Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2024

” The FCC’s findings against AT&T , for example, show that AT&T sold customer location data directly or indirectly to at least 88 third-party entities. For example, $47 million is less than one percent of Verizon’s total wireless service revenue in 2023, which was nearly $77 billion.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Experts Call on Feds to Step Up Defense Against Escalating Chinese Threats A panel of cybersecurity experts and top industry officials pushed lawmakers and the federal government to step up their defenses against escalating cyberthreats from China, citing recent high-profile examples of evidence that Beijing is increasingly targeting the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Here’s one example from Jan. 3 example that leads to a phish targeting Amazon customers. Urlscan.io , a free service that provides detailed reports on any scanned URLs, also offers a historical look at suspicious links submitted by other users. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The cybersecurity element is a great example of the bright and the dark side of AI technology," said White House Director Arati Prabhakar. White House, DOD, DHS Leaders Reveal How their Agencies Use Artificial Intelligence AI allows U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, the timestamp for Mr. Carter’s inbox reads August 2009, but clicking that inbox revealed messages as recent as Feb. Carter’s own recent emails to him, along with a request to understand how exactly the company managed to screw things up so spectacularly. Individual inboxes of U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tesla, for example, suffered two cybersecurity events after layoffs back in 2018. For example, one priority is identifying personally identifiable information of your customers. Another example is any kind of proprietary algorithm or system. But it’s a real and growing risk to be aware of. Data loss isn’t necessarily spiteful.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2024

One promising example of the latter comes from messaging security vendor IRONSCALES. There was a lot of buzz at RSAC 2024 about how GenAI and Large Language Models (LLM) are getting leveraged — by both attackers and defenders. Related: Is your company moving too slow or too fast on GenAI?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

An example of a security.txt file. For example, just this morning a trusted source forwarded me the VPN credentials for a major clothing retailer that were stolen by malware and made available to cybercriminals. Image: Securitytxt.org. well-known/security.txt.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Common examples of AR applications include the Pokemon Go mobile game and Snapchat filters. For example, security professionals can build cyberattack scenarios, designing the system to provide realistic feedback so participants better understand what to do if they encounter real-life threats.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Once vetted and accepted, threat hunters will go into these message boards and communities and search for anything connected to your business, for example: •Corporate login credentials. Data collections released after ransomware attacks. Databases with critical IP and/or PII. Chatter about the best methods to attack your business.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

But cybercrooks are constantly figuring out ingenious ways to fly beneath Google’s anti-abuse radar, and new examples of bad ads leading to malware are still too common. And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. Other domains at 93.190.143[.]252

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2020

For example, in an attack targeting a hospital, the phishing email was made to look like it came from a hospital IT manager, with the malicious files disguised as patient reports. According to Trend Micro , Defray usually is spread via booby-trapped Microsoft Office documents sent via email.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Here are the essential practices for managing network security, along with real-world examples that reinforce the importance of comprehensive protection. How to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure Neglecting network security can lead to serious consequences for organizations. The time to secure your network is now - before it's too late.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2024

LW: What’s an example that illustrates the benefit of teaming? Singh: One example is a large tire manufacturer that operates multiple production plants globally, each with its own production schedule. Patches can only be applied outside of production times.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

By way of example, the commission pointed to the recent breach at T-Mobile that exposed this data on 40 million current, past and prospective customers. According to the FCC, several examples of pre-established passwords include: -a one-time passcode sent via text message to the account phone number or a pre-registered backup number. -a

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

And unfortunately, in early versions of Windows that supported Active Directory — Windows 2000 Server, for example — the default or example Active Directory path was given as “corp,” and many companies apparently adopted this setting without modifying it to include a domain they controlled.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape. “For example, they do not have a CISO or a Security Operations Center established.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2022

Zheng walked me through an example of how easy it is for a security team to overlook gaps created, for instance, in the mixing and matching of cloud resources leased from Amazon Web Services: “Let’s say you have an internal resource that’s not configured to be public facing by itself. There are countless more examples like this.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

” “Security research not conducted in good faith — for example, for the purpose of discovering security holes in devices, machines, or services in order to extort the owners of such devices, machines, or services — might be called ‘research,’ but is not in good faith.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

” In this scenario, the fraudster actually enters a Zelle transfer that triggers the following text to the member, which the member is asked to authorize: For example: “Send $200 Zelle payment to Boris Badenov? Reply YES to send, NO to cancel. ABC Credit Union. STOP to end all messages.” Be sure to include Docket No.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Even deepfake examples designed to educate the public — like a doctored video of Nixon’s resignation speech — fool observers without meaning to. A single example resulting from “deep voice” fakery resulted in a loss of $35 million in fraudulent bank transfers. The FBI’s warning. Best defense: awareness.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

If the attachment is opened, the malicious document proceeds to quietly download additional malware and hacking tools to the victim machine ( here’s one video example of a malicious Microsoft Office attachment from the malware sandbox service any.run ). which significantly affects the scale of the conversion rate.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The service can’t be used to request WHOIS data tied to country-code top level domains (CCTLDs), such as those ending in.de (Germany) or.nz (New Zealand), for example. The RDRS portal.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, on Oct. ” This phishing scheme is another example of how crooks are coming up with increasingly ingenious methods for circumventing popular multi-factor authentication options, such as one-time passwords. 10 the scammers checked more than 216,000 email addresses against Coinbase’s systems.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

For example, a company in 1995 builds their Microsoft Active Directory service around the domain company.llc , perhaps reasoning that since.llc wasn’t even a routable TLD, the domain would simply fail to resolve if the organization’s Windows computers were ever used outside of its local network.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2024

For example, more than 10 years ago the same Chinese registrar was the fourth most common source of phishing websites, as tracked by the APWG. For example, Interisle found phishing attacks involving websites created on Google’s blogspot.com skyrocketed last year more than 230 percent. is hardly a new trend.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

One example is the so-called Yellow points (microdots), when small yellow dot-marks are placed on a sheet of paper. Special serifs are added to letters, for example. They can be dynamic. But they have more disadvantages than benefits if we talk about ensuring information security. There are more exotic ways of protecting documents.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For example, when several high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked in July 2020 and used to promote bitcoin scams, the profile and private message data from previous OGUser forum compromises proved invaluable in piecing together the “who” behind that scam.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

For example, in its most recent transparency report (PDF) Verizon said it received more than 127,000 law enforcement demands for customer data in the second half of 2023 — including more than 36,000 EDRs — and that the company provided records in response to approximately 90 percent of requests.

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Elie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This talk examine current real-world examples of AI-driven attacks and explore which defensive AI capabilities are available today.

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