Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 2, 2022

Dubbed as Bvp47 and linked to Equation Group-an NSA funded threat actor was first detected by anti-virus firm Virus Total in 2013. In the year 2013, Edward Snowden, a former employee of NSA, revealed some startling facts about the activities taking place inside the agency in the name of National Integrity.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

Following widespread hacking from the Hafnium group and, perhaps, other groups , Microsoft is now offering the same patch for the no-longer-supported Exchange Server 2010 that it introduced last week for all newer editions. Patches for Exchange Servers 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 can be downloaded here. Microsoft).

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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 “To deliver its exploit, the malware first queries the target with a simple “GET” request. A2pvI042j1.d26m

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

International ‘Malvertiser’ Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited from the Netherlands to face hacking charges in New Jersey. The man is suspected to have carried out malvertising campaigns between October 2013 through May 2018. based internet advertising company to spread malicious advertising. Attorney Carpenito.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

Ransomware is a cyberattack that uses malware – software created to infiltrate a computer system and damage or disrupt it. A ransomware attack occurs when somebody hacks a person’s or company’s computer system and demands a ransom payment in return. Ransomware attacks are about as old as the internet itself.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 The above accounts, as well as the email address semen_7907@mail.ru , were all registered or accessed from the same Yekaterinburg Internet address mentioned previously: 31.192.175.63. 63 , which is in Yekaterinburg, RU. so with the nickname Trojan7907.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Related: Why the Golden Age of cyber spying is here Carcano hacked a computer screen at age 14, and that got him intrigued by software controls. I said at the time, ‘OK, this is cool, someone is paying me to develop malware,” Carcano told me. “So The state-sponsored hacking groups are still in business.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Related: Why the Golden Age of cyber spying is here Carcano hacked a computer screen at age 14, and that got him intrigued by software controls. I said at the time, ‘OK, this is cool, someone is paying me to develop malware,” Carcano told me. “So The state-sponsored hacking groups are still in business.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. The voice recording information could be accessed by anyone with a link and an Internet connection, leaving millions vulnerable. A good antivirus program can also aid in protection from malware, trojans, and other dangers. What’s Happening?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “ LuminosityLink ,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide.

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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. He was quoted as saying that he and his co-conspirators would steal the data and if Tesla refused to pay the ransom the company's secrets would be placed on the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

From a business perspective, managing and resetting passwords chews up scarce resources, and yet even with the best possible maintenance passwords are trivial to hack. For most of the Internet era, we’ve learned to live with these tradeoffs. This is a type of advanced, brute-force hacking that leverages automation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2018

Anubhav explained that the passwords are related to Dahua DVRs running very old firmware that is known to be affected by a five-year-old vulnerability tracked as CVE-2013-6117. The CVE-2013-6117 was discovered by the security expert Jake Reynolds and affects Dahua DVR 2.608.0000.0

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Just to clarify, the subheading isn’t a normal quote, but a message that Janicab malware attempted to decode in its newest use of YouTube dead-drop resolvers (DDRs). Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on MacOS and Windows operating systems. Janicab 1.2.9a. Janicab 1.1.2. The execution flow.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

Much attention has been paid to the widespread failure to detect the insidious Sunburst malware that the SolarWinds hackers managed to slip deep inside the best-defended networks on the planet. The SolarWinds hack provided a chance to assess how far SOAR technology has come. Related: The undermining of the global supply chain.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Another older issue added to the catalog is CVE-2020-0796 vulnerability in SMBv3 protocol that could be exploited by vxers to implement “wormable” malware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2020

Over a five year period the number technical software vulnerabilities reported to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) more than tripled – from 5,191 in 2013 to a record 16,556 in 2018. It struck me that his is very likely what the elite hacking groups are standing by to do.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. com , postaljobscenter[.]com

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

Hawkeye Keylogger” is an info-stealing malware for sale in the dark-web. Anyone can easily subscribe to the malware service by paying a fee. 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.

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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. One month later, a new strain named RansomBoggs again hit Ukrainian targets – both malware families were attributed to Sandworm. Key insights.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. ” Ransomware is pretty simple: malware is installed covertly on a system and executes a cryptovirology attack that locks or encrypts valuable files on the network. Zero Trust.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. At the time, Ika also was the administrator of Pustota[.]pw

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. RELATED: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Yahoo data breach (2013). Target data breach (2013). How could someone do that , the world asked? and Vietnam.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Most practitioners nod their head about the fundamentals and then spend all day figuring out how the latest malware off the adversary assembly line works — or burning a couple of days threat hunting in their environment. Target: The last example we’ll use is the famous Target breach from 2013. You know, the fun stuff.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Yahoo data breach (2013). Target data breach (2013). To others it was amusing.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

The long-running Breadcrumbs series here tracks how cybercriminals get caught, and it’s mostly through odd connections between their online and offline selves scattered across the Internet. And unbeknownst to him at the time, that forum was hacked, with all email addresses and hashed passwords exposed. SOME ADVICE FOR EVERYONE.

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

For a summary of this analysis and FAQs, feel free to scroll down to “ Conclusions “ We believe it’s important that other researchers around the world investigate these similarities and attempt to discover more facts about Kazuar and the origin of Sunburst , the malware used in the SolarWinds breach.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 23, 2018

Read more stories about Russian hacking on Security Ledger ]. Petersburg troll factory The Internet Research Agency as early as 2013 to document what was going on there. . “Online trolling is a worldwide problem and it certainly didn’t start in the United States,” he said. were paying attention to them.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2018

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. “For home users, these attacks can lead to a number of complications, such as degraded service, malware infections, ransomware, and fraud.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many other types of attacks that organizations should be aware of, but the end result of these types of schemes is typically the installation of malware through malicious software viruses, data theft , and ransomware attacks that limit access to your organization’s valuable data.

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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. ” reads a press release published by the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

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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. It’s imperative to keep legacy anti-malware , firewall and intrusion prevention systems updated.

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