Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? Image: Archive.org.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft today released updates to plug nearly 100 security holes in various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that is actively being exploited. It could be used to install malware just by getting a user to browse to a malicious or hacked Web site.

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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. A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S.

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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. remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. 2010 Vancouver. Not so much.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2020

The charges are that he actively helped the people who actually did the hacking: Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist played a "clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime." Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Like the United States, China is more likely to try to get data from the US communications infrastructure, or from the large Internet companies that already collect data on our every move as part of their business model. If there's any lesson from all of this, it's that everybody spies using the Internet. The United States does it.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites. “Online[.]io

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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. That search shows the user bo3dom registered at ipmart-forum.com with the email address devrian27@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The organization confirmed that it was the victim of the massive hacking campaign targeting Progress MOVEit transfer systems that was conducted by the Clop ransomware group. In June, the Clop ransomware group claimed to have hacked hundreds of companies globally by exploiting MOVEit Transfer vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Security researchers from ESET revealed that the infamous Russian hacker group known as Energetic Bear is behind the hack of two San Francisco International Airport (SFO) websites. The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2019

Computers, especially internet-connected computers, are inherently hackable, limiting the effectiveness of any procedures. And it's implemented by a computer, which makes it vulnerable to the same hacking that every other computer is vulnerable to. The best defense is to not have the vulnerability at all. Again, this is nothing new.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

“The report said that unidentified parties behind the cyberattacks used Internet Protocols in the Netherlands, Britain and the United States to stage the attacks.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarMarker). However, Iranian authorities always blame foreign hackers for the attacks on local critical infrastructure.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft is now offering the same patch for the no-longer-supported Exchange Server 2010. Following widespread hacking from the Hafnium group and, perhaps, other groups , Microsoft is now offering the same patch for the no-longer-supported Exchange Server 2010 that it introduced last week for all newer editions. Microsoft).

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. Routers are forever being hacked and infected, and used to infiltrate local networks. Number of router vulnerabilities according to cve.mitre.org, 2010–2022 ( download ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . Kersten discovered the compromised domains scanning the Internet with Urlscan.io for a known e-skimmer. SecurityAffairs – Magecart, hacking). ” reads the analysis published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

“The DCU has taken down 22 botnets since 2010. SecurityAffairs – LED light control consoles , hacking). These hackers are targeting the government and the technology industry, trying to steal and leak confidential information and launch full information warfare campaigns,” Microsoft concludes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Windows). .” Splwow64.exe Google experts have also shared a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for CVE-2020-17008. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The CVE-2019-1491 flaw affects Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2 and 2013 SP1 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019. SecurityAffairs – SharePoint, hacking). The flaw was reported by Saif ElSherei from the Microsoft Research Center’s Vulnerabilities and Mitigations Team.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

Onapsis set up honeypots to study the attacks against SAP installs and determined that the following vulnerabilities are being actively scanned for and exploited: • CVE-2010-5326 • CVE-2018-2380 • CVE-2016-3976 • CVE-2016-9563 • CVE-2020-6287 • CVE-2020-6207. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SAP systems). ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The exploitation of this vulnerability could cause major problems on the Internet. million servers running RPCBIND on the Internet. “We then decided to open a server with port 111 exposed on the Internet, with the same characteristics as those who were attacking us and we were monitoring that server for weeks.

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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

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Experts warn of an ongoing hacking campaign that already compromised at least nine organizations worldwide from critical sectors by exploiting CVE-2021-40539. 17 the actor leveraged leased infrastructure in the United States to scan hundreds of vulnerable organizations across the internet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2021-40539).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

Gyllensvaan “It’s a way to isolate corporate data from the device itself, so that even if the device gets hacked or becomes corrupt, the corporate data is still highly protected,” Gyllensvaan says. “So BYOD threw a monkey wrench into IT operations starting in 2010 or so. BYOD tensions Some historical context is needed here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

The vulnerability impacts Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” The researchers working with the peers at BinaryEdge discovered 220,000 Outlook Web Access installs exposed on the Internet, most are 2013, 2016, and 2019. “How many of these are vulnerable?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Due to our dependence on the internet for digital transformation, most people suffer from the risks of cyberattacks. According to IBM , the cost of cyber hacks in 2020 is about $3.86 Oftentimes, a cyber attack or cyber hack happens when people don’t know what’s happening in their gadgets. Article by Shiela Pulido.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

In 2010 SAP released another note, 14210054, that provides instructions on the correct configuration of Message Server ACL. Experts at Onapsis dubbed the exploits 10KBLAZE , they estimate that the availability of the hacking codes could significantly increase the number of attacks against SAP installs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom has been misdirecting Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The protocol Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) was released in 2010 and it is designed to implement a new generation of services for mobile applications. SecurityAffairs – SweynTooth, hacking). The group was composed of researchers Matheus E. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

The list of flaws addressed by the tech giant doesn’t include zero-days or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, 29 issues were rated as ‘Critical’ and affect Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers, Windows, Outlook and Office. This issue reminds us of the flaw exploited by the Stuxnet malware back in 2010.

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