Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. Over the past decade, both Glupteba and AWM Proxy have grown substantially. But on Dec.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 3, 2019

Like a severed head, stolen data is the proof of success in this arena. Case in point: the hacking group Lulzsec’s 2011 hack of the U.S. The post What Game of Thrones Can Teach You About Data Breaches appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 said investigators determined the breach began on Aug. million people.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2022

OpRussia continues, less than a week after my last update Anonymous has hacked other Russian companies and leaked their data via DDoSecrets. The #OpRussia launched by Anonymous on Russia after the criminal invasion of Ukraine continues, the collective claims to have published more than 6 TB of Russian data via DDoSecrets.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2024

This isn’t the first incident suffered by IMF, the agency suffered a major security breach in 2011. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, International Monetary Fund)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The threat actors shared a portion of the stolen data with TechCrunch as proof of the hack, it includes records on current and former government officials, diplomats, and politically exposed people. Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. The report says that hackers stole roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. .”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. “On SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi Electric, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat, a term that generally refers to state-sponsored hacking groups.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Recent reports have confirmed that the outage was caused by WastedLocker, a ransomware often used to specifically target and disrupt business operations, and closely associated with Evil Corp, the hacking group behind a $100 million crime spree that began in 2011.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following revelations that the data had been exposed since 2011 — two years after responsibility for securing the state’s IT systems was centralized within Parson’s own Office of Administration. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R), vowing to prosecute the St. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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. Second is the news related to the leak of sensitive details belonging to over 20 million users created between the time frame of 2011 and 2019.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2019

Enough about that, this week I'm also talking about Scott's upcoming public Glasgow workshop, more data breaches, Namecheap's faux pas and EVE Online's great security work they've very generously shared publicly. Someone also created a website dedicated to him (seems legit!)

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com At some point, mindjolt.com apparently also was hacked, because a copy of its database at Constella says the bo3dom@gmail.com used two passwords at that site: lebeda1 and a123456.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I launched Security Affairs for passion in 2011 and millions of readers walked with me. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Security Affairs). Ten years together! I’m very excited. Over the past decade, I have recovered tens of thousand stories focusing mainly on cybercrime, information warfare, hacktivism and computer security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and since then the blog was visited by tens of millions of readers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybersecurity). Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! Eleven years together! I wish you and your families all the best. Sincerely, Thank you! Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking. One of the biggest risks with using LastPass is its track record with preventing hacks. In 2011, LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist announced that the company’s servers may have been breached, as evidenced by anomalies in network traffic.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. It was around 9 p.m.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Facebook announced an important novelty for its bug bounty, the social media giant is going to pay out as much as $40,000 for vulnerabilities that can be exploited to hack into accounts without user interaction. The bug bounty programs are becoming crucial for companies to assess their products and infrastructure and to avoid data breaches.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy. · What Happens to Whistleblowers After They Blow the Whistle?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz: The one or two domain names registered to Aleksandr Volosovyk and that mail.ru The nickname Yalishanda means “Alexander” in Mandarin (????). and Europe.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

Cybercriminals are auctioning off access to customer information stolen from an online data broker behind a dizzying array of bait-and-switch Web sites that sell access to a vast range of data on U.S. I also pinged several customer support email addresses tied to the data-broker Web sites that were hacked.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households. But it was 2011. How to Hack Dell computers exploiting a flaw in pre-installed Dell SupportAssist. Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A report from the Cloud Security Alliance (Technology and Cloud Security Maturity, 2022) states that 84% of organizations report having no automation ; since Identity and Access Management is a key factor in securing companies, automating the detection of possible attack paths may reduce the attack surface and avoid potential data breaches.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. Different wireless technologies operate within the RF spectrum, each utilizing specific frequency bands based on their intended applications (Molisch, 2011). IEEE Access, 6, 12725-12738.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 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. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT35). The group has been known to target a wide range of organizations and government agencies worldwide. continues IBM. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

In a 2011 post on Hackforums, Acidut said they were building a botnet using an “exploit kit,” a set of browser exploits made to be stitched into hacked websites and foist malware on visitors. The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io. io , and online[.]io.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

No really, I wrote about him last year and exposed his involvement in everything from state-sponsored Iranian hacking to typosquatting to him potentially being Ed Snowden. I mean we know he's a hacker because he has a hoodie and we know he's hacking because the text on the screen is green, but it doesn't totally add up. He's the guy!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

As reported in 2011, the company fell victim to two cyberattacks, which are suspected to be part of an espionage attempt. Safran has already been targeted by threat actors. The unidentified hackers allegedly attempted to map the company’s computer system between 2009 and 2010.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I’ve consistently spoken, and written about the dangers of burnout in cybersecurity, and proposed leadership strategies for employee wellbeing. According to IBM , mistakes in cybersecurity are still so overwhelming that 95% (19 in 20) result from human error, and the global average total cost of a data breach is $4.35M.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. It would be a massive data breach.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. It would be a massive data breach.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. It would be a massive data breach.

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