Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. “There has been no violation of our platforms and technological infrastructure,” Banorte said. ” That statement may be 100 percent true.

Data breaches 328

Data breaches Banking Cybercrime Marketing 328

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. technology companies during the summer of 2022. 9, 2024, U.S. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another.

Social Engineering 359

Social Engineering Mobile Cybercrime Passwords 359

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re “Everybody is looking for an alternative, bro,” wrote a BlackHatForums user on Aug.

Malware 324

Malware Cybercrime Internet Internet 324

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

” “Since playing Tradewars on my Tandy 1000 with a 300 baud modem in the early ’90s, I’ve had a lifelong passion for technology, which I’ve carried with me as Deputy CISO of the world’s largest health plan,” her profile reads. Maryann’s profile says she’s from Tupelo, Miss.,

CISO 343

CISO Cybercrime Accountability Information Security 343

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. And all of them operate via Telegram , a cloud-based instant messaging system.

Passwords 345

Passwords Mobile Authentication Banking 345

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

The fundamental problem with WPAD is the same with Active Directory: Both are technologies originally designed to be used in closed, static, trusted office environments, and neither was built with today’s mobile devices or workforce in mind.

DNS 329

DNS Internet Internet Authentication 329

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. FORUM ACTIVITY?

VPN 358

VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 358

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

. “You hand that over to a person who used to mine Ethereum or Bitcoin, and if they have a large enough dictionary [of pre-computed hashes] then you can essentially break 60-70 percent of the hashed passwords in a day or two,” said Fabian Wosar , chief technology officer at security firm Emsisoft.

Passwords 363

Passwords Password Management Phishing Scams 363

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

.” While CLOP as a money making collective is a fairly young organization, security experts say CLOP members hail from a group of Threat Actors (TA) known as “TA505,” which MITRE’s ATT&CK database says is a financially motivated cybercrime group that has been active since at least 2014. ”

Healthcare 331

Healthcare Backups Ransomware Insurance 331

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. In keeping with the overall theme, these phishing domains appear focused on stealing usernames and passwords to some of the cybercrime underground’s busiest shops, including Brian’s Club.

Phishing 293

Phishing Cryptocurrency DDOS Internet 293

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, now allows users to cross-reference popular cybercrime websites and denizens of these forums with inadvertent malware infections by information-stealing trojans. Mr. Rizky did not respond to requests for comment.

Phishing 242

Phishing Passwords Hacking Internet 242

Digital Shadows

MAY 3, 2021

Any Product Marketing professional worth their salt will have read the seminal “Crossing the Chasm” book, which highlights how technology. The post The Technology Adoption Lifecycle of Genesis Market first appeared on Digital Shadows.

Marketing 59

Marketing Technology Web Fraud Cybercrime 59

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 15, 2022

AMLBot, a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology to help cybercrooks avoid detection by anti-money laundering systems.

Cryptocurrency 69

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Technology Web Fraud 69

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The force was originally created to tackle a range of cybercrimes, but Tarazi says SIM swappers are a primary target now for two reasons. Two months earlier, the task force was instrumental in apprehending 20-year-old Joel Ortiz , a Boston man suspected of stealing millions of dollars in cryptocoins with the help of SIM swaps.

Mobile 275

Mobile Cryptocurrency Accountability Passwords 275

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market.

Phishing 300

Phishing Mobile Scams Banking 300

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. authorities. In May 2023, the U.S.

Cybercrime 327

Cybercrime Phishing Malware Software 327

Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers.

Cybercrime 232

Cybercrime Phishing Banking Malware 232

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.

Cybercrime 330

Cybercrime Accountability Mobile Hacking 330

Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes. 30, Bug posted a sales thread to the cybercrime forum Breached[.]co Today, one of the U.S.

Government 319

Government Accountability Education Media 319

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges.

Cryptocurrency 325

Cryptocurrency Government Internet Internet 325

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

” On March 3, 2023, a denizen of the now-defunct cybercrime community BreachForums posted a thread which noted that a unique component of the malicious app code highlighted by DarkNavy also was found in the ecommerce application whose name was apparently redacted from the DarkNavy analysis: Pinduoduo.

Malware 329

Malware eCommerce Mobile Marketing 329

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.

Mobile 239

Mobile Government Media Technology 239

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.

Accountability 292

Accountability Government Hacking Social Engineering 292

Krebs on Security

JUNE 5, 2025

These services can be used for several business purposes, such as price comparisons, sales intelligence, web crawlers and content-scraping bots. However, proxy services also are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. Image: Trend Micro.

Internet 192

Internet Internet VPN Telecommunications 192

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2025

Edwards said Funnull is a textbook example of an increasing trend Silent Push calls “infrastructure laundering,” wherein crooks selling cybercrime services will relay some or all of their malicious traffic through U.S. cloud providers. ” A Suncity gambling site promoted via Funnull. .

Accountability 255

Accountability Scams Passwords Data collection 255