Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. This script shows a social engineering message, such as a Flash update popup or a DNS error, and attempts to trick the victim into downloading a malicious file deploy a Cobalt Strike loader.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2023

StrongPity APT group has been active since at least 2013, it’s responsible for cyberespionage campaigns against Turkish targets. The group used zero-day exploits, social engineering tricks, and Trojanized software installers to deliver malware to their victims. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Android). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files. SecurityAffairs – hacking, email addresses). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

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. . As part of the recently observed campaign, the state-sponsored hackers used three different spear-phishing methods: Ending an email message leveraging social engineering methods.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. Ransomware and BEC attacks pivot off social engineering that begins with criminals using search engines and haunting social media sites to gather intelligence about a specific employee at a targeted company.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Charming Kitten group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. The cyber spies used social media to gather information on the targets and as a vector for social engineering attacks.

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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. Tabriz is a tireless advocate for ethical hacking.

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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. I knew hacking as a culture that was a part of, you know, the warez trading scene, and everything else, like cracking games, and do stuff, but I didn't.

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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. I knew hacking as a culture that was a part of, you know, the warez trading scene, and everything else, like cracking games, and do stuff, but I didn't.

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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. I knew hacking as a culture that was a part of, you know, the warez trading scene, and everything else, like cracking games, and do stuff, but I didn't.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France. Compromised USB drives are a common attack vector, and one that requires vigilance in order to avoid a supply chain attack or an attack that exploits social engineering tactics.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

APT42’s TTPs overlap with another Iran-linked APT group tracked as APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) which made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. SecurityAffairs – hacking, attack vectors). He currently also works with Bora. In his spare time, Ronan enjoys hiking, solo travel, and cooking Thai food.

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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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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter released a statement indicating that this attack was the result of employees with internal access falling victim to social engineering that allowed the bad actors to take advantage of their insider privilege. The affected accounts included Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Apple, and Uber.

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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. BackTrack Linux became Kali Linux in March 2013. Moto) first saw the light of day at Black Hat Europe 2013 and was based on Debian 7. was first released. Today we want to celebrate Kali’s 10th anniversary! Time has flown.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This country maintains a relatively outdated fleet of ATMs, making it a “piece of cake” for perpetrators to hack and a consistent target throughout the period in question. HydraPOS has been spotted in attacks that employed social engineering techniques. In 2021, a new version of Ploutus was found in the wild.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

Cambridge Analytica is a British political consulting firm started in 2013 that set out to use technology including data mining and analysis during electoral processes. He denied that China was to blame for the hack. Details included 9.1 million encrypted payment card numbers and 385,000 valid card numbers in addition to 5.25

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

For example by using: user credential leaks, social engineering toolkits, targeted phishing, and so on and so forth or is more on there to be discovered ? According to MITRE: “APT33 is a suspected Iranian threat group that has carried out operations since at least 2013. SecurityAffairs – Iranian Threat Actor, hacking).

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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. Final thoughts.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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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. Iran's cyber warfare operations are not typically covered as extensively as some others. election process.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

AttackIQ calls San Diego, California, home and started as an automated validation platform in 2013. Picus Security is a continuous security validation vendor located in San Francisco and founded in 2013. Also Read: Apple White Hat Hack Shows Value of Pen Testers. FireEye’s Mandiant. Picus Security. SafeBreach. Picus Security.

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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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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. 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.

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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.

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