Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware. cn who advertises a mobile game called “Xiaojun Junji,” and says the game is available at blazefire[.]com. “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com and rurimeter[.]com

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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

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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. A search on the username “bo3dom” using Constella’s service reveals an account at ipmart-forum.com , a now-defunct forum concerned with IT products, such as mobile devices, computers and online gaming.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Curry and his team scanned the internet to find domains owned by SiriusXM and perform reverse-engineering of the mobile apps of SiriusXM customers to figure out how the service works.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

In June 2018 we have spotted a strange database publicly exposed to the public internet (no password/login required) along with a large number of credit card numbers and personal information inside.” The post How crooks conduct Money Laundering operations through mobile games appeared first on Security Affairs. Offered by.

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 — The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) launched the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) in 2020 to establish a baseline for how virtual private network (VPN) providers should operate. Social Responsibility: VPN providers will promote VPN technology to support access to the global Internet and freedom of expression.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Mobile malware The number of Android users attacked by banking malware increased by 32% compared to the previous year. Agent was the most active mobile malware family, making up 38% of all Android attacks. Users in Turkey were the most targeted, with 2.98% encountering mobile banking malware. of attacks. pp compared to 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2021

Canada-based Internet of Things (IoT) maker Sierra Wireless has been hit by ransomware attack bringing certain production operations of the company to a halt. Sierra Wireless claims the incident has disrupted internal systems along with the website as it is still under maintenance.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane.

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Zero Day

JUNE 18, 2025

Also: How new Facebook policies incentivize spreading misinformation For the first time this year (the RISJ has released a media report every year since 2012), the No. 1 spot, or the largest proportion of respondents who used a particular source in the past week, went to social media, with 54%. Traditional television claimed the No.

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Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. Have you found it more useful with desktop or mobile? You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at. But Lens makes it oh so much faster. Let us know in the comments below.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 7, 2020

The global use of debit and credit cards (combined) grew from 5 percent to 9 percent between 2012 and 2017. The Chinese electronic payments market is among the fastest – it increased 10x between 2012 and 2017. 3 Mobile Payments For the Future. Only 37 percent of global merchants support mobile payments at the point of sale.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors. But first, let’s examine how they fared with the predictions for 2022. What we predicted in 2022.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker attempted to compromise the mobile device of a staff member in early June by sending him a WhatsApp message about a protest in front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington. The traces collected by Amnesty International was corroborated by the findings of the investigation conducted by researchers at the internet watchdog Citizen Lab.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

Future features such as remediation, mobile device management (MDM), and SIEM data exports can be obtained by upgrading to Syxsense Enterprise. Security vulnerability scans and management become available with the Syxsense Secure product.

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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.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2012 a group of 250+ security vendors formed the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance to combat authentication challenges "with a focused mission: authentication standards to help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords”, and Web Authentication API, or WebAuthn for short, was born. How do users enroll? What is WebAuthn?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

If you are using one of the above devices and they are connected on the WAN, make sure to remove your device from the internet. We also recommend you use a VPN to protect your computers and mobile devices from hackers. Make sure they are running only locally in safe network). We will update this article as a patch becomes available.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

In one case we investigated, we noticed that a signed executable qgametool.exe (MD5 f756083b62ba45dcc6a4d2d2727780e4 ), compiled in 2012, deployed WinDealer on a target machine. In 2020, we discovered a whole new distribution method for the WinDealer malware that leverages the automatic update mechanism of select legitimate applications.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This trend aimed at reducing threats from banking Trojans for PCs has been continuing in Russia since 2012. The Trojan was disguised as a financial app intended to be used as an “aggregator” of the mobile banking systems of Russia’s leading banks. New Android Trojans— Easy, Exobot 2.0,

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Deployment options by proxy or agents for Windows and macOS and mobile devices. Integration with enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions for endpoint policies. First defined by Gartner in 2012, they add CASBs “ interject enterprise security policies as the cloud-based resources are accessed.”

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. Have you found it more useful with desktop or mobile? You can feed it an image, and Lens will do its best to tell you what you're looking at. But Lens makes it oh so much faster. Let us know in the comments below.

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NopSec

MARCH 30, 2023

These vulnerabilities were found in a variety of software and hardware products, including Microsoft Windows, Exchange, and a number of mobile devices, including Google’s Pixel. Finally, we have a hardware vulnerability that impacts any mobile device that uses a subset of Exynos Modem produced by Samsung Semiconductor.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

The internet and, now, cloud computing transformed the way we conduct business. Since its launch in 2012, Los Angeles, California’s IPVanish has garnered over 1,600 servers in 75 locations and 40,000 IPs. Started in 2012, NordVPN has long been a consumer-first vendor. Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

This capability is particularly useful for devices or networks with frequently changing IP addresses, such as home networks, small businesses, or mobile devices. It’s also been used in numerous high-profile incidents, such as the 2012 attack on Miss Teen USA.

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Spinone

AUGUST 8, 2018

Google Drive was launched in 2012 and now boasts over one million business and personal users using it to back up their data, documents, photos, spreadsheets, presentations and more. per month up to 100GB), integration with Gmail and other Google Apps, and seamless synchronization with client software.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For initial access, RansomHub affiliates often compromise internet-facing systems and user endpoints via phishing emails, password spraying, and exploiting high-risk remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

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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. Chrome is a browser you run on your laptop or mobile.

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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. Chrome is a browser you run on your laptop or mobile.

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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. Chrome is a browser you run on your laptop or mobile.

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