Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. Experts believe Yahoo was using outdated, easy-to-crack encryption, which led to the attack. The attack is a good reminder of how critical strong encryption is in protecting your website users. Third-party risk management.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by the end of 2021. Yahoo data breach (2013). Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. Target data breach (2013). MySpace data breach (2013).

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. billion in value.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms ms , then a major identity theft service in the cybercrime underground, had infiltrated computers at some of America’s large consumer and business data aggregators , including LexisNexis Inc. ,

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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. The attackers use a simple XOR encryption algorithm with the string “Hapenexx is very bad” as a key. “This is an effort to conceal the execution.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Hladyr also controlled the organization’s encrypted channels of communication.”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

Data for certain “generic field” entries was also delivered, but Click Studios said that users who chose to encrypt that data averted the malware’s data harvesting and delivery capabilities. According to Bleeping Computer , the CDN servers used in the attack are no longer active. That attack, which resulted in an $18.5

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013. Backoff malware, which also dates back to 2013, scrapes memory for track data, logs keystrokes, and connects to a command and control server to upload stolen data and download additional malware. ” Focusing only on the perimeter: A multi-layered approach is key. “It

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. After their industrial infrastructure got heavily breached and infected, the Middle East suddenly got religious about encrypting and containerizing all business data.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In the context of cybercrime though, ZeuS (aka the Zbot Trojan) is a once-prolific malware that could easily be described as one of a handful of information stealers ahead of its time. ZeuS is also capable of re-encrypting itself every time it infects a system, making each infection “unique” and therefore harder to detect.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

With cybercrime at record levels, businesses are on guard against a constantly growing number and variety of threats. Tales From the Breach: What Organizations Are (and Aren’t) Doing The 2013 Target data breach was a watershed moment within the cybersecurity landscape.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2013, extortionists added encryption to their genre and started locking down victims' files instead of screens or web browsers. In 2019, crooks shifted their focus to enterprises and pioneered in stealing data in addition to encrypting it, which turned these raids into an explosive mix of blackmail and breaches.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

Visa declined to comment for this story, but pointed to a series of alerts it issued in November and December 2019 about cybercrime groups increasingly targeting fuel dispenser merchants. In the 2013 megabreach at Target Corp. , Representatives from MasterCard did not respond to requests for comment.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Maryland has been quietly cultivating a deep reservoir of cyber-focused engineering talent, toiling at leading security vendors such as Tenable, Gemalto, Dragos, Sonatype, ForcePoint and Baltimore-based Sourcefire, which Cisco acquired in 2013 for $2.7 Janke: Cybercrime remains far too easy.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hackers started using the internet to commit cybercrimes, such as stealing credit card numbers and personal information. 2000s As digitization opened up new avenues for exploits, the early 2000s marked a continuation of the rise of both computer hacking and cybercrime that began in the 1990s.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. Since 2013 FIN7 have attempted to attack banks, e-payment systems, and financial institutions using pieces of malware they designed, known as Carbanak and Cobalt.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The CryptoLocker Trojan , launched in 2013, was one of the first major instances of ransomware being used on a large scale, hitting about 250,000 victims and extorting around $27 million in Bitcoin. It later evolved to also include file encryption. It later evolved to also include file encryption.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

It obtains the ScrambleCross shellcode by applying a modified ChaCha20 algorithm on an encrypted blob, which may reside as an additional file on disk or be embedded in the loader itself. Both the IP and the server directory path are encrypted with AES-128 using a base64 encoded key stored in the backdoor’s image.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. Katie Moussouris | @k8em0.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on MacOS and Windows operating systems. cab.cabzipContentpythonLib<77 python libraries for system, network, and encryption/encoding> Below are noteworthy dropped files and their descriptions: Filename. Dropped files: cab.cabzipContentK.dll. cab.cabzipContentmap.txt.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many different ways to safeguard your organization’s sensitive data from a breach, including encryption, data erasure, data masking, and data resiliency. Even tech-focused companies need to constantly work on evolving their cyber security posture to help to keep up with the growing sophistication of cybercrime.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 27, 2022

Privacy coins , containing additional obfuscation features are also often leveraged through legitimate channels because they require fewer details by design, and additional privacy functions such as added encryption, helping to further hide ownership ( 4 ). Lightning networks were established as DeFi P2P transaction channels in 2013.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. SCADA Access As A Service (SAaaS) Cybercrime is a business. Ransomware Ransomware is a type of virus that impairs the use of a computer or damages the files stored on it unless a ransom is paid.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

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. The contents are disguised as GIF image files, but contain encrypted commands from the C2 server and command execution results.

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