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 began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com, super-socks[.]com,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. ” MRMURZA Faceless is a project from MrMurza , a particularly talkative member of more than a dozen Russian-language cybercrime forums over the past decade.

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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. As of last year, Microsoft had nearly 240 million active users, according to this analysis. What do you do?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

” On April 5, 2021, Everlynn posted a new sales thread to the cybercrime forum cracked[.]to This is very illegal and you will get raided if you don’t use a vpn. In other cases, KT said, hackers will try to guess the passwords of police department email systems. ” The price: $100 to $250 per request.

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