Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. And now, a 10th birthday blog post about what really sticks out a decade later. 🤣", the internet quipped. "Have I been pwned?"

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say measurably dampened demand for such services by explaining that their use to harm others is illegal and can land potential customers in jail. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Siemens Metaverse, a virtual space built to mirror real machines, factories, and other highly complex systems, has exposed sensitive data, including the company’s office plans and internet of things (IoT) devices. The most worrying discovery was that of exposed office management platform ComfyApp user credentials.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

What it boiled down to was the account arguing with a journalist (pro tip: avoid arguing being a dick to those in a position to write publicly about you!) that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password. So I wrote a blog post. — Timothy Dutton (@ravenstar68) December 17, 2017.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Previously seen to be exploited in the wild through 2017 and on-going.” ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns.

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Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

Drafted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF) in 1998, it became an Internet Standard in 2017. IP addresses, those numbers assigned to every internet-connected device, or node, were designed to contain 32 bits. What continued IPv6 adoption means for internet security. IPv6 has been a long time coming.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

The operators behind the RSOCKS botnet offered their clients access to IP addresses assigned to devices that had been compromised to route internet traffic. The initial undercover purchase in early 2017 identified approximately 325,000 compromised victim devices throughout the world with numerous devices located within San Diego County.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The internet is everywhere, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). The term “Internet of Things” applies to any nonstandard computing device that connects to wifi and can transmit data. Password security for IoT devices is all too important, as demonstrated by the CloudPets breach in 2017. Further reading.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A message posted to the Coinhive blog on Tuesday, Feb. In March 2018, Coinhive was listed by many security firms as the top malicious threat to Internet users, thanks to the tendency for Coinhive’s computer code to be surreptitiously deployed on hacked Web sites to steal the computer processing power of its visitors’ devices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Facebook hacked, this is news that is rapidly spreading across the Internet. The giant of social networks has discovered the security breach this week, the attackers have exploited a bug in the “View as” features to steal access tokens of the users and take over their accounts. ” continues Guy Rosen.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

By mid-2017 he’d sold LuminosityLink to more than 8,600 customers, according to Europol , the European Union’s law enforcement agency. The RAT also let users view what victims were typing on their keyboards, disable security software, and secretly activate the webcam on the target’s computer.

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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This blog post shed light on the inner workings of the ransomsphere economics and exposes which cybercriminal groups are the biggest earners. This is the second blog post in my series about ransomware economics. previous blog post about our methodology. The first post. final post. You can check out the slides.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

million online accounts at 17 companies, including online retailers, restaurant chains and food delivery services, according to the report. Users – forced to contend with an ever-expanding number of online accounts they must manage – tend to reuse the same passwords across multiple online services.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

This compromised extension tries to determine if the person using it is typing content into specific Web forms, such as a blog post editing system like WordPress or Joomla. Ads support most of the internet we all use and love; without them, the internet we have today would simply not exist.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

ransomware in May 2017, and the extortion and attempted extortion of victim companies from 2017 through 2020 involving the theft of sensitive data and deployment of other ransomware. It's a fairly recent development, but they've been able to get into certain security blogs that cybersecurity researchers use. sanctions.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. This blog post recounts Mirai’s tale from start to finish. Mirai takedown the Internet.

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IoT DDOS Internet Internet 107

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. That’s not all: cybercriminals attempted to compromise more websites in Q3 2017 than in the previous quarter, increasing their attempted attacks by 16 percent. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services. After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

Only use admin accounts when required for tasks, such as installing software updates. For enhanced network visibility to potentially identify abnormal traffic, consider using CISA’s open-source Industrial Control Systems Network Protocol Parsers (ICSNPP). Ensure all applications are only installed when necessary for operation.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2019

“In this blog, we’ll document two Magecart-related breaches against bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep.” The second company hit by the Magecart gang is Amerisleep, it was targeted by same crews multiple times in 2017. One of the incidents has never been disclosed, the other was solved. ” continues the post.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? It’s amazing that one person could have had so much access with so little accountability, and could sneak all of this data out without raising any alarms. We technologists did a lot to help secure the Internet, for example. Very probably.

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Elie

DECEMBER 12, 2019

This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information uncovered by queries containing the name of the requester. This blog post details our. “Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF).

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t limited to the consumer sector. How can we prevent a replay of the 2017 attacks against Ukraine’s power grid from happening here? Even private companies like Colonial, until now under less pressure than a public utility to account for compromises, should be invited in.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. In July 2017, Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web published research showing that Triada had been installed by default on at least four low-cost Android models.

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Mobile Technology Manufacturing Software 169

The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

And, in fact, cyber ops tradecraft has advanced in sophistication in lock step with our deepening reliance on the commercial Internet. An attack in August 2017, for instance, sought to access industrial controls, and also to trigger an explosion. State-sponsored cyber operations have been an integral part of global affairs for decades.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

The Necurs botnet was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed its activity in April 2017 when it was observed using a new technique to avoid detection. ” reads a blog post published by the firm. ” continues the blog post. “At times, they’ve been known to be inactive for weeks.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. 1 November 2017. My popular newsletter Crypto - Gram and my blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. The particular vulnerability was fixed by Apache in a security patch that was made available on March 6, 2017. Before the.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2019

An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with administrator privileges.” An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” ” reads a blog post published by Microsoft.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

This is a blog post about disclosure, specifically the difficulty with doing it in a responsible fashion as the reporter whilst also ensuring the impacted organisation behaves responsibly themselves. They are the organisation people entrusted with their personal information and they are accountable for what happens to it after that.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. dongleauth.info. Finally, while there are.

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Elie

JULY 13, 2017

in Internet Explorer and. This post analyzes the results of this survey and, whenever possible, contrasts the responses received in June 2017 with the ones from April 2012 and the. As of 2017, almost two out of three Internet users (61%) think they know what private browsing is, as reported in the pie chart above.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And hackers linked to the Russian government were reportedly behind the Triton hack of 2017 , as well, as disclosed by security vendor FireEye. They use a botnet to feed a large number of usernames and passwords into accounts associated with the targeted entity. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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