Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Microsoft today released an emergency software patch to plug a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already using to break into Windows computers. 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

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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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. Not so much.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. The website BHProxies[.]com

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. None of these early threats went pro.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. It sounds ridiculous on its face, but the Internet itself was a solution to a similar problem: a reliable network built out of unreliable parts. It’s been going on since at least 2008.

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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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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

What it boils down to is in August 2021, someone with a proven history of breaching large organisations posted what they claimed were 70 million AT&T records to a popular hacking forum and asked for a very large amount of money should anyone wish to purchase the data. It is undoubtedly in the hands of thousands of internet randos.

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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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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 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

JANUARY 31, 2021

Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship. It was created in 2012 by a Chinese programmer named “ clowwindy “, and multiple implementations of the protocol have been made available since. SecurityAffairs – hacking, China).

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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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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 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

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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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. “Why do I need a certificate? .

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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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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Like the United States, China is more likely to try to get data from the US communications infrastructure, or from the large Internet companies that already collect data on our every move as part of their business model. If there's any lesson from all of this, it's that everybody spies using the Internet. The United States does it.

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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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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. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The alleged hack of the communications network used by CIA agents allowed Iranian intelligence to identify and kill at least 30 spies. Experts speculate that the hack of the communications network was the result of a simple Google search. In a 2012 incident in China, the Chinese government identified and killed 30 US spies.

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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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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In a report published at the end of 2012 on the growing hacking threat to websites, research firm Frost and Sullivan found that of all cyber security vulnerabilities, more than 98% were discovered by third-party researchers , while less than 2% were discovered by the people who made the applications that contained the vulnerabilities.

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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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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 1994, the first commercial internet browser was released. Netscape Navigator went on to be eclipsed by Internet Explore, Safari, Firefox, and now Chrome, but it helped kick start the internet-focused world we live in today. Listen to EP 07: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 1994, the first commercial internet browser was released. Netscape Navigator went on to be eclipsed by Internet Explore, Safari, Firefox, and now Chrome, but it helped kick start the internet-focused world we live in today. Listen to EP 07: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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Hacking Software Engineering Internet 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 1994, the first commercial internet browser was released. Netscape Navigator went on to be eclipsed by Internet Explore, Safari, Firefox, and now Chrome, but it helped kick start the internet-focused world we live in today. Listen to EP 07: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. Spotify Podcasts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

In an ironic twist, the marketing empire that owns the hacked online properties appears to be run by a Canadian man who’s been sued for fraud by the U.S. I also pinged several customer support email addresses tied to the data-broker Web sites that were hacked. at the victim in this hacking case. Nor has Mr. Willms.

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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. All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. That search shows the user bo3dom registered at ipmart-forum.com with the email address devrian27@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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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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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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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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