Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

Unfortunately, if you don’t already have an account at the credit bureau’s new myEquifax portal , it may be simple for identity thieves to lift an existing credit freeze at Equifax and bypass the PIN armed with little more than your, name, Social Security number and birthday. Again, information that is not hard to find.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. Imitating my site, likeness and namesake, BriansClub even dubiously claims a copyright with a reference at the bottom of each page: “© 2019 Crabs on Security.” BRIANS CHAT.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. I started hacking a long time ago.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. The Technology Security Database (ITSDB) is a web-based application used to track and manage physical assets and applications on its network.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Your IP address represents your digital identity online, hacking it not only allows attackers to access your device or your accounts, but it may cause even bigger damage. But in reality, your IP address is as prone to theft as your other information. Cybercriminals are interested in hacking your IP address for various reasons.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The popular Hosting provider Hostinger disclosed a recent security breach that allowed unauthorized access to a client database. Hostinger , one of the biggest hosting providers, disclosed a recent security breach that allowed attackers to access a client database. SecurityAffairs – Hostinger , hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2019

SyTech , a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has been hacked, attackers stole data about interna l projects. Attackers have hacked SyTech, a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and exfiltrated data about interna l projects.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. “ Fortinet products, including FortiGate and Forticlient regularly send information to Fortinet servers (DNS: guard.fortinet.com) on. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Experts from the Microsoft threat research team analyzed a database containing 3 billion leaked credentials from different security breaches. Microsoft users’ accounts are exposed to the hack due to the bad habit of reusing passwords on multiple services and the adoption of weak passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Click2Mail.com, a US Postal Service affiliate partner, has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The US Postal Service affiliate partner Click2Mail has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The security breach was discovered on October 4, 2019.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2019

Federal prosecutors revealed that Paige Thompson, who was arrested after the Capital One data breach, may have hacked more than 30 other organizations. card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. ” reported the AP agency.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Then the attackers used the stolen information to target into customer systems. “Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE’s cloud computing service and used it as a launchpad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

has been hacked, he is the last celebrity in order of time that had the social media accounts compromised. Instagram account has been hacked, in this case the attacker did not publish offensive messages, but attempted to monetize their efforts by posting fake giveaways for Apple products. SecurityAffairs – Robert Downey Jr, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

A few hours ago, a new email hacking tool dubbed Jason and associated with the OilRig APT group was leaked through the same Telegram channel used to leak other tools. The Lab Dookhtegan hackers used a Telegram channel to dump information about the OilRig infrastructure, revealing details about its hacking tools, members, and operations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We hacked Lloyds of London and Silverstein Properties. “What’s the takeaway?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

One of the victims of the Muhstik ransomware gang who initially paid the ransomware, decided to hack back the crooks and released their decryption keys. The expert hacked the server used by the Muhstik ransomware gang and released the decryption keys for all the victims of the group. SecurityAffairs – Muhstik ransomware, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2019

The Lab Dookhtegan hackers used a Telegram channel to dump information about the OilRig infrastructure, revealing details about its hacking tools, members, and operations. The entity that leaked the information aimed at disrupting the operations of the Iran-linked hacking groups, it is likely an opponent of the Regime.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic revealed that the National Cyber and Information Security Agency blamed a foreign state for a cyber attack that targeted the Czech Foreign Ministry. The Czech experts discovered the security breach early January 2017. SecurityAffairs – state-spons o red hacking, Czech Republic).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2019

A flaw in the Twitter app for Android could have been exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information or take over an account. “We recently fixed a vulnerability within Twitter for Android that could allow a bad actor to see nonpublic account information or to control your account (i.e., send Tweets or Direct Messages).”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The US gunmaker Smith & Wesson was hacked late last month in a Magecart attack, attackers injected a malicious software ski mmer. The hack took place last month, the attackers planted a malicious software skimmer on its website to steal customers’ payment card data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Magecart).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

Microsoft notified some of its users the security breach, it confirmed via email that hackers have accessed information about their OutLook account between 1 January 2019 and 28 March 2019. The attackers used compromised credentials to access information belonging to the affected accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Cybersecurity researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security disclosed a critical vulnerability in SIM cards dubbed SimJacker that could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just by sending an SMS. ” states a post published by AdaptiveMobile. The attacker could exploit the flaw to.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Security experts at Emsisoft released a second decryptor in a few days, this time announced a free decryptor for the ZeroFucks ransomware. The post Emsisoft releases a second decryptor in a few days, this time for ZeroFucks ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ information, including passwords. Foxit Software, the PDF software provider behind the Foxit PDF reader app disclosed a security breach that took place recently exposing customers’ information.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. . The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). ” continues the Department. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A Certified Ethical Hacker is a skilled professional who understands and knows how to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems and uses the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker, but in a lawful and legitimate manner to assess the security posture of a target system(s). Certified Information Security Manager – CISM.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2019

The American multinational software company Citrix disclosed a security breach, according to the firm an international cyber criminals gang gained access to its internal network. Once they gained a foothold with limited access, they worked to circumvent additional layers of security,” continues the statement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

Hundreds of million computers from many vendors may have been exposed to hack due to a serious flaw in PC-Doctor software. SupportAssist is used to check the health of systems’ hardware and software when an issue is detected it sends necessary system state information to Dell for troubleshooting to begin. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

The airline company WizzAir informed its customers that it had reset the account passwords due to a technical issue in the system. ” The company did not disclose technical details of the incident, for this reason, some users speculate that the root cause of the problem was a hack. .” ” reported BleepingComputer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Google pointed out that alerts only inform users that nation-state actors attempted to access their accounts using various attack techniques, such as phishing or malware. High-risk users are invited to protect their accounts enabling 2-step verification (Google recommends the use of Authenticator app or a Security Key ).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

The European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers broke into the company “Commercial Aircraft business” information systems and gained access to some of its employees’ personal information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2019

A new security assessment conducted by the Defense Department Inspector General revealed that the Pentagon is still exposed to many cyber risks, The report published by the Defense Department Inspector General on January 9, shows a worrisome situation, there are 266 issue, some of them are ten-years-old cybersecurity?related

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2019

In July, the hack of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers stole$41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins) from Binance. Attackers demand a ransom claiming to have hacked the KYC (Know Your Customer) data of thousands of Binance customers. million at the time of the hack). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2019

A teen opted out to hack it twice. Unfortunately, the teen was identified and he has been found guilty of hacking twice into Apple’s infrastructure in 2015 and 2017. . “The boy, who is now 17, faced the Adelaide Youth Court and pleaded guilty to multiple computer hacking charges.” SecurityAffairs – Apple, hacking).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Intel released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities in NUC firmware, the Processor Identification Utility, and the Computing Improvement Program. ” reads the security advisory published by Intel. ” reads the security advisory published by Intel. . ” reads the security advisory.

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