Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

One hack allowed a convention attendee to commandeer control of an iPhone with a non-Apple-issue charging cord, one that is identical to the Apple version. Another group figured out how to use a Netflix account to steal banking information. Speaking of China (or Russia or North Korea or Iran or…) will the 2020 election be hacked?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 20, 2020

DDoS attacks involve flooding a target Web site with so much junk Internet traffic that it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors. But that 2016 story came on the heels of an exclusive about the hacking of vDOS — at the time the world’s most popular and powerful DDoS-for-hire service.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Canadian media revealed that in November 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was a hit by a large-scale cyberattack. According to an investigation conducted by Secureworks hackers were also able to access the hackers were also able to compromise the mail servers to obtain access to admin accounts.

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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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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com). trump-email.com).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

These three names will go down in the history of internet commerce, right alongside Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. De Guzman authored the I Love You email virus that circled the globe infecting millions of PCs; Calce, aka Mafiaboy, released the Melissa Internet worm that knocked offline Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Microsoft today released an emergency software patch to plug a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already using to break into Windows computers. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. Way back in 2016, security firm Fortinet blogged about LinkedIn’s redirect being used to promote phishing sites and online pharmacies.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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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. The Russian criminal was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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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. 2016 sales thread on Exploit. account on Carder[.]su

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. Now a hacking group says they accessed thousands of live feeds from Verkada's cameras around the world. The Verkada camera hack: what happened?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

But in February 2016, Babam joined Verified , another Russian-language crime forum. Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com com (2017).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

Finally, Congress appears to be heeding lessons available to be learned since the hacking John Podesta’s email account – not to mention all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections, attempting to interfere in 39 states. We’ll soon find out. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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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

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

APRIL 18, 2019

app), one very interesting Internet address is connected to all of them — 185.159.83[.]24. Investigators believe the intruders were using the ScreenConnect software on the hacked Wipro systems to connect remotely to Wipro client systems, which were then used to leverage further access into Wipro customer networks.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. telecommunications provider TalkTalk. ”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. A notable feature of earlier Dolphin versions we analyzed is the ability to modify the settings of victims’ signed-in Google and Gmail accounts to lower their security, most likely to maintain access to victims’ email inboxes.” ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. Both men maintained their innocence throughout the trial. presidential election.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. RELATED: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Let’s not forget how Russia targeted elections in 39 states back in 2016. “We

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

However, massive surges of credential stuffing have persisted, fueled by a seemingly endless supply of already stolen, or easy-to-steal, personal information along with the wide availability of sophisticated hacking tools. Election meddling scales up Credential stuffing is a type of advanced brute force hacking.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

According to a lawsuit filed last month in the Western District of Virginia, the first heist took place in late May 2016, after an employee at The National Bank of Blacksburg fell victim to a targeted phishing email. That second computer had the ability to manage National Bank customer accounts and their use of ATMs and bank cards.

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DoublePulsar

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have have read about the hack of the Electoral Commission recently. In this piece we take a look at what happened, show they were running Microsoft Exchange Server with Outlook Web App (OWA) facing the internet, and the unpatched vulnerability that presented. This lead to several big security breaches.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. 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. SecurityAffairs – APT28, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

He briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi , an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile Web sites. Both are pictured in the first of the three large photos below, taken from Woody’s Instagram account. Brooklyn, NY native Islam, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

[link] #cve -2018-9995 #dvr pic.twitter.com/gw37PA3jo4 — Ezequiel Fernandez (@Capitan_Alfa) May 1, 2018 Fortinet also warns of a spike in exploitation attempts targeting the CVE-2016-20016 (CVSS score of 9.8) in MVPower CCTV DVR models. Previously seen to be exploited in the wild through 2017 and on-going.”

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2021

If hacking is opening a door by picking its lock, then DDoS is blocking the door by boarding it up from the outside. For Internet devices, the network edge is where the device, or the local network containing the device, communicates with the Internet. The target. Vulnerabilities.

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