Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A threat actor has published online a list of one-line exploits to steal VPN credentials from over 49,000 vulnerable Fortinet VPNs. A threat actor, who goes online with the moniker “pumpedkicks,” has leaked online a list of exploits that could be exploited to steal VPN credentials from almost 50,000 Fortinet VPN devices.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

Experian, 2013 – 2015: Hackers stole a trove of information from T-Mobile customers whose data had passed through Experian to check credit there and open a new account. Use a VPN that you pay for: Having a VPN can make it much harder to steal your data and prevent identity theft.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

“In fact, large aggregations of stolen credentials have been around since 2013-2014. For example, as recently as earlier this month, Intel 471 spotted Sanix selling access to nearly four dozen universities worldwide, and to a compromised VPN account for the government of San Bernadino, Calif.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. The very first discussion thread started by the new user Microleaves on the forum BlackHatWorld in 2013 sought forum members who could help test and grow the proxy network.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. A KAERI spokesperson revealed that threat actors exploited a vulnerability in a virtual private network (VPN) server to gain access to the network of the institute. ” reported The Record.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Toward this end, along came the FIDO Alliance in early 2013. VPN attack surface It’s notable that even without Covid-19 pressure was intensifying for Apple to join FIDO. Meanwhile, a hacker in August published a list of stolen usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. A different UK phone number in a more recent record for the wwwebuygold[.]com

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

Below the recommendations provided by the company: SRA 4600/1600 (EOL 2019) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SMA 400/200 (Still Supported, in Limited Retirement Mode) Update to 10.2.0.7-34

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2019

Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via their mobile devices. Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to use its VPN app, called Facebook Research, that monitors their activity via the mobile devices. ” reads the report published by Techcrunch.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

Onavo was a VPN-like research tool that Facebook acquired in 2013. Perhaps we need to do panels or write custom software. You should figure out how to do this.” So, as part of the IAAP program, the company started Project Ghostbusters by using Onavo.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2023

The Australian case, which has rumbled on for the best part of two and a half years, has focused on claims related to a now discontinued Virtual Private Network (VPN). The subsidiary Onavo, acquired in 2013 by Facebook, was supposed to be keeping the VPN a separate brand from the main flagship company.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

For the generation of remote work and operations, Check Point Remote Access VPN offers central management and policy administration for controlling access to corporate networks. The Remote Access VPN enables more robust security with the encryption of transmitted data, system compliance scanning, and multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“Experian now sometimes does require MFA for me now if I use a new browser or have my VPN on,” Rishi said, but he’s not sure if Experian’s free service would have operated differently. 2013: Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service. “I get so angry when I think about all this,” he said.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2021

Users of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 are advised to apply the updates immediately to protect against these exploits, prioritizing the externally facing Exchange servers. Stay safe, everyone!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The technologies used by organizations to facilitate remote work include virtual private network (VPN) connections and remote desktop protocol (RDP). Opportunistic threat actors know that with remote work not going away, there will be chances to gain entry to corporate networks by exploiting RDP and VPN connections.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. In 2013, U.S. The proxy lookup page inside the malware-based anonymity service Faceless. Image: spur.us.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. It describes continuing to use its end-of-life products or 8.x Mitigation. The notice mentions the following products along with recommended actions: SRA 4600/1600 (EOL 2019) disconnect immediately and reset passwords.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

CERT-UA attributed the campaign to the financially motivated threat actor UAC-0006 which has been active since at least 2013. The threat actors allegedly obtained access to Ukraine’s public networks by using compromised VPN credentials. We are in the final!

