Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked IndiaBulls Group , an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Gurgaon, India. CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked the Indian conglomerate IndiaBulls Group , its primary businesses are housing finance, consumer finance, and wealth management. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. Hackers count on it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2020

GoDaddy has been notifying its customers of a data breach, threat actors might have compromised their web hosting account credentials. GoDaddy has been notifying its customers of a data breach, attackers might have compromised users’ web hosting account credentials. ” reads the data breach notice submitted by the company.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2020

Hackers have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, researchers from Bad Packets warn. Researchers from Bad Packets reported that threat actors have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability , , tracked as CVE-2020-6287. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. ” reported ZDNet.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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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

JUNE 13, 2020

There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc The message sent in the email template is related to problems with the victim’s bank account. on Twitter, and targeting Portuguese users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

A cyber survey conducted by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that ‘123456’ is still the most hacked password. million user accounts worldwide were using ‘123456’ as password, while 7.7 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru

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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. Your IP or Internet Protocol address is your digital identity on the internet. It allows your device to connect with the rest of the online world.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. Lynx0x00’s Medium and Twitter accounts have mysteriously vanished but, fortunately, the Internet never truly forgets. SecurityAffairs – hacking , Slickwraps ).

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. People getting up to mischief?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Facebook hacked – Attackers exploited a vulnerability in the “View As” feature that allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens of 50 Million Users. Facebook hacked, this is news that is rapidly spreading across the Internet. These tokens could then be used to take over people’s accounts.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

From a preference for writing custom malware code to pioneering new strategies, North Korean hacking groups have shown an innovative spirit that allows them to punch above their weight despite crushing sanctions. North Korea is already cut off from most forms of international commerce by U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. Nikulin also hacked into an employee account of a Formspring engineer and used it to access the company network between June 13, 2012, and June 29, 2012.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

The mail account hostmaster@urlblocked.pw, published as contact details in DNS, bounces all incoming mails. Blocking without accountability. There are several aspects of the Internet blocking in Myanmar that raise questions. Circumvention of Internet blocking. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Myanmar).

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It may be the most complete picture we've ever had of North Korean hacking campaigns. The unsealed documents highlight a number of attack targets and motives in an effort to hack, digitally intrude, and defraud. The hacking indictment filed in the U.S. North Korean hacking methods and attack vectors. global targets.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014. dual citizen, admitted attacking an African phone company in 2016, and to inadvertently knocking out Internet access for much of the country in the process.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

UberEats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. Exposed records include information such as login credentials, full name, contact number, trip details, bank card details, account creation date. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. million leaked passwords during the year of 2014. They are too weak and easy to be hacked.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. BEGINNINGS.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The nation-state hackers are scanning the entire internet, in search of vulnerable webmail and Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover servers that expose TCP ports 445 and 1433. Trend Micro investigated waves of the APT28’s targeted credential phishing attacks and collected thousands of email samples sent out by the group since 2014.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. bank accounts. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

was shut down by the FBI today, and its suspected administrator – alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich Firsov – was arrested and charged with crimes related to the hacking of U.S. which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2018

Hundreds of Instagram accounts were hijacked in what appears to be the result of a coordinated attack, all the accounts share common signs of compromise. Alleged attackers have hijacked Instagram accounts and modified personal information making impossible to restore the accounts. Russian domain. Russian domain.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Worse, the Internet, the rise of smartphones, and the culture of social media allow us to access these things from anywhere. Fortunately, there are options available to parents when it comes to controlling YouTube and Internet access. Netflix supports kid-focused user accounts to block adult-only shows. Shockingly, 1 in 5 U.S.

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Internet Internet Media Accountability 80

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The report highlighted that over 23 million IPs related to Portable UPnP SDK were vulnerable to remote code execution just through a single UDP packet, over 6,900 product versions from over 1,500 vendors were vulnerable through UPnP due to the exposure of UPnP SOAP service to the internet. Securi ty Affairs – UPnProxy, NSA hacking tools).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

US DoJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korea-linked hackers. The complaint did not name the hacked exchanges, it only reports two attacks that took place in July 1, 2019, and September 25, 2019. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. ” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2019

US authorities have sentenced to prison three Romanian men who hacked US servers and used them in a fraud scheme that totaled more than $21 million. The crooks also carried out a phishing campaign that reached thousands of victims and tricked them into providing social security numbers and bank account information. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Fappening case – Federal prosecutors requested a 3-year prison sentence for a former Virginia high school teacher convicted of hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities and others. “He hacked email accounts by answering security questions that he could easily research by reviewing victims’ Facebook accounts. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The author of an IoT botnet is distributing a backdoor script for ZTE routers that also includes his own backdoor to hack script kiddies. A weaponized IoT exploit script is being used by script kiddies, making use of a vendor backdoor account to hack the ZTE routers. Ironically, this is not the only backdoor in the script.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The attack took place in the same hours as hackers hit Manchester United and brings us back to mind the Fappening cases that exposed online cache of nude photos and videos of celebrities back in 2014. ” “It can take years to pursue, just to get it taken down from the internet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, naked photos).

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