Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. During that timeframe, unapproved third parties gained unauthorized access into over 60 email accounts hosted in the cloud belonging to Cetera Employees. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Europol announced another success in the fight against cybercrime, the agency shut down 30,506 Internet domain names for distributing counterfeit and pirated items. Europol announced the shutdown of 30,506 Internet domain names for distributing counterfeit and pirated items as part of the ‘In Our Sites’ (IOS) operation launched in 2014.

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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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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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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” account on Carder[.]su

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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.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This increase will be mainly driven by the increasing use of mobile devices, web, social media, Internet of Things and more. It shut down the Washington Post’s mobile site briefly earlier this year and hacked the twitter account of AP to announce that the White House had been hacked. This was not the first time SEA hacked US websites.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

” That handle used the same ICQ instant messenger account number ( 555724 ) as a Mazafaka denizen named “ Nordex.” ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. In 2017, U.S. Constella tracked another Bankir[.]com

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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. ” reported Slashgear. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

million user accounts worldwide were using ‘123456’ as password, while 7.7 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456’ as password appeared first on Security Affairs. The NCSC discovered that 23.2 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

A little bit of a change of pace this week with the video being solely on the events unfolding around removing content, people and even entire platforms from the internet. These are significant events in history, regardless of your political persuasion, and they're likely to have a very long-lasting impact on the way we communicate online.

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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. A month later, no response has been provided.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year. in 2022 to 39.6%

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2023

Only a limited portion of customer data was reportedly leaked in the attack and accessed information, such as phone numbers, account details, SIM card serial numbers, and mobile billing plan details. The service was launched in April 2015 and was launched to support Pixel and series smart phones.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year. in 2022 to 39.6%

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In new research conducted by Malwarebytes, internet users across the United States and Canada admitted to dismal cybersecurity practices, failing to adopt some of the most basic defenses for staying safe online. Just 35 percent of people have unique passwords for most or all of their accounts. Cybersecurity could be as easy as 1-2-3.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw. “Luckily for many users they don’t expose the interface to the Internet,” he said.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

A Twitter account for Web Listings Inc. Searching the Internet for some of these Web listing domains mentioned in the company’s Twitter account brings up a series of press releases once issued on behalf of the company. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

” The intrusion came to light on Twitter when the account @und0xxed started tweeting the details. ” Other databases allegedly accessed by the intruders included one for prepaid accounts, which had far fewer details about customers. In at least one case , retail store employees were complicit in the account takeovers.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Babam has authored more than 270 posts since joining Exploit in 2015, including dozens of sales threads. Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity published a brief writeup about the brazen Manipulaters team, noting that they openly operated hundreds of web sites selling tools designed to trick people into giving up usernames and passwords, or deploying malicious software on their PCs. ” A number of questions, indeed. .”

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 19, 2017

On May 15, 2017, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report entitled “ Internet of Things: Status and implications of an increasingly connected world.” The average price of the unit in 2015 was $.40. For example, the price of sensors has significantly declined over the past decade.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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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. It aggressively leverages the US’s position controlling most of the internet backbone and most of the major internet companies. But it was massive, and it is dangerous.

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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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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of interconnected electronic devices with “smart” technology. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2020

An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico’s top tourist destinations disrupted their highly profitable business, which raked in an estimated $1.2 See the video and everything.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016. According to court testimony, Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar , Liberia’s top mobile phone and Internet provider.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

107 million records include personal data and basic account information such as the user ID, number of Weibo tweets, number of followers and accounts users are following, account gender, geographic location and more. “Internet users found that 538 million Weibo user records are being sold on dark web marketplace.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com and rurimeter[.]com

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