Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft has taken control of 42 web domains that a hacking group was using to try to breach its targets. Sadly, any setback to the Chinese hacking group or others will likely be temporary as the hackers will find and build new infrastructure to use in forthcoming attacks. An overview of Chinese hacking groups and their aliases.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. But the identity and whereabouts of Icamis have remained a mystery to this author until recently.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

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 ). Number of router vulnerabilities according to nvd.nist.gov, 2010–2022 ( download ). search results for “default password” in June 2021.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. In March, Joshua Schulte , a former CIA software engineer that was accused of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks, was convicted of only minor charges.

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Energetic Bear). The post FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 found that Internet address also was used to register the account “Nordex” on the Russian hacking forum Exploit back in 2006.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Samide and other experts say what’s coming next is very likely to be a series of varied attacks as combatants on all sides leverage footholds gained from ongoing intelligence gathering and malware planting. cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Often, they start their journey by stealing an initial set of credentials or somehow spoofing the application or network so they don’t have to use a password at all. Process Injection When threat actors inject malicious code into a standard computing process while it runs, they disguise the malware.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted s LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

The Naikon APT group is a China-linked cyber espionage group that has been active at least since 2010 and that remained under the radar since 2015 while targeting entities in Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. . The malware gains persistence by adding a new registry key to automatically execute the malicious code on system restarts after login.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

Security researchers are monitoring a new hacking campaign aimed at Joomla and WordPress websites, attackers used.htaccess injector for malicious redirect. The website was used by attackers to redirect traffic to advertising sites that attempted to deliver malware. htaccess, hacking). htaccess code injection. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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. review Active Directory password policy. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. The modules also used the Scanline network scanner to find file shares (port 135, Server Message Block, SMB) used to spread malware with administrative passwords, compromised with keyloggers. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide.

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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.

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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. Tank, a.k.a. “The Americans were unhappy, and a little surprised.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. For starters, the text string “Rescator” was found in some of the malware used in the Target breach.

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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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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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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. KdcSponge allows capturing the domain name, username, and password. The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

Stolen records belong to 2 million user records of MyFreeCams Premium members, they include usernames, email addresses, MyFreeCams Token (MFC Token) amounts, and passwords in plain text. In response to the incident, MyFreeCams reset the passwords of impacted users. SecurityAffairs – hacking, MyFreeCams). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Stealers" are a kind of malware designed to run on an endpoint post-compromise, while their primary features center on the theft of user data. Together with our colleagues at InQuest, we present a deep dive technical analysis of the malware. The same way you do in the real world – the market becomes flooded.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware. On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing. Looking to Protect Yourself Against Malware?

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. The number of products connected to the internet surpassed the number of people on the planet somewhere between 2008 and 2010 and is expected to exceed 75 billion by 2025.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 12, 2022

For nine years, between 2010 to 2019, Robert Davies used malware to infiltrate his targets’ devices and access their data without them knowing. If your webcam has a password, change it from the default to a long and complicated one. Instant messengers (IMs) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) apps.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

All sites incorporated the archaic FCKeditor plug-in, which stopped receiving support in 2010. The fix: To eliminate malware infections, perform a factory reset, upgrade to the latest firmware, change all default usernames and passwords, and adjust firewall rules to block exposure to unwanted remote management services.

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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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