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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

August 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alexandr smolyaninov, angry coders, Breadcrumbs, dmitry chepurko, ip-score, kc-shoes, michdomain@gmail.com, oleg iskushnykh, socks proxy, socksescort, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:31:35 +0000

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based proxy services have chosen to block new registrations to avoid swamping their networks with a sudden influx of customers.

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911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

July 29, 2022 0 Comments 911, A Little Sunshine, Data Breaches, luxsocks, residential proxies, riley kilmer, spur.us, vip72, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:34:45 +0000

911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The abrupt closure comes ten days after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at 911 and its connections to shady pay-per-install affiliate programs that secretly bundled 911’s proxy software with other titles, including “free” utilities and pirated software.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

July 28, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, abhishek gupta, acidut, alexandru florea, alexandru iulian florea, blackhatworld, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, cpaelites, Hackforums, intel 471, microleaves, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nevo.julian, online.io, residential proxy, reverseproxies, shifter.io, socks proxy

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:52:28 +0000

Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, exposed their entire user database and the location of tens of millions of PCs running the proxy software. Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent. But research suggests Microleaves has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to install the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other software.

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A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach

July 26, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, ashley madison breach, avid life media, flashpoint, impact team, intel 471, noel biderman, per thorsheim, robert graham, wired.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:04:51 +0000

It’s been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many AshleyMadison users, and to at least two suicides. To date, little is publicly known about the perpetrators or the true motivation for the attack. But a recent review of AshleyMadison mentions across Russian cybercrime forums and far-right underground websites in the months leading up to the hack revealed some previously unreported details that may deserve further scrutiny.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

July 21, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, chainalysis, courtney nolan, employment fraud, erin west, FBI, ic3.gov, justin maile, Latest Warnings, pig butchering, react task force, The Coming Storm, vice news, Web Fraud 2.0, whatsapp, xtb-market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:35:28 +0000

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

July 18, 2022 0 Comments 911, A Little Sunshine, international media ltd., Ne'er-Do-Well News, nicolae aurelian mazgarean, ppc leads srl, proxygate, residential proxy, riley kilmer, spur.us, university of sherbrooke, ustraffic@qq.com, vip72, Web Fraud 2.0, wugaa enterprises llc, yunhe wang

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:11:12 +0000

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The proxy service says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install the proxy software. But new research shows 911 has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own.

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Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings

July 15, 2022 0 Comments 8kun, A Little Sunshine, january 6 hearings, psychz networks, The Coming Storm, vanwatech

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:43:05 +0000

The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun[.]top and TheDonald[.]win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trump’s invitation to “be wild” in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same time the committee was hearing video testimony from 8kun founder Jim Watkins, 8kun and a slew of similar websites were suddenly yanked offline. Watkins suggested the outage was somehow related to the work of the committee, but the truth is KrebsOnSecurity was responsible and the timing was pure coincidence.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

July 10, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, arthur rishi, emory roan, Equifax, experian, john turner, Latest Warnings, nicholas weaver, privacyrights.org, transunion, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 04:07:15 +0000

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Research suggests identity thieves were able to hijack the accounts simply by signing up for new accounts at Experian using the victim’s personal information and a different email address.

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

June 28, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alureon, awm proxy, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, dennstr, dmitry starovikov, domaintools, eset, glupteba botnet, Google, kaspersky lab, lycefer, meris, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pay-per-install, riley kilmer, rootkit, rsocks botnet, spur.us, tdl-4, tdss, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:33:31 +0000

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Google.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

June 22, 2022 0 Comments 79136334444, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, denis "neo" kloster, Exploit, internet advertising omsk, istanx@gmail.com, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rsocks botnet, rusdot, sl mobpartners, spamdot, stanx, stanx@rusdot.com, u.s. department of justice, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:06:34 +0000

Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the “RSOCKS” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. While the coordinated action did not name the Russian hackers allegedly behind RSOCKS, KrebsOnSecurity has identified its owner as a Russian man living abroad who also runs the world’s top Russian spamming forum.