Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

intelligence communications, including hacking into computers not connected to the internet. Officials also feared that the Russians may have devised other ways to monitor U.S. Senior FBI and CIA officials briefed congressional leaders on these issues as part of a wide-ranging examination on Capitol Hill of U.S.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

50K Bitcoin from the Silk Road Hack Found and Seized by U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Monday, October 7, 2022, the seizure of 50,676 Bitcoin stolen in the hack of the no-longer-existent Silk Road dark web marketplace. The cryptocurrency stolen in 2012 was valued at $3.36 Authorities.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 27, 2023

Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. He told me the story when he heard about my new book , which he partially recounts his 2012 book, Ghost in the Wires. The post Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 24, 2022

has indicted four Russian government employees for their involvement in hacking campaigns targeting hundreds of companies and organizations from the global energy sector between 2012 and 2018. [.].

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Curry and his team also discovered a vulnerability affecting Hyundai and Genesis vehicles that can be exploited to remotely control the locks, engine, horn, headlights, and trunk of vehicles made after 2012. SecurityAffairs – hacking, car hacking). Hyundai also rapidly addressed the flaw. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Experts found a critical flaw in Real-Time Automation’s (RTA) 499ES EtherNet/IP stack that could allow hacking industrial control systems. Experts was that vendors may have bought vulnerable versions of this stack before the 2012 update and are still using it in their firmware. Tracked as CVE-2020-25159 , the flaw is rated 9.8

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The ICRC said the hacked servers contained data relating to the organization’s Restoring Family Links services, which works to reconnect people separated by war, violence, migration and other causes. .” In their online statement about the hack (updated on Feb. Image: Ke-la.com. com, sachtimes[.]com, com, and whatsupic[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. “Shevlyakov also attempted to acquire computer hacking tools.” electronics manufacturers and distributors between approximately October 2012 and January 2022.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Threat analysts have linked a decade of activity to an APT (advanced persistent threat) actor called 'ModifiedElephant', who has managed to remain elusive to all threat intelligence firms since 2012. [.].

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Google Cloud last week disclosed that it identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild, the earliest of which shipped in November 2012. The versions, spanning 1.44 add up to a total of 275 unique JAR files, according to findings from the Google Cloud Threat Intelligence (GCTI) team.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After a cyber attack on national telecom operator Optus and Insurance company Medibank, the Australian government has hacked the hackers in order to bring them to knees. For this reason, it has begun the work to track the criminals and hack their servers to siphon the information they possess about millions of customers.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. It was also the first major Olympics event where organizers braced for hacking related impact.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

A newly detected hacking group named Aoquin Dragon from China has been found infiltrating servers from Southeast Asia and Australia. Countries like China, Russia, and the United States spy on foreign nations since 2012. The post Aoquin Dragon from China hacking Australian Government Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Monday, October 7, 2022, the seizure of 50,676 Bitcoin stolen in the hack of the no-longer-existent Silk Road dark web marketplace. The cryptocurrency stolen in 2012 was valued at $3.36 The post 50K Bitcoin from the Silk Road Hack Found and Seized by U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Justice Department this week indicted seven Chinese nationals for a decade-long hacking spree that targeted more than 100 high-tech and online gaming companies. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 24, 2020

” China had also stepped up its hacking efforts targeting biometric and passenger data from transit hubs… To be sure, China had stolen plenty of data before discovering how deeply infiltrated it was by U.S. intelligence personnel, these new capabilities made China’s successful hack of the U.S. In 2012, senior U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

A Pakistani national has been sentenced to 12 years of prison in the US for his role in a hacking scheme against the telecom giant AT&T. “Beginning in 2012, Fahd, 35, conspired with others to recruit AT&T employees at a call center located in Bothell, Washington, to unlock large numbers of cellular phones for profit.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The title of this blog post is from our 2013 RSA Conference panel presentation on the ethics and business of “hack back”, a stage we shared with CrowdStrike and Trend Micro. The post Is it Whack to Hack Back a Persistent Attack?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These issues impacts Windows Server 2019 and lower versions, including Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 SP2. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Cyclone). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

From Brian Krebs : A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. None of these early threats went pro.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sharing intel for a greater good Now one distinctive type of crowdsourcing — ethical hacking – is positioned to become a much more impactful component of securing modern networks. I had a terrific discussion about this at Black Hat USA 2023 with Casey Ellis, founder and CTO of Bugcrowd , a pioneer in the crowdsourced security market.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

SecurityAffairs – iTerms2, hacking). The post Ops, popular iTerm2 macOS Terminal App is affected by a critical RCE since 2012 appeared first on Security Affairs. . ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday said it seized 50,676 Bitcoin in November 2021 that was stolen in the 2012 hack of the now-defunct Silk Road dark web marketplace. The bitcoin, which was obtained in 2012 and valued at $3.36 billion when it was discovered last year, is now worth $1.04

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The Hacker News

JUNE 2, 2021

A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an Android and Windows backdoor for collecting sensitive information.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2024

The Finnish government contemplated expanding the options for individuals to change their social security number in certain circumstances, such as the aftermath of a hacking incident. Despite the conviction, the Vastaamo case is not over as civil court cases are now likely to begin to seek compensation for the victims of the hack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi Electric, hacking). The post Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

The Tropic Trooper APT has been active at least since 2012, it was first spotted by security experts at Trend Micro in 2015, when the threat actors targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Tropic Trooper). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A previously unknown hacking group has been linked to targeted attacks against human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India in an attempt to plant "incriminating digital evidence."

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Satnam Narang , senior research engineer at Tenable , said the vulnerability affects the following installations of IE: Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as well as Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019; IE 9 on Windows Server 2008; and IE 10 on Windows Server 2012.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. BHProxies initially was fairly active on Black Hat World between May and November 2012, after which it suddenly ceased all activity. The website BHProxies[.]com

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint , MrMurza has been active in the Russian underground since at least September 2012. Verified and other Russian language crime forums where MrMurza had a presence have been hacked over the years, with contact details and private messages leaked online.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2020

and Windows Server 2012 R2 systems. and Windows Server 2012 R2 systems that address two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Windows Remote Access. and Windows Server 2012 R2. and Windows Server 2012 R2,” reads Microsoft’s advisory. SecurityAffairs – hacking, privilege escalation). Pierluigi Paganini.

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