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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. For starters, the text string “Rescator” was found in some of the malware used in the Target breach.

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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. 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

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

JANUARY 28, 2023

One of the most recent attacks was reported by Computerland in Belgium against SMBs in the country, but according to the company they were targeted by a group of cybercriminals who appeared to be using a variant of the LockBit locker malware.

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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

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. Botnet operators use to spread the malware via cracked or pirated software and pay-per-install (PPI) schemes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Experts found multiple variants in the wild, many of them belonging to the Terdot Zbot/Zloader malware family. The malware is able to infect all operating systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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

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. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the report.

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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.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers. Image: Intel471.

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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

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

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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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. Malware delivery: what’s on the menu? CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In our initial report on Sunburst , we examined the method used by the malware to communicate with its C2 (command-and-control) server and the protocol used to upgrade victims for further exploitation. This campaign made use of a previously unknown malware family we dubbed FourteenHi.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Because a smaller, less secure company like Fazio has access to a bigger, more secure company's system, attackers took the path of least resistance to install malware and steal credentials. 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.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Malware can be injected, man-in-the-middle attacks carried out , and personal information stolen of those who visit a site hosted by an attacker posing as the legitimate owner. 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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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. XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider.

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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. I got my start writing about malware, this was back even before the term malware existed.

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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. I got my start writing about malware, this was back even before the term malware existed.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. This is how malware, for example, is analyzed; if the virtual machine gets infected and crashes, the physical machine isn’t impacted. So Jonathan returned to tinkering and hacking these message brokers. So, with a lot of fun.

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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. I got my start writing about malware, this was back even before the term malware existed.

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