Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. Intel 471 found that Kerens used the email address pepyak@gmail.com , which also was used to register Kerens accounts on the Russian language hacking forums Verified and Damagelab.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It is believed that the hacking group, which has been operating since 2009, is a state-sponsored group working for China. Thrip, Lotus Blossom, Spring Dragon) is responsible for a campaign that targeted a certificate authority, government agencies, and defense organizations in multiple countries in Asia.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 22, 2019

More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia : Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009 on a multitude of projects since 2009 for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, the timestamp for Mr. Carter’s inbox reads August 2009, but clicking that inbox revealed messages as recent as Feb. Wireless employees were published in clear text on the Internet. The timestamps listed do not appear to be accurate somehow. Within minutes of that notification, U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. The post NASA hacked!

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

. “The state is committed to bringing to justice anyone who hacked our systems or anyone who aided them to do so,” Parson said in October. They had no authorization to convert or decode, so this was clearly a hack.” “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Megatraffer has been active on more than a half-dozen crime forums from September 2009 to the present day. In November 2009, Fitis wrote, “I am the perfect criminal. WHO IS MEGATRAFFER? And on most of these identities, Megatraffer has used the email address 774748@gmail.com.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The popular investigator Brian Krebs reported that Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted in 2014 that Tank told co-conspirators in a JabberZeus chat on July 22, 2009 that his daughter, Miloslava, was and told him Miloslava birth weight.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

According to the researchers, almost any mobile phone model is vulnerable to the SimJacker attack because it leverages a component on SIM cards and its specifications are the same since 2009. SecurityAffairs – SimJacker, hacking). ” states the post. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach) The post Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Education Data breaches Ransomware Hacking 93

Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

The company pointed out that it is impossible to change gas mix parameters on systems manufactured after 2009, only older devices are affected by the issues. SecurityAffairs – anesthesia machines, hacking). The post Severe vulnerabilities allow hacking older GE anesthesia machines appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

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 post Symantec shared details of North Korean Lazarus’s FastCash Trojan used to hack banks appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

“It’s worth pointing out that the wallet address is the miner reward receiving address of the Bitcoin Genesis Block , which occurred on January 3, 2009, and is believed to be held by Nakamoto.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, domain name system). .” reads the analysis published by the researchers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

NHK, a Japan-based news resource, has published that a cyber attack launched by a hacking group linked to Chinese military targeted nearly 200 research firms and institutions from Japan. TICK, a hacking group funded by People’s Liberation Army is said to be involved in the attack and is reported to be active since 2009.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Darkode was taken down in 2015 as part of an FBI investigation sting operation , but screenshots of the community saved by this author show that DCReavers2 was already well known to the Darkode founders when his membership to the forum was accepted in May 2009. DCReavers2 was just the 22nd account to register on the Darkode cybercrime forum.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Cyclone). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021.

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Banking Marketing DDOS Risk 185

Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

The reporting of security incidents has been part of the EU’s regulatory framework for telecoms since the 2009 reform of the telecoms package. SecurityAffairs – hacking, telecom security incidents). Only 22% of incidents were reported as being related to third-party failures compared to 29%. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Authentication Hacking Accountability Information Security 98

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

The library has been active since 2009, it offers e-book files in a variety of file formats, stripped of their copyright protections. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized multiple domains used by the illegal shadow eBook library Z-Library. Z-Library operates as a complex network of approximately 249 interrelated web domains.

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Accountability Hacking Cybersecurity Cybercrime 90

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

billion Aadhaars issued by the UIDAI since this ID service launched in 2009, this system represents one of the largest biometric ID programs on the planet, according to a report published by think tank Brookings Institution. With roughly 1.4

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2022

The flaw, dubbed PwnKit, was introduced more than 12 years ago (May 2009) since the initial commit of pkexec, this means that all the versions are affected. SecurityAffairs – hacking, PwnKit). Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component used to controll system-wide privileges in Unix-like OS. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2019

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2009-0692 , could be exploited by an attacker to crash the ISC DHCP client and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client. Avaya did not address the vulnerability issue in some of its VoIP devices by applying the necessary patches that were released after the discovery of the flaw in 2009.

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Firmware IoT Advertising Software 89

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Related: How bots fuel ‘business logic’ hacking. This distortion method to fool the bot’s OCR (Optical Character Recognition) was actually a big innovation back then, which convinced Google to purchase the reCAPTCHA company back in 2009, and reCAPTCHA v1 continues to be reliable and popular throughout the 2010s.

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Internet Internet Technology Hacking 133

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Cybercrime Banking Computers and Electronics DDOS 198

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The group (also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , MenuPass group, Bronze Riverside, and Cloud Hopper ) has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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Technology Hacking Passwords Software 98

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The two individuals, Aleksandr Skorodumov (33) of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi (30) of Estonia, administrated the bulletproof hosting service between 2009 and 2015. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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System Administration Malware Accountability Marketing 104

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The group, also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , and Cloud Hopper , has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Manufacturing Hacking Engineering Malware 109

Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

In November 2021, Taiwanese government representatives revealed that around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DDOS Government Cyber Attacks Hacking 92

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, supply chain attack). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware System Administration Hacking Media 107

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, SIM swapping). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. The post CISA urges to fix actively exploited Firefox zero-days by March 21 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So how hard is it to hack APIs? In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. I mean, how hard is it even to hack an API.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So how hard is it to hack APIs? In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. I mean, how hard is it even to hack an API.

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Authentication Internet 52

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

Founded in 2009, the company provides luggage and passenger transportation services on many popular hiking routes, including the famous Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail. The Cybernews research team has discovered a data leak on La Malle Postale’s system that exposed the personal data of their clients.

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Passwords Identity Theft Scams Social Engineering 96

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea). If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus APT). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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