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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. There is a third Skype account nicknamed “Fatal.001” 001” Skype account.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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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Winnti APT group uses skip-2.0 malware to control Microsoft SQL Servers

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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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. .

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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Threat Trends: Firewall

Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Valid Accounts [ T1178 ]. Account Discovery [ T1087 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. CVE-2013-2185. Percent of. organizations.

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Iranian Charming Kitten APT used a new BellaCiao malware in recent wave of attacks

Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

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 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . Also Read: Apple White Hat Hack Shows Value of Pen Testers . No Shared Databases or User Accounts. Out-of-band. Testing for SQL Injection Vulnerabilities.

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Iran-linked COBALT DICKENS group targets universities in new phishing campaign

Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Many of the domains used by COBALT DICKENS were registered between May and August 2018, most of them resolved to the same IP address and DNS name server. Iranian hacking activity is intensifying in the last years, security firms uncovered the activities of many Iran-linked APT groups. Securi ty Affairs – COBALT DICKENS, hacking).

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

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. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

On April 7th, 2013, for instance, the most successful attack executed by Anonymous group using data leakage and DoS conditions against a huge number of Israeli websites was noted. According to media (see this link ), since the attack in 2013, the number of participants and supporters is decreasing. Final Thoughts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

On April 7th, 2013, for instance, the most successful attack executed by Anonymous group using data leakage and DoS conditions against a huge number of Israeli websites was noted. According to media (see this link ), since the attack in 2013, the number of participants and supporters is decreasing. Final Thoughts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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Winnti APT group uses skip-2.0 malware to control Microsoft SQL Servers

Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Threat Trends: Firewall

Iranian Charming Kitten APT used a new BellaCiao malware in recent wave of attacks

How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks

Iran-linked COBALT DICKENS group targets universities in new phishing campaign

Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

[SI-LAB] #OpJerusalem 2019 – JCry ransomware is now infecting Windows users

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