The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the key takeaways: Lower-tier hacks. No organization wants to find itself having to recover from a devastating ransomware hack – or dealing with an unauthorized intruder who has usurped control of its operational systems. The ongoing waves of Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon hacks are a good example of these lower-tier attacks.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 25, 2023

Zacks Elite sign-ups for the period 1999–2005 were accessed, including name, address, email address, phone number, and the password associated with Zacks.com.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2021

A survey conducted by Gartner in 2019 said that 88% of companies operating worldwide were hit by a cyber attack and out of those, 51% of them experienced the incident for password steal. Only 5 percent of the total data and virtual files stored across the world are secure and so the Cybersecurity business is said to reach a valuation of $170.3

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Password (Object Lessons series) , Martin Eve. A short book reflecting on the history of thinking about passwords, treating the secret knowledge of how to solve the labyrinth as password adjacent. Interesting thesis around the use of power, and how power allows people to twist (hack) the rules of systems. Lovely and fun.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

A database containing personal information of 8,929,503 Zacks Investment Research users emerged on a popular hacking forum on June 10, 2023. According to HIBP, the records in the database contain names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames, and passwords stored as unsalted SHA-256 hashes. ” reported HIBP.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. The phpBB forum exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored in MD5 phpBB3 format. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

According to the notice, threat actors had access to an older database of customers who had signed up for the Zacks Elite product between November 1999 through February 2005. Exposed customers’ data may include name, address, phone number, email address, and password used for Zacks.com. ” concludes the notice.

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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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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

With all that transpired over the last few months, and even with the SolarWinds cyberattack making headlines , it might be easy to forget that data breaches and hacks continue to expose the personal information of millions. These records contained logs of conversations between Microsoft support and customers going back to 2005.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

million records dating back to at least 2005 were also compromised in the data breach. We will never contact customers requesting their passwords.” .” The company announced that it will reimburse those customers who choose to replace their stolen ID documents. The statement also reported that approximately 6.1

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords. .

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Someone you know will be hacked the weekend after Thanksgiving. When this trend started back in 2005, people preferred to shop while they were at the office, using fast computers and high-speed connections. Even amateur hackers can snoop on public Wi-Fi and pick up your email and other account login IDs and passwords.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006. He was rumored to have hacked into his high school’s computer system, although those rumors were never confirmed. While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. The Linux malware is the well-known “ Shellbot ”, it is a crimetool belonging to the arsenal of a threat actor tracked as the “Outlaw Hacking Group. ”. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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. -based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005.

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

Twenty years ago, I first attended the Black Hat and Defcon conventions – yay Caesars Palace and Alexis Park – a wide-eyed tech newbie who barely knew what WEP hacking, Driftnet image stealing and session hijacking meant. The community was amazing and the friendships and knowledge I gained, springboarded my IT career.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It was for UNIX systems and it was created by Dan Farmer and Wheat-say Vene-ma, who then co-authored a book in 2005 called Forensic Discovery. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. If the user stores passwords in a browser, we got that, if the user is the local admin, that's even better.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 19, 2025

According to the memo, Salt Typhoon’s access “likely provided Beijing with data that could facilitate the hacking of other states’ Army National Guard units, and possibly many of their state-level cybersecurity partners.” Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there. It didn’t identify which state had been targeted.

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