Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” 2012, from an Internet address in Magnitogorsk, RU. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. One of the men indicted as part of APT41 — now 35-year-old Tan DaiLin — was the subject of a 2012 KrebsOnSecurity story that sought to shed light on a Chinese antivirus product marketed as Anvisoft. Image: FBI.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. BHProxies initially was fairly active on Black Hat World between May and November 2012, after which it suddenly ceased all activity. The website BHProxies[.]com million from private investors.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-12-09 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., 2333youxi[.]com blazefire[.]com blazefire[.]net

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Now, the founders of Norse have launched a new company with a somewhat different vision: RedTorch , which for the past two years has marketed a mix of services to high end celebrity clients, including spying and anti-spying tools and services. A snapshot of Norse’s semi-live attack map, circa Jan.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. “all promotion methods allowed”).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-12-09 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., 2333youxi[.]com blazefire[.]com blazefire[.]net

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2022

As bots are buying all the Raspberry Pi systems available in the market, Adafruit, an online retailer of Raspberry Pi single-board computers, has implemented a 2-factor authentication for all the purchases made for the new hardware from this Monday. And if the users do not change such credentials, then they can be hacked at any moment.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. This is a grey market, which is usually against the terms and services of the game companies.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

What was compromised: names, email addresses, and passwords. A majority of the passwords were protected by the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, which resulted in 99% of the credentials being posted by LeakSource.com in 2016. What was compromised: email addresses, usernames, and passwords for some but not all affected accounts.

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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. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault.

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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. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Dashlane and LastPass are two of the biggest names in password management software. They both provide businesses secure vaults for sensitive information, including passwords, credit card details, and personal identification numbers. It has long been regarded as a top password manager for both personal and professional use.

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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. As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The advertising for the sale of the huge trove of data was published in the popular Dream Market black marketplace, data are available for less than $20,000 worth of Bitcoin. The seller told The Register that he stolen roughly a billion accounts from servers to date since he started hacking in 2012. “I need the money.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. 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. Cerber thrived because it emerged as an early mover in the market for ransomware-as-a-service offerings. and admin@stairwell.ru

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2021

They’re also classed as a “GOD User”, which could suggest that their name has weigh in the underground market. You may also want to check whether your email address or phone numbers are on HaveIBeenPwned (LinkedIn suffered a genuine breach in 2012, and over 100 million passwords were stolen).

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

What was compromised: names, email addresses, and passwords. A majority of the passwords were protected by the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, which resulted in 99% of the credentials being posted by LeakSource.com in 2016. What was compromised: email addresses, usernames, and passwords for some, but not all affected accounts.

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Daniel Miessler

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

And the media doesn’t help either, not to mention InfoSec marketing departments. As far as they’re concerned, if you don’t say the name of your password manager 7 times before bed the Dark Web will haunt your closet. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers.

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Security Boulevard

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. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2018

This includes any one-time codes sent via text message or automated phone call that many companies use to supplement passwords for their online accounts. The remainder of the price of the vehicle was financed through the trade-in of a 2012 Audi R8. The buyer/s listed email address was a Gmail address.

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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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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

When the LinkedIn data breach from 2012 finally surfaced in May 2016, it appeared for sale on a (now defunct) dark web marketplace called The Real Deal. You can see why the seller put the data on the market - there was a clear financial upside. across the internet.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Dateline Cybercrime .

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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.” ” reads the blog post published by Kromtech Security. ” reported Kromtech Security. Offered by. Android Users. Clash of Clans.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

Therefore encryption and hashing passwords, confidential data, and connection strings are of the utmost importance. . Enforce Best Practices for Account and Password Policies. While it might go without saying, organizations must follow the best account and password policies for foolproof security. Threat Intelligence.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Though the global Database Management System (DBMS) market knows heavy hitters like Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, several security vendors and open source databases offer vital database security tools too. With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

After all, how else could you get the goods to market? When security researchers discovered more than 2 million stolen passwords on a hacker server in December, a piece of malware called a keylogger was suspected. bank accounts in 2012 by cybercrooks using malware like keyloggers. And they found it in small business websites.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The client uses password hash to encrypt the challenge and sends it back to the domain controller as a “response.” For example, if a Windows 8 machine communicates with a Windows 2012 server, the SMB 3.0 ” The catch here is that if a client is using NTLM 1.1, is enabled, the SMB 1.0 protocol will be used.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Sample of a phishing site that impersonates Amazon The tenth most-copied site was the Latin American online market MercadoLibre, which was mimicked by 1.77% of phishing pages. To protect your devices and finance-related accounts: Use secure authentication methods, such as multifactor authentication, strong unique passwords, and so on.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Although LFI was interesting to grab some sensitive files since XML can’t handle binary data it was not possible to dump the SQLite database to get usernames and passwords. WD: The vulnerability report CVE-2018-18472 affects My Book Live devices originally introduced to the market between 2010 and 2012. for the file XXE_CHECK.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Such discoveries usually lead to massive and indiscriminate exploitation, and compromised machines are sold on dark markets to secondary buyers for the purposes of ransomware deployment. CobaltStrike, released in 2012, is a threat emulation tool designed to help red teams understand the methods an attacker can use to penetrate a network.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

To compromise devices, the initial version of MIRAI relied exclusively on a fixed set of 64 well-known default login/password combinations commonly used by IoT devices. MIRAI was able to infect over 600,000 IoT devices by simply exploiting a set of 64 well-known default IoT login/password combinations. on various dark-web markets.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2020

It might already be in memory, so now the server might be returning to the requesting client passwords, keys, even personally identifiable information (PII) that have been recently processed. In 2012, a change was made to OpenSSL-- that change allowed for Heartbleed to exist. I was a little surprised by the reaction," he said. "I

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2020

It might already be in memory, so now the server might be returning to the requesting client passwords, keys, even personally identifiable information (PII) that have been recently processed. In 2012, a change was made to OpenSSL-- that change allowed for Heartbleed to exist. I was a little surprised by the reaction," he said. "I

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