Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing. “The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted the activities of a China-based hacking group that we call Nickel.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past ten years, his contact information has been used to register numerous phishing domains intended to siphon credentials from people trying to transact on various dark web marketplaces. was used to register three domains between 2008 and 2010: ddosis.ru , best-stalker.com , and cs-arena.org. Matveyev , in Abakan, Khakassia.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S. ” FACCT says on its website that it is a “Russian developer of technologies for combating cybercrime,” and that it works with clients to fight targeted attacks, data leaks, fraud, phishing and brand abuse.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 14, 2022

The APT group was first observed in 2010 and they have been active since. Flagpro is delivered using MITRE ATT&CK T1566.001 Phishing: SpearPhishing Attachment technique. Flagpro malware was recently discovered by NTTSecurity and the malware is attributed to BlackTech [1]. What is Flagpro Trojan? Initial Access.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

FIFA reveals it was the victim of a new s uccessful phishing campaign that resulted in the exposed confidential information of the organizations. In August 2017, Fancy Bears hackers claimed that around 160 football players failed drug tests in 2015, and 25 2010 World Cup players used doping medicines. ” states The New York Times.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Fullz House group was first spotted by security experts at RiskIQ in November 2019, when it was using phishing and web skimming for its attacks. Since August-September of 2019, the group started using a hybrid technique that leverages on MiTM and phishing attacks to target sites using external payment processors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2023

How the user first encountered the site, whether through phishing or SEO poisoning or some other method, is beyond the scope of this investigation.” “DLL sideloading, first identified in Windows products in 2010 but prevalent across multiple platforms, continues to be an effective and appealing tactic for threat actors.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. For $200, vetted users could hire his botnet to blast one million emails containing malware or ads for male enhancement drugs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

. “However, when we encountered Asruex in a PDF file, we found that a variant of the malware can also act as an infector particularly through the use of old vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-2883 , which inject code in Word and PDF files respectively.” ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

The early 2000s also saw the emergence of new forms of cybercrime, such as phishing and malware attacks. Phishing attacks involve sending fake emails or messages that appear to be from legitimate sources in order to trick users into giving up their personal information or login credentials.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The investigation conducted by MyFreeCams revealed that data were stolen in “a security incident that occurred more than ten years ago in June 2010.” In response to the incident, MyFreeCams reset the passwords of impacted users. ” continues CyberNews. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, MyFreeCams).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This can be done through a variety of attacks, such as spear phishing , and may require the attacker to steal multiple sets of credentials before they reach the information they need. Computer systems and networks that use default or factory credentials for servers and applications are more susceptible to this kind of attack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The hackers carried out spear-phishing attacks aimed at EU officials in Cyprus to gain access to the diplomatic communications network. The New York Times revealed that alleged Chinese state-sponsored hackers accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables from the EU’s diplomatic missions around the world. ” reported.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2022

2010: Still hitching a ride. It’s now 2010, and Dr. Bakare Tunde is still asking for help to get his cousin, Abacha Tunde, returned to Earth. Yes, it’s all very silly. The email came and went with a lot of eye-rolling and mockery. Off it went back into the depths of space, never to be seen again.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Upon refining the analysis, experts discovered that one particular IP was associated with dozens of malicious activities such as malware and ransomware distribution, phishing and DDoS attacks. “The DCU has taken down 22 botnets since 2010. ” reads the DCU’s report.

