Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for interfering in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange for payment from Google. The judge in the case was not amused, found for the plaintiff, and ordered the defendants and their U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. io seem like a legitimate website.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020. 16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Like most cybercrime forums, OGUsers is overrun with shady characters who are there mainly to rip off other members. “We know hackers sometimes delete content when they gain access to an account, and until now people had no way of easily getting their photos and videos back,” Instagram explained in a blog post.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Here’s the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email inboxes per day, and apparently does little else with this access except siphon gift card and customer loyalty program data that can be resold online.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2024

The Russia-based cybercrime group dubbed “ Fin7 ,” known for phishing and malware attacks that have cost victim organizations an estimated $3 billion in losses since 2013, was declared dead last year by U.S. Malwarebytes blogged about a similar campaign in April, but did not attribute the activity to any particular group.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The security firm CrowdStrike dubbed the group “ Scattered Spider ,” a recognition that the MGM hackers came from different hacker cliques scattered across an ocean of Telegram and Discord servers dedicated to financially-oriented cybercrime. ” Beige members were implicated in two stories published here in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

28, 2023, researchers at the Chinese security firm DarkNavy published a blog post purporting to show evidence that a major Chinese ecommerce company’s app was using this same three-exploit chain to read user data stored by other apps on the affected device, and to make its app nearly impossible to remove. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

In a blog post about their recent hack, Microsoft said LAPSUS$ succeeded against its targets through a combination of low-tech attacks, mostly involving old-fashioned social engineering — such as bribing employees at or contractors for the target organization. ” The price: $100 to $250 per request.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Although many domains correspond to websites for electronics stores or blogs about IT topics, just as many contain a fair amount of placeholder content (think “lorem ipsum” text on the “contact” page). Mazidul Islam’s LinkedIn page says he is the organizer of a now defunct IT blog called gadgetsbiz[.]com,

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