Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. Image: Shutterstock.

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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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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. The court also levied a 14-year sentence against Ruslan Stoyanov , a senior employee at Kaspersky Lab.

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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 26, 2022

Social media giant Twitter has been asked to pay a penalty of $150 million by the federal trade commission for failing to protect its user data over a 6-year span. Going deep into the details, Twitter started collecting phone numbers and email addresses of its users in the name of securing the accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2024

This feature was rolled out in 2011 to “improve the user experience by making it easier for users to tag photographs with the names of people in the photo.” Personally, I feel since biometrics are increasingly used for identification by more important services than social media, those platforms have no business gathering them.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2020

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) observed the APT group making more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft customers and then attack 241 of those accounts. The messages include a link and claim to inform the recipient of an attempt to compromise their email account.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). The security breach was discovered after Mitsubishi Electric staff found a suspicious file on one of the company’s servers, further investigation allowed the company to determine that hack of an employee account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Since July this year, media speculations were rife that the former is deeply interested in acquiring the latter and the deal would have been completed by September last week of this year. If the deal would have gone through, Thoma Bravo would have gained £6 billion, thus culminating in a significant merger and acquisition deal in 2022.

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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 According to the Greek media outlet the Daily Thess, the FBI tracked Alexander Vinnik for more than a year. million withdrawn. ” reported the AFP news.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The Phosphorus group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. government officials.

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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. . Some of the videos were showing how to exfiltrate data (i.e.

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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. IO (NOW MERCIFULLY OFFLINE). io , and online[.]io.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

One doesn't need a legitimate account or access to view these data but a single, specific URL. Although version 1 of SweepWizard has been available for download from the Apple App Store since 2016, according to archived information, Wired could access sweep data as far back as 2011.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

APT42’s TTPs overlap with another Iran-linked APT group tracked as APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) which made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators. CryptBot malware is active since at least 2019, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the Google Chrome of the infected systems.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

. “ The Newscaster group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

When violations are exposed by the media, as they regularly are, we are all surprised at the different ways Facebook violates user privacy. It's unclear how Facebook measures and assesses its own progress and who might be held accountable for failings. Increased transparency of Facebook's business practices. Engage with regulators.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. Facebook funds research on the impact of social media on elections. But it was 2011. New Emotet variant uses connected devices as proxy C2 servers. Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households. ElectrumDoSMiner botnet reached 152,000 hosts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Knowing them, a threat actor could be able to hijack the session and therefore the account. If attackers had access to this key, they could create an admin account and have privileged access to a website. As reported in 2011, the company fell victim to two cyberattacks, which are suspected to be part of an espionage attempt.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

I ended up fielding a heap of media calls just on that one little feature - people loved the idea of HIBP in Firefox, even in a very simple form. My relationship with 1Password stretches all the way back to 2011 when I came to the realisation that the only secure password is the one you can't remember.

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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. com, and the popular social media sites like Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram. This makes information gathering very hard.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. Even social media posts are being turned into NFTs; the digital certificate for Jack Dorsey’s first-ever Tweet sold for $2.9 Two-factor authentication for accounts managing NFTs is strongly recommended by marketplaces. And NFTs aren’t limited to fine art.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Iranian cyber conspirators conspired to commit computer intrusions targeting certain United States Government Agents, using malicious code, fictitious and imposter online personas and accounts, and information gathered about the victims to gain unauthorized access to protected computers and computer networks," reads a statement by the FBI.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Misleading or deceptive emails, as seen in phishing attempts, are one of the most popular methods of attack.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. The post Report finds old misconfiguration woes continue to hammer corporate clouds appeared first on SC Media. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

SmokeLoader (aka Smoke) is a modular malware that has been known since 2011, distributed via phishing emails and drive-by downloads. After retrieving this information, the malware attempts to extract additional information like access tokens, account IDs, etc. A full technical description will be provided in subsequent reports.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 3, 2019

HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones is now history, but it will live on in the hearts, minds and social media interactions of its followers for some time to come. Case in point: the hacking group Lulzsec’s 2011 hack of the U.S. How it all ended was something hackers spent significant time and effort trying to find out.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In fact, REvil/Sodinokibi topped our ransomware detections in Q2 of 2021, accounting for 73% of our top-10 ransomware detections. Cloud incidents targeting verticals in the United States accounted for 34% of incidents recorded, with a 19% decrease in Great Britain. COVID-19 Impact on Workforce Continues to Increase Cloud Threats.

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NopSec

MAY 17, 2016

The CVSS v2 was updated to the v3 several years ago to account for the changing security requirements, with the CVSS v3.1 As an example, let’s look at two vulnerabilities: CVE-2011-4858 and CVE-2014-1776. CVE-2011-4858 is in the Exploit Database, has a Metasploit module, and has a CVSS exploitability score of 10.0.

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