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. Even people who shop mainly at big-name online stores can get scammed if they’re not wary of too-good-to-be-true offers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code). Image: Cloudflare.com. 2021 post about the change. ”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

One might even say passwords are the fossil fuels powering most IT modernization: They’re ubiquitous because they are cheap and easy to use, but that means they also come with significant trade-offs — such as polluting the Internet with weaponized data when they’re leaked or stolen en masse. TARGETED PHISHING.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But in a written statement, T-Mobile said this type of activity affects the entire wireless industry. First, they included an offer to use a mutually trusted “middleman” or escrow provider for the transaction (to protect either party from getting scammed). One of the groups that reliably posted “Tmo up!”

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