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

In 2013, the Russian security agency, FSB, demanded that I provide them the private data of the Ukrainian users of VK who were protesting against a pro-Russian President. Of course, people in Russia who can convince the Internet they aren't in Russia can still access these services through use of a VPN—a virtual private network.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Perimeter81 VPN and zero trust 2020 Private Wiz Cloud security 2020 Private OneTrust Privacy management 2019 Private Darktrace AI network security 2017 Private Recorded Future Threat intelligence 2017 Acquired: Insight Thycotic Access management 2015 Private Checkmarx Application security 2015 Acquired: P.E.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. Geo-blocking is a really weak, easily circumvented control that often does more harm than good. Blocking Paste.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 2013: The End of the Silk Road Authorities were able to trace the pseudonym back to Ulbricht thanks to the efforts of an IRS investigator who was working with the DEA on the Silk Road case in mid-2013. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. billion in value.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Estimates suggest over 10 billion data records have been lost or stolen globally, since 2013 – with almost 300 records lost or stolen every single second. In the event a traveler does need to get online, using a virtual private network (VPN) service is a smart way to shield online behavior from potential hackers or snoops.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

They protect users and assets located on-premises or connected via VPN against a wide range of modern-day threats. Legacy access technologies, such as a VPN, usually gives users access to everything within a network segment. Cloud-Access Security Broker (CASB): CASBs first appeared on the market in 2013.

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Pen Test Partners

MARCH 30, 2025

CVE-2013-4782 The Supermicro BMC implementation allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary IPMI commands by using cipher suite 0 (aka cipher zero) and an arbitrary password. A large portion of these vulnerabilities are through buffer overflow which has been a trend all the way from 2013 to 2017.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

More Critical Patches for Microsoft Exchange Server (Versions 2013, 2016, & 2019). Unpatched Fortinet VPN Devices Vulnerable to New Cring Ransomware. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES. Microsoft Warns of Damaging Vulnerabilities in Dozens of IoT Operating Systems.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

EMBEDDED SYS MODULE timestamp:2013-03-25 InternalName:RwDrv.sys. This module uses an RAS (Remote Access Service) API to establish a VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection. The destination VPN server, and credentials for connection are provided by the C2’s command and configuration files.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It’s likely the cyber criminals were lurking on Tavelex’s network before initiating their ransomware, having gained access via an unpatched VPN (Virtual Private Network). If Travelex didn’t pay the ransom, they threatened to publicly publish the data. Travelex reportedly paid around $2.3M In February 2020, the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 17, 2023

Security Qualifications OPSWAT MetaAccess has earned certification for ISO 27001:2013 and is available on the US government GSA Multiple Award Schedule through 2024. Applicable Metric Each MetaAccess appliance scales up to 25,000 concurrent endpoints and can be assembled into appliance clusters for larger environments.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Rewind to 2013—I’m in my 5th year of school, having passed my Scottish Highers and looking to University, alongside applying for some apprenticeships. I still remember downloading my first VPN connection file for TryHackMe and not understanding what it was or what it did.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2021

As a relatively new market, zero trust tools serve as alternatives to VPN and DMZ architecture, or a granular approach to network access control (NAC), identity access management (IAM), and privilege access management (PAM). . federal government include the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden breaches in 2013.

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

From 2015 to February 2018, the malware was compiled with Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, whereas in February 2018, the developers moved to Visual Studio 2017 and embedded the malware’s logic within Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) classes. For example, “aparat.com-view[.]space” org” was mimicking an Iranian news website.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It’s been a default setting since Windows 8 and Windows Server 10 in 2013 and later. That leaves your corporate VPN servers as likely targets. Microsoft has released patches for all supported versions of Windows, including Server Core editions. IPv6 is almost certainly enabled on systems within your domain.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The attackers used vulnerabilities in an SSL-VPN product to deploy a multi-layered loader we dubbed Ecipekac (aka DESLoader, SigLoader and HEAVYHAND). 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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 7, 2021

Versa began delivering SASE services such as VPN, Secure SD-WAN , Edge Compute Protection, Next-Generation Firewall, Next-Generation Firewall as a Service, Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) five years ago. About Startup50.com com and the 2021 Big50 Startup Report.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Cybersecurity product categories: Next-generation firewalls , next-generation intrusion prevention , CASB , web gateway, NAC , advanced malware protection, email security , endpoint security , security management, VPN, security services. Founded: 2013. Appearances on eSecurity Planet ‘s Top Vendors lists: 10.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Attackers can then determine the IP range of their victim’s domains, WHOIS records which sometimes contain information on the technical contacts in the company, or subdomains that may contain the victim’s webmail portal, VPN login page, or a company’s Intranet. billion in losses. Who’s Being Targeted?

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