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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

February 26, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, escrow.com, godaddy breach december 2022, godaddy breach march 2020, godaddy breach november 2020, godaddy breach november 2021, Ne'er-Do-Well News, vishing, voice phishing, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:15:15 +0000

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. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

February 24, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, abdala tawfik, abdalla khafagy, bhproxies, bitsight, constella intelligence, hassan_isabad_subar, intel 471, lewklabs, minerva labs, mylobot, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:51:23 +0000

A security firm has discovered that a five-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Here’s a closer look at Mylobot, and a deep dive into who may be responsible for operating the BHProxies service.

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New Protections for Food Benefits Stolen by Skimmers

February 17, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, consolidated appropriations act of 2023, deborah harris, ebt fraud, ebt skimming, electronic benefits transfer, homeless persons representation project, michelle salomon madaio, The Coming Storm, the massachusetts law reform institute, u.s. department of agriculture

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:09:07 +0000

Millions of Americans receiving food assistance benefits just earned a new right that they can’t yet enforce: The right to be reimbursed if funds on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards are stolen by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and grocery store checkout lanes.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition

February 14, 2023 0 Comments cve-2023-21529, cve-2023-21706, cve-2023-21707, cve-2023-21715, cve-2023-21716, cve-2023-21823, cve-2023-23376, dustin childs, immersive labs, internet explorer 11, johannes ullrich, kevin breen, Latest Warnings, mandiant, Microsoft Office, microsoft patch tuesday february 2023, sans internet storm center, security tools, Time to Patch, trend micro zero day initiative

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:01:41 +0000

Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. This year’s special Valentine’s Day Patch Tuesday includes fixes for a whopping three different “zero-day” vulnerabilities that are already being used in active attacks.

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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group

February 9, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adam meyers, christina svechinskaya, CrowdStrike, dyre, group-ib, ilya sachkov, intel 471, kaspersky lab, michael debolt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, ruslan stoyanov, sergey mikhaylov, trickbot, u.s. department of treasury, vitaly "bentley" kovalev, wizard spider

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:23:58 +0000

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. companies and government entities.

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KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach

February 7, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, abc news studio, ashley madison breach, hulu, the ashley madison affair, the wrap, wall to wall media

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:16:16 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, it’s fair to say the series will explore tantalizing new clues as to who may have been responsible for the attack.

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Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

February 5, 2023 0 Comments antti kurittu, hack the planet, htp, julius kivimäki, lizard squad, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ryan cleary, vastaamo psychotherapy center, zeekill

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:14:13 +0000

Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest.

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Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days

January 25, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Data Breaches, experian, experian breach, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:58:46 +0000

On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about the incident for a month. This week, however, Experian acknowledged that the security failure persisted for nearly seven weeks, between Nov. 9, 2022 and Dec. 26, 2022.

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Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty

January 24, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, denis emelyantsev, IoT, iot botnets, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rsocks botnet, rsocks proxy, rusdot, rusdot socks server, spamdot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:00:32 +0000

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.”

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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

January 19, 2023 0 Comments 2023 t-mobile breach, Data Breaches, Latest Warnings, optus, t-mobile breach, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:09:22 +0000

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts.