Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new budget Android devices. Triada is the very same malicious software Google said was found pre-installed on many of its devices and being used to install spam apps that display ads.

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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

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. Microsoft once again fixed a critical flaw in the way Windows handles shortcut (.lnk)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2019

Microsoft today released software updates to plug almost 80 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. ” The DHCP weakness ( CVE-2019-0785 ) exists in most supported versions of Windows server, from Windows Server 2012 through Server 2019.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Microsoft this week released software updates to fix roughly 50 security problems with various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including one flaw that is already being exploited and another for which exploit code is publicly available. 10 and Server 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2019.

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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

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. CVE-2021-31959 affects everything from Windows 7 through Windows 10 and Server versions 2008 , 2012 , 2016 and 2019.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more. For some types of software, a digital signature is mandatory.”

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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

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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new budget Android devices. Triada is the very same malicious software Google said was found pre-installed on many of its devices and being used to install spam apps that display ads.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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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

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.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

According to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), this individual also was behind the infamous Reveton ransomware Trojan spread in 2012 — 2014. Vulnerability exploitation attacks Ransomware gangs continue to exploit software vulnerabilities, mostly to penetrate networks and escalate their privileges. million in damage.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2024

This week, we also saw some older issues return to light, including an Internet Explorer vulnerability first discovered in 2012. A Microsoft SmartScreen vulnerability from earlier this year resurfaced, and a Docker flaw from 2018 is still causing issues in a newer version of the software.

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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. About the essayist.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Tutanota , the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email software, has been blocked by Russian authorities. The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. reported the Associated Press.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

Huawei made the headlines again, Vodafone identified backdoors in software that could have handed Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network. It would not have been accessible from the internet,” Vodafone said in an emailed statement. Software vulnerabilities are an industry-wide challenge.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

The RAT also let users view what victims were typing on their keyboards, disable security software, and secretly activate the webcam on the target’s computer. Federal prosecutors say Colton Ray Grubbs of Stanford, Ky. Grubbs, who went by the pseudonym “ KFC Watermelon ,” began selling the tool in May 2015.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

” Rapid7 lead software engineer Adam Barnett pointed out , “It may or may not be a coincidence that Microsoft announced last month that WordPad is no longer being updated, and will be removed in a future version of Windows, although no specific timeline has yet been given.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Touhill “Adversaries should remember that our military doctrine identifies cyber as one of our combined arms capabilities,” says Greg Touhill, president of AppGate Federal Group , a Florida-based supplier of software perimeter security systems. “To To ignore U.S. For whatever’s coming, it can make a difference.

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. Formed in 1965, Greylock Partners has a long history of investing in enterprise and consumer software for seed and early-stage and beyond. AllegisCyber Capital.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In order to identify flaws in weapon systems under development, experts at GAO reviewed cybersecurity assessment reports from selected weapon systems that were tested between 2012 and 2017. Despite the DOD plans to spend about $1.66 trillion to develop its cyber arsenal, it is continuing to lack cyber security for weapon systems.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. This software uses patented security architecture with 256-bit encryption, plus built-in two factor authentication.

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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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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To develop the Ransomware Risk Assessment Service, Qualys examined more than five years of ransomware attacks across more than 30 ransomware families leveraging hundreds of thousands of CVEs in order to determine the most commonly used CVEs and the most commonly targeted software and misconfigurations. CVE-2012-1723. CVE-2013-1493.

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Google Security

AUGUST 24, 2022

Posted by Pedro Barbosa, Security Engineer, and Daniel Bleichenbacher, Software Engineer Paranoid is a project to detect well-known weaknesses in large amounts of crypto artifacts, like public keys and digital signatures. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2012/064 ; Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Lenstra, James P.

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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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

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). Summary: The company was attacked in 2012, when usernames and passwords were posted to a Russian hacker forum. Damages: leaked account information.

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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. Sager spent 34 years at the National Security Agency (NSA) as a mathematician, software vulnerability analyst, and executive manager. So how should one choose?

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2025

This report analyzes the software and techniques observed in recent Head Mare attacks and how these overlap with Twelve’s activities. Technical details Head Mare’s toolkit The attackers used various publicly available tools, including open-source software and leaked proprietary tools, to achieve their goals. com/nssm-2.24.zip

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. This software uses patented security architecture with 256-bit encryption, plus built-in two factor authentication.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Mark of the Web (MOTW)—the technology that ensures Windows pops a warning message when trying to open a file downloaded from the Internet—is back in the news, but unfortunately not in a good way. MOTW was originally an Internet Explorer security feature. If you do not trust the source, do not open this software.

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