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

AUGUST 18, 2022

Details of this scam were shared Wednesday with PayPal’s anti-abuse (phish@paypal.com) and media relations teams. The invoices appear to have been sent from a compromised or fraudulent PayPal Business account , which allows users to send invoices like the one shown above.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2023

On March 3, 2023, social media giant Meta sued Freenom in a Northern California court, alleging cybersquatting violations and trademark infringement.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“InfraGard is a social media intelligence hub for high profile persons,” USDoD said. USDoD said after their InfraGard membership was approved, they asked a friend to code a script in Python to query that API and retrieve all available InfraGard user data. “They even got [a] forum to discuss things.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2023

“The interesting thing [is] that I didn’t use Discord since few months or even social media because of the political status of Turkey,” Levatax explained, referring to the recent election in his country.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In that incident, the attackers exploited a security vulnerability in a Plex media server that the employee was running on his home network, and succeeded in installing malicious software that stole passwords and other authentication credentials.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2020

The alert follows news reports by media outlets in Washington and Rhode Island about millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims in those states. The investigator said in some states fraudsters need only to submit someone’s name, Social Security number and other basic information for their claims to be processed.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Glupteba is a rootkit that steals passwords and other access credentials, disables security software, and tries to compromise other devices on the victim network — such as Internet routers and media storage servers — for use in relaying spam or other malicious traffic.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The best advice to sidestep phishing scams is to avoid clicking on links that arrive unbidden in emails, text messages or other media. However, when viewed in a mobile device, many visitors to such a domain may only see the subdomain portion of the URL in their mobile browser’s address bar.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Some services also target other popular social media platforms or financial services, providing email phishing and SIM swapping capabilities.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Tawfik’s Instagram account says he is a former operations manager at the social media network TikTok , as well as a former director at Crypto.com. Constella also connects legendboy2050 to Facebook and Instagram accounts for one Abdala Tawfik from Cairo. This user’s Facebook page says Tawfik also uses the name Abdalla Khafagy.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Miller said that after months of complaining and sharing fake profile information with LinkedIn, the social media network appeared to do something which caused the volume of group membership requests from phony accounts to drop precipitously. Miller said these profiles are all listed in the order they appeared.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to this comprehensive breakdown of the phishing toolkit , the U-Admin control panel isn’t sold on its own, but rather it is included when customers contact the developer and purchase a set of phishing pages designed to mimic a specific brand — such as a bank website or social media platform.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Actively scan and monitor web applications for unauthorized access, modification, and anomalous activities. Verify web links do not have misspellings or contain the wrong domain. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

It says investigations by the media have found the company promises much larger compensation rates that employees actually receive. “It is also criticized for being a cult, a scam and a pyramid scheme,” the entry reads.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

A report from the Polish computer emergency response team (CERT Orange Polksa) found Glupteba was by far the biggest malware threat in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. Punchmade Dev’s most controversial mix — a rap called “Wire Fraud Tutorial” — was taken down by Youtube last summer for violating the site’s rules.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Never click on links or attachments in emails or social media messages that you weren’t expecting. Finally, remember that phishers and malware purveyors love to seize on the latest disasters to further their schemes.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

. ; Facebook ; Gap (Apparel) Inc ; Fifth Third Bancorp ; Hearst Communications ; Hilton Interntional ; ING Bank ; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); McDonalds Corp. ; NBC Universal Media ; NRG Energy ; Oath, Inc (a.k.a Yahoo + AOL) ; Oracle ; Tesla Motors ; Time Warner ; US Bank; US Steel Corp.;

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. ” NEEDLES IN THE HAYSTACK.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

” Group-IB said ValidCC was one of many cybercrime shops that stored some or all of its operational components at Media Land LLC , a major “bulletproof hosting” provider that supports a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“This was accomplished by targeting the DevOps engineer’s home computer and exploiting a vulnerable third-party media software package, which enabled remote code execution capability and allowed the threat actor to implant keylogger malware,” LastPass officials wrote.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

These days, swatting attacks are commonly used by SIM swapping groups as a way to harass and extort regular Internet users into giving up prized social media account names that can be resold for thousands of dollars.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This means that stealing someone’s phone number often can let cybercriminals hijack the target’s entire digital life in short order — including access to any financial, email and social media accounts tied to that phone number.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In May, KrebsOnSecurity interviewed a Russian spammer named “ Quotpw “ who was mass-registering accounts on the social media network Mastodon in order to conduct a series of huge spam campaigns advertising scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. .” We don’t have to look very far for examples of Kopeechka in action.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How does online dating fraud fit into the BEC scam? But their primary target is female widows who are active on social media sites. There are a lot of moving parts to the BEC scam, including lots of romance scam social media accounts, multiple email providers, and bank accounts tied to money mules that get pulled into these scams.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and human-intensive process of using fake profiles on dating apps and social media to lure people into investing in elaborate scams. In a more visceral sense, pig butchering means fattening up a prey before the slaughter.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

This is hardly the first time scammers have impersonated Wood or ARKinvest; a tweet from Wood in 2020 warned that the company would never use YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or any social media to solicit money. billion stolen by scammers in 2020, the report found.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This includes people who run or work at cryptocurrency-focused companies; those who participate as speakers at public conferences centered around Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies; and those who like to talk openly on social media about their crypto investments.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

His current bulletproof hosting service is called Media Land LLC. According to Intel 471, Yalishanda lived in Beijing prior to establishing a residence in Vladivostok (that passport above was issued by the Russian embassy in Beijing). The company says he moved to St. Petersburg, Russia approximately 18 months ago.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

On March 4, 2023, e-commerce expert Liu Huafang posted on the Chinese social media network Weibo that Pinduoduo’s app was using security vulnerabilities to gain market share by stealing user data from its competitors. That Weibo post has since been deleted.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But a cybercriminal — particularly a state-sponsored actor operating outside the United States — likely would not hesitate to do so if he thought registering a.gov was worth it to make his malicious website, emails or fake news social media campaign more believable. “I assumed there would be at least ID verification.

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