Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

su, and that forum’s database says a user by the name “Damnating” registered with the forum in 2008 using the email address damnating@yandex.ru. As I explained earlier this year in The Wages of Password Re-use: Your Money or Your Life , it’s possible in many cases to make that connection thanks to two factors.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. In keeping with the overall theme, these phishing domains appear focused on stealing usernames and passwords to some of the cybercrime underground’s busiest shops, including Brian’s Club.

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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. An example seller’s panel at deer.io. Click image to enlarge.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2022

Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. In this campaign, the spam message contains an HTML file that has base64 encoded images and a password-protected ZIP file. The password-protected zip file contains an ISO file (i.e. Report Jul 14 47787.iso

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. back in 2008 (notice again the suspect “www” as part of the domain name).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Often, they start their journey by stealing an initial set of credentials or somehow spoofing the application or network so they don’t have to use a password at all. Credential Stuffing In a credential stuffing attack, a threat actor will attempt multiple commonly-used and known passwords, usernames, or both to see if they work.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. The most commonly used passwords today are, “password” and “123456,” and it only takes a hacker.29 In 2008, Myspace was the world’s largest social networking site. Each stolen record contained an email address and password.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

QBot has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials, and other financial information from the victims. “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.”

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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. com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova. DomainTools says myiptest[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

” DomainTools shows this website was registered in 2008 to a Yuri Churnov from Sevastpol, Crimea (prior to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the peninsula was part of Ukraine). frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.” The WHOIS records for autodoska[.]biz

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This week’s patch batch addresses two flaws of particular urgency: One is a zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2018-8589 ) that is already being exploited to compromise Windows 7 and Server 2008 systems. Of course, if the target has Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed, it might be easier for attackers to achieve that log in.

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NopSec

MAY 22, 2019

To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted request to the target systems Remote Desktop Service via RDP.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. Password Grabber Module – a large module that downloads Mimikatz and tries to harvest passwords.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

UTEL is a private Mexican university for online education founded in 2008. In regards to leaked credentials, two universities used default credentials for a given software package, and five used weak, guessable passwords. That could allow arbitrary admin account creation and access to files and personal information.

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

Systems Impacted: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 Windows 11 Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Read more : [link] [link] 2. The attack complexity is low, proof-of-concept code exists in the wild, and successful exploitation requires zero user interaction.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 27, 2021

This immutability can be assured by password protection and digital signing. The format’s popularity really took off when Adobe released it as an open standard in around 2008, which untethered it from the company’s Acrobat software. PDF security. Certified PDFs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. ” “The first module, called “grabber” by its author, is a standalone password stealer. It tries to harvest passwords from mail clients, browsers, etc., The issue resides in the way splwow64 (Thunking Spooler APIs) handles certain calls.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2021

The year was 2008. Joomla was plagued by vulnerabilities at that time, and someone managed to access the user database and crack the passwords. The password for my test account there.well, I was using it in some other places. It was my old password from before I started working with security. Management Lessons.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2021

Password managers play an important role in maintaining a strong security profile, and LastPass is certainly on our list of Best Password Managers & Tools for 2021. Alternative password managers offer a number of advantages over LastPass depending on your business needs. Read more: LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

A-Link WL54AP3 / WL54AP2 (CVE-2008-6823) D-Link DSL-2740R D-Link DIR 905L Medialink MWN-WAPR300 (CVE-2015-5996) Motorola SBG6580 Realtron Roteador GWR-120 Secutech RiS-11/RiS-22/RiS-33 (CVE-2018-10080) TP-Link TL-WR340G / TL-WR340GD TP-Link WR1043ND V1 (CVE-2013-2645). The latter attack hit websites worldwide.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

0patch will provide micropatches for Windows 7 and Server 2008 after EoS. Thinkful forces a password reset for all users after a data breach. Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you!

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2021

1Password and LastPass are probably at the top of your list for password managers , but which one is the best for you? They both do a great job of protecting your employees’ passwords and preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your business systems. Choosing the right password manager. User experience.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These services require various information from the user, such as username, password and payment information, and retain details of our interactions with the service. Covering 14 years from Q3 2008 to Q2 2022, the figures show that in the last quarter the number of monthly active users dropped for the first time.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. Postal Service are breaking federal law,” the joint USPS-FTC statement said. In that 1998 case, the defendants behind the scheme were taking out classified ads in newspapers. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. Tell me a little bit about the problems with passwords and how passwordless solves for them.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

exploit that could trigger an RCE in older versions of Windows (Windows XP to Server 2008 R2). Experts reported that the Beapy malware also uses the popular post-exploitation tool Mimikatz to steal passwords from Windows systems. Every Window machine running an old vulnerable version that exposes an SMB service is at risk of hack.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Dashlane and LastPass are two of the biggest names in password management software. They both provide businesses secure vaults for sensitive information, including passwords, credit card details, and personal identification numbers. It has long been regarded as a top password manager for both personal and professional use.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. or Windows Server (2008 R2 SP1, 2012 Gold) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was founded in 2008 and has since seen Azure surpass their market position. Since 2004, there have been 11,000 US data breaches. Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

When you add this type of data to cloud storage, ensure your account is protected with more than just a password. Since 2008, however, the United States has also taken an interest in this occurrence. For example, do not upload any private or confidential details, including photos, to publicly accessible websites.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

In total, we found nine auxiliary modules performing different malicious activities such as file gathering, keylogging, taking screenshots, recording the microphone and stealing passwords. Operation Groundbait was first described by ESET in 2016, with the first implants observed in 2008.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

Illustration : Adobe’s bold move during the 2008 crisis exemplifies this benefit. This process involves users providing at least two forms of identification, such as a password and a temporary authentication code. This flexibility enables organizations to redefine service offerings and stay agile.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

Traditionally this has involved various methods to retrieve plaintext passwords, hashes, or Kerberos keys/tickets. More historically, “back in the day” (think 2008) this was tokens, with Luke Jennings ’ original release of Incognito being a game changer. Luke Jennings ’ original 2008 paper on Incognito. Approaches. References.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2020

Our decoy is a Windows server 2008 with nothing particularly special about it beyond the fact that it is configured as a decoy. In one case, he attempted to download and execute code from an external site using an SSH password guessing attack, and in the other, he injected assembly code. First, it is fairly simplistic.

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