Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

But a new report from researchers at DomainTools.com finds that several computers associated with The Manipulaters have been massively hacked by malicious data- and password-snarfing malware for quite some time. If someone bind anything with exe file and spread on internet its not my fault.” ” A number of questions, indeed.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. But on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” SlowMist said the malware downloaded by the malicious link in their case comes from a North Korean hacking group dubbed “ BlueNoroff , which Kaspersky Labs says is a subgroup of the Lazarus hacking group. MacOS computers include X-Protect , Apple’s built-in antivirus technology. capital).

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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

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. that were created from different Internet addresses in Vienna, Austria. pw was their domain.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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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 19, 2024) of more than 200 domains at the Internet address 93.190.143[.]252 Hegel noted that the spike in malicious software-themed ads came not long after Microsoft started blocking by default Office macros in documents downloaded from the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

This service is actually recommended by the purveyors of the RedLine information stealer malware , which is a popular and powerful malware kit that specializes in stealing victim data and is often used to lay the groundwork for ransomware attacks. ” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. “Plus, more employees have access to billing and invoice information, meaning that a spray-and-pray campaign can be effective,” Fuchs wrote.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. “We believe these are isolated incidents of fraud using stolen consumer information,” Experian’s statement reads.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A review of the neighboring domains that reside at Internet addresses adjacent to julierandallphoto-dot-com ( 196.196.152/153.x “Some visitors will attempt to make purchases, entering their payment information into the payment form where the skimmer copies it and sends it to a drop server.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. I later received an email from the seller, who said his Amazon account had been hacked and abused by scammers to create fake sales.

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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 roster of the now-defunct “Infinity Recursion” hacking team, from which some members of LAPSUS$ allegedly hail.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. TARGETED PHISHING.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. Do your research because the information must be right.” Punchmade Dev’s shop.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the meantime, we encourage any security researchers to share any useful information they believe they may have with our Threat Intelligence team by contacting securitydisclosure@lastpass.com.” LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. A sample Kodex dashboard. Image: Kodex.us.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Other information in the announcements includes the price for a single SIM-swap request, and the handle of the person who takes the payment and information about the targeted subscriber. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet. ” or “ Tmo up!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that was obvious even to the untrained eye. Zoobashop is also a presently hacked e-commerce site.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

But a look at the Internet address historically tied to this domain (186.2.171.79) shows the same address is used to host or park hundreds of other newly-minted crypto scam domains , including coinbase-x2[.]net I realized a few minutes later, when the live video looped. It wasn’t actually live, but a replay of a video from 6 months ago.”

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