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@briankrebs

@briankrebs
186 posts
2022-12-30
Hey @elonmusk, since you don't seem to have much a media/comms team anymore, can you address the apparently legitimate claim that someone scraped & is now selling data on hundreds of millions of Twitter accounts? Maybe it didn't happen on your watch, but you owe Twitter a reply.
2022-12-30 View on X
BBC

After a hacker demanded $200K to delete data on 400M+ Twitter accounts, Ireland's DPC plans to investigate the “security issue”; Twitter hasn't issued a comment

A watchdog is to investigate Twitter after a hacker claimed to have private details linked to more than 400 million accounts.

2022-12-19
Also LOL: Twitter complained that I was trying to spread malware blah blah by changing my profile background like I just did. But it still let me. I can't decide which is funnier: Wrongfully accusing me of willfully spreading malware, or accusing me & letting me do it anyway.
2022-12-19 View on X
Washington Post

Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”

After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls

...aaand, just like that, the policy doesn't exist anymore. Does the CEO? https://help.twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
Washington Post

Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”

After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls

LOL. The CEO of Twitter has gone full despot/dictator mode. You can now get banned for mentioning your Insta, FB, Mastodon, Post, or other. You know a country is in full freedom mode when it starts shutting its borders for people trying to leave! https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
The Verge

Twitter backtracks and Elon Musk apologizes after saying the service would remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Mastodon, and others

Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.

LOL. The CEO of Twitter has gone full despot/dictator mode. You can now get banned for mentioning your Insta, FB, Mastodon, Post, or other. You know a country is in full freedom mode when it starts shutting its borders for people trying to leave! https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
Washington Post

Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”

After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls

Also LOL: Twitter complained that I was trying to spread malware blah blah by changing my profile background like I just did. But it still let me. I can't decide which is funnier: Wrongfully accusing me of willfully spreading malware, or accusing me & letting me do it anyway.
2022-12-19 View on X
The Verge

Twitter backtracks and Elon Musk apologizes after saying the service would remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Mastodon, and others

Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.

2022-12-15
The Justice Dept. today seized 48 domains that sold “booter"/"stresser" services that make it easy/cheap for even non-techies to launch powerful DDoS attacks. The DOJ also charged 6 U.S. men w/ computer crimes for allegedly running DDoS-for-hire services. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
2022-12-15 View on X
Bloomberg

The US DOJ seized 48 websites and charged six people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks globally

The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network of cyberattack-for-hire services …

2022-12-14
A few updates: The FBI confirms my reporting, says it's aware of a potential false account associated with the InfraGard Portal, that it is actively looking into the matter. “This is an ongoing situation, and we are not able to provide any additional information at this time.”
2022-12-14 View on X
Krebs on Security

Hackers are selling a database of the FBI's threat information sharing program InfraGard, containing its 80K+ members' contact details, posted on December 10

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :

Also, heard from the financial corporation CEO whose identity was used to secure an imposter account at InfraGard. The CEO said they were never contacted by the FBI. That's even though the hackers gave the FBI the CEO's real mobile number as part of the vetting.
2022-12-14 View on X
Krebs on Security

Hackers are selling a database of the FBI's threat information sharing program InfraGard, containing its 80K+ members' contact details, posted on December 10

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :

2022-11-20
Extend, embrace, extinguish. Amazon's AWS, which bought the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Wickr last year, says it'll stop accepting new registrations for its consumer product Wickr Me at the end of this year, & discontinue it entirely after 2023. https://wickr.com/...
2022-11-20 View on X
The Verge

Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app acquired by AWS in 2021, will shut down on December 31, 2023 and stop accepting new users at the end of 2022

Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023.

2022-11-17
A financial crime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof bank brands using Punycode, which allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
2022-11-17 View on X
Krebs on Security

Financial cybercrime group the Disneyland Team is spoofing bank domains using Punycode, a standard that lets browsers render domains with non-Latin alphabets

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Tweets: @briankrebs Tweets: @briankrebs : A financial crime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually conf...

2022-11-11
Everything that @elonmusk has done publicly so far to Twitter seems like exactly what I'd do if I wanted to ensure the entire platform ran straight into the ground, and fast. His actions and words make it really hard to see how this isn't actually his plan.
2022-11-11 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with 36 current and former Twitter employees detail the excruciating chaos during Elon Musk's first two weeks in charge

Mr. Musk ordered immediate layoffs, fired executives by email, laid down product deadlines and has transformed the company.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk had a demand.

2022-10-06
A proliferation of fake executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating major headaches for corporate HR depts and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. The accounts pair apparently AI-generated profile photos w/ text lifted from legitimate accounts. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
2022-10-06 View on X
Krebs on Security

Fake LinkedIn executive profiles, which pair AI-generated photos with text from real accounts, are becoming headaches for HR departments and invite-only groups

A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site …

I've buried the lede, but LinkedIn says it's considering one of the ideas I suggested in my last story: Offering the ability to do domain validation, so employees can demonstrate they can respond to email at the domain of their claimed current employer.
2022-10-06 View on X
Krebs on Security

Fake LinkedIn executive profiles, which pair AI-generated photos with text from real accounts, are becoming headaches for HR departments and invite-only groups

A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site …

2022-10-01
Microsoft has released mitigation advice for Exchange Server users regarding exploits on 2 new 0-day Exchange bugs. The attack requires authentication, but experts warn the China-based hacking group apparently involved is also phishing Exchange passwords https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
2022-10-01 View on X
BleepingComputer

Microsoft confirms two zero-days in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild; security firm GTSC suspects a Chinese threat actor

Microsoft has confirmed that two recently reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 are being exploited in the wild.

2022-09-25
A 36 y/o Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested in Bulgaria at request of U.S. authorities. He asked for & was granted extradition to the US, saying the US needs the info he has https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
2022-09-25 View on X
Krebs on Security

Bulgaria arrested a Russian native and the likely RSOCKS botnet owner in June 2022 at the US' request; he asked for, and was granted, extradition to the US

A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested …

2022-09-24
A 36 y/o Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested in Bulgaria at request of U.S. authorities. He asked for & was granted extradition to the US, saying the US needs the info he has https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
2022-09-24 View on X
Krebs on Security

Russian native and likely proprietor of the RSOCKS botnet was arrested in Bulgaria at the request of the US; he requested and was granted extradition to the US

A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet …

2022-08-17
Learned something new about Signal from their rundown of how some users were affected by the Twilio phishing incident: “Registration lock,” which requires your Signal PIN to register your phone number again with Signal https://support.signal.org/...
2022-08-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Signal says attackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for around 1,900 users as part of the recent Twilio breach

just reasons I don't understand. Can somebody explain those reasons to me? https://twitter.com/... Joseph Menn / @josephmenn : Every time there is a high-end attack on a critical e...

2022-08-16
Learned something new about Signal from their rundown of how some users were affected by the Twilio phishing incident: “Registration lock,” which requires your Signal PIN to register your phone number again with Signal https://support.signal.org/...
2022-08-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Signal says attackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for around 1,900 users as part of the recent Twilio breach

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal says attackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for almost 2,000 users as part of the breach at communications giant ...

2022-07-22
“Fraud is fraud is fraud.” I'm so stealing that. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-22 View on X
Bloomberg

The US DOJ arrests a former Coinbase product manager for allegedly leaking insider info about tokens before they were listed; Coinbase won't face charges

On the evening of Sunday, May 15, 2022, ISHAN WAHI purchased a one-way flight to India that was scheduled to depart the next day shortly before ISHAN WAHI was supposed to be interv...