Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries. A German User’s Account. An Australian User’s Account. Scams, Phishing and Malware. Account Takeover. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Exchange). Who is FBS.

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Passwords Accountability Media Identity Theft 121

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.”

Identity Theft 71

Identity Theft Scams Advertising Risk 71

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group , then it published online the data dump called “ Lost in Translation.” The DarkUniverse has been active at least from 2009 until 2017. Attackers used C2 servers on cloud storage at mydrive.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. Vulnerabilities like the one mentioned above enable cybercriminals to hack into users’ devices, and steal their most sensitive data, that is, medical information. From June to December of 2021, we found more than 150,000 phishing attacks that used the medical theme.

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Phishing Healthcare IoT Authentication 128

Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Qbot , aka Qakbot , is a data stealer worm with backdoor capabilities that was first detected by Symantec back in 2009. ” The malware is distributed through phishing attacks that attempt to trick victims into visiting websites that use exploits to inject Qbot via a dropper. The campaign targets 36 different U.S.

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Banking Malware Advertising Financial Services 98

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The US-CERT has released a joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and the Treasury warning about a new ATM cash-out scheme, dubbed “ FASTCash ,” being used by the prolific North Korean APT hacking group known as Hidden Cobra (aka Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace).

Banking 86

Banking Retail Advertising Malware 86

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The modern era of mass data breaches perhaps began in 2009, with the hack of 32 million account credentials held by software developer RockYou, in which a SQL injection attack revealed that passwords were simple held in cleartext in a database table. The following year saw a leak from Gawker Media’s servers, with another 1.5

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Passwords Internet Internet Data breaches 99

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. .

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Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money.

Banking 274

Banking Small Business Accountability Cybercrime 274

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. SecurityAffairs – PLATINUM APT, hacking). Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Encryption 68

Encryption Government Advertising Cyber Attacks 68

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

But in more recent years, Wazawaka has focused on peddling access to organizations and to databases stolen from hacked companies. Over the past ten years, his contact information has been used to register numerous phishing domains intended to siphon credentials from people trying to transact on various dark web marketplaces.

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DDOS Accountability Cybercrime Ransomware 269

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

From 2009 to the present, Aqua’s primary role in the conspiracy was recruiting and managing a continuous supply of unwitting or complicit accomplices to help Evil Corp. ” Only, in every case the company mentioned as the “client” was in fact a small business whose payroll accounts they’d already hacked into.

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Cybercrime Banking Small Business Accountability 226

Malwarebytes

APRIL 12, 2023

The Guardian, which operates one of the most visited websites in the world, described the incident as a “highly sophisticated cyberattack involving unauthorised third-party access to parts of our network”, most likely triggered by a successful phishing attempt.

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Ransomware Education Accountability Backups 74

Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

There was a time when stolen gaming accounts were almost treated as a fact of life. Console hacks weren’t taken particularly seriously. Gaming accounts had an essence of innate disposability to them, even if this wasn’t the case (how disposable is that gamertag used to access hundreds of dollars worth of gaming content)?

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Accountability Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 71

SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

As it stands, health care entities are regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rule. Kroger is also required to monitor the dark web for indications of fraudulent activity, stemming from the data stolen during the Accellion hack.

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Data breaches Insurance Risk Ransomware 111

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site launched in 2009. And with good reason — sex sells (the second most-read piece here was my 2015 scoop about the Ashley Madison hack ).

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Phishing Scams Passwords Password Management 146

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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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135