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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

December 19, 2024 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, acunetix, altug sara, altugsara321@gmail.com, araneida scanner, bilitro yazilim, Breadcrumbs, domaintools, FIN7, invicti security, matt sciberras, Ne'er-Do-Well News, neil roseman, ori0nbusiness@protonmail.com, silent push, The Coming Storm, u.s. department of health and human services, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:07:30 +0000

Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey.

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How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

December 18, 2024 admin 0 Comments (650) 203-0000, A Little Sunshine, Coinbase, daniel from google, gemini ai, Google Assistant, google docs, google forms, google photos, graham cluely, junseth, Latest Warnings, Minecraft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swancoin, trezor, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:17:59 +0000

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

December 11, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, binance, blaven technologies, Breadcrumbs, chainalysis, CloudFlare, cryptomus, ctv news, fintrac, icon tech sro, investigative journalism foundation, mezhundarondnaya ibu sro, peter german, pq hosting, RCMP, richard sanders, russia's war on ukraine, vira krychka, Web Fraud 2.0, ws management and advisory corporation ltd, xeltox enterprises

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:38:48 +0000

A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which are physically located there.

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Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition

December 10, 2024 admin adam barnett, cve-2024-49112, cve-2024-49138, fortra, immersive labs, ldap, lightweight directory access protocol, microsoft patch tuesday december 2024, Other, Rapid7, rob reeves, Tenable, tyler reguly, windows common log file system (clfs) driver

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:53:13 +0000

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 70 security holes in Windows and Windows software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in active attacks. The zero-day seeing exploitation involves CVE-2024-49138, a security weakness in the Windows Common… Read More »

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U.S. Offered $10M for Hacker Just Arrested by Russia

December 4, 2024 admin aleksandr ermakov, boriselcin, daryna antoniuk, Intel 471, mikhail lenin, mikhail matveev, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rescator, shtazi-it, sugarlocker, wazawaka

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:08:45 +0000

In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity identified a Russian man named Mikhail Matveev as “Wazawaka,” a cybercriminal who was deeply involved in the formation and operation of multiple ransomware groups. The U.S. government indicted Matveev as a top ransomware purveyor a year later, offering $10 million for information leading to his arrest. Last week, the Russian government reportedly arrested Matveev and charged him with creating malware used to extort companies.

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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

December 3, 2024 admin @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, and mobile anti-abuse working group, Anti-Phishing Working Group, coalition against unsolicited commercial email, ICANN, interisle consulting, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, John Levine, Latest Warnings, malware, messaging, new gtlds, phishing, spam, The Coming Storm, U.S. Postal Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.

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Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

November 26, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, boxfan, buttholio, connor riley moucka, cyb3rph4nt0m, ddos-for-hire, john erin binns, judische, kiberphant0m, naver, Ne'er-Do-Well News, proman557, ransomware, reverseshell, shi-bot, snowflake, South korea, telekomterrorist, The Coming Storm, vars_secc, Verizon, waifu

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:45:48 +0000

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m’s daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.

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Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup

November 21, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, ahmed hossam eldin elbadawy, evans onyeaka osiebo, joel martin evans, joeleoli, kingbob, lastpass, mailchimp, Namecheap, Ne'er-Do-Well News, noah michael urban, ogusers, Okta, oktapus, scattered spider, SIM swapping, sosa, T-Mobile, twilio, tylerb

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:13:08 +0000

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass, MailChimp, Okta, T-Mobile and Twilio.

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