Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. government overall, nor to the US public.” domains in our data were used to attack the United States government, specifically the United States Postal Service and its customers,” Interisle wrote. This is noteworthy because.US

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

When a reliable method of scamming money out of people, companies or governments becomes widely known, underground forums and chat networks tend to light up with activity as more fraudsters pile on to claim their share. And that’s exactly what appears to be going on right now as multiple U.S. ” Image: Agari.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2020

” “It is assumed the fraud ring behind this possesses a substantial PII database to submit the volume of applications observed thus far,” the Secret Service warned. ” The surge in fraud comes as many states are struggling to process an avalanche of jobless claims filed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

The government alleges Coelho and his forum administrator identity “ Omnipotent ” profited from the illicit activity on the platform by charging “escalating prices for membership tiers that offered greater access and features, including a top-tier ‘God’ membership status.” Coelho landed on the radar of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. Joker’s sold cards stolen in a steady drip of breaches at U.S. Liberty Reserve was heavily used by cybercriminals of all stripes.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

The government says Urban went by the aliases “ Sosa ” and “ King Bob ,” among others. “If governments fail to prioritize this source of threat, violence originating from the Internet will affect regular people.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. energy facilities.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ARIN’s civil case caught the attention of federal prosecutors in South Carolina, who in May 2019 filed criminal wire fraud charges against Golestan , alleging he’d orchestrated a network of shell companies and fake identities to prevent ARIN from knowing the addresses were all going to the same buyer.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

based researcher whose findings shed light on a murky area of Internet governance that is all too often exploited by spammers and scammers alike. ” For example, documents obtained from the government of Uganda by Guilmette and others show Byaruhanga registered a private company called ipv4leasing after joining AFRINIC.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“I’ve seen it a few times before, but never on a government website, let alone one managed by the FBI.” A screenshot shared by Pompompurin, who says it shows how he was able to abuse the FBI’s email system to send a hoax message.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

None of the profiles listed here responded to requests for comment (or to become a connection).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The researchers concluded that 911 is supported by a “mid scale botnet-like infrastructure that operates in several networks, such as corporate, government and critical infrastructure.” Highlighting the risk that 911 nodes could pose to internal corporate networks, they observed that “the infection of a node enables the 911.re

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Georgia, AL domains at Alibaba also encompass several that spoof sites claiming to collect outstanding road toll fees and fines from the governments of Australia , New Zealand and Singapore. A phishing page targeting An Post, the state-owned provider of postal services in Ireland.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2023

government agencies. Interisle found significant numbers of.US domains were registered to attack some of the United States’ most prominent companies, including Bank of America, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Citi, Comcast, Microsoft, Meta, and Target. Others were used to impersonate or attack U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

“Government organizations, regulators, and standards bodies should consider long-term solutions to vulnerabilities in the DNS management attack surface,” the Infoblox report concludes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

“And while doing my research, I have also identified government entities (foreign and domestic), critical infrastructures, etc. . “The scale of the issue seems bigger than I initially anticipated,” Caturegli said in an interview with KrebsOnSecurity. that have such misconfigured assets.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than previously requested by the states, such as images of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service. To screen out fraudsters, ID.me

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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

JULY 21, 2022

It sort of feels like the federal government is ignoring this, so people are going to local agencies, which are sending these victims our way.” . “There’s a huge gap in victims that are seeing any kind of service at all, where they’re reporting to the FBI but not being able to talk to anyone,” she said.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

The Liberty Reserve case was prosecuted out of the Southern District of New York, which in 2016 published a list of account information (PDF) tied to thousands of Liberty Reserve addresses the government asserts were involved in money laundering.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools, businesses and government buildings late last year — were made possible thanks to an authentication weakness at GoDaddy.com , the world’s (..)

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

In a message to KrebsOnSecurity, Artimovich said while Vrublevsky was involved in a lot of shady activities, he doubts Vrublevksy’s arrest was really about SMS payment scams as the government claims. “I do not think that it was a reason for his arrest,” Artimovich said.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

One breach taking your login from a gaming forum can quickly become something that exposes Government service logins or bank accounts. Password reuse is one big reason for credential stuffing (using stolen data across additional sites) being so popular. Tips for locking down after an SSN breach.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. Domain names ending in “.US” US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S. Also,US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S.

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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. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. The post Two U.S.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

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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. The government says Iza kept R.C.’s

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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. The government alleges that on May 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log into a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. All of the access Bug is currently offering was allegedly stolen from non-U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

Donahue is co-founder of Kodex , a company formed in February 2021 that builds security portals designed to help tech companies “manage information requests from government agencies who contact them, and to securely transfer data & collaborate against abuses on their platform.” Image: Kodex.us. Image: Meta Transparency Report.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

According to the government, in each case the men impersonating the foreign police departments told those platforms the request was urgent because the account holders had been trading in child pornography or engaging in child extortion. DOMESTIC TERRORISM?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

states exempt so-called “public” or “government” records from consumer privacy laws. government. Privacy experts say the problem is that data brokers, people-search services like Nuwber and Onerep, and online reputation management firms exist because virtually all U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

The strategy says China now presents the “broadest, most active, and most persistent threat to both government and private sector networks,” and says China is “the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do so.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

“It’s either that or the government gets involved. government may well soon get more involved. . “It’s really hard to do anything about this unless the registrars step up and do something on their own,” Daniel said. ” The U.S. Earlier this week, Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)

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