Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This is really interesting research: " BlackIoT: IoT Botnet of High Wattage Devices Can Disrupt the Power Grid ": Abstract : We demonstrate that an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet of high wattage devices-such as air conditioners and heaters-gives a unique ability to adversaries to launch large-scale coordinated attacks on the power grid.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

The new ransomware group Arkana Security claims to have hacked US telecom provider WOW!, is a US-based telecommunications company that provides broadband internet, cable TV, and phone services. is known for offering high-speed internet and competitive pricing in markets where it competes with larger providers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

The German police seized the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market disrupting its operation. The Nemesis Market has been active since 2021, its offerings included illegal drugs and narcotics, stolen data and credit cards, as well as a selection of cybercrime services such as ransomware , phishing or DDoS attacks.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 13, 2025

Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internets biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market as a result of an international law enforcement operation. The Kingdom Market was established in March 2021, the offer of the dark web marketplace included drugs, malware, stolen data, and forged documents. Many of these deposits were made in cash.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At issue is a “redirect” feature available to businesses that chose to market through LinkedIn.com. Here’s the very first Slink created: [link] which redirects to the homepage for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. Image: Urlscan.io.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Easily the longest story this year was an investigation into Stark Industries Solutions , a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm that materialized when Russia invaded Ukraine. Fittingly, Radaris now pimps OneRep as a service when consumers request that their personal information be removed from the data broker’s website.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Android operating system is the most familiar operating system in the market. You may also like to read: How Hackers Spy On Hacked Phone? How To Detect and Secure Yourself Hacker's Most Preferred Hacking Techniques These techniques can be described as the most liked techniques of users to hack Android devices.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Meanwhile, while business logic hacks, supply chain holes, and cyber extortion continue to loom large. Attackers arent hacking in theyre logging in. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. The drivers are intensifying.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Ptitsyn and his co-conspirators hacked not only large corporations but also schools, hospitals, nonprofits, and a federally recognized tribe, and they extorted more than $16 million in ransom payments.” In a November 18 statement , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Prevent intrusions and stop malicious encryption.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. Automobile manufacturers sell their cars worldwide, but they are customized for local markets.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Kentik’s view of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage. Update, 6:16 p.m.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Experts suspect the state-sponsored hackers have gathered extensive internet traffic and potentially compromised sensitive data. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” and its allies for hacking activities in July. and around the globe.”

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2020

Yet another Internet-connected door lock is insecure : Sold by retailers including Amazon, Walmart, and Home Depot, U-Tec's $139.99 UltraLoq is marketed as a "secure and versatile smart deadbolt that offers keyless entry via your Bluetooth-enabled smartphone and code."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2022

In a survey conducted by broadband service provider Konnect, over 4 million people were found hacking neighbors’ Wi-Fi, if there was a down or to avoid paying a fat subscription fee. Technically, using an internet connection of a neighbor without permission is called ‘Piggybacking’ and is usually done to avoid subscription fees.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. A Safer Internet of Things. The post The Internet of Things Is Everywhere.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

By patiently slipping past the best cybersecurity systems money can buy and evading detection for 16 months, the perpetrators of the SolarWinds hack reminded us just how much heavy lifting still needs to get done to make digital commerce as secure as it needs to be. Related: DHS launches 60-day cybersecurity sprints.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc Finally, the malware validates there is a valid Internet connection through a speed test website. on Twitter, and targeting Portuguese users.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Now, the founders of Norse have launched a new company with a somewhat different vision: RedTorch , which for the past two years has marketed a mix of services to high end celebrity clients, including spying and anti-spying tools and services. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Data helps digital businesses make meaningful decisions and fast-track their growth in a global market so that companies that are skilled at harvesting data regularly and consistently tend to grow faster than those that only involve data scantily in making decisions. Related: Kaseya hack highlight supply-chain risks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 30, 2020

Related: Micro-segmentation taken to the personal device level The flip side, of course, is that an already wide-open attack surface – one that has been getting plundered for the past two decades by criminal hacking groups — is getting scaled up, as well. DevOps has taken center stage. I’m eager to see where this goes. I’ll keep watch.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. Spying is another matter. That will soon change.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Researchers from Cyber looked for VNC exposed over the internet and discovered over 8000 VNC instances with authentication disabled, most of them in China, Sweden, and the United States. Exposing VNCs to the internet, increases the likelihood of a cyberattack. connected via VNC and exposed over the internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. “None of those are good replacements for LuxSocks or 911.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2023

A misconfiguration on a website owned by the US-based Lowe’s Market grocery store chain could have allowed threat actors to gain control of its systems. On February 7, the Cybernews research team discovered a misconfiguration on the Lowe’s Market website. env) hosted on the Lowe’s Market website.

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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

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

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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