Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.
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Krebs on Security
JANUARY 30, 2024
2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. Sosa also was active in a particularly destructive group of accomplished criminal SIM-swappers known as “ Star Fraud.”
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 24, 2020
In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.
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). On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 29, 2022
There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. The document requested the Internet address history of Discord accounts tied to a specific phone number used by the target.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Peppered throughout the daily chit-chat on their Telegram channels are solicitations for people urgently needed to serve as “callers,” or those who can be hired to social engineer employees over the phone into navigating to a phishing website and entering their employee credentials.
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