Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve “notifications,” browser modifications that periodically display messages on the user’s mobile or desktop device. The company’s site currently is ranked by Alexa.com as among the top 2,000 sites in terms of Internet traffic globally.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

That story showed that the previous owner of the Doxbin also was part of a teenage hacking group that specialized in offering fake EDRs as a service on the dark web. That story showed that the previous owner of the Doxbin also was part of a teenage hacking group that specialized in offering fake EDRs as a service on the dark web.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

Also, the email headers in the phishing message (PDF) show that it passed all email validation checks as being sent by PayPal, and that it was sent through an Internet address assigned to PayPal. Both the email and the invoice state that “there is evidence that your PayPal account has been accessed unlawfully.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

USDoD told KrebsOnSecurity their phony application was submitted in November in the CEO’s name, and that the application included a contact email address that they controlled — but also the CEO’s real mobile phone number. “I wasn’t expected to be approve[d].” This is a developing story.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. Most of the two-dozen domains registered to pepyak@gmail.com shared a server at one point with a small number of other domains, including mobile-soft[.]su

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Many companies now require employees to supply a one-time password — such as one sent via SMS or produced by a mobile authenticator app — in addition to their username and password when logging in to company assets online. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. That’s just too risky for the attackers, he said.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

But each can see if a law enforcement entity or individual tied to one of their own requests has ever submitted a request to a different Kodex client, and then drill down further into other data about the submitter, such as Internet address(es) used, and the age of the requestor’s email address. Image: T-Mobile.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

But these more “hands-on” and first person attacks are becoming increasingly common within certain cybercriminal communities, particularly those engaged in SIM swapping , a crime in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victim’s various online accounts and identities.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. The Internet is swimming with con artists masquerading as legitimate cryptocurrency recovery experts. “They truly all are reasonably secure.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

REACTs’ West said while there are a large number of pig butchering victims reporting their victimization to the FBI, very few are receiving anything more than instructions about filing a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which keeps track of cybercrime losses and victims.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

Subdomains can not only make phishing domains appear more legitimate , but they also tend to lengthen the domain so that key parts of it get pushed off the URL bar in mobile browsers. Schwartzman said more domain registrars should follow the example of Los Angeles-based Namecheap Inc.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

According to the most recent statistics from the FBI ‘s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the most costly form of cybercrime stems from a complex type of fraud known as the “ B usiness E mail C ompromise” or BEC scam. This post examines the work of a large, private group of volunteers dedicated to doing just that.

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