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 22, 2022

In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 years in a Russian penal colony for convincing one of his top affiliates to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a competitor that shut down the ticketing system for the state-owned Aeroflot airline. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, in late 2013 and January 2014, we observed higher-than-normal activity in Ukraine by the Turla APT group, as well as a spike in the number of BlackEnergy APT sightings. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks. As soon as the attack stops, the target website becomes available again.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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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.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Bilogorskiy: Before 2013 a lot of malware was focused on spam, DDoS and monetizing through malicious advertising and ad fraud. But in 2013 we saw the first crypto-ransomware, called CryptoLocker , that started a transition to monetization through crypto ransomware. That’s the threat known as cryptojacking.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Snapchat Hack. In August 2013, Australian security firm, Gibson Security, contacted the Snapchat team to notify them of a vulnerability in their API that would allow hackers access to user data. Snapchat was hacked immediately after the code was released, and over 4.6 What did we learn from the Snapchat hack?

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SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

However, the last operations conducted by this threat actor were observed in 2013. Hacktivism Hacktivism, a marriage of hacking and activism, is often excluded from a company’s threat profile. This small group, active since 2022, mainly performs hack-and-leak operations. Third, DoS/DDoS readiness is essential.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What makes Iran's military hacking methods a significant threat? In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. The DDoS nation-state hackers. Iran's cyber warfare operations are not typically covered as extensively as some others.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He admitted to taking Steam, EA Origin and Sony Online Entertainment offline in 2013 and 2014, causing at least $95,000 in damages.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. Eventually, the infected computers were all directed to attempt a DDoS specifically on whitehouse.gov, though the White House managed to sidestep the assault.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, alerts produced by one firewall under a DDoS attack can easily dwarf the number of alerts generated from a single exploit that hits hundreds of organizations. Simply looking at the raw numbers in this case would give the false impression that DDoS attacks have a far greater impact across the base of organizations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

6 cyber-espionage campaigns since 2013 attributed to PKPLUG China-linked group. Dutch police shut down bulletproof service hosting tens of DDoS botnets. Ten hospitals in Alabama and Australia have been hit with ransomware attacks. Zendesk 2016 security breach may impact Uber, Slack, and other organizations. Organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

More recently, some threat groups have begun to add data destruction to their arsenal to raise the stakes even further, and DDoS attacks have also been threatened as a means of getting organizations to pay ransoms. Lapsus$ This hacking group is famous for using an extortion and destruction approach without organizing ransomware payloads.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Blaauw said sometime between 2012 and 2013, Xennt purchased the bunker in Traben-Trarbach, Germany — a much more modern structure that was built in 1997. Kamphuis was later arrested in Spain on the DDoS attack charges. Image: Blaauw. in The Netherlands. in The Netherlands.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals have used common attack vectors in the past, such as website defacements and denial-of-service distributed attacks (DDoS). 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals have used common attack vectors in the past, such as website defacements and denial-of-service distributed attacks (DDoS). 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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