Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

That's because the feature only shows up when Chrome thinks the page has a media element that Lens can act upon. As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at.

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

That's because the feature only shows up when Chrome thinks the page has a media element that Lens can act upon. As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at.

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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

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

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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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

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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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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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. Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least). Don’t give a smartphone as the first phone.

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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

MARCH 1, 2020

This week, several media reported that agents of the Russian intelligence reportedly went to Ireland to inspect the undersea cables. Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. ” reported The Sunday Times.

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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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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. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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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. com to malicious subdomains of jquery[.]services.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Bloomberg, Vodafone identified hidden backdoors in software that could have handed Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy used to connect to the internet. It would not have been accessible from the internet,” Vodafone said in an emailed statement. ” continues bloomberg.

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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. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. ” continues the report.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Therefore, decryptors appear on the Internet, and with them the hope that files can be decrypted without paying a ransom. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 finds that pin@darktower.ru

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. 2012 London. The London Olympics—the one where James Bond and the definitely real Queen jumped out of a helicopter —was a massive splash of malicious activity in internet terms. Russian sites hosted Trojans claiming to be official 2012 game apps. Not so much.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet. This is how the Internet works. They use mascots and spokesmodels.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

Craig Newmark Philanthropies has historically committed funds to cybersecurity causes and signed a letter this month calling for large philanthropic foundations and internet billionaires to consider doing the same. These includes finance, education and social media giants. Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images). percent (or $15.2

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

This has created what the Center for internet Security calls the “fog of more,” where a deluge of choices make decisions difficult to manage. Before retiring in 2012 Sager oversaw all NSA red and blue teams, as well as all security product evaluation teams. So how should one choose?

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Daniel Miessler

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon. And the media doesn’t help either, not to mention InfoSec marketing departments. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers. To regular folks with some basic computer skills, the Dark Web seems like Enemy #1.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. Summary: Multiple Facebook databases were found to be unprotected by passwords or encryption, meaning anyone who searched the internet could find them. LinkedIn data breach (2012). Oh, how times have changed.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Gen Z — the generation born between 1997 and 2012 — is the first generation to grow up as true digital natives. They’ve never lived in a time without the internet; some have never lived in a time without YouTube. And social media is just part of being a teenager.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Formerly known as Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based company is a top-tier VC firm investing in consumer and enterprise solutions for segments like SaaS , fintech, hardware, media, and IT services. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Accel’s largest presence is in the Bay Area with sizable teams in London and Bangalore.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

The Kimsuky APT—also known as Thallium, Black Banshee, and Velvet Chollima—is a North Korean threat actor that has been active since 2012. On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea. Conclusion.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). com from Archive.org in 2012 redirects to the domain qksnap.com , which DomainTools.com says was registered to a Jordan Bloom from Thornhill, ON that same year. A copy of pictrace[.]com

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. Summary: Multiple Facebook databases were found to be unprotected by passwords or encryption, meaning anyone who searched the internet could find them. LinkedIn data breach (2012). How times have changed.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states in that region, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. Add to that widespread warnings to use social media circumspectly. Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Kristin Sanders, chief information security officer for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed last week how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing this challenge by leveraging a series of software solutions, sensors and internet-of-things tech.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This practice could be susceptible to tampering and fraud, including physical tampering, ballot stuffing, and destruction of ballots, which can compromise election results (Hasen, 2012). Security analysis of the Estonian internet voting system. Absentee ballots found in ditch in Wisconsin. Associated Press. MacAlpine, M., &

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NopSec

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Though its CVSS score is relatively low, Heartbleed has definitely been one of the most severe security events the Internet has never seen. More than a half-million servers were found exposed to this vulnerability, which accounts for 30 – 70% of the Internet. The Technical Risk Scores, however, help to differentiate the risks.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on French President Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-2012, Wikileaks says. Wikileaks began to publish the files under the heading “Espionnage Elysee” on Tuesday.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

iboss’s CASB offerings are particularly useful for social media and Google and Microsoft cloud applications. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps addresses DLP, compliance, discovery, access and other security functions across social media, SaaS apps, email and more. The product is well rated by users and analysts alike. Microsoft

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McAfee

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, if your organization is using this software, you probably should have followed the disclosure last month, lest your “/etc/passwd” files are now known to the whole internet. Beyond that, there are two interesting points you can ponder while swirling your eggnog in its glass (side-rant on the disgustingness of eggnog redacted).

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