Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Experts discovered a malspam campaign that is distributing a malicious RAR archive that could exploit the WinRAR flaw to install deliver malware on a computer. dll library in 2005. Possibly the first malware delivered through mail to exploit WinRAR vulnerability. dll and released WINRar version 5.70

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Along with the Pirrit Mac adware identified earlier this week, researchers from Red Canary identified Thursday a different malware strain (Jon Rawlinson/CC BY 2.0)). In just three months, hackers have debuted at least two strains of malware designed to attack Apple’s new M1 chip.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

The university was notified by an undisclosed third party, who provided information to help the team find and identify the malware. Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 30, 2021

Back in August 2005, for instance, the CNN newsroom was hit by the Zotob worm, with the station reporting the incident live on air. One thing that is unquestionable is that cyber attacks against TV stations are not a new phenomenon. Ten years later, TV5Monde in France was taken off air after pro-ISIS hackers attacked its systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 11, 2021

Highly placed source say that the Chicago based company could have been hit by a file encrypting malware attack that could have brought the IT infrastructure operations of the multinational drink and brewery firm to a standstill.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

The attack against Iran’s national railway system involved a wiper malware dubbed Meteor and not ransomware as initially thought. Meteor was a previously undetected strain of malware, but experts were not able to link it to specific advanced persistent threat actors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The hackers accessed company file servers that contained information about current and former employees from 2005 to 2020 and their beneficiaries and dependents. The investigation conducted by Canon found evidence of unauthorized accesses on its network between July 20 and August 6. ” reads the statement.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

The feature was first introduced in 2005 with the x64 editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Patching the kernel could allow attackers to run malicious code as kernel mode, which means that malware could run with the highest level of privileges could be undetected by common security solutions.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To put this into some way-back-when context: If you were caught out by a malware attack which pushed 8 whole megabytes at you , this was treated as a cavalcade of malware. In 2005, one malware install which needed the.NET framework to run would helpfully install the whole thing for you if you didn’t have it.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Microsoft may have retired the Boa web server in 2005, but that hasn’t stopped widespread use—and now the company is saying a vulnerability in the server’s open source component has been exploited by bad actors, targeting the energy industry and underscoring the continued vulnerability of the supply chain.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Formed as an informal industry working group in 2005, the OTA is a charitable organization dedicated to enhancing online trust and empowering users, while also promoting innovation and the vitality of the internet. percent) malware infections around the world. About the OTA.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

It was formed in 2005 in response to European Union requirements to separate the natural monopoly of infrastructure management from the competitive operations of running train services. The company has over 13,000 employees for a revenue of around $8 Billion.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The experts pointed out that Boa has been discontinued since 2005. ” Microsoft experts explained that despite Boa being discontinued in 2005, many vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits (SDKs) continue to use it. . ”reads the report published by Recorded Future.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

The security breach data breach took place on March 22nd and 23rd, the hacker accessed information of customers who had applied for a credit card between 2005 and 2019. District Court in Seattle. Based on our analysis to date, this event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 2005, my view of security engineering was centered on adversarial reviews. Today in my Masters-level, quarter-long Security Engineering course, I teach both their work and those of Paul Van Oorschot (in Chapter 1 of his excellent Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin ).

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

Similarly, the states Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005) was one of the earliest breach notification laws in the U.S., The SHIELD Act: Strengthening New Yorks Data Security The SHIELD Act , passed in 2019, builds on New Yorks earlier Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005).

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

A young woman plays on the Electronic Arts (EA) newest product “Sims2 – Nightlife” at a Computer Gaming Convention on August 18, 2005 in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

SiteLock evangelist Adam Warner had this to say, “Having first found WordPress in 2005, and after dozens of WordCamps, this was the first time I’ve attended a State of the Word address in person. State of the Word. The culmination of WordCamp US is Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word.” It was amazing. We’ll see you again in Nashville!

