Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015.

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

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Manipulaters’ core brand in the underground is a shared cybercriminal identity named “ Saim Raza ,” who for the past decade across dozens of cybercrime sites and forums has peddled a popular spamming and phishing service variously called “ Fudtools ,” “ Fudpage ,” “ Fudsender ,” etc.

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Spinone

MARCH 11, 2018

The Internet blew up with the latest news about Gmail phishing attack. What Was the Goal of Gmail Phishing Attack? The most intriguing part of the Google Docs phishing attack is that a victim received the email with a phishing link from a person who was familiar to him /her. What can we expect? What should we do next?

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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 Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

How Strong is Your Password? Millions of British people are using their pet's name as an online password, despite it being an easy target for hackers to work out, according to a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) survey. A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to the report “A resurgence of RAM scraping malware is the most prominent tactical development in 2013,” the same tactic used in the giant Target breach. Many of the attacks in our 2013 dataset targeted off-the-shelf content management systems (e.g.,

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

The claims come in a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles on behalf of Michael Terpin , who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. He soon learned his AT&T password had been changed remotely after 11 attempts in AT&T stores had failed. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Though most email clients have methods to block spam and phishing attempts, they are not 100% effective. The leak has since been secured.

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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

JUNE 8, 2023

Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. ” The researchers observed Kimsuky sending an HTML-formatted spear phishing message which requests them to review a draft analysis of the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said given the entities compromised — and that only a handful of known compromises occurred outside of France — there’s a strong possibility this was the result of an orchestrated phishing campaign targeting French infrastructure firms. to for a user named “ fatal.001.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

The APT40 group has been active since at least 2013 and appears to be focused on supporting naval modernization efforts of the Government of Beijing. The hackers use a mix of custom and publicly available credential harvesting tools to escalate privileges and dump password hashes. ” continues the analysis.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 The wargaming site I patronize had its forums compromised and the notification on the site described the, granted, low-level information compromised, though further compromise through password reuse was discussed.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

For example, in a study just published by Russian security firm Kaspersky , the number two target for phishing attacks around the world in 2013 was the financial community. Any guess what the number one target for phishing was? That includes banks, credit card companies, and payment systems like PayPal and Western Union.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Here’s another example of hackers wanting to cause reputational damage: in February 2013, Burger King’s Twitter account was hijacked and rebranded with the logo of arch-rival McDonald’s. But when the owners fired that person, it obviously never crossed their mind to change the passwords.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Most of the campaigns discovered by the researchers leverages phishing attacks to retrieve banking credentials in Brazil. Trend Micro recommends to keep devices’ firmware up to date, change the default usernames and passwords on their routers, and also change the router’s default IP address. The latter attack hit websites worldwide.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I talked to Phil Neray, vice president of industrial security at CyberX , a company founded in 2013 that operates a platform for real-time security of the industrial internet. Devices are hardly ever patched, plus they often have other vulnerabilities, like only being protected by plain text passwords. Managing vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. It was highly speculated that spear phishes were involved, but not a lot of information around the initial vectors was published.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Since the earliest iterations of email spam and predatory pop-up advertisements, consumers have been bombarded with common-sense advice to keep their anti-virus software updated, use strong passwords and be very cautious about clicking on email attachments and webpage links. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

At that time, the researchers tracked the sources IP in Pakistan, the attacks were part of a wider operation that relies on multi vector such as watering hole websites and phishing email campaigns delivering custom RATs dubbed Crimson and Peppy. These RATs are capable of exfiltrate information, take screenshot, and record webcam streams.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The attackers were then able to move to other servers, due in large part because they were able to find usernames and passwords stored in a plain text file that then allowed them access. The attack was reportedly due to ransomware, thought to have been the result of phishing. In February 2020, the U.S. Edward Snowden – the inside job.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. It was easy to buy hundreds of millions of email addresses, pack them with phishing messages, and attach a nasty malware payload.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2013, extortionists added encryption to their genre and started locking down victims' files instead of screens or web browsers. Other cybercriminals can also purchase and use data to orchestrate targeted phishing attacks against a specific business.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. review Active Directory password policy.

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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. Fraudulent emails purporting to be from authoritative company sources are the main phishing attacks that employees fall victim to. Stolen Credentials.

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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. Yahoo also recorded a breach that affected 1 billion accounts in 2013, where names and passwords were stolen.

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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. Apple has also promised that passwords will be a thing of the past, and passkeys will become available for iOS 16. Dashlane last month integrated passkeys into its cross-platform password manager.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The attackers use the reverse shell to deploy a Bash stealer that collects data such as system information, browsing history, saved passwords, cryptocurrency wallet files and credentials for cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure). Otherwise, the reverse shell is created by the crond backdoor itself.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2023

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group used an updated version of the PowerShell backdoor called POWERSTAR in a spear-phishing campaign. In Many, Volexity observed Charming Kitten attempting to distribute POWERSTAR via spear-phishing messages with an LNK file inside a password-protected RAR file. ” continues the report.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Another widely used tactic for information gathering is phishing or the engagement and manipulation of another user’s trust. Disasters and attacks for web service providers can result in emails, passwords, and more being published and exposing account user information. Publishing Documents. Hopefully, no pwnage is found!

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. And since you cannot expect good faith negotiations, there is no guarantee the attacker supplies the key post-payment. Ransomware Types.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

million victims of identity theft in 2013, which works out to around one new victim every two seconds. But what was most troubling was that one in three consumers who were notified that their personal information was exposed in a breach in 2013, ended up falling victim to identity theft. On the other hand, account takeovers went up.

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