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The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

September 1, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alan liska, austin larsen, charles carmakal, counter-hack, Data Breaches, Google, google threat intelligence group, joshua wright, Latest Warnings, mandiant, Salesforce, salesloft drift, scattered spider, shinyhunters, The Coming Storm, unc6040, unc6395

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:55:04 +0000

The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials before hackers can exploit them. Now Google warns the breach goes far beyond access to Salesforce data, noting the hackers responsible also stole valid authentication tokens for hundreds of online services that customers can integrate with Salesloft, including Slack, Google Workspace, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and OpenAI.

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Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

August 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, gambler panel, Instagram, Latest Warnings, scam gambling, scambling, silent push, The Coming Storm, thereallo, TikTok, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:21:32 +0000

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We’ve since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program called “Gambler Panel” that bills itself as a “soulless project that is made for profit.”

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DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

August 26, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aliaksandr holas, andrei holas, blackhatworld, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, domaintools.com, dslroot, globalsolutions, incorptoday, incorptoday@gmail.com, intel 471, internet of things (iot), Latest Warnings, lloyd davies, prepaidsolutions@yahoo.com, reddit, reveng.ai, ryzhik777@gmail.com, sacapoopie, usproxyking, webhostingtalk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:05:12 +0000

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years

August 20, 2025 0 Comments doordash, judge harvey e. schlesinger, king bob, lastpass, mailchimp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, news4jax.com, noah michael urban, oktapus, plex, scatter swine, scattered spider, SIM swapping, sosa, star fraud, T-Mobile, the com, twilio, unc3944

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:47:22 +0000

A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Florida prosecutors alleged Urban conspired with others to steal at least $800,000 from five victims via SIM-swapping attacks that diverted their mobile phone calls and text messages to devices controlled by Urban and his co-conspirators.

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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service

August 19, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, DDoS-for-hire, defense criminal investigative service, elliott peterson, ethan j. foltz, forky, gmail, Google, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Paypal, project shield, rapper bot, slaykings

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:51:06 +0000

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online extortionists, and tried to stay off the radar of law enforcement by ensuring that their botnet was never pointed at KrebsOnSecurity.

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Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme

August 15, 2025 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, csis security group, FBI, financial industry regulatory authority, finra, ford merrill, Ne'er-Do-Well News, outsider, pump and dump, ramp and dump, schwab, secalliance, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:27:05 +0000

Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting customers of brokerage services, new research shows. Undeterred by security controls at these trading platforms that block users from wiring funds directly out of accounts, the phishers have pivoted to using multiple compromised brokerage accounts in unison to manipulate the prices of foreign stocks.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition

August 12, 2025 0 Comments Akamai, badsuccessor, ben mccarthy, cve-2025-50165, cve-2025-53733, cve-2025-53766, cve-2025-53778, cve-2025-53779, exchange online, exchange server 2016, exchange server 2019, exchange server subscription edition, immersive, Latest Warnings, microsoft exchange server, microsoft office 365, Microsoft Word, sans internet storm center, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch, windows gdi+, yuval gordon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:14:41 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they could be abused by malware or malcontents to gain remote access to a Windows system with little or no help from users.

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KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series

August 8, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, john smedley, joni soila, julius kivimäki, lizard squad, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, sami kieski, sony playstation, vastaamo psychotherapy center

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:38:01 +0000

A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of Julius Kivimäki, a prolific Finnish hacker recently convicted of leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online psychotherapy practice while attempting to extort the clinic and its patients.

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Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?

August 6, 2025 0 Comments 9588693, anton gannadievich medvedovskiy, anton viktorovich avdeev, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, conti, damagelab, domaintools.com, europol, exploit.in, flycracker, hack-all, intel 471, lockbit, lockbitsupp, n0klos, Ne'er-Do-Well News, paranoidlab.com, qiliin, Ransomware, revil, sbu, sergeii vovnenko, sonic, The Coming Storm, toha, toschka2003@yandex.ru, xss[.]is

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:12:37 +0000

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the unnamed suspect, but the consensus is that he is a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene who goes by the hacker handle “Toha.” Here’s a deep dive on what’s knowable about Toha, and a short stab at who got nabbed.

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Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

July 30, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, b-ball blitz, beast games, discord, Latest Warnings, mr. beast, scambling, silent push, thereallo, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:46:34 +0000

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites.

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