Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Many companies now require employees to supply a one-time password — such as one sent via SMS or produced by a mobile authenticator app — in addition to their username and password when logging in to company assets online. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Perhaps the biggest selling point for U-Admin is a module that helps phishers intercept multi-factor authentication codes. Qbot) — to harvest one-time codes needed for multi-factor authentication. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged the authentication weakness documented by Guilmette. domaincontrol.com).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

” Technically, what my source did was wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet/telephone/fax through false pretenses); had he done it through the U.S. mail, he could be facing mail fraud charges if caught. Then you either mail or fax it in. After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 15, 2024

.” The researchers say some Squarespace domains that were migrated over also could be hijacked if attackers discovered the email addresses for less privileged user accounts tied to the domain, such as “domain manager,” which likewise has the ability to transfer a domain or point it to a different Internet address.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. TARGETED PHISHING. So hopefully by this point it should be clear why re-using passwords is generally a bad idea.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. ”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

While fraudsters who have hijacked your domain and/or co-opted access to your domain registrar can and usually will try to remove any DNSSEC records associated with the hijacked domain, it generally takes a few days for these updated records to be noticed and obeyed by the rest of the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Also, the resulting compromise is quite persistent and sidesteps two-factor authentication, and thus it seems likely we will see this approach exploited more frequently in the future. 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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While the FBI’s InfraGard system requires multi-factor authentication by default, users can choose between receiving a one-time code via SMS or email. “If it was only the phone I will be in [a] bad situation,” USDoD said. “Because I used the person[‘s] phone that I’m impersonating.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

The core Manipulaters product these days is a spam delivery service called HeartSender , whose homepage openly advertises phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365 , Yahoo , AOL , Intuit , iCloud and ID.me , to name a few. .” A number of questions, indeed. Second I leave country already.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

In addition, 16Shop employed various tricks to help its users’ phishing pages stay off the radar of security firms, including a local “blacklist” of Internet addresses tied to security companies, and a feature that allowed users to block entire Internet address ranges from accessing phishing pages.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The bug could be exploited simply by adding the phone number of a target to the end of a Web address used by one of the company’s internal tools that was nevertheless accessible via the open Internet. He advises people instead use a mobile app like Authy or Google Authenticator to generate the one-time code.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” The Internet is swimming with con artists masquerading as legitimate cryptocurrency recovery experts.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But they also offer a more cutting-edge mobile fraud technology: Merrill found that at least one of the Chinese phishing groups sells an Android app called “ ZNFC ” that can relay a valid NFC transaction to anywhere in the world. “The software can work from anywhere in the world,” Merrill said.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. T-Mobile declined to answer questions about what it may be doing to beef up employee authentication. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet. ” TMO UP! .”

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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. The document requested the Internet address history of Discord accounts tied to a specific phone number used by the target.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers figured out that many major companies have uploaded massive amounts of valuable and sensitive customer data to Snowflake servers, all the while protecting those Snowflake accounts with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required).

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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. EDR OVERLOAD?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Griffin said a follow-up investigation revealed the attackers had used his Gmail account to gain access to his Coinbase account from a VPN connection in California, providing the multi-factor code from his Google Authenticator app. You may also wish to download Google Authenticator to another mobile device that you control.

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