It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easy to parse, and traditionally much of it has remained walled off in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful, free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it easy to quickly learn a great deal about the entities tracking
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For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. In this article, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR].
Popa is a massive botnet, but by all accounts, it is unli
A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm’s chief executive says the malicious activity resulted from a security breach and was likely carried out by a competitor seeking to tarnish his company’s public image.[1]
For the past several years, security experts ha
A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the tables seem to have turned somewhat for “Rey,” the moniker chosen by the technical operator and public face of the hacker group: Last week, Rey confirmed his real life identity and agreed to an interview after KrebsOnSecurity tracked him down and contacted his father.
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One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background, and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the US consumer data broker USinfoSearch.
Since at least February 2023, a service advertised on Telegram called USiSLookups has operated an automated bot that allows anyone to look up the SSN or background report on virtually any American. For prices ranging from $8 to $40 and payable via virtual currency, the bot will automatically re
From Krebs On Security, 17 May 2021.[1] Our analysts think this is important information and wish to share with our Red Sky Alliance members. In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, Krebs On Security noted[2] that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that already has one of many types of virtual keyboards installed — such as Russian or Ukr
