Security Boulevard

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.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

19, 2024) of more than 200 domains at the Internet address 93.190.143[.]252 “In the malicious ad campaigns we’ve seen tied to this group, they would wait until the domains gain legitimacy on the search engines, and then flip the page for a day or so and then flip back.” How do we know freecad-us[.]org

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

political campaigns, cities and towns had paid a shady company called Web Listings Inc. after receiving what looked like a bill for search engine optimization (SEO) services rendered on behalf of their domain names. Since at least 2007, Web Listings Inc. In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S. Helpmego.to

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba , one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. “And the steps [Google] took last year to disrupt their operations have already had significant impact.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

Last week, someone began began posting classified notices on LinkedIn for different design consulting jobs at Geosyntec Consultants , an environmental engineering firm based in the Washington, D.C.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code). On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

John Turner is a software engineer based in Salt Lake City. The experiment was done from a different computer and Internet address than the one that created the original account years ago.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

The complaint alleges that for nearly three years, WSM was operated on the dark web by three men who engineered an “exit scam” last month, absconding with all of the virtual currency held in marketplace escrow and user accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. The document requested the Internet address history of Discord accounts tied to a specific phone number used by the target.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In February 2023, LastPass disclosed that the intrusion involved a highly complex, targeted attack against a DevOps engineer who was one of only four LastPass employees with access to the corporate vault. The Internet is swimming with con artists masquerading as legitimate cryptocurrency recovery experts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Peppered throughout the daily chit-chat on their Telegram channels are solicitations for people urgently needed to serve as “callers,” or those who can be hired to social engineer employees over the phone into navigating to a phishing website and entering their employee credentials.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

According to the most recent statistics from the FBI ‘s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the most costly form of cybercrime stems from a complex type of fraud known as the “ B usiness E mail C ompromise” or BEC scam. This post examines the work of a large, private group of volunteers dedicated to doing just that.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The bug could be exploited simply by adding the phone number of a target to the end of a Web address used by one of the company’s internal tools that was nevertheless accessible via the open Internet. But most of all, Berry said, people should stop using SMS when more robust two-factor options are available.

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