Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson (23) from Utah hit the principal gamins networks in 2013 and 2014, including Sony Online Entertainment. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA) The post CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

was shut down by the FBI today, and its suspected administrator – alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich Firsov – was arrested and charged with crimes related to the hacking of U.S. companies for customers’ personal information.” The Russian man also advertised the platform on other hacking forums.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2022

” The DiDW Darknet marketplace first appeared on the threat landscape in 2013. The accused is suspected of operating a criminal trading platform on the Internet in accordance with Section 127 of the Criminal Code.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Deutschland im Deep Web). ” continues the announcement.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. ” continues the notice.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack.

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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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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. One of those interests that took off was computer security. For bored and smart teenagers, this was the perfect way to learn how to hack. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. One of those interests that took off was computer security. For bored and smart teenagers, this was the perfect way to learn how to hack. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, zero-day) The post In 2022, more than 40% of zero-day exploits used in the wild were variations of previous issues appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Austin Berglas, global head of professional services at BlueVoyant, agreed that water facilities’ ICS and SCADA systems are “outdated, unpatched, and available for review on the internet, leaving them incredibly vulnerable to compromise.”. “In But enabling that access in the absence of security requirements invites these types of episodes.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The CVE-2019-1491 flaw affects Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2 and 2013 SP1 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019. SecurityAffairs – SharePoint, hacking). The flaw was reported by Saif ElSherei from the Microsoft Research Center’s Vulnerabilities and Mitigations Team.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Learn how even someone mid career in security can play on their own, and even fill in gaps on their own learning, all year round. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind, and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. And they attack the problem differently.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Security experts Simon Zuckerbraun from Zero Day Initiative published technical details on how to exploit the Microsoft Exchange CVE-2020-0688 along with a video PoC. The vulnerability impacts Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. “How many of these are vulnerable?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013. Source [link].

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Security experts have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in over a dozen small office/home office (SOHO) routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. conducted Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). Internet-connected embedded devices are often placed into a broader category referred to as IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This week, Adobe rolled out security updates to address a critical security vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2022-24086 , affecting its Commerce and Magento Open Source products that is being actively exploited in the wild. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

” Threat actors accessed to files stored in the Literacy Works Information System that are dated back 2009, 2010, and 2014. Exposed data includes first names, last names, social security numbers, dates of birth, city or county of residence, graduation dates and record numbers. ” continues the Department. . .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Turns out, there’s something similar within the hacking community. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Stok: In the early 90s, when everyone was just not having the internet, that's kind of where I started my journey. Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Turns out, there’s something similar within the hacking community. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Stok: In the early 90s, when everyone was just not having the internet, that's kind of where I started my journey. Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Turns out, there’s something similar within the hacking community. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Stok: In the early 90s, when everyone was just not having the internet, that's kind of where I started my journey. Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

It has been in continuous development at least since 2013 and the malware authors behind Hawkeye have improved the malware service adding new capabilities and techniques. At this point the malware can start the information stealing routines. Figure 20: Password retrieving routine from Internet Explorer.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

A hacking campaign, tracked as Eternal Silence, is abusing UPnP to compromise routers and use them to carry out malicious activities. In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Meanwhile, the advanced hacking collectives invest in innovation and press forward. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. Here’s a timeline of recent ransomware advances: •2013-2014. The median was $10,310.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

As with many inventions of the 20th century, the internet has drastically changed using the phone. Once a vital necessity in every building, PBX boxes are driven towards extinction by devices supporting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). However, as with everything connected to the internet, beware of vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 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., using a new backdoor appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

TA423 is a China-linked cyber espionage group that has been active since 2013, it focuses on political events in the Asia-Pacific region, specifically on the South China Sea. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ScanBox). The researchers attribute the campaign to the China-linked APT group tracked as TA423 /Red Ladon. In June 2021, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The man created the malicious code, a remote access trojan (RAT), when he was 15 years old, and maintained its infrastructure from 2013 to 2019. The Imminent Monitor RAT is a hacking tool that allows threat actors to remotely control the victim’s computers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Imminent Monitor ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. On the other hand, while passkeys may do much to stop email phishing , as biometrics won’t be an easy target, cyber criminals can turn to other malware to remotely hack and unlock a phone.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Wednesday 13th, March 2013, 10 years ago, Kali Linux v1.0 A fresh start in March 2013. Domain The team knew how much BackTrack was growing in popularity, and as they did not switch the project name when using Ubuntu, it was time to create its own place on the Internet. BackTrack Linux became Kali Linux in March 2013.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

IoT devices include wearable devices, coffee makers, sensors, and cameras, all of which connect to the Internet. He graduated from University College Dublin in 2013 with a degree in actuarial science, however, he followed his passion for writing and became a freelance writer in 2016. SecurityAffairs – hacking, attack vectors).

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

Danish Defense Intelligence Service (Danish: Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE) allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to tap into a primary internet and telecommunications hub in Denmark, the operation allowed the US intelligence agency to spy on the communications of European politicians. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NSA).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In April 2013, I received via U.S. When I first encountered now-31-year-old Sergei “Fly,” “Flycracker,” “MUXACC” Vovnenko in 2013, he was the administrator of the fraud forum “thecc[dot]bz,” an exclusive and closely guarded Russian language board dedicated to financial fraud and identity theft.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

We also provide integrated security, visibility and automation: a SOC (Security Operations Center) inside the NOC, with Grifter and Bart as the leaders. At each conference, we have a hack-a-thon: to create, prove, test, improve and finally put into production new or improved integrations.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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