2010, Encryption and Social Engineering

Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ghost ransomware actors, identified as operating from China, have been targeting unpatched systems and stolen credentials to infiltrate networks, encrypt data, and demand ransom payments. Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering.

Ransomware

Ransomware IoT Encryption Social Engineering

How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That’s a minor coup for a company launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers for the purposes of granting discounts for veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. . We encrypt all that stuff down to the file level with keys that rotate and expire every 24 hours.

Scams

Scams Insurance DDOS Authentication

OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 In response to the POST request, the C2 server returns a blob containing an encrypted second stage payload. Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 3BA945FD2C123FEC74EFDEA042DDAB4EB697677C600F83C87E07F895FB1B55E2. 2021-Dec-21 09:44:08. PE32+ executable (DLL) (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows.

Encryption

Encryption Spyware Malware Software

Prilex: the pricey prickle credit card complex

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The first two samples had 2010/2011 as the compilation date, as shown on the graph below. SPSniffer , which we described in 2010: both families are able to intercept signals from PIN pads , but use different approaches in doing so. Sometimes the traffic is not even encrypted. We saw a weak link with the old Trojan-Spy.Win32.SPSniffer

Malware

Malware Banking Software Encryption

Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

Cybercrime

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking

LRQA Nettitude’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence

LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

Safeguarding data privacy involves implementing measures such as: Anonymization and pseudonymization : Removing or encrypting personally identifiable information (PII) from datasets to prevent the identification of individuals.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Data privacy Social Engineering Risk

6 Dangerous Microsoft Office 365 Security Concerns for Business

Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Using Outdated Software – companies pay about $36 295 to return their data from hacker By “software” we mean using old versions of Office like Office 2007 / 2010 / 2013 and not checking for the system updates and patches in Office 365. Cybercriminals can sell you information or encrypt it with ransomware to demand money.

Passwords

Passwords Data breaches Backups Authentication

Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

With the launch the first stable release of BackTrack 4 in January 2010, the project got its own domain ( backtrack-linux.org ) and moved off remote-exploit. As this was not a “Long-Term Support” (LTS) release, upstream would only support it until April 2010 - one year & six months.

InfoSec

InfoSec Penetration Testing Architecture Software

MY TAKE: How state-backed cyber ops have placed the world in a constant-state ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’

The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

The Obama sanctions helped security analysts and the FBI piece together how Bogachev, around 2010, began running unusual searches on well-placed PCs he controlled, via Gameover Zeus infections. Then somewhere along the way, Bogachev commenced moonlighting as a cyber spy for the Russian government. That was a glitch. Talk more soon.

IoT

IoT Hacking Banking Government

History of Computer Hacking and Cybersecurity Threats: From the 50s to Today

ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Mitnick was known for his social engineering skills, which he used to trick employees into divulging sensitive information or passwords. The most famous example of this was the Stuxnet worm , which was discovered in 2010 and was believed to have been created by the US and Israeli governments to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

Hacking

Hacking Cybersecurity Internet Internet

Weathering Russian Winter: The Current State of Russian APTs

Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Though APTs were regularly seen from then on inside the industry, the term didn’t gain public consciousness until an attack on Google servers in 2010 , the fault of which was assigned to Chinese APTs. Social engineering training. From then on, APT became a heavily used, marketable term. Monitoring. Regular patching.

Social Engineering

Social Engineering Backups Malware Ransomware

The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. Stuxnet , discovered in 2010, was the first documented attempt by sovereign nations to use malware to attack other sovereign nations. It later evolved to also include file encryption.