Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

But when I tried to get my report from Experian via annualcreditreport.com, Experian’s website said it didn’t have enough information to validate my identity. In response to information shared by KrebsOnSecurity, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) It wouldn’t even show me the four multiple-guess questions. ” Sen.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Last month, they sold customer information on 36 million customers of the Mexican phone company Telcel ; in March, they sold 33,000 images of Mexican IDs — with the front picture and a selfie of each citizen. “The set of information referred to is inaccurate and outdated, and does not put our users and customers at risk.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

0ktapus used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the targeted company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

. “Separately, and unrelated to the outage, a routine audit of account activity identified potential unauthorized changes to a small number of customer domains and/or account information,” GoDaddy spokesperson Dan Race said. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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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. com — from a desktop web browser redirects the visitor to a harmless page with ads for car insurance quotes. com — stopped resolving.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The contact information for Kareem , a young man from Maryland, was listed as an active drop. Anyone can sign up at this website as a potential reshipping mule, although doing so requires applicants to share a great deal of personal and financial information, as well as copies of an ID or passport matching the supplied name.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes. “Information we can get: emails, IPs, phone numbers, photos. Have gotten information only on Snapchat, Twitter and IG so far.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The fake browser alerts are specific to the browser you’re using, so if you’re surfing the Web with Chrome, for example, you’ll get a Chrome update prompt. Those who are fooled into clicking the update button will have a malicious file dropped on their system that tries to install an information stealing trojan.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2023

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity examined a flood of inauthentic LinkedIn profiles all claiming Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at various Fortune 500 companies, including Biogen , Chevron , ExxonMobil , and Hewlett Packard. “We’ll see 20-30 requests come in with the same type of information in the profiles.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In each case, the phishers manually would push a button that caused the phishing site to ask visitors for more information, such as the one-time password from their mobile app. Pressing the “Send Info” button prompted visitors to supply additional personal information, including their name, date of birth, and street address. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The phishers behind this scheme used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the target company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule. 2, and Aug. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug. In an Aug.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Research suggests identity thieves were able to hijack the accounts simply by signing up for new accounts at Experian using the victim’s personal information and a different email address. “We believe these are isolated incidents of fraud using stolen consumer information,” Experian’s statement reads.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In late September 2022, KrebsOnSecurity warned about the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. . “That’s definitely the first huge drop that happened throughout the time we’ve collected the profiles,” she said.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

“The endgame was to offer a job based on successful completion of background check which obviously requires entering personal information,” Gwin said. “Even after the real Troy said they’d gotten these [LinkedIn] ads shut down, this guy was still emailing me asking for my HR information,” Siegel said.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

However, DomainTools also found the hosted version of HeartSender service leaks an extraordinary amount of user information that probably is not intended to be publicly accessible. “FIR” in this case stands for “First Information Report,” which is the initial complaint in the criminal justice system of Pakistan.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, now allows users to cross-reference popular cybercrime websites and denizens of these forums with inadvertent malware infections by information-stealing trojans. Mr. Rizky did not respond to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. of spam and scam.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Jim told MSF and others who called or emailed that identity thieves had applied for the funds using his name and information; that he would never take out a payday loan; and would they please remove his information from their database? Jim says MSF assured him it would, and the loan was never issued. A portion of the Jan.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

.” Below that message is a “Click update” button that takes the visitor to a page that asks for more information. After collecting your address information, the fake USPS site goes on to request additional personal and financial data. The remaining buttons on the phishing page all link to the real USPS.com website.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users claim that SMSRanger has an efficacy rate of about 80% if the victim answered the call and the full information (fullz) the user provided was accurate and updated.” I hope these OTP interception services make clear that you should never provide any information in response to an unsolicited phone call. org) for a checkup.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

When I tested Kushnir’s instructions on my own identity at Experian, I found I was able to see my report even though Experian’s website told me it didn’t have enough information to validate my identity. To make matters worse, a majority of the information in that credit report is not mine.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

All of the credentials being sold by Accountz provide access to services that in turn sell access to stolen information or hijacked property, as in the case of “bot shops” that resell access to infected computers. That’s probably because so few customers supply their real contact information when they sign up.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com said he suspected the call was a scam, but decided to play along for about an hour — all the while recording the call and coaxing information out of the scammer. “He was literally reading off the tickets to the notes of the admin panel inside GoDaddy.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2022

So they sent her some information about where to wire the money, and asked her to go to the bank. And when an elderly victim does report a crime, they may be unable to supply detailed information to investigators.” “They told her they were sending an Uber to pick her up and that it was on its way,” Hardaway said.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2022

org remains online and accepting requests, as does the service’s Tor-based domain, and it is unclear how those services are sourcing their information. “Information about the fraudsters was also sent to key market participants, and their transaction data was added to the tracking database to better combat money laundering.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2023

The lawsuit also seeks information about the identities of 20 different “John Does” — Freenom customers that Meta says have been particularly active in phishing attacks against Facebook , Instagram , and WhatsApp users.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

The SOCKS (or SOCKS5) protocol allows Internet users to channel their Web traffic through a proxy server, which then passes the information on to the intended destination. The contact information on Crismaru’s LinkedIn page says his company websites include myiptest[.]com, SocksEscort[.]com com, sscompany[.]net,

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

In August 2019, a slew of websites and social media channels dubbed “HKLEAKS” began doxing the identities and personal information of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io,

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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 alert follows news reports by media outlets in Washington and Rhode Island about millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims in those states.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Venus indicated it recently had success with a method that involves carefully editing one or more email inbox files at a victim firm — to insert messages discussing plans to trade large volumes of the company’s stock based on non-public information. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While there is still far more malware out there today targeting Microsoft Windows PCs, the prevalence of information-stealing trojans aimed at macOS users is growing at a steady clip. A recent report from Recorded Future finds the Lazarus Group has stolen approximately $3 billion in cryptocurrency over the past six years.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

Some of the domains at this Netherlands host appear to be little more than software review websites that steal content from established information sources in the IT world, including Gartner , PCWorld , Slashdot and TechRadar. A review at DomainTools.com show this domain is the newest (registered Jan. com , filezillasoft[.]com

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sent by abusing insecure code in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities. The post Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

.” “RaidForums also sold ‘credits’ that provided members access to privileged areas of the website and enabled members to ‘unlock’ and download stolen financial information, means of identification, and data from compromised databases, among other items,” the DOJ said in a written statement.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This information pops up without asking the finder to log in or provide any personal information. When scanned, an AirTag in Lost Mode will present a short message asking the finder to call the owner at at their specified phone number. But your average Good Samaritan might not know this.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

In late 2019, BriansClub changed its homepage to include doctored images of my Social Security and passport cards, credit report and mobile phone bill information. That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts.

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