Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Security experts at cybersecurity firm Radically Open Security (ROS) discovered a 7-year old critical remote code execution vulnerability in the GPL-licensed iTerm2 macOS terminal emulator app. SecurityAffairs – iTerms2, hacking). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds six Microsoft Windowsflaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The exploit, linked to the PipeMagic backdoor , has targeted unsupported Windows versions like Server 2012 R2 and 8.1 but also affects Windows 10 (build 1809 and earlier) and Server 2016.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“In the tech-heavy, geek-speak world of cybersecurity, these sorts of infographics and maps are popular because they promise to make complicated and boring subjects accessible and sexy,” I wrote in a January 2016 story about Norse’s implosion. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

or MEDC, I’m prepared to rechristen Michigan the Cybersecurity Best Practices State. My reporting trip included meetings with Michigan-based cybersecurity vendors pursuing leading-edge innovations, as well as a tour of a number of thriving public-private cybersecurity incubator and training programs. Getting proactive.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A previously unknown hacking group has been linked to targeted attacks against human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India in an attempt to plant "incriminating digital evidence."

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This escalation of reconnaissance is being closely monitored by the global cybersecurity and intelligence communities. Here are a few key things everyone should understand about the cybersecurity ramifications spinning out of the Soleimani assassination. Grimes, a data defense expert at cybersecurity training vendor KnowBe4.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 2, 2021

A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an Android and Windows backdoor for collecting sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Internet Explorer and Twilio Authy bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA ) CVE-2024-39891 (CVSS score of 5.3)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security agencies belonging to Five Eyes (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) have released a joint report that details some popular hacking tools. The China Chopper is a tiny shell (4K) widely used in attacks in the wild since 2012, early this year the China-linked APT group Leviathan.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

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. The most recent samples detected by the cybersecurity firm are dated March 2024.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

A newly detected hacking group named Aoquin Dragon from China has been found infiltrating servers from Southeast Asia and Australia. Countries like China, Russia, and the United States spy on foreign nations since 2012. The post Aoquin Dragon from China hacking Australian Government Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. “Shevlyakov also attempted to acquire computer hacking tools.” electronics manufacturers and distributors between approximately October 2012 and January 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. cyber #cybersecurity @BleepinComputer #malware pic.twitter.com/CtnppIyhxn — Cyble (@AuCyble) May 14, 2020. million April 2018 Netlog.com (Twoo.com) 57 million November 2012 Dubsmash.com Phone numbers 47.1

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. By 2004, v1pee had adopted the moniker “ Vega ” on the exclusive Russian language hacking forum Mazafaka , where this user became one of the more reliable vendors of stolen payment cards.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

For example, it says the two men earned a little more than $600,000 running vDOS, a fact first reported by this site in September 2016 just prior to their arrest, when vDOS was hacked and KrebsOnSecurity obtained a copy of its user database. years worth of attack traffic.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. “In total, these hacking campaigns targeted thousands of computers, at hundreds of companies and organizations, in approximately 135 countries.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers from CrowdStrike have discovered that China funded hacking group Aquatic Panda was busy indulging in spying and espionage activities related to industrial intelligence and military secrets. Note- Found in 2012, Aquatic Panda is found relying heavily on cobalt strike, the remote access exploiting tool.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After a cyber attack on national telecom operator Optus and Insurance company Medibank, the Australian government has hacked the hackers in order to bring them to knees. For this reason, it has begun the work to track the criminals and hack their servers to siphon the information they possess about millions of customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Threat actors that goes online with the moniker ZeroX claim to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas giant end it is offering for sale it on multiple hacking forums. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Saudi Aramco). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

Anyone who follows cybersecurity is aware of the steady drumbeat of data breaches and attacks. We've assembled eight truly disastrous IT security failures over the past decade, with the goal of finding not just clever hacks, but real mistakes on the part of the victims. 2012: Court Ventures gets social-engineered.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

According to the experts, the member “integra” has joined the cybercrime forum in September 2012 and has gained a high reputation over the course of time. The threat actor is also a member of another cybercrime forum since October 2012. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). ” states Cyble. ” concludes Cyble.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2021

for his key role in the distribution of the Gozi virus that infected more than a million computers from 2007 to 2012. Paunescu was arrested in Romania in 2012, but was able to avoid extradition. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Gozi ). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2022

Meanwhile, a report released by security experts from Cybersecurity firm Bulletproof states that all Raspberry Pi users using Linux operating system should change their default passwords as there is a possibility that they can be hijacked through bots. And if the users do not change such credentials, then they can be hacked at any moment.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. We have credible reports that the Chinese hacked Gmail around 2010, and there are ongoing concerns about both censorship and surveillance by the Chinese social-networking company TikTok.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2024

Researchers at cybersecurity firm DEVCORE discovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2024-4577, in the PHP programming language. This oversight allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass the previous protection of CVE-2012-1823 by specific character sequences.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2022

According to an investigation conducted by broadcaster ZDF, Schoenbohm was in contact with Russia through an association that he co-founded in 2012, the Cyber Security Council of Germany. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BSI). The news was reported by German media on Sunday, citing government sources. ” reported Reuters.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

SideWinder (also known as Razor Tiger, Rattlesnake, and T-APT-04) has been active since at least 2012, the group mainly targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, newsletter)

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2024

The Finnish government contemplated expanding the options for individuals to change their social security number in certain circumstances, such as the aftermath of a hacking incident. Despite the conviction, the Vastaamo case is not over as civil court cases are now likely to begin to seek compensation for the victims of the hack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2021

Or else they are on the verge of getting hacked by cyber crooks that could then install programs, view or delete data or even create new user accounts of a PC without the knowledge of the user or the system administration if/when on network. .

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. That included an FBI counterintelligence investigation that began around 2012, when agents started monitoring the communications of a small group of Supermicro workers, using warrants obtained under the.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

The flaws have been discovered by experts at Nightwatch Cybersecurity on January 19, 2020, both resides in the web administration console of the enterprise server management system. . ” reads the analysis published by Nightwatch Cybersecurity. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0516.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The hacker group has been targeting Japanese heavy industry, manufacturing and international relations at least since 2012, According to the experts, the group is linked to the People’s Republic of China and is focused on exfiltrating confidential data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

Mandiant states that From 2012 to 2021, China exploited more zero-days than any other nation. From 2012 to 2021, China-linked threat actors exploited more zero-days than any other nation-state actors. SecurityAffairs – hacking, zero-days). Most of the zero-days discovered by the company were exploited by nation-state APT groups.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2024

An attacker can exploit the flaw to bypass protections for a previous vulnerability, CVE-2012-1823, using specific character sequences. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. In June, the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Starwood reservation system it was acquiring had been hacked, because of a data breach that began long before the two companies became one. The impacted database was associated with a national genetic testing organization system that DDC acquired in 2012. Growing focus: cybersecurity due diligence around M&A.

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