Krebs on Security
JANUARY 8, 2024
Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.
SecureList
JUNE 8, 2022
Number of router vulnerabilities according to cve.mitre.org, 2010–2022 ( download ). Number of router vulnerabilities according to nvd.nist.gov, 2010–2022 ( download ). search for smart devices with the default password in the summer of last year revealed more than 27,000 hits, a similar search in April 2022 returned only 851.
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Security Boulevard
APRIL 28, 2021
Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . BlackEnergy is a Trojan capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS), cyber espionage and information destruction attacks. Their tactics went beyond the typical DDoS attack.
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. “In early October, the Ukrainian surveillance team said they’d lost him,” he wrote.
Krebs on Security
MAY 13, 2024
used the password 225948. According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. and admin@stairwell.ru “P.S.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Even if one managed to steal (or guess) a user’s DirectConnection password, the login page could not be reached unless the visitor also possessed a special browser certificate that the forum administrator gave only to approved members. According to leaked ChronoPay emails from 2010, this domain was registered and paid for by ChronoPay.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 11, 2022
Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. was used to register three domains between 2008 and 2010: ddosis.ru , best-stalker.com , and cs-arena.org. “Come, rob, and get dough!
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