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Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2022

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. So they sent her some information about where to wire the money, and asked her to go to the bank. “I don’t know if the Uber ever got there.

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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

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. Bank customers. Bank customers.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

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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U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs

Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2020

A federal fraud investigator who spoke with KrebsOnSecurity on condition of anonymity said many states simply don’t have enough controls in place to detect patterns that might help better screen out fraudulent unemployment applications, such as looking for multiple applications involving the same Internet addresses and/or bank accounts.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to this comprehensive breakdown of the phishing toolkit , the U-Admin control panel isn’t sold on its own, but rather it is included when customers contact the developer and purchase a set of phishing pages designed to mimic a specific brand — such as a bank website or social media platform.

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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

Security Boulevard

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 and Ukrainian.

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Riding the State Unemployment Fraud ‘Wave’

Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

In too many cases, he said, the deposits are going into accounts where the beneficiary name does not match the name on the bank account. Perhaps the most galling example comes from Arkansas, whose site exposed the SSNs, bank account and routing numbers for some 30,000 applicants.

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PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

Also, the email headers in the phishing message (PDF) show that it passed all email validation checks as being sent by PayPal, and that it was sent through an Internet address assigned to PayPal. Both the email and the invoice state that “there is evidence that your PayPal account has been accessed unlawfully.”

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911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“A financially motivated threat actor closely connected with Lazarus that targets banks, casinos, fin-tech companies, POST software and cryptocurrency businesses, and ATMs,” Kaspersky wrote of BlueNoroff in Dec. The North Korean regime is known to use stolen cryptocurrencies to fund its military and other state projects. .

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

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. Does the bank reimburse you when your credit score takes a ding because your mortgage or car payment was late? Don’t hold your breath.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

The experiment was done from a different computer and Internet address than the one that created the original account years ago. KrebsOnSecurity sought to replicate Turner and Rishi’s experience — to see if Experian would allow me to re-create my account using my personal information but a different email address.

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E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. First you wanna get a bank log from a trusted site. Among them is mainpage[.]me/punchmade,

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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

One might even say passwords are the fossil fuels powering most IT modernization: They’re ubiquitous because they are cheap and easy to use, but that means they also come with significant trade-offs — such as polluting the Internet with weaponized data when they’re leaked or stolen en masse. TARGETED PHISHING.

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“I had it in a bank security deposit box before that, but then I started thinking, ‘Hey, the bank might close or burn down and I could lose my seed phrase.'” The Internet is swimming with con artists masquerading as legitimate cryptocurrency recovery experts. Then, early on the morning of Sunday, Aug.

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How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

According to the most recent statistics from the FBI ‘s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the most costly form of cybercrime stems from a complex type of fraud known as the “ B usiness E mail C ompromise” or BEC scam. Something like 63 percent of fraud losses reported to the FBI are related to it.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

REACTs’ West said while there are a large number of pig butchering victims reporting their victimization to the FBI, very few are receiving anything more than instructions about filing a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which keeps track of cybercrime losses and victims.

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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

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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Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Rose said even though a successful SIM swap often gives the perpetrator access to traditional bank accounts, the attackers seem to be mainly interested in stealing cryptocurrencies. OG accounts typically can be resold for thousands of dollars. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES. I included the specifics from Ortiz’s advice in my Aug.

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

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. “Bulletproof hosting is probably the biggest enabling service that you find in the underground.

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Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs

Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

Riding the State Unemployment Fraud ‘Wave’

PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal

911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop

The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach

How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths

Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

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