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

AUGUST 18, 2021

North Korea-linked InkySquid group leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom implant in attacks aimed at a South Korean online newspaper. APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. SecurityAffairs – hacking, InkySquid).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013. Source [link].

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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). ” continues the report. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2022

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks defined the PingPull RAT as a “difficult-to-detect” backdoor that leverages the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for C2 communications. However, the group has been active at least since 2012. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT). To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Technological advancements have come a long way – from when internet utility was very limited to when internet connection was achieved only through internet protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) addresses to this modern age where IPv6 is the next big thing. This helps to provide necessary security and anonymity for the internet user.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Below is the list of vulnerabilities exploited by V3G4: CVE-2012-4869 : FreePBX Elastix Remote Command Execution Vulnerability Gitorious Remote Command Execution Vulnerability CVE-2014-9727 : FRITZ!Box “Therefore, it is highly recommended that patches and updates are applied when possible.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. The blockage of the Tutanota service has been verified by the OONI Explorer, an open data resource on internet censorship around the world. reported the Associated Press.

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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? Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this. We technologists did a lot to help secure the Internet, for example.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Necurs botnet is one of the 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. The Necurs botnet is active since at least 2012, it is operated by the cybercrime gang tracked as TA505.

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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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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Learn how even someone mid career in security can play on their own, and even fill in gaps on their own learning, all year round. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind, and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. And they attack the problem differently.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

The vulnerabilities could not be exploited through Internet Explorer or the Outlook preview pane. The security patches developed by 0patch address the issues for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 without ESU. and Windows Server 2012. The flaws impact all supported versions of Windows.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014. The campaign was uncovered by FireEye , threat actor targeted many organizations worldwide the world by exploiting vulnerabilities in Citrix, Cisco and Zoho ManageEngine products.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

When targeted by a threat actor, the honeypot system uses their intrusion attempt to gain valuable information about the attacker. In order to capture malware and monitor cyberattacks across the internet in real-time, we run multiple honeypot systems that are contained in isolated execution environments, otherwise known as containers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Our online security team has uncovered a massive data breach originating from a misconfigured Amazon Bucket, which was operated by a Turkish Legal advising company, INOVA YÖNETIM & AKTÜERYAL DANI?MANLIK. Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data Breach).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The bad side of all of these adventure is, now I have my research materials scattering around all over the internet during these past three years (smile).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. The malware can also get proxy settings from Internet Explorer.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

The APT group has been active since 2012, experts linked the group to the Hezbollah militant group. ClearSky experts linked the Lebanese Cedar group to intrusions at telco companies, internet service providers, hosting providers, and managed hosting and applications companies. CVE-2012-3152). SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT).

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2021

The flaw resides in Microsoft Hyper-V’s network switch driver ( vmswitch.sys ), it affects Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012 through 2019. Such OID requests include, for example, hardware offloading, Internet Protocol security (IPsec) and single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) requests.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Log4Shell). The post US DoJ seizes $3.36B Bitcoin from Silk Road hacker appeared first on Security Affairs. ” . .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

The command highlighted in Figure 2 is an instruction responsible to download an MSI file from the C2 server ( hxxp://195.123.209.169/control ), geolocated in Latvia and with ports 80 and 3389 opened to the Internet. SecurityAffairs – FlawedAmmyy malware, hacking). About the author Pedro Tavares. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

MustangPanda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. Past campaigns were focused on Asian countries, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Tibet, and Myanmar.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

Danish Defense Intelligence Service (Danish: Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE) allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to tap into a primary internet and telecommunications hub in Denmark, the operation allowed the US intelligence agency to spy on the communications of European politicians. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NSA).

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Domain The team knew how much BackTrack was growing in popularity, and as they did not switch the project name when using Ubuntu, it was time to create its own place on the Internet. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Moving to Rolling Overall, the feedback received for Kali 2.0

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

I've been involved with a bunch of really poorly implemented "Internet of Things" things in the past that presented serious privacy risks to those who used them. Not to mention the various spyware apps often installed on kids' phones to track them which then subsequently leak their data all over the internet. mSpy leaked data.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How do the current DMCA laws impact those who hack digital devices? To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. Watch EP 01 See TV Guide.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How do the current DMCA laws impact those who hack digital devices? To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation.

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