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

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

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces.

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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. . ” reads the post published by ESET. ” continues the report. ” continues the report.

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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 ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Curry and his team scanned the internet to find domains owned by SiriusXM and perform reverse-engineering of the mobile apps of SiriusXM customers to figure out how the service works. The experts analyzed the NissanConnect app and reached out to some Nissan owners who signed into their accounts to inspect the HTTP traffic.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process. “I was trying to get more records at once, but the speed of our Internet in Vietnam then was very slow,” Ngo recalled.

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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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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. ” reads the security advisory.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

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. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

So, if HIBP says your email address was involved in the great big LinkedIn breach of 2012, the Canva breach of 2019, or any other notable episode of credential theft, you know to change your passwords on those systems, and not use them anywhere else. So, what do you do now, knowing that your account might have been compromised?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there's Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex which leaked 33M records in 2017 , Exactis who had 132M records breached last year and the Apollo data breach which exposed 126M accounts, one of which was my own. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

CVE-2019-1367 – Microsoft Zero-Day Vulnerability – Out-of-band Patch Description A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us A copy of pictrace[.]com

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. The most interesting incident was probably a fake opening ceremonies website serving infections , via promotion from a bogus Twitter account. 2012 London. Russian sites hosted Trojans claiming to be official 2012 game apps. People getting up to mischief?

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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. Unlike BlueKeep, the flaws cannot be exploited via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

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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. XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 6, 2023

Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported in CodeSonar 7.3. If you don’t have an account, please email us at support@grammatech.com. End of Life With this new release of CodeSonar, version 0 will be entering End of Life for support. CodeSonar 7.0 will be Sunset. Download the corresponding CodeSonar 7.3

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

The MapUrlToZone function is used to determine if the trust zone of a provided URL is local, intranet, or Internet. A secondary mitigating factor is that many privileged accounts are members of the protected users security group, which has the benefit of disabling NTLM authentication for all member accounts.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It’s embarrassing to admit because recommending that users use unique passwords for each of their accounts is part of my job, and with good reason: Password reuse leads to credential stuffing, a form of automated attack where cybercriminals use lists of passwords stolen from one website to break into other websites. passwords each.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

According to the indictment against him, Grubbs “recruited and encouraged co-conspirators to answer questions on Skype, an internet messaging service, from potential and actual purchasers of LuminosityLink seeking to use the software to get unauthorized and undetected access to victim computers and steal information.”

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

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. They were leaked in 2013, but most of them were from 2012 or before.) Very probably.

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Elie

JULY 13, 2017

in Internet Explorer and. This post analyzes the results of this survey and, whenever possible, contrasts the responses received in June 2017 with the ones from April 2012 and the. As of 2017, almost two out of three Internet users (61%) think they know what private browsing is, as reported in the pie chart above. also known as.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

WordPress alone accounts for 29% of all websites , from small businesses to global brands. Securing the platforms that power so much of the internet is critical, and the open source community has long been in need of a powerful, time-saving solution. which has not received security updates since 2012. are still using version 1.5,

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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

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. Multiple test teams reported using free, publicly available information or software downloaded from the Internet to avoid or defeat weapon system security controls.”

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

The Kimsuky APT—also known as Thallium, Black Banshee, and Velvet Chollima—is a North Korean threat actor that has been active since 2012. On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea. microsoft-office[.]us

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

The fix: Apply the emergency fixes issued by Microsoft for: Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Attackers Actively Exploit Fortinet Enterprise Management Server SQLi Flaw Type of vulnerability: SQL injection (SQLi) flaw. The fix: Update affected versions ASAP: FortiClient EMS 7.2: through 7.2.2

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

The internet and, now, cloud computing transformed the way we conduct business. Even better, customer accounts are not limited to a set number of devices. offers contracts as short as a week passes up to family accounts for as long as a year. Started in 2012, NordVPN has long been a consumer-first vendor.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 7, 2020

The global use of debit and credit cards (combined) grew from 5 percent to 9 percent between 2012 and 2017. The Chinese electronic payments market is among the fastest – it increased 10x between 2012 and 2017. The use of mobile devices is on the rise and mobile commerce accounts for about 48 percent of digital sales.

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Spinone

AUGUST 8, 2018

Google Drive was launched in 2012 and now boasts over one million business and personal users using it to back up their data, documents, photos, spreadsheets, presentations and more. If you already have a Google account, all you need to get started with automatic backup and offline access for your files is the desktop app.

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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. They use a botnet to feed a large number of usernames and passwords into accounts associated with the targeted entity. For whatever’s coming, it can make a difference.

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