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Aleksandr Ermakov, Associated Press, Breadcrumbs, Data Breaches, Embargo, Home Depot breach, Jeffrey Collins, Krebs, Mark Keel, Mazafaka, Mikhail Shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, News, Nikki Haley, rescator, Security, Shtazi, target breach, Tax Refund Fraud, tax return fraud, The Post and Courier, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Verified

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

Posted on by [email protected]
16
Apr

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling […]

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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

Posted on by [email protected]
15
Apr

The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, […]

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Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense

Posted on by [email protected]
11
Apr

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense, whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of multiple third-party online services in a single dashboard. CISA urged all Sisense customers to reset any credentials and secrets that may have been […]

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DomainTools.com, Krebs, Mastodon, Matthew Garrett, News, Other, phishing, Sean McNee, Security, Twitter.com, X.com

Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

Posted on by [email protected]
10
Apr

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets. The […]

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April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes

Posted on by [email protected]
09
Apr

If only Patch Tuesdays came around infrequently — like total solar eclipse rare — instead of just creeping up on us each month like The Man in the Moon. Although to be fair, it would be tough for Microsoft to eclipse the number of vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s patch batch — a record 147 […]

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Posted on by [email protected]
04
Apr

A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations recently when they threatened to sue a software company. The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses […]

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A Little Sunshine, [email protected], Breadcrumbs, DomainTools.com, FudCo, Fudpage, Fudsender, Fudtools, HeartSender, Krebs, Ne'er-Do-Well News, News, Saim Raza, Security, The Manipulaters, We Code Solutions, Web Fraud 2.0

‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

Posted on by [email protected]
03
Apr

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claiming the group had turned over a new leaf and gone legitimate. But new research […]

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A Little Sunshine, Adam Kidan, Brett Sholtis, Empire Workforce Solutions, Krebs, LancasterOnline.com, Latest Warnings, multi-persona phishing, Ne'er-Do-Well News, News, phishing, proofpoint, Ryan Kalember, Security, thread hijacking, Tom Murse, Web Fraud 2.0

Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

Posted on by [email protected]
28
Mar

Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. These missives draw on the recipient’s natural curiosity about being copied on a private discussion, which is modified to include a malicious link or attachment. Here’s […]

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A Little Sunshine, apple, Apple Recovery Key, Kishan Bagaria, Krebs, Latest Warnings, MFA bombing, MFA fatigue, News, Parth Patel, PeopleDataLabs, Security, The Coming Storm

Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users

Posted on by [email protected]
26
Mar

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that prevent the devices from being used until the recipient responds “Allow” or “Don’t Allow” to […]

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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Posted on by [email protected]
22
Mar

The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he […]

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