Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. io , which is currently selling hacked bank accounts and payment cards with high balances.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself.

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Hacking Retail Cyber Insurance Authentication 130

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity. Chinese Military personnel charged with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax. Dell SupportAssist flaw exposes computers to hack, patch it asap! OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports. Fix it now!

Cyber Attacks 128

Cyber Attacks Banking Internet Internet 128

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. Sandworm were observed targeting open ports and unprotected RDP or SSH interfaces to gain access to the internet-facing systems. ” reads the advisory published by the CERT-UA. . “Note (!) .’

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Telecommunications Authentication Data collection Passwords 135

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). All mobile communications and internet access were temporarily interrupted.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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Identity Theft Malware VPN Ransomware 124

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

.” Expert at the ANSSI observed that the threat actors deployed a webshell on the compromised Centreon servers that were exposed on the internet, along with a backdoor dubbed Exaramel first spotted by ESET researchers in 2018. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ANSSI). This backdoor is version 3.1.4. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Software VPN Internet Internet 136

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

This month, the experts noticed that the number of infected hosts passed from 2000 to around 30,000. “While the group has operated for years, by mid 2021, the botnet was observed operating with roughly 2000 hosts globally. The 8220 Gang selects victims by identifying them through their internet accessibility.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 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). ” Mandiant has yet to determine how Sandworm gained initial access to the target environment.

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Telecommunications Hacking Technology Internet 139

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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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

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). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Data breaches Scams Telecommunications Financial Services 98

Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy 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). Experts warn of an increase of IoT attacks on a global scale, making internet routers one of the primary targets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IoT Firewall Malware Internet 102

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I held this position from 2000 through 2014, during which time Windows emerged as a prime target for both precocious script kiddies and emerging criminal hacking rings. We’ve arrived at a critical juncture: to enable the full potential of the Internet of Everything, attack surface expansion must be slowed and ultimately reversed.

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Cyber threats Cyber Insurance Threat Detection Cybersecurity 203

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These devices are installed in airplanes to offer internet connectivity to the passengers, the above vulnerabilities can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the inflight entertainment system and potentially conduct other malicious activities. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Log4Shell). ” reads the advisory published by Contec.

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Wireless Firmware Passwords Engineering 102

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

The issue was discovered by Horizon3 researchers who reported that there are more than 3000 instances of the platform exposed to the Internet. 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.

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Authentication Education Media Hacking 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

“The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russia). ” reads the press release published by DoJ. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware Government Firmware Firewall 98

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Study shows connections between 2000 malware samples used by Russian APT groups. After SIMJacker, WIBattack hacking technique disclosed. Airbus suppliers were hit by four major attack in the last 12 months. Botnet exploits recent vBulletin flaw to protect its bots. Emsisoft releases a free decryptor for the WannaCryFake ransomware.

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Data breaches Malware Advertising Ransomware 83

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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Hacking Technology InfoSec Media 52

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

Eight months later many Global 2000 firms are still fighting to mitigate the digital assets and business risks associated with Log4j. Report Highlights: Our exclusive analysis of Log4j examines the external attack surfaces of three dozen Global 2000 companies, securely protected by CyCognito solutions. INTRODUCTION. each month (PDF).

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Risk Media Cybersecurity Software 79

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Back in 2000, every aspiring student wanted to become computer /IT engineer, thanks to “.com” Open Docker API on the Internet. If you explore Shodan search engine for Open API then you find that more than 1000 hosts are having their Docker API exposed on the Internet. Securi ty Affairs – cybersecurity, Hacking).

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Engineering Digital transformation Advertising Technology 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Back then we were worried about somebody inside with too much privileged access, or someone outside hacking in for access, doing something nefarious, such as stealing a company’s data, or compromising its systems and wreaking havoc. In 2000, there was no PCI DSS, no HIPAA-HITECH, no NIST 800-53, no GDPR, or anything like them.

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Technology Government Financial Services Marketing 87

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts. Amazon Music.

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts. Amazon Music.

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Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

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. I started to learn more about how the Internet worked and one thing led to the other. My experience in the US has not been very different. And the rest is history from there!

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InfoSec System Administration Cybersecurity Engineering 83

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. Security analysis of the Estonian internet voting system. Associated Press.

Computers and Electronics 108

Computers and Electronics Encryption Technology Government 108

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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Hacking Cryptocurrency Accountability Banking 52

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

The initial vulnerability that we discovered in October 2012 was related to the “Internet Key Exchange and Authenticated Internet Protocol Keying Modules”. Those modules are used for authentication and key exchange in Internet Protocol security. The problem was that they try to load a DLL which doesn’t exist. Happy planting!

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Authentication Engineering Internet Internet 110

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts. Amazon Music.

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Hacking Mobile Software Technology 40

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Since the web server runs as a non-root user and it had no sudo rights then it was found that the REST API makes calls to a local daemon named oe-spd , which runs on port 2000 bound to 127.0.0.1. If you are using one of the above devices and they are connected on the WAN, make sure to remove your device from the internet.

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Firmware IoT VPN Authentication 96

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

I began with securing networking equipment for customers to now securing mobile devices, gaming systems, Internet of Things (“Alexa”), the work environment, social engineering, etc. Remote work and ever-evolving hacking have opened corporations up to increased cyber-attacks. I entered computer networking over 20 years ago.

Engineering 124

Engineering Cybersecurity Energy and Utilities Software 124

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2023

One of the largest examples of this in the cyber world was Y2K, the turn-of-the-century challenge involving millions of computers with two-digit date clocks that had no instructions on what to do when the calendars moved from 1999 to 2000. People who click on phishing links often get blamed for the resulting malware infestation.

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Phishing Engineering Internet Internet 62

SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there are 36 cybercrime categories. Here is how we (CSN) define cybercrime: the kind of crime that is only happening because the internet exists [such as ransomware and DDoS attacks]. 4,883,231 complaints reported since inception (2000). billion in victim losses.

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Cybercrime Scams Small Business Identity Theft 66

ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

Back in 2000, it was just Black Hat USA followed by DEF CON, and only a handful of people knew about it. I was once in the press room at Black Hat when my colleague’s unencrypted password was hacked. TOR : If you’re really paranoid, then you can add The Onion Router to your internet connection, but it’s not necessary.

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VPN Passwords Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

Back in 2000, it was just Black Hat USA followed by DEF CON, and only a handful of people knew about it. I was once in the press room at Black Hat when my colleague’s unencrypted password was hacked. TOR : If you’re really paranoid, then you can add The Onion Router to your internet connection, but it’s not necessary.

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VPN Passwords Internet Internet 52

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Clay : The Internet of Things (IoT) is still the biggest vulnerability out there. s comments, you need to consider high-speed internet. 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. What are some AppSec trends you???ve

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Engineering Software Technology Risk 64

Veracode Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Clay : The Internet of Things (IoT) is still the biggest vulnerability out there. s comments, you need to consider high-speed internet. 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. What are some AppSec trends you???ve

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Engineering Software Technology Risk 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

In this episode I’m going to discuss the relationship between hacking and game playing. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. It’s exciting because it best mirrors the world of pen testing and hacking on a red or blue team. If you hack into this airplane.

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