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 That search shows the user bo3dom registered at ipmart-forum.com with the email address devrian27@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Vilnius, Lithuania. com (2017).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. ” concludes the post.

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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. Google partnered with Internet infrastructure providers and hosting providers, such as CloudFlare, to take down servers used by the gang.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that is currently being exploited in the wild, as well as a sneaky bug in certain versions of Office for Mac that bypasses security protections and was detailed publicly prior to today’s patches.

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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

MAY 23, 2020

The source code of the Zeus Trojan is available in the cybercrime underground since 2011 allowing crooks to develop their own release since. SecurityAffairs – Silent Night, hacking). Experts found multiple variants in the wild, many of them belonging to the Terdot Zbot/Zloader malware family. comparing Axe Bot 1.4.1 and Zloader 1.8.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

KashmirBlack scans the internet for sites using vulnerable CMS versions and attempting to exploit known vulnerabilities to them and take over the underlying server. SecurityAffairs – hacking, KashmirBlack botnet). Experts observed a continuous growth of the botnet since its discovery along with an increasing level of complexity.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

The Tropic Trooper APT that has been active at least since 2011, it was first spotted in 2015 by security experts at Trend Micro when it targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. SecurityAffairs – Tropic Trooper, hacking). “tracert -h 8 8.8.8.8” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Glupteba botnet). ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

Any version released before then is not vulnerable, and these older versions make up nearly 25% of the internet-facing Openfire servers. released in 2011.” ” “We found there are a variety of Openfire forks that may or may not be vulnerable, making up about 5% of the internet-facing servers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

Justice Department (DoJ) indicted four members of the China-linked cyber espionage group APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope , TEMP.Jumper , and Leviathan ) for hacking tens of government organizations, private businesses and universities around the world between 2011 and 2018. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ScanBox).

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

“Yet amid all the concern, there is one threat trend that our data suggests has been on the decline: hacktivism — the subversive use of internet-connected devices and networks to promote a political or social agenda.” and Turkey have arrested at least 62 hacktivists since 2011, but the actual number could be greater.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Ann Arbor-based nonprofit began as a partnership among three state universities in 1966 and is one of the original building blocks of the Internet. Across the hallway, a few of his classmates hacked away, remotely, at the controls of a drone, attempting to knock it out of the sky. He’s now hacking cars for a living,” Galea says.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

Those flaws have been exploited through unattended exposure through a company’s branch internet gateway. 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

OCTOBER 5, 2019

At that time, Gerstell said that the NSA wouldn’t “hack back” in the case of a cyberattack and that the Agency was instead focused on defending key information and infrastructure from theft or damage by foreign actors. Businesses are increasingly relying on Internet of Things or “smart” devices to provide data.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What began as an obscure experiment to tie together mainframe computers residing on three remote campuses ultimately became a key piece of what was to become the Internet as we know it today. It was founded in 1966 by three state universities; Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State, ergo the “triad.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

The gang leverages exposed remote administration services and internet-facing vulnerabilities to gain and maintain access to victim networks. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011. The “ARestore” tool is.NET executable built in 2020 and partially obfuscated.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

Most of us connect our mobile devices to a Wi-Fi router for internet access, but this connection can leave our network and data vulnerable to cyber threats. The protocol protects your incoming and outgoing internet traffic and makes it difficult for cyber criminals to intercept your data or hack your device.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Additionally, the company should consider whether the platform needs to be accessible through the internet or only through a VPN, which would provide an additional layer of security. 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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Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. David Gewirtz/ZDNET I'll end with one of my favorite uses of Google Lens (and a cool hack). You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at. But Lens makes it oh so much faster.

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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. In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. However, on the internet, nothing is truly deleted.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

It should be noted that some of the tech companies provide a wide range of Internet-related services and some of them, like cloud storages and email services, form separate categories. SecurityAffairs – phishing attacks, hacking). CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 17, 2018

. » Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: CSS on why Crypto Agility is the Key to Securing Internet of Things Identities DEF CONtests Highlight Hacker Culture’s Expanding Reach Spotlight: Deepika Chauhan of Digicert on the Challenges of Securing the Internet of Things.

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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. In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly.

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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. Any threats coming from the internet must be stopped at the endpoint. This attack was a watershed moment in securing against supply chain attacks. What is a supply chain attack?

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. They are too weak and easy to be hacked. Let’s start with redefining our privacy and security.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

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. Thoughts Public Key Infrastructure or PKI has been at the core of securing Internet communications for years now.

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. Explaining charts and tables I'll end with one of my favorite uses of Google Lens (and a cool hack). You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at. David Gewirtz/ZDNET 4.

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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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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Since the cameras lack direct internet access, they are less exposed to online threats, but users should still check Swann’s support site regularly for new firmware. TL;DR Overview: Yale, known for mechanical locks, expanded into smart home security in 2011 and acquired August Home in 2017.

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