Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. us began in September 2013 as a forum for learning and teaching how to hack accounts at Runescape, an MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy realm where players battle for kingdoms and riches. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This ‘line of work’ is coordinated by the FSB’s 18th Center (Information Security Center) based in Moscow.” The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. .” reads the announcement published by the SSU. “The SSU Cyber ??

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These emails persuade employees to reveal passwords for important applications or download malicious files to their devices. Using stolen passwords is an easy way to masquerade as a genuine user and access sensitive information or infiltrate deeper into your network. IoT Devices. Conclusion. He currently also works with Bora.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Social media companies that are not honest with consumers about how their personal information is being used will be held accountable.". Twitter sells 2FA information to advertisers. Starting in 2013, Twitter began asking users to provide a phone number or email address to improve their account security.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2023

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) 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 attackers sent the password for the RAR archive in a separate email.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2021. How Strong is Your Password? A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%. Stay safe and secure.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

platform since October 2013. international financial and corporate data, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and compromised user accounts from many U.S. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including videogame accounts (gamer accounts) and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

The intrusions into the competitor’s systems took place repeatedly between 2013 and 2015. The attacks aimed at stealing information to gain an advantage over CrowdSurge, which was acquired by Warner Music Group (WMG) in 2017. Attorney DuCharme. Attorney DuCharme. Mead was CrowdSurge’s general manager of U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Read more: Top IT Asset Management Tools for Security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”. This time Yahoo could pay $117.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

million) were provided before 2013. million records include some, but not all of the following personal information: name, address, telephone, and date of birth. We will never contact customers requesting their passwords.” The statement also reported that approximately 6.1 94% of these records (5.7

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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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. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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. The ransomware copies files into password-protected WinRAR archives, it uses a renamed freeware version of the legitimate file utility WinRAR.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the executables pack the collected data into a password protected archive and save it to the disk, while others send the data to the C&C server directly.” “We first saw early samples of this malware family in 2013, when it hit Seoul. ” continues Kaspersky. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

platform since October 2013. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S. Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and victim addresses. Once crooks purchased shop access through the DEER.IO

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched an investigation into the case, codenamed Cepheus, in 2017 after it received information about a “suspicious RAT” from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks and the U.S. The Imminent Monitor RAT is a hacking tool that allows threat actors to remotely control the victim’s computers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2023

Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. At the end of October 2020, the US-CERT published a report on Kimusky’s recent activities that provided information on their TTPs and infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“The campaign steals passwords and documents which could be used in a number of ways, including stealing trade secrets and intellectual property, performing cyber reconnaissance for future attacks, and compromising industrial control networks for ransomware attacks.” ” reads the report published by the CyberX experts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Security experts at ESET have discovered a new malware, dubbed skip-2.0, The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. used by the Chinese Winnti cyberespionage group to gain persistence on Microsoft SQL Server systems. The skip-2.0 ” The skip-2.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 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. . The hackers initially breached into the victim’s secondary email inbox associated with their Microsoft account, then used them to reset the password.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The motion picture acquisition agreements, tax ID requests, and contract addendum scans all date between 2013 and 2016. The vast majority of the files stored in the unsecured bucket are film thumbnail pictures and various promotional materials. With that being said, the files were stored on a publicly accessible Amazon S3 server.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

“ WSH Remote Access Tool (RAT) is a variant of the VBS (Visual Basic Script) based Houdini Worm (H-Worm) that first appeared in the threat landscape in 2013 and was updated in 2016. Within five days, WSH RAT was observed being actively distributed via phishing.

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NopSec

JULY 25, 2013

Password security in particular will appear in talks, as numerous attacks in recent times have involved the compromise of non-encrypted passwords. The team at NopSec is proud to be a sponsor of Black Hat 2013 and we very much look forward to interactions at our booth #121 in the expo hall.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It is responsible for redirecting every request to its nearest mirror, based on a few factors such as geographic location, mirror speed, and mirror “freshness” Since Kali was launched back in March 2013, until November 2023 we had been using MirrorBrain.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. The first stage of the PipeMon backdoor consists of a password-protected RARSFX executable embedded in the.rsrc section of its launcher. A malicious DLL?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The infection chain is composed by different stages of password protected SFX (self extracting archive), each containing vbs or batch scripts. This time using the string “ gblfhs ” as password.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more.

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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. review Active Directory password policy. 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

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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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The FBI estimates that from October 2013 to February 2016, whaling attacks were attributed to $2.3 In 2016, Tulane University confirmed that 10 employees were the target of a phishing attack that successfully tricked them into sharing their passwords to their payroll accounts. billion in losses. Who’s Being Targeted?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

In some instances, it was possible to observe clear-text LDAP bind attempts which disclosed which organization the device belonged to or direct exposure of the username and password combination through protocols such as POP3, LDAP, HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) or FTP. Cleartext passwords and usernames disclosed in traffic.

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