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.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion. The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world's largest data breaches since 2015.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here's a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

Data breaches are so common that multiple services exist to check if you’ve been impacted. Password reuse is one big reason for credential stuffing (using stolen data across additional sites) being so popular. Criminals will make use of it however they can to make money.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

. “They compound the problem by gating the recovery process with information that’s likely available or inferable from third party data brokers, or that could have been exposed in previous data breaches,” Roan said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

Constella Intelligence , a security firm that indexes passwords and other personal information exposed in past data breaches, revealed dozens of variations on email addresses used by Alexander I. Ukraincki ,” whose personal information also is included in the domains tpos[.]ru ru and alphadisplay[.]ru, Ukraincki over the years.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Then in mid-January, Jim heard from MSF via snail mail that they’d discovered a data breach. Jim said MSF ultimately agreed that the loan wasn’t legitimate, but they couldn’t or wouldn’t tell him how his information got pushed through to a loan — even though MSF was never able to pull his credit file.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

.” LastPass declined to answer questions about the research highlighted in this story, citing an ongoing law enforcement investigation and pending litigation against the company in response to its 2022 data breach. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database. .

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2022

InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2023

23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer's full credit report -- armed with nothing more than a person's name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2023

Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass. The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

Justice Department named Rytikov as a key infrastructure provider for two Russian hackers — Vladimir Drinkman and Alexandr Kalinin — in a cybercrime spree the government called the largest known data breach at the time.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the software.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

. “There’s been a real shift in the market from data-centric identity verification to verifying through something you have and something you are, like a phone or face or ID,” he said. “And those aren’t in the provenance of the incumbents, the data-centric brokers. ” A BETTER MOUSETRAP?

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