Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A study on phishing data released by Interisle Consulting finds that new gTLDs introduced in the last few years command just 11 percent of the market for new domains, but accounted for roughly 37 percent of cybercrime domains reported between September 2023 and August 2024. Image: Shutterstock. “But they act a lot more like the latter.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 5, 2023

Genesis Market is shut down : Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

According to a new report, the global healthcare cybersecurity market was valued at US $21.25 The market's expected ris e to $82.9 billion sub-market for healthcare-specific cybersecurity solutions, with managed services like Managed Detection and Response (MDR) growing at 89% year-over-year to meet demand.

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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. What was manual and individual has become bulk and mass. Spying is another matter. That will soon change.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2022

Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2710, the Open App Markets Act. Reducing the power to tech monopolies would do more to “fix” the Internet than any other single action, and I am generally in favor of them both.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Prosecutors say Anonymous Sudan offered a “Limited Internet Shutdown Package,” which would enable customers to shut down internet service providers in specified countries for $500 (USD) an hour. An indictment in the Central District of California notes the duo even swamped the websites of the FBI and the Department of State.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

And in turn, the criminals adapt, which brings us to Genesis Market. In this instance, the data shared emanates from the Initial Access Broker Marketplace Genesis Market. The FBI has taken action against Genesis Market, and in the process has been able to extract victim information for the purposes of alerting victims.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Golubov later earned immunity from prosecution by becoming an elected politician and founding the Internet Party of Ukraine , which called for free internet for all, the creation of country-wide “hacker schools” and the “computerization of the entire economy.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S.,

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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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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The technology industry hopes that Matter arises as the lingua franca for the Internet of Things. Connectivity confusion reigns supreme in the consumer electronics market. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

On January 29, the FBI and the Dutch national police seized the technical infrastructure for a cybercrime service marketed under the brands Heartsender , Fudpage and Fudtools (and many other “fud” variations). One of several current Fudtools sites run by the principals of The Manipulators.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 20, 2025

The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. Forky denied being involved in the attack on KrebsOnSecurity, but acknowledged that he helped to develop and market the Aisuru botnet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2025

” The police identified 270 suspects through intelligence from dark web market takedowns, including Nemesis , Bohemia , Kingdom Markets, and Tor2Door. “Europol will continue working with our partners to make the internet safer for everyone.”

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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. We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

Searching the Internet for some of these Web listing domains mentioned in the company’s Twitter account brings up a series of press releases once issued on behalf of the company. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc. employed a number of people involved in the SEO business.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies set up to obtain more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the nonprofit organization that leases the digital real estate to entities in North America. ”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2025

A report from the Pakistani media outlet Dawn states that authorities there arrested 21 people alleged to have operated Heartsender, a spam delivery service whose homepage openly advertised phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365, Yahoo, AOL, Intuit, iCloud and ID.me.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 9, 2022

This quirk of internet history means that marketers can track exactly when you open an email and your IP address, which can be used to roughly work out your location. Most email newsletters you get include an invisible “image,” typically a single white pixel, with a unique file name. So, how does Apple Mail stop this?

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Research paper: “ A Large-scale Investigation into Geodifferences in Mobile Apps “: Abstract : Recent studies on the web ecosystem have been raising alarms on the increasing geodifferences in access to Internet content and services due to Internet censorship and geoblocking.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 25, 2025

He also pointed out that these built-in security features are often marketed as free, but in practice, they frequently come with usage-based costs, such as charges per click, per transaction, or per request. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel , a St. Charles, Ill. The user interface for Downthem[.]org.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2023

Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other: The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms should be able to exchange messages with each other. This opens up a real Pandora’s box.

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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 10, 2024

government agency created in 2011 to protect consumers in the financial sector, ensuring fair, transparent, and competitive financial markets The agency has issued a directive to employees to reduce the use of their phones and invite them to use Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx for their meetings and conversations that involve nonpublic data.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 5, 2024

From generative AI and virtual prototyping to the Internet of Things, blockchain and data analytics, Merkle has predicted that four shifts in the business-to-business market will shape tech buying appetites.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The now-defunct homepage of xtb-market[.]com, Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com Platinum plans on xtb-market promised a whopping 45 percent ROI, with a minimum investment of $265,000. The now-defunct xtb-market[.]com. When those generated hefty returns, Nolan made bigger deposits.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2020

Thing is, it's probably not even "your" site anyway because there's a very high likelihood that you're an Oompa Loompa in the "digital marketing" space tasked with spamming people like me (remember, you're only allowed to have gotten down to here if you understand what spam is) in order to drive clicks.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 7, 2025

There’s the Instagram ad about carry-on luggage, the TikTok ad about earplugs, and the countless ads you encounter simply scrolling through the internet about laptop bags. And then, that same week, you start noticing some eerily specific ads. And so you think, “Is my phone listening to me?”

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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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