Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of dozens of FedEx-themed phishing sites currently being advertised via SMS spam. com — from a desktop web browser redirects the visitor to a harmless page with ads for car insurance quotes. “It is a nearly perfect attack vector at this time of year,” Morton said. com — stopped resolving.

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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. 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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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[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity published a brief writeup about the brazen Manipulaters team, noting that they openly operated hundreds of web sites selling tools designed to trick people into giving up usernames and passwords, or deploying malicious software on their PCs. ” A number of questions, indeed. Second I leave country already.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Privnote’s ease-of-use and popularity among cryptocurrency enthusiasts has made it a perennial target of phishers , who erect Privnote clones that function more or less as advertised but also quietly inject their own cryptocurrency payment addresses when a note is created that contains crypto wallets. com include privnode[.]com

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

But the site is noticeably devoid of any SSL certificate (the entire site is [link] not [link] and the products for sale are all advertised for roughly half their normal cost. A review of the neighboring domains that reside at Internet addresses adjacent to julierandallphoto-dot-com ( 196.196.152/153.x So what’s going here?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. Postal Service , or their wireless phone provider and/or Internet Service Provider (ISP). Maybe this was once sound advice.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

Siegel said the “recruiter” sent her a list of screening questions that all seemed relevant to the position being advertised. ” Last year, some 16,012 people reported being victims of employment scams with losses totaling more than $59 million, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

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Security Boulevard

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.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. Quotpw/Ahick/Edgard/ципа advertising his coding services in this Google-translated forum posting.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Using services like VIP72, customers can select network nodes in virtually any country, and relay their traffic while hiding behind some unwitting victim’s Internet address. The domain Vip72[.]org “ Haxdoor ,” and “ Nuclear Grabber.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Also known as “ Assad Faiq” and “ The Godfather ,” Iza is the 30-something founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology. attorney general. had some personal problems and checked himself into rehab. .”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Each advertises their claimed access to T-Mobile systems in a similar way. The prices advertised for a SIM-swap against T-Mobile customers in the latter half of 2022 ranged between USD $1,000 and $1,500, while SIM-swaps offered against AT&T and Verizon customers often cost well more than twice that amount.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. Everlynn advertising a warrant/subpoena service based on fake EDRs. And so as long as it looks right, they’ll comply.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

But Intel 471 finds that after his critical review of VIP Crypt, Kerens did not post publicly on Exploit again for another four years until October 2016, when they suddenly began advertising Cryptor[.]biz. In 2010, someone with the username Pepyak on the Russian language affiliate forum GoFuckBiz[.]com

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

. “Since March 20th, the number of risky domains registered per day has been decreasing, with a notable spike around March 30th,” wrote John Conwell , principal data scientist at DomainTools [an advertiser on this site]. Schwartzman said more domain registrars should follow the example of Los Angeles-based Namecheap Inc.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

What follows are a series of clues that point to the likely real-life identity of a Russian man who appears responsible for enabling a ridiculous amount of cybercriminal activity on the Internet today. Image: Intel471. The one or two domain names registered to Aleksandr Volosovyk and that mail.ru biz: -Based in Asia and Europe. -It

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

These days, swatting attacks are commonly used by SIM swapping groups as a way to harass and extort regular Internet users into giving up prized social media account names that can be resold for thousands of dollars.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

But a look at the Internet address historically tied to this domain (186.2.171.79) shows the same address is used to host or park hundreds of other newly-minted crypto scam domains , including coinbase-x2[.]net In many ways, the crypto giveaway scam is a natural extension of perhaps the oldest cyber fraud in the book: Advanced-fee fraud.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

But each can see if a law enforcement entity or individual tied to one of their own requests has ever submitted a request to a different Kodex client, and then drill down further into other data about the submitter, such as Internet address(es) used, and the age of the requestor’s email address.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Fortune profiled Chub AI in a January 2024 story that described the service as a virtual brothel advertised by illustrated girls in spaghetti strap dresses who promise a chat-based “world without feminism,” where “girls offer sexual services.” No customers were put at risk.

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