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16 Apr, 2020

Sipping from the Coronavirus Domain Firehose

Cybersecurity CAUCE, Centers for Disease Control, COVID-19, Cyber Threat Alliance, Cyber Threat Coalition, domaintools, Hold Security, John Conwell, Latest Warnings, Michael Daniel, Neil Schwartzman, PhishLabs, Rich Harang, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Maggie Hassan, Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, sophos, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Security experts are poring over thousands of new Coronavirus-themed domain names registered each day, but this often manual effort struggles to keep pace with the flood of domains invoking the virus to promote malware and phishing sites, as well as non-existent healthcare products and charities. As a result, domain name registrars are under increasing pressure to do more to combat scams and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

15 Apr, 2020

COVID-19 Has United Cybersecurity Experts, But Will That Unity Survive the Pandemic?

Cybersecurity COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition, Cyber Threat Alliance, Joe Menn, Mark Rogers, Michael Daniel, Nick Espinosa, The Coming Storm

The Coronavirus has prompted thousands of information security professionals to volunteer their skills in upstart collaborative efforts aimed at frustrating cybercriminals who are seeking to exploit the crisis for financial gain. Whether it’s helping hospitals avoid becoming the next ransomware victim or kneecapping new COVID-19-themed scam websites, these nascent partnerships may well end up saving lives. But can this unprecedented level of collaboration survive the pandemic? …

15 Apr, 2020

DDoS Attacks Vary Based on Date and Time

Cloud, Cybersecurity Articles, attack, Cybersecurity, DDoS, Security

14 Apr, 2020

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2020 Edition

Cybersecurity Allan Liska, CVE-2020-0796, CVE-2020-0938, CVE-2020-1020, CVE-2020-1027, Recorded Future, Tenable, Time to Patch

10 Apr, 2020

New IRS Site Could Make it Easy for Thieves to Intercept Some Stimulus Payments

Cybersecurity Economic Impact Payment, Internal Revenue Service, Intuit, irs, Latest Warnings, tax refund fraud, The Coming Storm

The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return. The question is, will those non-filers have a chance to claim their payments before fraudsters do? …

7 Apr, 2020

Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Active Directory, corp.com, microsoft, Mike O'Connor

In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private citizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 million. Domain experts called corp.com dangerous because years of testing have shown whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows PCs at major companies around the globe. This week, Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy the domain in a bid to keep it out of the hands of those who might abuse its awesome power. …

2 Apr, 2020

‘War Dialing’ Tool Exposes Zoom’s Password Problems

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Dave Kennedy, Eric Yuan, SecKC, Techcrunch, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch, Trent Lo, TrustedSec, Zack Whittaker, Zoom, zWarDial

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to force people to work from home, countless companies are now holding daily meetings using videoconferencing services from Zoom. But without the protection of a password, there’s a decent chance your next Zoom meeting could be “Zoom bombed” — attended or disrupted by someone who doesn’t belong. And according to data gathered by a new automated Zoom meeting discovery tool dubbed “zWarDial,” a crazy number major corporations are setting up meetings without passwords enabled. …

1 Apr, 2020

Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Chris Ueland, escrow.com, godaddy.com, Latest Warnings, Let's Encrypt, Matt Barrie, SecurityTrails, The Coming Storm

30 Mar, 2020

Annual Protest to ‘Fight Krebs’ Raises €150K+

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Coinhive, DKMS, Krebsaction, pr0gramm

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals — as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum. In protest of that story, forum members donated hundreds of thousands of euros to nonprofits that combat cancer (Krebs means “cancer” in German). This week, the forum is celebrating its third annual observance of that protest to “fight Krebs,” albeit with a Coronavirus twist. …

26 Mar, 2020

Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Alexey Stroganov, Andrey Sporov, BingoDumps, BTE-e, DumpsKindgom, Federal Security Service, Flint, Flint24, FSB, Gabrik, GoldenDumps, HoneyMoney, HustleBank, Intel 471, know your customer, KYC, MrWhite, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Trust Your Client, TYC

Federal investigators in Russia have charged at least 25 people accused of operating a sprawling international credit card theft ring. Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. In a statement released this week, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said 25 individuals were charged with circulating illegal means of payment in connection with some 90 websites that sold stolen credit card data. …

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