Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target. bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2023

The Outlook vulnerability ( CVE-2023-23397 ) affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook from 2013 to the newest. Known as an NTLM relay attack, it allows an attacker to get someone’s NTLM hash [Windows account password] and use it in an attack commonly referred to as “ Pass The Hash.”

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 23, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Moodle SpellChecker Path Authenticated RCE [CVE-2021–21809] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Also, to access the upgrade.txt file, we do not need any authentication. This is extremely similar to CVE-2013–3630, just using a different variable.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

Related: Credential stuffing fuels account takeovers. Did you know that this unconventional celebration got its start in 2013, and that it’s now an official holiday on the annual calendar? Breaches to multiple accounts that share the same or similar passwords. Use multi-factor authentication.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. The attackers used CVE-2021-26857 to run code of their choice under the “system” account on a targeted Exchange server. Microsoft credited researchers at Reston, Va. based Volexity for reporting the attacks.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. ” AN ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’?

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security , discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. ” read the post published by ZDNet.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Elsewhere, leaks in which passwords may feature prominently can run the full range of “secure password” to “plaintext data and viewable by anyone” When passwords are exposed, it potentially provides inroads into multiple accounts owned by the victim. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. platform since October 2013. international financial and corporate data, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and compromised user accounts from many U.S. store ACCOUNTS-MARKET.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. Turn on multifactor authentication for all online accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. The affected end-of-life devices with 8.x x firmware are past temporary mitigations. 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. platform since October 2013. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

“Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. Mollema demonstrated that it’s possible to transfer automatic Windows authentication by connecting a machine on the network to a machine under the control of the attacker.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 15, 2022

In 2013, we had pretend hitmen threatening murder unless victims paid $25,000 to survive their non-existent wrath. FBI Chicago released several good pieces of advice in March, which take into account the social engineering side of things: Never post news of upcoming travel dates and locations online.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

“We recently were alerted by a third party regarding a security matter that may have affected the Zendesk Support and Chat products and customer accounts of those products activated prior to November of 2016.” This isn’t the first security breach suffered by Zendesk, the company was already breached in 2013.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2021

The IT giant reported that at least one China linked APT group, tracked as HAFNIUM , chained these vulnerabilities to access on-premises Exchange servers to access email accounts, and install backdoors to maintain access to victim environments. reads the advisory published by Microsoft. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

As the FBI points out, the goal is not always a direct fund transfer: One variation involves compromising legitimate business email accounts and requesting employees’ Personally Identifiable Information, Wage and Tax Statement (W-2) forms, or even cryptocurrency wallet s. Email accounts? Phone conversations are great for this.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

Anubhav explained that the passwords are related to Dahua DVRs running very old firmware that is known to be affected by a five-year-old vulnerability tracked as CVE-2013-6117. The CVE-2013-6117 was discovered by the security expert Jake Reynolds and affects Dahua DVR 2.608.0000.0 — Ankit Anubhav (@ankit_anubhav) July 13, 2018.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2021

In Europe, for example, Spain’s BBVA opened its APIs in 2013 with the goal to allows companies and businesses to better manage their operations. To try and reassure citizens on this point, EU regulators are insisting that strong two-factor authentication be enabled for all PSD2-related transactions.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. So once again I sought to re-register as myself at Experian.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The first one, later identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to remotely trigger the next vulnerability – CVE-2022-41082. According to the company, the vulnerabilities affect MS Exchange Server 2013, MS Exchange Server 2016 and MS Exchange Server 2019.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

Passwordless authentication. Passwordless authentication could usher in a world where we no longer rely on passwords, and that could be an enormous, unabashed win for security and peace of mind. And yet almost every Internet account requires one. FIDO2 is a specification that uses public key encryption for authentication.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

contacts, images, and files) from various online accounts associated cloud storage services. Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . Some of the videos were showing how to exfiltrate data (i.e.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

out of 10, it is classified as a pre-authentication issue which means that it could be exploited without credentials. One of the vulnerabilities is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Windows SAM (Security Accounts Manager) vulnerability. The CVE-2022-24086 has received a CVSS score of 9.8

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

And in 2013, the FTC won a nearly $5 million judgment against a Kentucky company purporting to offer such services. The score is only one of many criteria taken into account for employment. In that 1998 case, the defendants behind the scheme were taking out classified ads in newspapers. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. malware was used by threat actors to establish a backdoor in MSSQL Server 11 and 12 servers, allowing them to access to any account on the server using a “magic password.” The skip-2.0

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), losses due to BEC scams since 2013 total around $28 billion dollars and it is the most profitable cybercrime there is. In the Account Compromise and Data Theft variants, containment should follow existing CIRP procedures. BEC-IRP Section 5: Recovery.

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NopSec

MARCH 1, 2023

RCE is only achievable via authenticated vectors, however elevated privileges are not required. Systems Impacted: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, 2019 Read more : [link] [link] [link] [link] 2. We’ll be sure to keep a pulse on these issues and provide an update if proof of concept code is made publicly available. through 9.2.5

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" I've regularly quoted the NCSC in particular, for example there's a bunch of their work in my recent blog post about authentication guidance for the modern era.

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