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Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot

Security Affairs

Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files. The password cracking software also acts as a dropper for the Sality P2P bot. ” concludes the report.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4 million members impacted

Security Affairs

The security breach was detected on March 17, 2003 and according to the company the intrusion begun on or about March 6, 2023. It it important to highlight that even with the passwords being hashed and salted, threat actors can obtain the plain text the passwords, especially for weak passwords.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. Between 2003 and 2006, Corpse focused on selling and supporting his Haxdoor malware. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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British Court rejects the US’s request to extradite Julian Assange

Security Affairs

. “That extradition should be refused because it would be unjust and oppressive by reason of Mr. Assange’s mental condition and the high risk of suicide pursuant to section 91 of the EA 2003;” said District Judge (Magistrates’ Court) Vanessa Baraitser In the Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

For example, Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) requires users to provide a password or passphrase to gain access to the network. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an improvement of WEP introduced in 2003. Ensure that your password is complex, unique, and has a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.