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Researchers at Malwarebytes found a link between a scheme associated with the Magecart group and Dridex phishing campaigns and the activities of the Carbanak group. . Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

The report notes that concerns about the security of these channels is hardly theoretical: In 2010, intruders hijacked ACRE’s election results Web page, and in 2016, cyber thieves successfully breached several county employee email accounts in a spear-phishing attack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

VPN bulletproof services are widely adopted by cybercrime organizations to carry out malicious activities, including ransomware and malware attacks, e-skimming breaches, spear-phishing campaigns, and account takeovers. ” reads the press release published by the Europol. The services were offered for prices ranging from $1.3/day

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SC Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Malaysia Airlines faces the daunting task of investigating over nine years’ worth of compromised data after learning of a “data security incident” at a third-party IT service provider that exposed Enrich frequent flyer program member data from March 2010 through June 2019. Airline loyalty program data is a popular target among cybercriminals.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

Additionally, some files are dated from 2010 so it might be that it was misconfigured (and thus accessible) since then, but there is no certain way for us to know also it might have been that only a few files were in the buckets back then and more recently more were uploaded.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. 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. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

Sucuri spotted threat actors abusing the URL redirect function of the.htaccess file to redirect visitors of compromised websites to phishing sites, sites delivering malware, or simply to generate impressions. The features include the redirect functionality, content password protection or image hot link prevention. ” concludes Sucuri.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

“The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.” “Potential victims should also be on the lookout for targeted phishing and other scams. ” continues the experts. ” concludes the experts.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. In this attack, spear phishing was used as the initial infection vector. The phishing emails claimed to have urgent updates on today’s hottest topic – COVID-19 infections.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

To be honest, between scraping vulnerabilities dating back to 2010 , and the Cambridge Analytica scandal , an old data breach is still a data breach, and you’re probably still going to need to pay attention to it. One of the most profitable phishing scams, which is easier to pull off if the threat actor has more information available.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

Spear phishing, or even bribery of an insider, are tried-and-true ways to gain initial access; and then living-off-the-land techniques work very well for stealthily mapping network resources and escalating privileges. APT attacks have only solidified as the go-to approach for nation state-backed cyber espionage since then.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most of the tax-related attacks follow a few tried and true methods: A phishing email or scam call from someone purporting to be from the IRS, or an accountant offering to help you get a big refund. The first snapshot promoting an online tax filing service shows up in 2010. They want your hard-earned dollars in their pockets.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. One email address, petersmelanie(at)protonmail.com , was used to register 23 domains, including one involved in a phishing campaign leveraging the CVE-2017-0199 flaw and other attacks against Oracle and various banks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The attack between 2000 and early 2010, the hackers targeted company admins with spear-phishing attacks aimed at infecting their machines. The investigation revealed that the malware-based attack was powered by GCHQ and code-named Operation Socialist.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. The cyberspies used spear phishing, watering hole attacks, and domain hijacking to deliver various malware families, including Sakula and IsSpace, to the target organization.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2018

Launched in 2010 by a Samsung consultant who saw the handwriting on the wall, Zimperium has grown to 140 employees and attracted $60 million in venture capital from Warburg Pincus, SoftBank, Samsung, Telstra and Sierra Ventures. Now I can use that device to send phishing into the traditional corporate network.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group , about 88–92% of total email messages in 2010 are spam. Aside from that, phishing is also a known way of attempting to get sensitive information from users through a webpage that looks the same as a trustworthy entity.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Even is HPE has been hacked multiple times since 2010, most of the hack occurred between 2015 and 2017. “APT10 often attacked a service provider’s system by “spear-phishing” – sending company employees emails designed to trick them into revealing their passwords or installing malware.

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Google Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Moreover, since 2010, security researchers have demonstrated trivial over-the-air interception and decryption of 2G traffic. Most notably, 2G networks based on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard lack mutual authentication , which enables trivial Person-in-the-Middle attacks.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In december 2010 I ran PasswordsCon for the first time, by invitation from the university here in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, where I live. Malwarebytes Labs: What would, in your expert opinion, be a better alternative for abandoning passwords altogether—one that deals with brute force attacks and phishing for passwords?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In March 2010, Aqua would divulge in an encrypted chat that his crew was working directly with the Zeus author (Slavik/Lucky12345), but that they found him abrasive and difficult to tolerate: dimka: I read about the king of seas, was it your handy work? . 2010 Criminal complaint vs. Yukabets, et. Besides us no one reads his column .

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