Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. NetWire has been sold openly on the same website since 2012: worldwiredlabs[.]com. org , also registered in 2012.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Some of the world’s largest Internet firms have taken steps to crack down on disinformation spread by QAnon conspiracy theorists and the hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan. based Internet Service Provider that serves as N.T. Technology’s colocation provider and sole connection to the larger Internet.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

But way back in 2012, the Canadian CSEC—that’s their NSA—did some top-secret work on this kind of thing. But if you assume that he has some sort of smart phone in his pocket that identifies itself over the Internet, you might be able to find him in that dataset.

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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. is a use-after-free issue in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8. is a use-after-free issue in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8. and Authy iOS before 26.1.0,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Crimenetwork facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services, including drugs, forged documents, hacking tools, and stolen data. Germany’s largest crime marketplace, Crimenetwork, has been shut down, and an administrator has been arrested.

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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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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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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

intelligence communications, including hacking into computers not connected to the internet. Officials also feared that the Russians may have devised other ways to monitor U.S. Senior FBI and CIA officials briefed congressional leaders on these issues as part of a wide-ranging examination on Capitol Hill of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft today released updates to plug nearly 100 security holes in various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that is actively being exploited. lnk) files ( CVE-2020-0729 ) that affects Windows 8 and 10 systems, as well as Windows Server 2008-2012.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

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 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , or FISA, according to five of the officials. This was the result of decades of research.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2019

” The DHCP weakness ( CVE-2019-0785 ) exists in most supported versions of Windows server, from Windows Server 2012 through Server 2019. It should be noted that 11 of the 15 critical flaws are present in or are a key component of the browsers built into Windows — namely, Edge and Internet Exploder Explorer.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 4, 2024

The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda compromised an unnamed internet service provider (ISP) to push malicious software updates to target companies in mid-2023, highlighting a new level of sophistication associated with the group.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 9, 2019

The researchers found the hackers got into one of the cell networks by exploiting a vulnerability on an internet-connected web server to gain a foothold onto the provider's internal network. From there, the hackers continued to exploit each machine they found by stealing credentials to gain deeper access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2025

Mustang Panda has been active since at least 2012, targeting American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. This design suggests its use as a post-compromise tool to access systems not directly reachable over the Internet.

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The Hacker News

JULY 23, 2024

The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2012-4792 (CVSS score: 9.3) - Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-After-Free Vulnerability CVE-2024-39891 (CVSS score: 5.3) - Twilio Authy Information Disclosure

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The Hacker News

JUNE 1, 2021

National Security Agency (NSA) used a partnership with Denmark's foreign and military intelligence service to eavesdrop on top politicians and high-ranking officials in Germany, Sweden, Norway, and France by tapping into Danish underwater internet cables between 2012 and 2014.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“And Norse’s much-vaunted interactive attack map was indeed some serious eye candy: It purported to track the source and destination of countless Internet attacks in near real-time, and showed what appeared to be multicolored fireballs continuously arcing across the globe.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

An attacker can exploit the flaw to bypass protections for a previous vulnerability, CVE-2012-1823, using specific character sequences. The issue resides in the Best-Fit feature of encoding conversion within the Windows operating system. The company urges users to update their installations as soon as possible. ” concludes GreyNoise.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Bugcrowd ushered in crowdsourced security with its launch in 2012, and today a covey of vendors have followed suit, each supplying intricate platforms to connect hackers with proven skillsets to companies that have particular needs. With AI speeding everything up, triaging risks makes a lot of sense. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

CVE-2021-31959 affects everything from Windows 7 through Windows 10 and Server versions 2008 , 2012 , 2016 and 2019. For a quick visual breakdown of each update released today and its severity level, check out the this Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2018

10 and Server 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2019. My apologies for the tardiness of this post; I have been traveling in Australia this past week with only sporadic access to the Internet. The zero-day bug — CVE-2018-8453 — affects Windows versions 7, 8.1,

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

out of 10 in severity by the industry-standard Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and impacts all versions of EtherNet/IP Adapter Source Code Stack prior to 2.28, which was released on November 21, 2012. Tracked as CVE-2020-25159 , the flaw is rated 9.8 This would leave many running in the wild still today.”

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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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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do.

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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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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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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

A man from California confessed his involvement in a large-scale and long-running Internet-based fraud scam that enabled him and other fraudsters to steal about $50 million from dozens of investors over an eight-year period, from 2012 to October 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

According to the media, these are the largest penalties imposed by the Kremlin on Western IT firms under internet use laws since 2012. ” reported the Associated Press.

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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).

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