Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

A former member of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky software. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen Equestre.*”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000 CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562 GPON home routers CVE-2013-3307 Linksys X3000 1.0.03 d26m CVE-2013-5223 D-Link DSL-2760U Gateway CVE-2020-8958 Guangzhou 1GE ONU V2801RW 1.9.1-181203 SecurityAffairs – hacking, BotenaGo). Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

A ransomware attack occurs when somebody hacks a person’s or company’s computer system and demands a ransom payment in return. CryptoLocker: Another cryptocurrency attack took place in 2013 at the hands of a piece of ransomware called CryptoLocker. What Is a Ransomware Attack?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The OceanLotus APT group is a state-sponsored group that has been active since at least 2013. “To perform DLL sideloading, BISMUTH introduced outdated versions of various applications, including Microsoft Defender Antivirus. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BISMUTH). ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2019

has been under active development since at least 2013. The malicious code is under continuous enhancement, it is offered for sale on various hacking forums as a keylogger and stealer, it allows to monitor systems and exfiltrate information. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The technique was already employed by other Chinese APT groups since 2013, later it was also adopted by other cybercrime gangs in attacks in the wild. ’ In a first attack scenario, hackers leverage a Microsoft antivirus component to load mpsvc.dll that acts as a loader for Groza_1.dat. SecurityAffairs – hacking, KilllSomeOne).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

“My story began in 2013 with some greyhat activies, never anything blackhat tho, mostly bugbounty,” he said. .” Morais said he began working on computers at age 13, and soon started exploring security vulnerabilities and the possibility of making a living by finding and reporting them to software vendors.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru account was used without his permission.

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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

In December 2013, a Slovenian court sentenced Škorjanc to four years and ten months in prison for creating the malware that powered the ‘ Mariposa ‘ botnet. Very soon after its inception, Mariposa was estimated to have infected more than 1 million hacked computers — making it one of the largest botnets ever created.

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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. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. .

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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!”. Take a Look at the 4 Best Antivirus Software of 2022.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2015

All the news are full of caution not to be hacked, not to put easy passwords, and so on. For 2014, the number of daily cyber attacks dropped to 3,043, nearly one-third less than the 4,200 attacks during the same timeframe in 2013, while the number of breaches dropped more than 50 percent for Black Friday and Cyber Monday year-over-year.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. A good antivirus program can also aid in protection from malware, trojans, and other dangers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ringostat). The leak has since been secured. What’s Happening? Our team of ethical hackers led by Ata Hakç?l Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Meanwhile, the advanced hacking collectives invest in innovation and press forward. While reporting for USA Today in 2009, I wrote about how fraudsters launched scareware campaigns to lock up computer screens as a means to extract $80 for worthless antivirus protection. Here’s a timeline of recent ransomware advances: •2013-2014.

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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. Bitdefender : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. Zero Trust. Update Anti-Ransomware Software. Offline Backups.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. SecurityAffairs – Gamaredon, state-sponsored hacking). After a month since our last report we spotted a new suspicious email potentially linked to the Gamaredon group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Notable Ransomware Attacks CryptoLocker ushered in the modern ransomware age in 2013, and in 2017, the devastating WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks raised the threat’s profile significantly. Lapsus$ This hacking group is famous for using an extortion and destruction approach without organizing ransomware payloads.

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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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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Kazuar developers wanted to avoid detection by various antivirus products or EDR solutions. The media claims APT29 is responsible for the SolarWinds hack. We do not know who is behind the SolarWinds hack – we believe attribution is a question better left for law enforcement and judicial institutions. Conclusions.

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