Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. 2012 London. 2012 London.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. BEGINNINGS.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Dolphin backdoor). ” reads the post published by ESET.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

The NetWire Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is available for sale on cybercrime forums since 2012, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the infected systems. DomainTools further shows this email address was used to register one other domain in 2012: wwlabshosting[.]com, ” reads the press release published DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

He briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi , an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile Web sites. On June 25, 2012, Islam and nearly two-dozen others were caught up in an FBI dragnet dubbed Operation Card Shop.

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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. Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security update to fix a critical zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Microsoft has rolled out an out-of-band security update to address a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. SecurityAffairs –Windows zero-day, hacking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

According to a new report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) almost any new weapon systems in the arsenal of the Pentagon is vulnerable to hack. “In some cases, system operators were unable to effectively respond to the hacks.” Security Affairs – weapon system, hacking ).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. net), a popular hacking forum a place frequented by hackers, malware authors, scammers and cybercriminals. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Historical context There was strong anti-American sentiment woven into the Shamoon “wiper” virus that devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco in August of 2012. It’s notable that hacks to gain access to, and maintain control of, industrial control systems are a recurring theme in cyber warfare. As geopolitical tensions between the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “ LuminosityLink ,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows slap Internet giants on the face”. Then, like Premier League transfers, the numbers went up and household names began to appear: 2012, LinkedIn, 178 million records, unsalted SHA-1 hashes. 2013, Adobe, 153 million, home-made obfuscation.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

The list of flaws addressed by the tech giant doesn’t include zero-days or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, 29 issues were rated as ‘Critical’ and affect Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers, Windows, Outlook and Office. SecurityAffairs – Microsoft Patch Tuesday, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Reading about the NSA’s hacking abilities will do that to you. Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? It’s amazing that one person could have had so much access with so little accountability, and could sneak all of this data out without raising any alarms. Probably not.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2019

17 vulnerabilities impacting Windows and Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers were rated as “critical” The first zero-day addressed by Microsoft is tracked as CVE-2019-0808. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

Experts uncovered a money laundering ring that leverages fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen payment cards. In June 2018 we have spotted a strange database publicly exposed to the public internet (no password/login required) along with a large number of credit card numbers and personal information inside.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states in that region, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 That shortfall can be seen in windfall of criminal profits.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. SecurityAffairs – Necurs botnet, hacking). ” continues the blog post. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

The last time we saw a bug of this scope was Heartbleed , the infamous attack on OpenSSL that lay undetected for two years (originating in 2012 and remaining unknown until 2014). Because OpenSSL is everywhere, infiltrating it is like hitting the hacking jackpot. Heartbleed: Have we learned our lesson? What did Heartbleed teach us?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then. At Wizcase, we are constantly scanning random parts of the internet to find data breaches and to get the data secured before criminals can find and abuse it. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data Breach). How and Why We Discovered the Breach.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012. ru under the handle “ r-fac1.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This trend aimed at reducing threats from banking Trojans for PCs has been continuing in Russia since 2012. At present, only three criminal groups— Buhtrap2 , RTM , and Toplel —steal money from the accounts of legal entities in Russia. They account for 80% of all financial phishing sites.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. RELATED: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

When the LinkedIn data breach from 2012 finally surfaced in May 2016, it appeared for sale on a (now defunct) dark web marketplace called The Real Deal. across the internet. Well, I've got bad news for you guys, you're already getting free penetration tests every day anyway, you're just not getting told of the results!

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Damages: sensitive leaked account information. Damages: Leaked account information.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The man funded nine fraudulent accounts with an initial deposit of 200 to 2,000 bitcoin and then triggered 140 withdrawal transactions in rapid succession. “JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2021

court on Thursday sentenced the Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin to 12 years in prison for his role in an international hacking campaign. The man was arrested in Georgia at the request of US authorities, he was charged with multiple conspiracy counts, including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and four counts of computer hacking.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

Also Read: Apple White Hat Hack Shows Value of Pen Testers . Because the Windows process generated by xp_cmdshell has the same security privileges as the SQL Server service account, the attacker can cause severe damage. . It’s best to assume internet-connected applications are not secure. No Shared Databases or User Accounts.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. REAL POLICE, FAKE EDRS JackieChan also sells access to hacked email accounts belonging to law enforcement personnel in the United States and abroad.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. Covers the Mirai code release and how multiple hacking groups end-up reusing the code.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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