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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.” relied on the passwords asus666 and 01091987h. also used the password 24587256.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. Gmail’s password recovery function says the backup email address for devrian27@gmail.com is bo3 *@gmail.com.

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FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack

Security Affairs

has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. This advisory updates another joint CISA-FBI cybersecurity advisory, which warned of attackers combining VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to target government networks. printing access badges.

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A chink in the armor of China-based hacking group Nickel

Malwarebytes

The group’s activities have been traced back to 2010 when it performed a cyberespionage campaign directed at diplomatic organizations and missions in Europe. For lateral movement the DCU saw Nickel actors using Mimikatz, WDigest, NTDSDump, and other password dumping tools during attacks. Targets, methods, and techniques.

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Microsoft disrupts China-based hacking group Nickel

Malwarebytes

The group’s activities have been traced back to 2010 when it performed a cyberespionage campaign directed at diplomatic organizations and missions in Europe. For lateral movement the DCU saw Nickel actors using Mimikatz, WDigest, NTDSDump, and other password dumping tools during attacks. Targets, methods, and techniques.

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Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?

Krebs on Security

In 2010, the hottabych_k2 address was used to register the domain name dedserver[.]ru That domain registration record included the Russian phone number +7-951-7805896 , which mail.ru’s password recovery function says is indeed the phone number used to register the hottabych_k2 email account. Vpn-service[.]us

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WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

Security Affairs

Although LFI was interesting to grab some sensitive files since XML can’t handle binary data it was not possible to dump the SQLite database to get usernames and passwords. We also recommend you use a VPN to protect your computers and mobile devices from hackers. %dtd; ]> <requests> <request href=”/api/2.0/rest/3rdparty/facebook/”