Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2018

An attacker broke into Reddit systems and accessed user data, email addresses, and a database of hashed passwords from 2007.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations. It also was used in 2007 to register xeka[.]ru Click image to enlarge.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files. ” reported ZDNet.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. The administrator can set password rules, put certain types of files on white lists or black lists, remotely reset devices; they can even disable devices lost in the field.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It allows an attacker to provide covert, unauthorized access to email correspondence and was used after gaining access to email accounts through CVE-2023-23397 (Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability) or password-spraying.” The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2018

Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. Reddit said the exposed data included internal source code as well as email addresses and obfuscated passwords for all Reddit users who registered accounts on the site prior to May 2007.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

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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Malwarebytes

MAY 15, 2022

You can reach back to 2007 and look in amazement at the 419 death threat. Have a “password” that family members can use to confirm a loved one is really in trouble. 2 factor authentication and password managers are good places to start. These tactics have been around for a very long time. Having said that, if the worst happens?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

That story cited a 2007 report (PDF) from iDefense , which detailed DaiLin’s role as the leader of a state-sponsored, four-man hacking team called NCPH (short for Network Crack Program Hacker). ” At the time of story, DaiLin was 28 years old. Security analysts and U.S.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Now, you might be thinking ‘Kevin, Exchange 2007 has been largely unimpacted by recent vulnerabilities’, and you’d be right. ProxyLogon, ProxyShell and ProxyNotShell didn’t impact Exchange 2007 as the layer of code added for Exchange Online wasn’t introduced in those versions. It was introduced in Exchange Server 2013.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. million unique records containing email addresses, usernames, and passwords (salted SHA-1 hashes), were compromised. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This penalty was in connection with Facebook harvesting user data, over the course of seven years — between 2007 and 2014. ” Even with sharper teeth attached to the regulatory fining regime, companies still operate as if non-encrypted data, on a non-password protected USB stick, should be considered acceptable.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As Mobile Fraud Rises, The Password Persists. As a security analyst at the pioneering security firm Internet Security Systems (ISS) Caleb was happy to prove them wrong and turned what he learned exposing security weaknesses in corporate websites into a thriving business: SPI Dynamics, which was sold to HP in 2007.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Reddit seems to exclude a security breach of its systems, it pointed out that the root cause of the accounts lockdown is caused by the use of simple passwords on its website and from the reuse of those passwords on multiple services. I’m leaning toward the former.” ” wrote a Reddit user. ” explained the admin.

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SecureList

APRIL 17, 2023

A short look at QBot The banking Trojan QBot was detected for the first time in 2007. If the user complies, an archive will be downloaded from a remote server (compromised site), protected with a password given in the original PDF file. In 2021, we published a detailed QBot technical analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The APT41 group, aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. The attack took place in October 2022, threat actors sent phishing emails that contained links to a password-protected file hosted in Drive.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Now the Pakistani hacker claims to have stolen more than 218 million records from the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc. ” reported The Hacker News. .”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 8, 2022

The last time I can remember an all-out targeted attack on social media musicians was way back in 2007 during Ye Olde Myspace days. We’ve covered many Google-centric security concerns previously, but here’s some things you can do now to lock down your account: Create a strong password , and enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Too much lye in water could cause skin burns and rashes—something residents in a small town in Massachusetts had experienced when they had a water supply treatment problem back in 2007. Sheriff Gualtieri continues, “The hacker changed the sodium hydroxide from about 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

Earlier this week, a cybercriminal on a Dark Web forum posted an auction notice for access to a Web-based administrative panel for an unidentified “US Search center” that he claimed holds some four million customer records, including names, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. Jesse Willms’ Linkedin profile.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs. That’s why DataLocker built encryption into the storage device and made it accessible with password authentication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Winnti (aka APT41 , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly) is a cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. .” The attribution to the China-linked APT group is based on the analysis of the forensic artifacts. Attackers employed a sophisticated modular backdoor called Spyder to decrypt and load additional payloads.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. 2017 analysis of the RAT. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems. According to Rezvesz himself, he is no stranger to the Canadian legal system.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Developed by the SANS Institute in 2007, SIFT works on 64-bit OS, automatically updates the software with the latest forensic tools and techniques, and is a memory optimizer. The first version of Volatility was launched at Black Hat and DefCon in 2007 and based its services around academic research into advanced memory analysis and forensics.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2022

These communications on the backend of username and password login processes ensure users get authenticated by the overarching identity manager and authorized to use the given web service(s). led the way, the first two iterations of OIDC, OpenID, were released in 2006 and 2007 as alternative authentication protocols. While SAML 2.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. malware was used by threat actors to establish a backdoor in MSSQL Server 11 and 12 servers, allowing them to access to any account on the server using a “magic password.” The skip-2.0

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

OWASP security researchers have updated the organization’s list of the ten most dangerous vulnerabilities – and the list has a new number one threat for the first time since 2007. Insecure authentication process such as flawed account recovery or password reset, or insecure session tokens. No defense against directory traversal.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s unknown how the attackers were able to obtain the credentials for that account, but it’s possible the credentials were saved in one of the infected system’s browser password managers.” Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “a password-protected RAR archive containing a LNK file.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “One file contains a public SSL certificate and the payload of the file appears to be encoded with a password or key.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It was found in the wild in 2007 and since then it has been continually maintained and developed. logins, passwords, etc.), In some cases, the emails were delivered with Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel) or password-protected archives with the documents attached. Procedure that collects passwords from different sources.

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