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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

Finally, Congress appears to be heeding lessons available to be learned since the hacking John Podesta’s email account – not to mention all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections, attempting to interfere in 39 states. In 2011, Russia launched a social media site called iFunny aimed at disaffected young men.

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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. Botnet operators use to spread the malware via cracked or pirated software and pay-per-install (PPI) schemes. users were warned via Safe Browsing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot malware, which experts estimate infected approximately 670,000 computers this past year. Google targeted the distributors of the malware who are paid to spread and deliver the malicious code and infect a larger number of systems as possible. ” reads the announcement published by Google.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When Israeli authorities turned down requests to send him back to Russia — supposedly to face separate hacking charges there — the Russians then imprisoned an Israeli woman for seven years on trumped-up drug charges in a bid to trade prisoners. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011. court last week.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

The alert remarks that Russian nation-state actors have demonstrated sophisticated tradecraft and cyber capabilities by compromising third-party infrastructure, compromising third-party software, or developing custom malware. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees. As always, enabling multi-factor authentication across both business and personal email accounts will successfully thwart most credential harvesting attacks like these.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2020

Petersburg, Russia admitted to running CardPlanet , a site that sold more than 150,000 stolen credit card accounts, and to being a founder of DirectConnection — a closely guarded underground community that attracted some of the world’s most-wanted Russian hackers. Photo: Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images. Aleksei Burkov of St.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

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 surveillance operations conducted by the APT group involved the distribution of Android malware such as VINETHORN and PINEFLOWER. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT42).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. Each node represents a malware family or a hacking tool (“ Brambul ,” “ Fallchill ,” etc.)

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged with different hacking crimes in Russia, France, and the United States. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The malware was also used by the attackers to browse the web, likely using it as a proxy to mask their IP address. “The xPack malware and its associated payload seems to be used for initial access; it appears that xPack was predominantly used to execute system commands, drop subsequent malware and tools, and stage data for exfiltration.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

The service, which accepts PayPal, Bitcoin and all major credit cards, is aimed primarily at enterprises engaged in repetitive, automated activity that often results in an IP address being temporarily blocked — such as data scraping, or mass-creating new accounts at some service online. ” A teaser from Irish Tech News.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

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 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., SecurityAffairs – hacking, LinkedIn).

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Russian hacking groups have set out to systematically erode Western democratic institutions — and they’ve been quite successful at it. iFunny is a Russian company; it was launched in 2011 and has been downloaded to iOS and Android phones an estimated 10 million times. The malware carried a two-part payload. Spreading falsehoods.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

resulted in a court order enabling us last week to take control of 99 websites the group uses to conduct its hacking operations so the sites can no longer be used to execute attacks. 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.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Prilex is a Brazilian threat actor that has evolved out of ATM-focused malware into modular point-of-sale malware. Active since 2014, in 2016, the group decided to give up ATM malware and focus all of their attacks on PoS systems, targeting the core of the payment industry. Evolving into PoS malware.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. there's three reasons why people hack: one is for just notoriety, that's what script kiddies do.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. there's three reasons why people hack: one is for just notoriety, that's what script kiddies do.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

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 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. ” continues the report.”In

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

A technical analysis of NullMixer malware operation revealed Italy and France are the favorite European countries from the attackers’ perspective. Executive Summary Our insights into a recent NullMixer malware operation revealed Italy and France are the favorite European countries from the opportunistic attackers’ perspective.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They may start with a low-level account, but they exploit permissions and pathways to work themselves up to an intimidating level of privilege where they’re poised to cause irreparable damage and also gain persistence or lockdown the account. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cloud computing). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

contacts, images, and files) from various online accounts associated cloud storage services. 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. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT35). continues IBM. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. But it was 2011. How to Hack Dell computers exploiting a flaw in pre-installed Dell SupportAssist. Japan will develop its first-ever malware as a defense measure against cyber attacks. Amnesty International Hong Kong Office hit by state-sponsored attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Malware delivery: what’s on the menu? H2 2019 has proved the tendency of past several years: mail remains the main method of delivering ransomware, spyware, backdoors and other malware, being used by cyber crooks in 94 percent of cases.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's usually something to the effect of "hey, have you seen the Spotify breach", to which I politely reply with a link to my old No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked blog post (it's just the output of a small set of credentials successfully tested against their service), and we all move on.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What makes Iran's military hacking methods a significant threat? Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus. In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S.

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