activity, avoid unofficial app stores, and keep all systems updated, especially by patching known and internet-facing vulnerabilities promptly. Indicators of BADBOX 2.0

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For years, Google has been saying it will phase out the third-party tracking cookies that power much of its advertising business online, proposing new ideas that would allegedly preserve user privacy while still providing businesses with steady revenue streams. But it’s not been straight forward for Google. What can I do?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 20, 2025

The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to first prepare the target so that it uses Edge in Internet Explorer Mode.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website.

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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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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Malvertising is a shortened mash-up of “malicious advertising.” These malicious ads are difficult to detect, and are served to internet users using legitimate advertising networks and publishing platforms, such as the Google Search Network.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

According to Edwards, there are no signs that these phishing sites are being advertised via email. When Cloudflare responded by blocking the sites with a phishing warning, the real Internet address of these sites was exposed as belonging to a known “bulletproof hosting” network called Stark Industries Solutions Ltd.

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Zero Day

JUNE 23, 2025

Here's an easy solution that may help In addition to asking your provider directly, using tools like VPNs can help reveal if your internet connection is being deliberately throttled. PT Reviewed by Elyse Betters Picaro ZDNET There are myriad reasons your internet connection might be slow. Also: Sick of weak Wi-Fi?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. Even today, the RUSdot Mailer is advertised for sale at the top of the RUSdot community forum.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

” Is your mobile Internet usage covered by CPNI laws? . ” Is your mobile Internet usage covered by CPNI laws? That’s less clear, as the CPNI rules were established before mobile phones and wireless Internet access were common. TechTarget’s CPNI primer explains: “Under current U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. Probably the most active Internet address accessing Snatch’s darknet site is 193.108.114[.]41 top , sntech2ch[.]top

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2023

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting , a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The German authorities did not name the suspects or the Internet service in question.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Easily the longest story this year was an investigation into Stark Industries Solutions , a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm that materialized when Russia invaded Ukraine. Fittingly, Radaris now pimps OneRep as a service when consumers request that their personal information be removed from the data broker’s website.

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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. When commercialization first came to the internet, there was no easy way for users to make micropayments to do things like viewing a web page. Advertising was the obvious business model, if never the best one.

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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. AI models can do this for every single product, TV show, website and internet user. This is how the modern ad-tech industry works.

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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. as a media sharing device on a local network that was somehow exposed to the Internet. as a media sharing device on a local network that was somehow exposed to the Internet.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

For example, a Google search earlier this week for the free graphic design program FreeCAD produced the following result, which shows that a “Sponsored” ad at the top of the search results is advertising the software available from freecad-us[.]org. 19, 2024) of more than 200 domains at the Internet address 93.190.143[.]252

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com. io , and rdp[.]sh.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

First advertised in the cybercrime underground in 2014, RSOCKS was the web-based storefront for hacked computers that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their Web traffic through someone else’s device. At that time, RSOCKS was advertising more than 80,000 proxies. RSOCKS, circa 2016. Image: archive.org.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. The page listed the correct time and date of the funeral service, which it claimed could be streamed over the Internet by following a link that led to a page requesting credit card information.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. Cloud Router was previously called 911 S5.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

From 2015 to July 2022, 911 S5 sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, as “proxies” that allowed customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 21, 2025

The user simply waves their phone at a local payment terminal that accepts Apple or Google pay, and the app relays an NFC transaction over the Internet from a phone in China. Merrill said it’s not unusual for fraud groups to advertise this kind of work on social media networks, including TikTok.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a bid to minimize these scenarios, a growing number of major companies are adopting “ Security.txt ,” a proposed new Internet standard that helps organizations describe their vulnerability disclosure practices and preferences. An example of a security.txt file. Image: Securitytxt.org. well-known/security.txt.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. Mass surveillance ushered in the era of personalized advertisements; mass spying will supercharge that industry.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 30, 2025

We managed to identify MCP Inspector instances that are exposed to the internet and are in immediate risk of remote code execution. Oligo also found several public-facing instances of MCP Inspector online, fingerprintable via unique HTTP headers. These systems are exposed to full remote command execution—no browser needed. “

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

There is also ample evidence to suggest that Glupteba may have spawned Meris , a massive botnet of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that surfaced in September 2021 and was responsible for some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks the Internet has ever seen. But on Dec.

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Passwords Malware Internet Internet 329

Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

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Password Management Small Business Passwords Artificial Intelligence 124

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. The service is currently advertising access to more than 150,000 devices globally. com has been advertised for nearly a decade on the forum Black Hat World by the user BHProxies.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2025

28, 2025, CyberNewswire — Windscribe , a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, following a two-year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged in connection with an alleged internet offence by an unknown user of the service.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2025

The Halo Security Attack Surface Management Platform enables organizations and managed service providers (MSPs) to discover, monitor, and secure their internet-facing assets. TMC also provides global buyers with valuable insights to make informed tech decisions through our editorial platforms, live events, webinars, and online advertising.

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