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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 day ago in BlogsSecurity

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake...

Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws

From krebsonsecurity.com 5 days ago in BlogsSecurity

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is urging states and localities to beef up security around proprietary devices that connect to the Emergency Alert System -- a national public warning system used to deliver important emergency information, such as severe...

It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

From krebsonsecurity.com 6 days ago in BlogsSecurity

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm's analysis of the data suggests...

The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 week ago in BlogsSecurity

One way to tame your email inbox is to get in the habit of using unique email aliases when signing up for new accounts online. Adding a "+" character after the username portion of your email address -- followed by...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2022 Edition

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 week ago in BlogsSecurity

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), a service built into Windows. Redmond...

Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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...

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 month ago in BlogsSecurity

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who've had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn't theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select...

The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy -- a...

Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the "RSOCKS" botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as "proxies" to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious...

Why Paper Receipts are Money at the Drive-Thru

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

Check out the handmade sign posted to the front door of a shuttered Jimmy John's sandwich chain shop in Missouri last week. See if you can tell from the store owner's message what happened.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2022 Edition

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows that's seen active exploitation for at...

Ransomware Group Debuts Searchable Victim Data

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

Cybercrime groups that specialize in stealing corporate data and demanding a ransom not to publish it have tried countless approaches to shaming their victims into paying. The latest innovation in ratcheting up the heat comes from the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group,...

“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites.

Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

On the eve of their federal criminal trial for allegedly stealing vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct have agreed to plead guilty to...

KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 months ago in BlogsSecurity

Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week -- "Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet" -- in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. The debut episode explores the far-too-common harassment tactic...

What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?”

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 months ago in BlogsSecurity

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. The new guidelines state...

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