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A Little Sunshine, Bill Woodcock, Dani Cronce, DHCP option 121, DHCP starvation attack, Dynamic Host Control Protocol, John Kristoff, Krebs, Latest Warnings, Leviathan Security, Lizzie Moratti, News, Packet Clearing House, Security, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

Posted on by [email protected]
06
May

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection provided by […]

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A Little Sunshine, Alexander Kovalev, Artem Zaitsev, Federal Security Service (FSB), Ferum Shop, Get-Net LLC, Grigory Tsaregorodtsev, Krebs, Ne'er-Do-Well News, News, Security, Sky-Fraud, Trump's-Dumps, Web Fraud 2.0

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme

Posted on by [email protected]
22
Apr

The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for accepting a USD $1.7 million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. The protection scheme was exposed in 2022 […]

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A Little Sunshine, August.com, Chirp Systems, Krebs, Latest Warnings, Matt Brown, News, ProPublica, RealPage Inc., Security, Security Tools, U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency

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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A Little Sunshine, Data Breaches, Krebs, News, Nicholas Weaver, Sangram Dash, Security, Sisense breach, The Coming Storm, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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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A Little Sunshine, Alexandr Ermakov, Andrey Sokol, Breadcrumbs, fory66399, Hkleaks, Krebs, Latest Warnings, MetaMask, News, Privnote, privnote.com, Russia's War on Ukraine, Security, Taylor Monahan, Tornote.io, Web Fraud 2.0

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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‘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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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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A Little Sunshine, Dimitiri Shelest, firefox, Firefox Monitor, HaveIBeenPwned, HaveIBeenPwned.com, Krebs, Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Monitor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, News, Nuwber, OneRep, Security, Spamit, Troy Hunt, Web Fraud 2.0

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

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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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The Not-so-True People-Search Network from China

Posted on by [email protected]
20
Mar

It’s not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives (you would, too). Some of these personal data purveyors even try to reinvent their online identities in a bid to hide their conflicts of interest. But it’s not every day you run across a US-focused people-search network based […]

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