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U.S. CISA Agency warns of possible cyber attacks from Iran

Security Affairs

US Government fears a new wave of cyber attacks from Iran as retaliation for the airstrike that killed Maj. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of a potential new wave of cyber attacks carried out by Iran-linked hacker groups targeting U.S. The attacks were targeting U.S.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI. Security analysts and U.S.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

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. All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. com , and portalsagepay[.]com.

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RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

Krebs on Security

the company behind the interactive “pew-pew” cyber attack map shown in the image below? Flushed with venture capital funding in 2012, Norse’s founders started hiring dozens of talented cybersecurity professionals. Remember Norse Corp. , The matching that is shown will use email, phone and full name correlation.”

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams.

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620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web

Security Affairs

Most of the data included in the dump consist of account holder names, email addresses, and hashed passwords (in some cases password are hashed with the MD5 algorithm that makes it easy for hackers to decrypt). Spokespersons for MyHeritage and 500px confirmed the authenticity of the data. “I need the money.

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Iran-linked APT is exploiting the Zerologon flaw in attacks

Security Affairs

Microsoft researchers reported that Iranian cyber espionage group MuddyWater is exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability in attacks in the wild. Microsoft published a post and a series of tweets to warn of cyber attacks exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability carried out by the Iran-linked APT group known as MuddyWater , aka Mercury.