Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. It was also the first major Olympics event where organizers braced for hacking related impact.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks. This quickly gets intricately technical. Branching attacks.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. BEGINNINGS.

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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. bank accounts. The domain wmpay.ru

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SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2020

If you've heard any statements about Twitter over the last few days, they've probably included the words "hack," "verified users," "cryptocurrency," and potentially "Kanye West.". SecureWorld recently covered the news about Twitter's widespread celebrity account hijacking. Why did @6 get hacked? Now, we have a few updates.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” ” In July 2022, Schulte was found guilty in a New York federal court of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks in 2017. . District Judge Jesse M.

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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. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

According to the company, threat actors have stolen data of individuals employed between July 1, 2010, and December 12, 2021. According to the company, threat actors likely accessed files containing direct deposit bank account information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. com (2017).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Rapid7 reported that 87% of almost 138,000 Exchange 2016 servers and 77% of around 25,000 Exchange 2019 servers are still vulnerable to CVE-2020-0688 attacks, and roughly 54,000 Exchange 2010 servers have not been updated in six years. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Exchange). “Unfortunately, as of our study on Sept.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

Matthew Keys, a former Reuters journalist, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with an attack on a magazine. When Keys left Tribune Company-owned Sacramento KTXL Fox 40 in 2010, he shared login credentials of the CMS used by the website with members of Anonymous.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

“Taking account of all of the information available to him, he considered Mr Assange’s risk of suicide to be very high should extradition become imminent. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Julian Assange). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2020

2020 – A zero-day vulnerability in the ThemeREX Addons was actively exploited by hackers in the wild to create user accounts with admin permissions. March 2010 – A critical privilege escalation flaw in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin can allow registered users to gain administrator privileges. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 25, 2021

A data broker who allegedly hacked adult chat and web-streaming website MyFreeCams.com has sold nearly 2 million user records on a dark web forum, CyberNews researchers have discovered. After selling the stolen records, he immediately deleted his account and post from the forum.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Both require threat actors to steal credentials or perform some other kind of attack to gain access to the privileged account. Vertical Privilege Escalation Vertical privilege escalation involves a threat actor traveling from a lower-level account to a higher-level account.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

US Department of Justice announced indictments against 5 Chinese nationals alleged members of a state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41. In August 2010, the same federal jury announced an indictment that charges Malaysian businessmen Wong Ong Hua, 46, and Ling Yang Ching, 32, for conspiring with two of the Chinese hackers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

VPN bulletproof services are widely adopted by cybercrime organizations to carry out malicious activities, including ransomware and malware attacks, e-skimming breaches, spear-phishing campaigns, and account takeovers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, VPN). ” reads the press release published by the Europol. day to $190/year.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued Thallium North Korea-linked APT for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. 27 in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. Guerrero-Saade discovered that the SIG37 campaign references hacking activities dated back as far as 2008 that was carried out by an unknown threat actor, the expert tracked it as Nazar.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Uyghurs). Record phone calls. Take pictures. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

Furthermore, attackers used proof-of-concept code to attack SAP systems, but also brute-force attacks to take over high-privileged SAP user accounts. The goal of these attacks was to take full control of an SAP deployment in order to modify configurations and user accounts to exfiltrate business information. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

District Court for the District of New Jersey charging Kovalev with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and eight counts of bank fraud in connection with a series of intrusions into victim bank accounts held at various U.S.-based based financial institutions that occurred in 2009 and 2010, predating his involvement in Dyre or the Trickbot Group.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 24, 2022

He was the most prominent member of the high-profile hacker think tank the L0pht, as well as the computer and culture hacking cooperative the Cult of the Dead Cow. The 2020 Twitter hack was one of the main reasons for Twitter to hire Zatko, who previously held senior roles at Google, Stripe, and the US Department of Defense.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Knowing them, a threat actor could be able to hijack the session and therefore the account. If attackers had access to this key, they could create an admin account and have privileged access to a website. The unidentified hackers allegedly attempted to map the company’s computer system between 2009 and 2010.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010. It’s notable that hacks to gain access to, and maintain control of, industrial control systems are a recurring theme in cyber warfare. One prime demonstration of U.S. That was a glitch. drone fired on Gen.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

On May 19, 2010, ZDI published an advisory after that threat actors exploited the flaw in the wild in a campaign tracked as “ Operation PowerFall.” The flaw could allow installing malicious programs, view, change, or delete data, and create new accounts with full user rights. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Windows).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Researchers from MalwareBytes and HYAS Threat Intelligence linked one of the hacking groups under the Magecart umbrella to the notorious Cobalt cybercrime Group. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. ” reads the blog post published by MalwareBytes. ” continues the experts. .

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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. The Department is notifying the impacted customers, potentially affected users have to carefully monitor their accounts. SecurityAffairs – Maryland Depar t ment of Labor , hacking).

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day, Exploitations Led by Hafnium.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

The service, which accepts PayPal, Bitcoin and all major credit cards, is aimed primarily at enterprises engaged in repetitive, automated activity that often results in an IP address being temporarily blocked — such as data scraping, or mass-creating new accounts at some service online. pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 7, 2023

That piece explored how Biderman — who is Jewish — had become the target of concerted harassment campaigns by anti-Semitic and far-right groups online in the months leading up to the hack. Whoever hacked Ashley Madison had access to all employee emails, but they only released Biderman’s messages — three years worth.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2019

Bulgaria has extradited a Russian hacker that was indicted by a US court for mounting a sophisticated hacking scheme to the United States. The experts discovered that crooks used over 60,000 accounts selling ad inventory generating a record of 3 to 12 billion of daily ad bid requests. ” reported the AFP.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The German ID cards issued since November 1st, 2010, store holder’s information (i.e. When the user creates an account, the pseudonym is stored by the web application. The account creation step, however, is still affected by this vulnerability as the attacker could simply generate a random pseudonym. tax service).

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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