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. Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lazarus hacking group aka APT group from North Korea has hit the news headlines for launching a supply chain attack on a software company operating in lines with US Technology firms SolarWinds and Kaseya firms. The post Lazarus Group North Korea strikes South Korean software firm appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

NATO Chief calls for a new strategic to mitigate the risks related to the threats to the rising technologies, new forms of terrorism, and the role of China. “My thought is that the existing Strategic Concept, which we agreed in 2010, has served NATO well. SecurityAffairs – hacking, K-Electric). ” Stoltenberg added.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

One year later, in June 2010, the expert discovered that Cisco had not addressed the vulnerabilities exposing its customers to the risk of a hack, then he reported his findings to the FBI. million fine for selling flawed surveillance technology to the US Gov appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. com , a malware-based proxy network that has been in existence since at least 2010. Image: Spur.us.

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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. One such site — sun-technology[.]net

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

US and Japanese authorities warn that a China-linked APT BlackTech planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to hack the businesses in both countries. BlackTech is a Chinese APT group that has been active since at least 2010 and that known for conducting cyber espionage campaigns in Asia aimed at entities in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Most of DCReavers’s posts on Darkode appear to have been removed by forum administrators early on (likely at DCReavers’ request), but the handful of posts that survived the purge show that more than a decade ago DCReavers2 was involved in running botnets, or large collections of hacked computers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Group is independent since June 2010 following the split with Accor. announces that on November 21, 2019 it was subject to a malware infection on its information technology systems. SecurityAffairs – malware, hacking). Edenred is a French company specialized in prepaid corporate services. In 2018, the Group managed 2.5

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

Lazarus Group, a group of cyber criminals apparently funded by the North Korea government, hacked into a crypto wallet of a video game maker from the United States to steal $620m worth Ethereum. They have been indulging in cyber attacks since 2010 and the US Intelligence community recognizes this gang of notorious criminals as Hidden Cobra.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Meanwhile, the chairman of China's technology giant Huawei has pointed to NSA spying disclosed by Edward Snowden as a reason to mistrust US technology companies. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. That's an easier, and more fruitful, attack path.

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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. 35, with 25, carried out cyber attacks on high-technology and similar organizations and video game companies. 37, they were operating for a Chinese company named Chengdu 404 Network Technology.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

As with most advances in automotive, this technology started at the higher end models. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. And in this episode, I'm talking about hacking Tesla's or rather new product called Tesla key that prevents somebody from hacking into cars.

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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 Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

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. According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group , about 88–92% of total email messages in 2010 are spam. million confidential corporate information.

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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. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT). “The malicious activity was conducted between June 2019 and March 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. Analyzing the attacks revealed malware samples linked to DRBControl , a campaign described earlier this year in a report from Trend Micro and attributed to APT27 and Winnti, both groups active since at least 2010 and associate with Chinese hackers.

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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 ). Distribution of router vulnerabilities by priority, 2021 ( download ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

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 over the past five years while targeting entities in Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. SecurityAffairs – Naikon, hacking). ” reads a report published by CheckPoint. ” continues the report.

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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. . ” 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).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Iron Tiger APT (aka Panda Emissary , APT27 , Bronze Union , Lucky Mouse , and TG-3390) is active at least since 2010 and targeted organizations in APAC, but since 2013 it is attacking high-technology targets in the US. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Iron Tiger). ” concludes the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. invest in better endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology, apparently recommending Cylance or VMware Carbon Black. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Apple continues to be haunted by spyware developed by an Israeli security firm that hostile governments used to hack into Apple devices to spy on journalists, activists and world leaders (see Apple Security Under Scrutiny Amid Fallout from NSO Spyware Scandal ). ” NSO Group Faces Skeptics. ” NSO Group Faces Skeptics.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. At that time back in 2010. Daniel: I spoke to some folks to do a lot of maritime cybersecurity and industrial control, a kind of technology security in the maritime industry, both for the arts as well as commercial stuff.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

The Safran Group is also involved in developing cutting-edge technologies beyond aviation, such as modules currently in use in the James Webb Telescope, the world’s largest optical telescope in space. The unidentified hackers allegedly attempted to map the company’s computer system between 2009 and 2010.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

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. “The DCU has taken down 22 botnets since 2010. SecurityAffairs – LED light control consoles , hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind, and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. And that's useful when you're hacking, that's what hackers need to be right they need to be creative. And they attack the problem differently. That said, hackers will be hackers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2019

According to the experts the cyber espionage operations begun in January 2010, after the state-owned enterprise Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) selected U. Security researchers at Crowdstrike conducted long-running cyber-espionage operations aimed at various aerospace firms. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Garbelini , Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and Chundong Wang from the Singapore University of Technology and Design. 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). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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The Security Ledger

APRIL 2, 2019

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

According to the cyber intelligence company Intel 471 , a user named Acidut with the email address iulyan87_4u@gmail.com had an active presence on almost a dozen shadowy money-making and cybercrime forums from 2010 to 2017, including BlackHatWorld , Carder[.]pro pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites. ” A teaser from Irish Tech News.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

The Emissary Panda APT (aka LuckyMouse , APT27, Threat Group 3390, and Bronze Union) has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. The malware includes the well-known HTran packet redirection tool and was signed with digital certificates that were signed by Hangzhou Shunwang Technology.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I met Palantir Technologies where I was introduced to the Intelligence Ecosystem. Stage4 is pretty interesting per-se.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

During the carnival of 2016, a Brazilian bank realized that their ATMs had been hacked, with all the cash contained in those machines stolen. The backdoor would allow the attacker to empty the ATM socket by launching the malware interface and typing a code supplied by the mastermind, the code being specific to each ATM being hacked.

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