CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 20, 2022

What doesn’t qualify against the CFAA bill is fancying online dating profiles and creating fake accounts on rental, social media, and hiring platforms. In September 2011, an amendment was made to the bill under the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In almost any database leak, the first accounts listed are usually the administrators and early core members. The breach tracking service Constella Intelligence finds that the phone number associated with those domains — +7.9676442212 — is tied to a Facebook account for an Aleksei Valerievich Safronov from Sochi.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Wondering whether he might receive email communications to that address if he registered the domain, Vegh snapped it up for a few dollars, set up a catch-all email account for it, and waited. “My accounts were hacked and if any funding is gone your [sic] sued from me and federal trade commission,” one wrote.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 26, 2022

Going deep into the details, Twitter started collecting phone numbers and email addresses of its users in the name of securing the accounts. But failed completely in protecting the data from hackers. NOTE- Hope, Twitter keeps its word and implements significant compliance standards to improve the data privacy of its users.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. ” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

First is the news related to Russian hackers infiltrating an email account of a British Member of Parliament to steal intelligence. According to the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, threat actors, probably funded by Kremlin, hacked the email account of Stewart McDonald via a spear-phishing act.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On the other hand, the equity firm said that it was not aware of any account restatement pressures from its prospective buyer and added that the deal closure has fetched the firm immense losses in the stock market.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

” Indeed, KrebsOnSecurity first covered RLO-based phishing attacks back in 2011 , and even then it wasn’t a new trick. . “When the same email is sent through Mimecast, Mimecast is smart enough to detect the encoding and it renames the attachment to ‘ fdp.eml.’

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

The company was purchased by Intel in 2011 for more than $7.6bn. According to the indictment, McAfee allegedly evaded his tax liability by directing his income to be paid into bank accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts in the names of nominees.”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2022

In July 2011, most of the South African countries agreed to employ SIM Registration laws in their regions, respectively, and those countries include Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. The SIM Registration laws apply to curb digital crimes such as banking fraud and identity theft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. The IT giant also removed 1,183 Google accounts, 908 cloud projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts used by the operators. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

O’Neill said he opened the investigation into Ngo’s identity theft business after reading about it in a 2011 KrebsOnSecurity story, “ How Much is Your Identity Worth? “At first I thought well, it’s just information, maybe it’s not that bad because it’s not related to bank accounts directly.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a result of collaborative efforts, the VTI Principles serve as a comprehensive set of best practices for VPN providers that bolster consumer confidence and provider accountability, promoting wider VPN adoption and access to the technology’s benefits. Our coalition launched at a significant time in our industry’s history.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. Google introduced 2FA to Gmail in 2011. Milka revealed that, at the time of his talk, less than 10 percent of Google accounts used 2FA.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

A Twitter account for Web Listings Inc. Searching the Internet for some of these Web listing domains mentioned in the company’s Twitter account brings up a series of press releases once issued on behalf of the company. Cached versions of this site from 2011 show it naming Web Listings Inc. Image: Better Business Bureau.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Though other Sudo vulnerabilities have been found in the past, it’s rare that a bug affects any account, rather than accounts meeting specific conditions. . “Any user – even the lowest of the low privileged – can access root,” said Mehul Revankar, vice president of product management and engineering at Qualys.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

It is estimated that the cryptocurrencies stolen between January 2011 and December 2021 amount to $12.1 billion from organizations in the industry and attacks against DeFi platforms accounted for $1.76 “Cryptocurrency crime stands in direct proportion to the size of the cryptocurrency market. Threat actors stole $3.18

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

“This litigation is another step forward in holding cybercriminals accountable, by not just targeting those that operate botnets, but also those that profit from malware distribution.” Before downloading any software, do research on the product, and read reviews from others who have already downloaded and used the software.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

26, 2011 and February. ” The company recommends passengers to change their passwords to prevent unauthorized access to their accounts and ensure their data security. Air India has disclosed a data breach that impacted 4.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

To validate the cookies and to grab more information about the YouTube user account, the malware starts one of the installed web browsers on the infected machine in headless mode and adds the cookie to its cookie store.” Aparat is an Iranian video-sharing site that was founded in 2011. ” reads the post published by Intezer.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. The amount of abandoned accounts due to death can only ever go up, and nobody is really paying attention if someone accesses them illicitly.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

New problems to Facebook , phone numbers associated with more than 400 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. A new privacy incident involved Facebook, according to TechCruch, phone numbers associated with 419 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Facebook updates its bug bounty program, it is increasing the overall rewards for security flaws that could be exploited to take over accounts. Increasing Bounties for Account Takeover VulnerabilitiesSince 2011, our Bug Bounty program has been among the most… Gepostet von Facebook Bug Bounty am Dienstag, 20. November 2018.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018. Russia-linked cyber-espionage groups have used common tactics, such as spear-phishing, and brute force attacks. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

It looks like similar techniques were used on Sir Grayson Perry’s stage show , where information was used to identify members of the audience and query details from their social media accounts live on stage. He has been a speaker on the infosec circuit and was one of the keynotes at the inaugural 44CON London security event in 2011.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2023

First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident. Control Access Ensuring password security is one of the easiest steps you can take to protect your data, devices, and accounts. Using multi-factor authentication (MFA) when possible is also recommended.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 “Prosecutors identified 20 businesses in six cities across France among the victims and following the money trail through various bank accounts — as much as $8 million — identified one as belonging to Vinnik.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

released in 2011.” The researchers observed threat actors exploiting the flaw to gain access to the Openfire Plugins interface and creating new admin console user accounts to install a new plugin. Of those, the most popular version is 3.7.1,released ” adds the company. ” adds the company.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

In 2011, KrebsOnSecurity dissected “SevAntivir” — Severa’s eponymous fake antivirus affiliate program — showing it was used to deploy new copies of the Kelihos spam botnet. .'” Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Neal Award | Won SCMagazine Award | Took Down the Koobface Botnet | Presented at the GCHQ with the Honeynet Project | SCMagazine Who to Follow on Twitter for 2011 | Participated in a Top Secret GCHQ Program called "Lovely Horse" | Identified a major victim of the SolarWinds Attack - PaloAltoNetworks | Found malware (..)

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