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Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Amazon?

From krebsonsecurity.com 4 years ago in BlogsSecurity

Patrick Reames had no idea why Amazon.com sent him a 1099 form saying he'd made almost $24,000 selling books via Createspace, the company's on-demand publishing arm. That is, until he searched the site for his name and discovered someone has been using it to peddle a $555 book that's full...

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Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security

From krebsonsecurity.com 4 days ago in BlogsSecurity

A class action lawsuit has been filed against big-three consumer credit bureau Experian over reports that the company did little to prevent identity thieves from hijacking consumer accounts. The legal filing cites liberally from an investigation KrebsOnSecurity published in July,...

Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

From krebsonsecurity.com 5 days ago in BlogsSecurity

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters.  In this case, the...

No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 week ago in BlogsSecurity

With the recent demise of several popular "proxy" services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based...

911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its...

Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, exposed their entire user database and the location of tens of millions of PCs running the proxy software. Microleaves claims its proxy...

A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

It's been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many AshleyMadison users, and to at least two suicides....

Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online...

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe...

Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings

From krebsonsecurity.com 4 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun[.]top and TheDonald[.]win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trump's invitation to "be wild" in Washington, D.C. on...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2022 Edition

From krebsonsecurity.com 4 weeks ago in BlogsSecurity

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 86 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a weakness in all supported versions of Windows that Microsoft warns is actively being exploited. The software giant also has...

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