Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. Plain Text (base64) Passwords.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group, based on observed tradecraft, infrastructure, malware patterns, and account affiliations.” Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

-based financial institutions that occurred in 2009 and 2010, predating his involvement in Dyre or the Trickbot Group. Valentin Karyagin has been involved in the development of ransomware and other malware projects. Maksim Mikhailov has been involved in development activity for the Trickbot Group.

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Banking Ransomware Cybercrime Malware 83

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Experts noticed the group since around mid-2016 when it was using PlugX, ChChes, Quasar and RedLeaves malware in targeted attacks. The ANEL malware was already seen in the previous attack as a beta version or release candidate. The body of the messages includes a password to use to see the password-protected document.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

. “A collaborative investigation with two of the affected European companies allowed us to gain insight into the operation and uncover previously undocumented malware.” The activity of the Lazarus APT group (aka HIDDEN COBRA ) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

The activity of the Lazarus Group (aka BlueNoroff and Hidden Cobra ) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. Seven of these files are proxy applications that mask traffic between the malware and the remote operators.

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Malware Advertising Cryptocurrency Passwords 82

Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

“The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S. ” The report attributed the cyberespionage campaign to the China-linked APT10 (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda), the same group recently accused of hacking telco operators worldwide. SecurityAffairs – Cloud Hopper, hacking).

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Identity Theft Hacking System Administration Advertising 81

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 hides at every step by mimicking common software (protection related, sound software , DVD video creation tools).”

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

He argued that security works when it costs €100,000 for spyware to hack into a politician’s iPhone. Passwords – and people’s tendency to reuse them – aren’t keeping people secure enough. Passwords are effectively a house key. It’s a message that organisers Irisscert have promoted since the very first IRISSCON back in 2009.

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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. Moreover, it’s likely that cybercriminals will try to hack telehealth services.

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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. Tank, a.k.a.

Banking 269

Banking Small Business Accountability Cybercrime 269

Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2022

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and was released for public use as open-source software in 2009. One misconception about cryptocurrency is that threat actors hack cryptocurrencies or blockchains themselves – this is not true. A Growing Number of Different Cryptocurrencies Lend to an Expanding Attack Surface.

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Cyber Attacks Cryptocurrency Marketing Software 98

Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. It remains unclear how many individuals were active in the core GandCrab malware development team. of GandCrab.

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Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Passwords 255

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. Those three passwords were used by one or all of Wazawaka’s email addresses on the crime forums over the years, including wazawaka@yandex.ru , mixseo@mail.ru , mixseo@yandex.ru , mixfb@yandex.ru.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The feds allege Aqua led an elite cybercrime ring with at least 16 others who used advanced, custom-made strains of malware known as “ JabberZeus ” and “ Bugat ” (a.k.a. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money. Here’s where it got interesting.

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Cybercrime Banking Small Business Accountability 222

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Vamosi: Welcome to The Hacker Mind and original podcast from ForAllSecure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. One is to attack the compromised computers themselves to block or remove the actual malware, but after more than 20 years, the anti malware approach clearly isn't working.

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IoT DDOS Malware Internet 52

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. .

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

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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