Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. ” states the BBC.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. Last week media reported the hack of StockX , the fashion and sneaker trading platform. Now a dump containing 6,840,339 unique StockX user accounts surfaced in the cybercrime underground.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2019

Experts observed the STOP ransomware installing the Azorult password-stealing Trojan to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more. Experts observed the ransomware also installing the dreaded Azorult password-stealing Trojan on victim’s machine to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, documents and more.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. Sometime before March, hackers working for the Russian SVR — previously known as the KGB — hacked into SolarWinds and slipped a backdoor into an Orion software update. (We

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. “In mid-2018, social commerce marketplace Poshmark suffered a data breach that exposed 36M user accounts. Now Scott told BleepingComputer that a set of one million cracked Poshmark accounts is circulating online.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2024

“According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide.” The compromised devices were recruited in the 911 S5 residential proxy service. export laws.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions , one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

OpenSSL Patches New Bug Targeting Encryption [Lessons from Heartbleed]. A flaw in the encryption algorithm used to underpin OpenSSL was exploited, triggering an infinite number of requests when certain input value(s) are used. Because OpenSSL is everywhere, infiltrating it is like hitting the hacking jackpot. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2020

The phone of the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos was hacked in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. had demanded that De Becker deny finding any evidence of “electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their newsgathering process.”.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

10, 2018, and that its ongoing investigation suggests the perpetrators had been inside the company’s networks since 2014. But so far the hotel network believes that the encrypted data cache includes information on up to approximately 500 million guests who made a reservation at a Starwood property.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

million worth of cryptocurrency from cryptocurrency investment accounts. . Hackers stole roughly €1.183 million worth of cryptocurrency from investment accounts of 2gether, 26.79% of overall funds stored by the accounts. We're sorry to announce that yesterday, at 18:00 CEST, the 2gether crypto accounts were hacked.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Your IP address represents your digital identity online, hacking it not only allows attackers to access your device or your accounts, but it may cause even bigger damage. It does not allow a hacker to access your device or your accounts but it may cause even bigger damage. SecurityAffairs – Internet, hacking).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

A hacker going online by the moniker AmFearLiathMor is claiming to have hacked the most popular end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. “We hacked Protonmail and have a significant amount of their data from the past few months. ProtonMail denied having been hacked that added that this is just a hoax.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

Now the City of Lafayette admitted they were a victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted its systems and confirmed that opted to pay a $45,000 ransom to receive a decryption tool to recover its files. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, City of Lafayette).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Exposed data includes customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses, as well as customer account balances. The platform allows users to trade the cryptocurrency in their accounts on multiple platforms in a way to maximize the profits thanks to its automated arbitrage system. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A vulnerability in the Microsoft OAuth implementation exposes Azure cloud accounts to takeover. is an excellent solution for authorization, if misused or misconfigured, it could have a tremendous impact, allowing for over-privileged third-party applications or the eventual account takeover by malicious attackers.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

Experts at Skylight Cyber were able to extract the MAC addresses used by attackers in the Operation ShadowHammer hack by reverse engineering the offline tool released by Kaspersky. Below are statistics of related NIC manufacturers, #ASUS , #Intel and #AzureWave account for the most part. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

.” In July 2019, the UK’s data privacy regulator announced that the giant hotel chain Marriott International faces a £99 million ($123 million) fines under GDPR over 2014 data breach. According to the company, hackers accessed to the Starwood’s guest reservation system since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

In early May, Shiny Hunters hacking group started offering for sale the databases containing tens of millions from user records from over 11 companies. There’s no need to adjust the other sections on the Account page (e.g. Home Chef users should remain vigilant against phishing attacks and suspicious activity in their accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides detailed information of the Equifax hack. The Equifax hack occurred in May 2017 when attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability in the Jakarta Multipart parser upload function. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Organizers of major hacking conferences in Asia put them on hold due to Coronavirus outbreak. FC Barcelona and the International Olympic Committee Twitter accounts hacked. Russian govn blocked Tutanota service in Russia to stop encrypted communication. US administration requests $9.8B Personal details of 10.6M

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

On Sunday, the computer systems in the city of Torrance suffered a cyber attack that interrupted access to email accounts and server functions. “Based on the names of the archives, this data includes city budget financials, various accounting documents, document scans, and an archive of documents belonging to the City Manager.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

On Friday, the hacker that goes online with the handle “A_W_S” contacted multiple media outlets to disclose the hack, it also provided data samples as proof of the data breach. The hack took place in early November and exposed data for more than 20 million user accounts. ” reads a post published by Techcrunch.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Security Affairs – Xiongmai, hacking ).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook and Twitter warn of malicious SDK harvesting personal data from its accounts. Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications. Adobe revealed that the Magento Marketplace was hacked. Upbit cryptocurrency exchange hacked, crooks stole $48.5 million worth of ETH.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

ZINC, a sub-group of the notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group, has implanted malicious payloads in open-source software to infiltrate corporate networks, Microsoft’s threat hunting team has reported. Then they moved the conversation away from the platform to encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp. Highly Evasive Attack.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

While the media reported that the ransomware operators leaked stolen data on their dark web leak site to force the organization to pay the ransom, Hall County stated that there was no indication that the hackers stole any unencrypted data before encrypting the systems. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

Let’s see how your data can be hacked easily. This data may include your personal and secretive details like emails, social media accounts, passwords, bank details, and other crucial stuff. The hackers act as the middle man between you and your designated sites and record essential details of your accounts. Opt for VPN.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

GateHub explained that each API requests to the victim’s accounts were authorized with a valid access token. The experts identified several other accounts connected to the cyber heists, for a total of 12 primary suspect accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. Encrypting sensitive data wherever possible.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The skimmer loads dynamically to avoid static malware scanners and uses unique encryption parameters for each victim to obfuscate the malicious code.” The JavaScript URL is hardcoded in the loader script in encrypted format, experts observed that the attackers can change the URL for each victim. Pierluigi Paganini.

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