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

SIEMs failed to live up to their hype in the decade after they were first introduced in 2005. NGFWs today can enforce security policies at the application, port, and protocol levels – often detecting and blocking the stealthiest malware from slipping into a network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

This data comes not only from the analysis of underground forums and phishing websites, but also from the analysis of cybercriminals’ infrastructure (including but not limited to C&Cs) and malware disassembling. The stolen payment cards data is often put up for sale on underground forums or used in further fraudulent activities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2021

The issue affects SAP Commerce versions 1808, 1811, 1905, 2005, 2011. The issue is described as a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Source Rules of SAP Commerce, could allow authorized users of the SAP Commerce Backoffice software to inject malicious code in source rules leveraging the scripting capabilities of the Rules engine.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Gartner first coined the term SIEM in 2005 to combine the technologies of security event management (SEM) and security information management (SIM). If the SIEM analysis detected malware or malicious activity, it could generate alerts for a security engineer or security operations center (SOC) to investigate. What is a SIEM?

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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. During our daily monitoring activities, we intercepted a singular Linux malware trying to penetrate the network of some of our customers. Introduction. Figure 15: Content of run script.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Are you interested in becoming a Guest Blogger on this blog where you will be able to reach out to one of the best and most diverse audience within the security industry since December, 2005 which consists of security experts researchers vendors and organizations including cybercrime researchers the U.S

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. 2005 — PhoneBusters — PhoneBusters reports 11K+ identity theft complaints in Canada, and total losses of $8.5M, making this the fastest growing form of consumer fraud in North America. . retailer (Polo Ralph Lauren).

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

This was in 2005! Even with the advancements in network isolation, containment, and prevention at the endpoint, hackers will still bypass predictive controls to execute malware attacks, ransomware exploits, account takeovers.etc. 2022 — Could We Still Save Jack Bauer Today?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Industroyer , also called CrashOverride , is believed to be the malware that shut down the power grid in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, in December 2016. It was the first malware capable of attacking power grids automatically, versus BlackEnergy, which was used in manual attacks against the Ukrainian power grid and others.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When this trend started back in 2005, people preferred to shop while they were at the office, using fast computers and high-speed connections. Do NOT use public Wi-Fi, which is unsecure and vulnerable to malware including ransomware. Black Friday and Cyber Monday – which fall on the days following Thanksgiving in the U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Having been a long-time user of WordPress myself (since 2005), I’ve been following the development of Gutenberg closely and knew that it was laying the groundwork to support the use of WordPress into the next 15 years an beyond, but it was only during this presentation that what this means for the software finally clicked for me.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Although I’ve been in the WordPress space since 2005, these past five years have seen massive growth in both the software we all know and love, and for me professionally. My session was well-attended and the audience was keenly interested in knowing what malware is, who’s creating it, and for what purpose. I know we are!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 16, 2022

Users using Windows 7 and 8 OS and using Office tools that are obsolete like MS Office 2005 and such have to be cautious about the new alert. Defender thus starts acting as a centralized dashboard platform that keeps a tab of the antivirus solutions and keeps all OS platforms like iOS, Android and MacOS devices protected from malware.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Built-in edge security, including encryption , URL filtering, and malware protection Cloud-agnostic branch connectivity, SaaS optimization, and IaaS integrations Application aware enterprise NGFW, Snort IPS, and malware sandboxing Microsegmentation and identity-based policy management Self-healing firmware to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With the growing popularity of the Internet over the past decade, the retail holiday Cyber Monday debuted in 2005 as the online version of Black Friday. Santa’s not the only one sneaking around this season; website hackers are on-the-go and they’re bringing something even worse than lumps of coal – viruses, malware and more.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. times more likely to become infected with malware than a site without a vulnerability. We found that of the websites we scanned, 1.4% These vulnerable sites are 3.3 By Topher Tebow & Ron Doss.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

I started exploring Open Source CMS and blogging platforms in late 2005. We offer a suite of comprehensive and affordable website security solutions to ensure that websites stay free of malware. For more information about how SiteLock can help protect your websites from vulnerabilities and malware, contact us at 855.378.6200.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

They eliminate the threat of malware or unauthorized software altering votes by providing a mechanism for voters to confirm that their votes have been correctly recorded. This malware facilitated the exfiltration of data and allowed attackers to maintain control over compromised systems for extended periods. Yale University Press.

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