Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

agency — advertised a web-based bot designed to trick targets into giving up OTP tokens. Unfortunately, those most likely to fall for these OTP interception schemes are people who are less experienced with technology. The OTP interception service featured earlier this year — Otp[.]agency

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

That is a far cry from the proxy inventory advertised by 911, which stood at more than 200,000 IP addresses for rent just a few days ago. According to Constella Intelligence [currently an advertiser on KrebsOnSecurity], Oleg used the same password from his iboss32@ro.ru Image: Spur.us. Cached copies of angrycoders[.]net

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. Creating a message merely generates a link.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud.

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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. had some personal problems and checked himself into rehab.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2024

But experts say Fin7 has roared back to life in 2024 — setting up thousands of websites mimicking a range of media and technology companies — with the help of Stark Industries Solutions , a sprawling hosting provider that is a persistent source of cyberattacks against enemies of Russia. authorities. In May 2023, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. ” NEEDLES IN THE HAYSTACK.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

Sure enough, I found that Yalishanda was actively advertising on cybercrime forums, and that his infrastructure was being used to host hundreds of dodgy sites. Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz:

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as long as the proper documents are provided and the request appears to come from an email address connected to an actual police department domain name. Image: Ke-la.com.

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