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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Recorded Future, founded in 2009, has made its name in recent years by harnessing AI to provide real-time threat detection and predictive analytics. In the face of increasingly sophisticated threats such as ransomware, supply chain attacks, and nation-state-backed hacking groups , traditional cybersecurity methods are struggling to keep up.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2024

Shadowserver researchers have scanned the Internet for instances vulnerable to CVE-2024-21894 and reported that about 16,500 are still vulnerable. Most of the vulnerable systems are in the US (4686 at the time of this writing), followed by Japan (2009), and UK (1032).

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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. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Orange Belgium is using Huawei equipment since 2007 for its mobile network in Belgium and Luxembourg, while the collaboration between Proximus and the Shenzhen-based company started in 2009 for the progressive upgrading of its network. The Chinese giant was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 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. “North Korea’s intelligence apparatus controls a hacking team dedicated to robbing banks through remote internet access.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Most of us internet users are obviously familiar with CAPTCHAs: a challenge or test that is designed to filter out bots (automated programs) and only allow legitimate human users in. Related: How bots fuel ‘business logic’ hacking. That is, however, no longer the case.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

“Internet users found that 538 million Weibo user records are being sold on dark web marketplace. Weibo is a popular Chinese micro-blogging ( weibo ) website, it was launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it claimed over 445 million monthly active users as of Q3 2018. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Meanwhile, the advanced hacking collectives invest in innovation and press forward. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. 2017: WannaCry – Attackers leverage hacking tools stolen from the NSA.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2019

SyTech , a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has been hacked, attackers stole data about interna l projects. Attackers have hacked SyTech, a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and exfiltrated data about interna l projects. ” continues CrimeRussia.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. SecurityAffairs – hacking, undersea cables). ” reported The Sunday Times. Source [link]. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

.” The malware was able to steal data from both office IT networks and a restricted network (one containing mission-critical assets and computers with highly sensitive data and no internet access). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus). If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

” Threat actors accessed to files stored in the Literacy Works Information System that are dated back 2009, 2010, and 2014. . SecurityAffairs – Maryland Depar t ment of Labor , hacking). ” reads the data breach notice published by the Maryland Department. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows slap Internet giants on the face”. You may not remember your MySpace password from 2008, but the Internet does: 360 million email addresses and passwords were allegedly offered for sale last year.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

In 2005 the company released the security note 8218752 and in 2009 released the security note 14080813 containing instructions on how to properly configure the access list for Gateway. Researchers also found many SAP systems exposed on the internet that could be hit by remote, unauthenticated attackers.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

The APT3 cyberespionage group had been active since at least 2009 and its last operation was uncovered in mid-2017. In 2010, security vendor FireEye identified the Pirpi Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which exploited a then 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Dashlane advantages: security, UX, and SSO.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 , has “been hiding in plain sight” for more than 12 years and infects all versions of polkit’s pkexec since it was first developed in 2009, Bharat Jogi, director of vulnerability and threat research at Qualys, wrote in a blog post. In the Wake of Log4j. through 2.14.1.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in cyber-criminal campaigns, to modern cyber arsenal like the Sofacy one. Introduction. Figure 4: Bot’s registration on the C2. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2018

An attacker that is able to compromise a vulnerable device like a home router could use it as an entry point in a target network and hack other devices. Below the recomendations included in the ICS-CERT alert: Minimize network exposure for all control system devices and/or systems, and ensure that they are not accessible from the Internet.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Paper ballots can be miscounted or lost and DRE machines are susceptible to hacking and software errors. Only the final tally is decrypted, ensuring that individual votes remain confidential throughout the process (Gentry, 2009). Security analysis of the Estonian internet voting system. Princeton University Press. Alvarez, R.

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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.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. For the user, this means that if the wearable device is openly connected to the internet, then attackers can easily intercept the data it sends. Moreover, it’s likely that cybercriminals will try to hack telehealth services. Source: HIPAA Journal.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Additionally, the company should consider whether the platform needs to be accessible through the internet or only through a VPN, which would provide an additional layer of security. The unidentified hackers allegedly attempted to map the company’s computer system between 2009 and 2010.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

For example, the “Common SMB module” that was part of the WannaCry Ransomware (2017) was similar to the code used the malware Mydoom (2009), Joanap , and DeltaAlfa.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 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. The malware can also get proxy settings from Internet Explorer. This C2 encrypts data with the same key as the C&C requests.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2023, the BBC reported on 14 schools in the UK that were attacked by Vice Society including Carmel College, St Helens, Durham Johnston Comprehensive School (hacked in 2021, documents posted online in January 2022), and Frances King School of English, London/Dublin. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry. Detect intrusions.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. The results can be massive enough to bring down parts of the internet.

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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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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. That last domain was originally registered in 2009 to a Mikhail P. “Come, rob, and get dough!,” “Show them who is boss.” Matveyev , in Abakan, Khakassia.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

In February 2009, at Shmoocon, BackTrack 4 “Beta” was released using Ubuntu. A graphical one happened in BackTrack 4 “Pre-Final” in June 2009. At one stage, Wireless hacking “was the thing”, so we needed to support injection on as many cards as possible.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. Another word for a strategy like this is a “hack.” ” Hacks follow the rules of a system but subvert their intent.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

And, in fact, cyber ops tradecraft has advanced in sophistication in lock step with our deepening reliance on the commercial Internet. The Obama sanctions ultimately linked both Bogachev and Belan to the hack of the Democratic National Committee and several other organizations at the center of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

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