Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day, Exploitations Led by Hafnium.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who’ve recently re-indicted him on related charges. issued international arrest warrant for his extradition.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. 25, 2013, two days before Target said the breach officially began, Rescator could be seen in instant messages hiring another forum member to verify 400,000 payment cards that Rescator claimed were freshly stolen.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Just in 2020, the SolarWinds hack could’ve been prevented for organizations that promptly patch software. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. The Ryuk ransomware family spawned in 2018 from a sophisticated Russia-based cybercrime group.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

In contrast, WormGPT has promoted itself as a new, uncensored LLM that was created specifically for cybercrime activities. WormGPT was initially sold exclusively on HackForums , a sprawling, English-language community that has long featured a bustling marketplace for cybercrime tools and services.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. .

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011. Other interesting discoveries.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sergei Mikhailov , formerly deputy chief of Russia’s top anti-cybercrime unit, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison. In 2013, Vrublevsky was convicted of hiring his most-trusted spammer and malware writer to launch a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against one of his company’s chief competitors.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Though polite, the Creeper was still an annoyance to some, and in 1971, Ray Tomlinson developed the first antivirus software , called Reaper. One of the first pieces of antivirus software , McAfee’s VirusScan, was released in 1987. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. Viruses Get Their Name: 1974-1986.

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