Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI. APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

The malware is primarily used to steal sensitive information, such as login credentials and financial information, from victims. The Dridex malware typically spreads through spam email campaigns, with the emails containing a malicious attachment or link that, when clicked, will install the malware on the victim's computer.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. 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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Initially a stealthy trojan horse program delivered via email and used to steal passwords, Trickbot evolved into “a highly modular malware suite that provides the Trickbot Group with the ability to conduct a variety of illegal cyber activities, including ransomware attacks,” the Treasury Department said. The Forbes.ru

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The announcement was made as the said guy was found guilty of stealing over 100 million password credentials belonging to users related to LinkedIn, Dropbox and Automatic. As per the latest court briefing, Nikulin gained fraudulent access to LinkedIn database to get the admin password of LinkedIn Engineer Nick Berry.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

A report published by Sentinel One states that a hacking group named “Modified Elephant” was seen carrying out such criminal activities since 2012 and has started the game of planting criminal evidence on devices of innocent online users. Then how to keep such cyber crimes at bay?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Earth Preta, also known as “RedDelta” or “Bronze President,” has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. The link points to a password-protected archive, the document also includes the password.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. PC malware The number of users affected by financial malware for PCs dropped by 11% from 2022. Ramnit and Zbot were the prevalent malware families, together targeting over 50% of affected users. Money is what always attracts cybercriminals.

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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. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com , buydudu[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. But the identity and whereabouts of Icamis have remained a mystery to this author until recently.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google experts are tracking ARCHIPELAGO since 2012 and have observed the group targeting individuals with expertise in North Korea policy issues. The fake browser window displays a URL and a login prompt designed to trick recipients into providing their password to a legitimate login page.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. cyber #cybersecurity @BleepinComputer #malware pic.twitter.com/CtnppIyhxn — Cyble (@AuCyble) May 14, 2020. million April 2018 Netlog.com (Twoo.com) 57 million November 2012 Dubsmash.com Phone numbers 47.1

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 10, 2024

This lets threat actors change setups and access sensitive personal information of millions of Cox customers, such as MAC addresses and Wi-Fi passwords. June 5, 2024 DarkGate MaaS Switches to AutoHotkey for Stealthier Malware Delivery Type of vulnerability: Malware delivery mechanism.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. The most commonly used passwords today are, “password” and “123456,” and it only takes a hacker.29 Each stolen record contained an email address and password. In 2012, LinkedIn was hit with a breach and more than 6.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

The United States has deported the author of NeverQuest banking malware, the computer programmer Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov to Russia. . The Russian hacker was suspected of being the author of the Neverquest malware , aka Vawtrak malware, and the person who administrated the control infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And security researchers from ESET have discovered that the malware was uploaded to the VirusTotal operated system in Brazil and was targeted by a social engineering attack. North Korea’s Lazarus Group has reportedly designed new ransomware that is being targeted at M1 processors popularly running on Macs and Intel systems.

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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. com — were implicated in propagating the Triada malware. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., “Yehuo” ( ? ? ) com , buydudu[.]com

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Samide and other experts say what’s coming next is very likely to be a series of varied attacks as combatants on all sides leverage footholds gained from ongoing intelligence gathering and malware planting. It describes malware being iterated by hackers who’ve clearly been doing this for a long while.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

Legitimate software abused by threat actors are: • ARO 2012 Tutorial 8.0.12.0 • VirusScan On-Demand Scan Task Properties (McAfee, Inc.) • Sandboxie COM Services (BITS) 3.55.06 (SANDBOXIE L.T.D) • Outlook Item Finder 11.0.5510 (Microsoft Corporation) • Mobile Popup Application 16.00 (Quick Heal Technologies (P) Ltd.). .”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

The US authorities also accuse Assange of having conspired with Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password hash for an Army computer to access classified documents that were later published on the WikiLeaks website.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. 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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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Introduction It’s just another cryptocurrency miner… Nobody would even suspect the mining malware was merely a mask, masquerading behind an intricate modular framework that supports both Linux and Windows. This malware employed a custom EternalBlue SMBv1 exploit to infiltrate its victims’ systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov pleads guilty to bank fraud after running a botnet that spread ‘NeverQuest’ malware for three years. The Russian hacker was suspected of being the author of the Neverquest malware , aka Vawtrak malware, and the person who administrated the control infrastructure.

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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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since the malware in this incident was compiled on April 15, 2021, and compilation dates are the same for all known samples, this incident is likely to be the first involving Maui ransomware. This report included technical details of malware used in the campaign, such as Ecipekac, SodaMaster, P8RAT, FYAnti and QuasarRAT.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

China-linked APT group Tropic Trooper has been spotted previously undocumented malware written in Nim language. SMS Bomber allows a user to flood the victim’s phone number with a very long list of pre-baked HTTP requests asking for one-time codes, verification messages, password recoveries and the like.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Modern browsers include synchronization features (like Google Chrome’s Sync ) so that all your browsers, on all your devices, share the same tabs, passwords, plugins, and other features. Browser syncing was introduced in 2012 by Chrome with the goal of letting you continue at home where you left off at work, and vice versa.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Harvest cookies and a password database for supported browsers. The watering hole attacks on the Daily NK was conducted from March 2021 until early June 2021. ” reads the post published by Volexity.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Researchers discovered that recently patched Firefox zero-day (CVE-2019-11707) has been exploited to deliver Windows and Mac malware to cryptocurrency exchanges. The popular malware researcher Vitali Kremez published an interesting analysis of macOS and Windows malware delivered through the exploitation of the CVE-2019-11707 flaw.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

re network uses at least two free VPN services to lure its users to install a malware-like software that achieves persistence on the user’s computer,” the researchers wrote. The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. 2022 closure of LuxSocks , another malware-based proxy network.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

APT40 leverages phishing messages using weaponized documents that are able to trigger vulnerabilities within days of their disclosure, Some of the flaws exploited in past attacks are CVE-2012-0158 , CVE-2017-0199 , CVE-2017-8759 , and CVE-2017-11882 ). . The attackers also use TCP ports 80 and 443 to masquerade malicious network traffic.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. After that, the malware starts receiving commands. ” continues the analys i s.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. During our daily monitoring activities, we intercepted a singular Linux malware trying to penetrate the network of some of our customers. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

The fix: Apply the emergency fixes issued by Microsoft for: Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Attackers Actively Exploit Fortinet Enterprise Management Server SQLi Flaw Type of vulnerability: SQL injection (SQLi) flaw. Oglio tracks vulnerability CVE-2023-48022 , rated CVSS 9.8 (out

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