Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Early in his career (circa 2000) Shakhmametov was known as “ v1pee ” and was the founder of the Russian hacker group nerf[.]ru ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. The Russian hacker group Nerf as described in a March 2006 article in the Russian hacker magazine xakep.ru.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

Over 3,000 Android Malware spotted using unsupported/unknown compression methods to avoid detection WinRAR flaw enables remote code execution of arbitrary code #OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific Massive phishing campaign targets users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server (..)

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While checking my cybersecurity news feed a couple of days ago, an account (re-)publishing stories from years gone by was highlighting a late 2000 (actual year 2000, not the decade) event involving Microsoft and a hack that affected the company.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. ’ The CERT-UA also reported that the state-sponsored hackers used compromised VPN accounts that weren’t protected by multi-factor authentication. ” reads the advisory published by the CERT-UA. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The data was posted on file-sharing service MEGA and also on an unnamed popular hacking forum, it includes more than 12,000 files for a total size of 87 gigabytes. Hunt pointed out that approximately 140 million email accounts and some 10.6 Read more: [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) January 16, 2019.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SonicWall). The affected end-of-life devices with 8.x 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The SBU helped Kyivstar in recovering from the cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts noticed that most of the IPs that were involved in the attack had the same opened ports: 2000 and 7547. You can protect yourself, your business and your reputation by using the Account Takeover Protection capability of Imperva’s Application Security stack. SecurityAffairs – DDoS, hacking). ” concludes Imperva.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“It is found that our wireless products, FLEXLAN FX3000/2000 series, have a firmware vulnerability. The second vulnerability ( CVE–2022–36159 ) ties the use of hard-coded, weak cryptographic keys and backdoor accounts. “[CVE-2022-36159] – Use of weak Hard-coded Cryptographic Keys and backdoor account.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

” The arrest is the result of Operation Guardian led by AFP which became aware of a number of text messages demanding some Optus customers transfer $2000 to a bank account or face their personal information being used for financial crimes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Optus). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 28, 2022

According to the intelligence gathered by the National Police Agency of South Korea, the Kim Jong UN funded hacking groups were caught stealing email and identity related credentials related to over 890 foreign policy proficients in the past few weeks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Only interact with your own accounts or provided test accounts for security research purposes.” Only interact with your own accounts or provided test accounts for security research purposes contact us immediately if you inadvertently encounter traveller data. ” continues the announcement.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The man had information on passport data, taxpayer numbers, birth certificates, driver’s licenses, and bank account data. Depending on the amount of data offered for sale, the man demanded from 500 to 2000 dollars. ” reads the announcement published by the Ukraine Cyber Police.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The CERT also provided Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for these attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The leaker also added that the source code for multiple Microsoft operating systems is circulating in the hacking community for years. The expert provided multiple updates on its attempts and successes through its Twitter account. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cisco IOS XR). Windows NT 4 MS-DOS 3.30 MS-DOS 6.0. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. The campaigns have been relatively small in volume, sent from spoofed domains, and targeting users’ Gmail accounts.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

The documents demonstrate that it also developed hacking tools for the Russia-linked APT group Sandworm. The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

and newer NextSeq 1000/2000 Control Software: v1.4.1 Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ChatGPT ) The post CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Horizon3 found that at least 2000 servers are running with a dangerous default configuration. “Session Validation attacks in Apache Superset versions up to and including 2.0.1. The issue was discovered by Horizon3 researchers who reported that there are more than 3000 instances of the platform exposed to the Internet.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

was developed by Valve Corporation in 2000. Threat actors have set-up the servers in the attempt of hacking gamers’ computers worldwide by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in the game client. . His server infected the devices of players with a Trojan and used their accounts to promote other game servers.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

” The author is offering the malware for rent at a price of $2000 for 1-month use, $7000 for 6 months and up to $12,000 for an entire year. The malicious code users overlay attacks to steal sensitive and financial data from the victim, including credit card numbers, banking credentials and passwords for bank accounts.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is hacking a crime? Bryan McAninch (Aph3x) talks about his organization, Hacking Is Not A Crime , and the ethical line it draws on various hacking activities. I used to hack the phone company quite a bit. The 33 year old from suffer faced charges from US prosecutors as hacking into computers at various American agencies.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Yannis Smaragdakis , a researcher with Dedaub , found a major vulnerability in Ethereum smart contracts, arguably within the billion-dollar range, that would have made it one of the largest hacks ever—given that it was a theoretically unbounded threat -- had it not been mostly mitigated by the time it went public. million dollars.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2023

Dark web forums contain ads for selling and buying stolen data, offers to code malware and hack websites, posts seeking like-minded individuals to participate in attacks on companies, and many more. Fraudulent schemes or hacking websites, social network accounts and corporate IT infrastructure all qualify as dirty jobs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Back in 2000, every aspiring student wanted to become computer /IT engineer, thanks to “.com” User (wallet account) – WmthxKa4FVvSDA8fjyXiZJB3WWWFxumQJAZfRGmrMCaMCooq52sipimAYJM2NYNy34bJUX566wEBmEC2QmdmnVLh2GzgRy4F6. Securi ty Affairs – cybersecurity, Hacking). Pool Used – pool.aeon.hashvault.pro:3333.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Paper ballots can be miscounted or lost and DRE machines are susceptible to hacking and software errors. Presidential election highlighted significant concerns about voting integrity, reminiscent of the controversy in Florida during the 2000 election. Hacking the 2016 election: The real-world threats. Works Cited Alvarez, R.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Thanks to him I was able to co-found one of the first infosec consulting businesses in Spain in 2000, and I’m still very grateful for that opportunity. And if you need more help or advice, don’t hesitate to contact me on my Twitter account: @aboutsecurity. My experience in the US has not been very different. it’s on LinkedIn too).

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We started Obsidian Group in 2003, primarily as a talent acquisition company in the IT, finance and accounting space,” Perry says. During the economic turmoil of the late 2000’s, we enhanced our offers to include consulting in the HR, small business and marketing arenas.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

If any writable directory is found, you should either remove it from the %PATH% or harden ACLs to ensure authenticated users (and any other untrusted accounts) are unable to write inside. After managing a Tier 4 PKI Data Center, he transitioned into the fields of Ethical Hacking and Computer Forensics. dicPath = os.environ[sysPath].split(";")

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff. to $199 for business accounts. There are two types to choose from: an individual account and a company account. No hacking or programming experience is needed.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

4,883,231 complaints reported since inception (2000). These figures are only for small businesses and individuals. 450,000+ people or small businesses reported a crime to IC3 (an increase of 100,000 from 2018). billion in victim losses. 1,200+ complaints per day on average. What is the human side of cybercrime?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These things have to be designed with security in mind at the beginning, and then a developer is accountable for implementing that particular plan. In the early 2000???s s there were a number of packages that were designed for hacking, and so I started playing around with white hat hacking. t think it???s

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