Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

Also, members needed to have a special encryption certificate installed in their Web browser before the forum’s login page would even load. In this 2011 screenshot of DirectConnection, we can see the nickname of “aqua,” who ran the “banking” sub-forum on DirectConecttion. Aqua, a.k.a.

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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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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Vamosi: In my book from 2011 When Gadgets Betray Us , I profiled a young Czech born streetwise car thief, an unlikely example of a high tech criminal. It's I like it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 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 Memento ransomware then encrypts the password and deletes the original files from the victim’s system. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT35). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path. The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

The malware encrypts all the data with a key that is unique for each sample and sends it along with a sample identifier to the C2 server located at the domain name youbot[.]solutions. Aparat is an Iranian video-sharing site that was founded in 2011. SecurityAffairs – hacking, YTStealer). ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

Despite not being the true LockBit Locker group, these micro criminals were still able to cause significant damage by encrypting a large number of internal files. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The xPack backdoor is a.NET loader that fetches and executes AES-encrypted payloads, it supports multiple commands. Symantec speculates Antlion is has been active since at least 2011, its TTP overlaps the ones associated with China-linked nation-state actors. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT). Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

I mean, there are so many positive stories about people who are hacking for a living and doing good things because of it. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The jailbreak works with all Apple products released between 2011 and 2017, including iPhone models from 4S to 8 and X. Axi0mX’s jailbreak code is marked as a “beta” release, but there is the concrete possibility that experts coders or intelligence agencies will integrate it in hacking tools and malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Their operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. The shared secret is used to encrypt the GZipped memory stream using a xor-based algorithm in a compress-then-encrypt fashion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

It is crucial to ensure that leaked keys are in longer bit-lengths and encoded using secure encryption/hashing algorithms. 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.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 17, 2018

The security of medical devices figured prominently at last week’s Black Hat, B-Sides and DEF CON hacking conferences in Las Vegas. ” And, of course, hacks and security flaws in implantable devices are not new. The job of securing medical devices isn’t akin to plugging a hole in the firewall, Lyons notes.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A source said they’d stumbled upon a way to intercept and read the daily online chats between Aqua and several other mule recruiters and malware purveyors who were stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars weekly from hacked businesses. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. The second STAGE-1 C&C server is used for controlling malware via an encrypted connection.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

During the carnival of 2016, a Brazilian bank realized that their ATMs had been hacked, with all the cash contained in those machines stolen. The backdoor would allow the attacker to empty the ATM socket by launching the malware interface and typing a code supplied by the mastermind, the code being specific to each ATM being hacked.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a result, 40 million credit and debit card details were stolen, and Target spent a total of $202 million to recover from the hack. Think of it as Let's Encrypt for code signing. This attack was a watershed moment in securing against supply chain attacks. What is a supply chain attack?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Data that is encrypted with the public key can only be decrypted with the private key; also, data encrypted with the private key can only be decrypted with the public key. The year 2011 was an infamous year for certificate authority hacks that caused the breach of high profile domains as well as the end of business for some.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. Unlike its predecessors, who would only encrypt files, Petya would replace the computer’s master boot record with a ransom note, effectively rendering the computer unusable until a ransom was paid. It later evolved to also include file encryption.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. TheHackerMind.com. Nor should they.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. TheHackerMind.com. Nor should they.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. TheHackerMind.com. Nor should they.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

It was not until May 2011 that the next major version of BackTrack got released, which also happens to be the last, BackTrack 5. At one stage, Wireless hacking “was the thing”, so we needed to support injection on as many cards as possible. Things were not as stable as when it was first released.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

At each conference, we have a hack-a-thon: to create, prove, test, improve and finally put into production new or improved integrations. A lot has changed since my first Black Hat at Caeser’s Palace in 2011, it really is a shame. Integration is key to success in the NOC. That’s why seeing sneaker giveaways makes me smile.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. So Jonathan returned to tinkering and hacking these message brokers. The other thing I'll tell you is, I joined Codenomicon in 2011. Vamosi: Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure. So, with a lot of fun.

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