Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Last week, Google rolled out emergency fixes to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3075 , in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

That document indicates the Liberty Reserve account claimed by MrMurza/AccessApproved — U1018928 — was assigned in 2011 to a “ Vadim Panov ” who used the email address lesstroy@mgn.ru. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.” relied on the passwords asus666 and 01091987h.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

Qlocker Ransomware is not only accessing files by encrypting them with a password protected 7Zip archives ending with.7z The password that is known only to the attacker will be revealed only when the victim pays a ransom in 0.01 The company became a member of Intel Intelligent Systems Alliance in 2011. BTC for each file.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2021

In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the penalty was pronounced by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as Pearson made false and misleading statements on the 2018 data breach that witnessed millions of student usernames and passwords stolen along with admin level login credentials of over 13,000 school and university pupils.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Several facilities have faced the wrath of ransomware attacks, from the South Houston wastewater treatment plant in 2011 to a Pennsylvania water system in May 2021. It was reassuring to know that the safety of drinking water wasn’t compromised, thanks to swift action and existing safeguards.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. The very first post by Kerens on Exploit in 2011 was a negative review of a popular crypting service that predated Cryptor[.]biz frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

This action violated a 2011 FTC order that prohibited the social media site from misrepresenting its privacy and security practices. This information would be used to help reset passwords or unlock accounts, as well as enabling two-factor authentication (2FA). Along with violating the 2011 FTC order, Twitter also violated the EU-U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2023

First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident. Control Access Ensuring password security is one of the easiest steps you can take to protect your data, devices, and accounts. A password manager is an effective way to keep track of many complex passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

They are just simple device connectors that sit between the charging device and the public charging station and protect the device owner from an intruder who can otherwise copy sensitive files, including texts, contacts, files, passwords, photos, and videos. USB Condom works by blocking connections to all the pins except the charging pin.

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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. SplashData has released its annual list of the most common passwords compiled from more than 3.3

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

26, 2011 and February. The airline pointed out that neither CVV/CVC numbers associated with the credit cards nor passwords were impacted. ” The company recommends passengers to change their passwords to prevent unauthorized access to their accounts and ensure their data security.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. Google introduced 2FA to Gmail in 2011. A 22 percent adoption rate is meager, especially in the face of the multiple online threats that enterprises face daily.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The typical username and password for Wi-Fi routers is “admin” for both, but you may need to search online or contact your ISP if that doesn’t work. And while you’re in there, update that password to something a little less hackable, possibly saving the new one in a password manager.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in me sitting alone by this screen whilst the Telstra staffer disappeared into the back room for a few minutes: Is it normal for @Telstra to display customer passwords on publicly facing terminals in their stores?

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

Some easily accessible breaches are over a decade old and hold passwords which are no longer in use, were invalid at time of capture, or have been incorrectly cross referenced to accounts that the users have no knowledge of. A grand day out We really enjoyed working with Alexis.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

at the password management firm LastPass, what the CSTO role entails and how companies need to do more to confront the security implications of “software eating the world.” Writing in 2011 i n the Wall Street Journal , Andreessen predicted that, in the next 10 years, he expected many more industries to be disrupted by software. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We spent searching holes in Italian universities (and not only, we remember that dozens of universities were hacked in 2011), to try to show you that security in the academic environment must be taken seriously since the university is the den of the excellent minds of our future. Below the translation of message published by the group.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

Website, username and password: That's just the first 20 rows out of 5 million in that particular file, but it gives you a good sense of the data. The question of how valid the accompanying passwords remain aside, time and time again the email addresses in the stealer logs checked out on the services they appeared alongside.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2022

Witness 419 scammers misusing Google calendar invites in 2011 , or even using Yahoo! As Bleeping Computer notes, a password manager with login functionality will help as the mismatch in URLs means login details will stay safely tucked away from harm’s reach. These tactics have been around for many years. Calendar to spam in 2009.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

“But because the server wasn’t protected with a password, anyone could find and access the database.” Facebook disabled the API that shares users’ mobile phone and address details with developers back in 2011. -based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., ” states Techcrunch.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to global market data provider IHS Markit, Hikvision has 38% of the global market share, and it has been the market leader since 2011. No username or password is needed, nor are any actions needed from the camera owner. The company was founded on November 30, 2001 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China. The vulnerability.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. We live in an era of breaches and every breach usually results in data leaks, including a lot of logons and passwords. Bilogorskiy: Correct, because people share passwords. And we’ve talked about how important it is not to on passwords alone. It was insane.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

Earlier this week, a cybercriminal on a Dark Web forum posted an auction notice for access to a Web-based administrative panel for an unidentified “US Search center” that he claimed holds some four million customer records, including names, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. Jesse Willms’ Linkedin profile.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The decryption password is provided as a command-line argument (Base64 encoded string), and the xPack backdoor can run as a standalone application or as a service (xPackSvc variant). Symantec speculates Antlion is has been active since at least 2011, its TTP overlaps the ones associated with China-linked nation-state actors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

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 hackers initially breached into the victim’s secondary email inbox associated with their Microsoft account, then used them to reset the password.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10. Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. But it was 2011. Amnesty International Hong Kong Office hit by state-sponsored attack. New Emotet variant uses connected devices as proxy C2 servers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

Introduction: Dridex, also known as Cridex or Bugat, is a banking Trojan that has been active since 2011. Change all passwords: Dridex malware is known to steal login credentials, so it is important to change all passwords on the affected systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Figure.NET flags (left) and obfuscation pattern (right) The tool is designed for two main purposes: generating comb lists of local windows user names and potential passwords, and testing them locally. The tool is able to automatically retrieve local users from groups, filter for administration, and then test the password.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. But naturally, at Carbonite + Webroot, we just wonder how they’ll be used and abused by cybercriminals or if they can be irrevocably lost like the password to a crypto wallet. It seems phishing for users’ passwords to the sites used to buy and sell NFTs is the main method of compromise.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The APT20 group has been active since at least 2011, but experts did not associate any campaign with this threat actors between 2016 and 2017. In order to move laterally within the target networks, hackers used well-known techniques, such as dumping credentials from memory and accessing password managers on compromised systems.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fast-forward a decade from now and imagine teaching emerging cybersecurity professionals about an obsolete thing called a password. Password problems because of the human factor. Manual and annoying for a long time, passwords were a key technology, beginning in the early digital age, to protect servers, accounts, and eventually email.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It rebranded as twitch in 2011, so this looks like a long-standing piece of infrastructure.". To date, there have been no reports that username and password information was leaked. was the name of a company that eventually transformed into Twitch. However, that does not mean it has not been accessed.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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