Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Here’s a look at a fairly elaborate SMS-based phishing scam that spoofs FedEx in a bid to extract personal and financial information from unwary recipients. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of negative consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly. com, g001bfedeex[.]com, com, and so on.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. ” In the early morning hours of Nov. and 11:00 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. ” SAY WHAT? 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Last year, researchers at Minerva Labs spotted the botnet being used to blast out sextortion scams. Shotliff shared an April 2014 password reset email from Black Hat World, which shows he forwarded the plaintext password to the email address legendboy2050@yahoo.com. 5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” ” The service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

Here’s what part of their current homepage looks like: The SocksEscort home page says its services are perfect for people involved in automated online activity that often results in IP addresses getting blocked or banned, such as Craigslist and dating scams, search engine results manipulation, and online surveys.

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