Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

“We will continue to work with registrars, cybersecurity firms and other stakeholders to make progress with this complex challenge.” .” “We stand against DNS abuse in any form and maintain multiple systems and protocols to protect all the TLDs we operate,” the statement continued.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

“This is dangerous, Apollo.io, Signalhire, and Cybersecurity Ventures.” “It’s interesting the downstream sources that repeat LinkedIn bogus content as truth,” Mason said.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

Ryan Kalember , Proofpoint’s executive vice president of cybersecurity strategy, said 55 percent of the company’s customers have faced these malicious app attacks at one point or another. “Of those who got attacked, about 22 percent — or one in five — were successfully compromised,” Kalember said.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“The FBI and CISA [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ] are aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account,” reads the FBI statement. ” In response to a request for comment, the FBI confirmed the unauthorized messages, but declined to offer further information.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. .” The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading. Holden’s team gained visibility into discussions among members of two different ransom groups: CLOP (a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant (recently acquired by Google ) told Bloomberg that hackers working for the North Korean government have been copying resumes and profiles from leading job listing platforms LinkedIn and Indeed , as part of an elaborate scheme to land jobs at cryptocurrency firms.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This candid view inside the Disneyland Team comes from Alex Holden , founder of the Milwaukee-based cybersecurity consulting firm Hold Security. Holden’s analysts gained access to a Web-based control panel the crime group has been using to keep track of victim credentials (see screenshot above).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And it was fairly successful, according to Alex Holden , founder of Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm Hold Security. The now-defunct phishing domain at issue — coinbase.com.password-reset[.]com com — was targeting Italian Coinbase users (the site’s default language was Italian).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

That’s according to a deep analysis of the PushWelcome network compiled by Indelible LLC , a cybersecurity firm based in Portland, Ore. “This method is currently being used to deliver something akin to adware or click fraud type activity,” Angiolelli said.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant (recently acquired by Google ) told Bloomberg that hackers working for the North Korean government have been copying resumes and profiles from leading job listing platforms LinkedIn and Indeed, as part of an elaborate scheme to land jobs at cryptocurrency firms.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

According to Twitter, that attack succeeded because the perpetrators were able to social engineer several Twitter employees over the phone into giving away access to internal Twitter tools.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cybersecurity threat intelligence firm Intel 471 describes U-Admin as an information stealing framework that uses several plug-ins in one location to help users pilfer victim credentials more efficiently.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

re abruptly announced it was permanently closing after a cybersecurity breach allowed unknown intruders to trash its servers and delete customer data and backups. Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based proxy services have chosen to block new registrations to avoid swamping their networks with a sudden influx of customers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

” “As soon as the issue was uncovered, the company initiated cybersecurity incident response measures to protect and secure its information; and notified law enforcement and regulators,” MSF wrote.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Allison Nixon is chief research officer for the New York City-based cybersecurity firm Unit 221B. These guys have crews that go and identify people who are high net worth individuals and who have a lot to lose.” “They underestimate these actors and say this person isn’t technically sophisticated,” she said.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Which is why the best practice for many cybersecurity enthusiasts has long been to store their seed phrases either in some type of encrypted container — such as a password manager — or else inside an offline, special-purpose hardware encryption device, such as a Trezor or Ledger wallet.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB published a report last year detailing the activities of ValidCC, noting the gang behind the crime shop was responsible for plundering nearly 700 e-commerce sites. “UltraRank combined attacks on single targets with supply chain attacks.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

” Michael Daniel , president of the Cyber Threat Alliance — a cybersecurity industry group that’s also been working to fight COVID-19 related fraud — agreed, saying more pressure needs to be applied to the registrar community. “It’s either that or the government gets involved.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to cybersecurity firm Intel 471 , Dr. Samuil’s ad is hardly unique, and there are several other seasoned cybercriminals who are customers of popular ransomware-as-a-service offerings that are hiring sub-contractors to farm out some of the grunt work. ” WHO IS DR.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

A new cybersecurity strategy released earlier this month by the Biden administration singled out China as the greatest cyber threat to the U.S. The Pinduoduo suspension comes as lawmakers in Congress this week are gearing up to grill the CEO of TikTok over national security concerns. and Western interests.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

. “GSA is working with the appropriate authorities and has already implemented additional fraud prevention controls,” the agency wrote, without elaborating on what those additional controls might be. KrebsOnSecurity did get a substantive response from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , a division of the U.S.

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