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. “Mail server, domain administrator and system administrator accounts were all affected, giving cyberespions access to the past and current passwords of more than 2,000 ICAO system users.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

In September 2016, MrMurza sent a message to all iSocks users saying the service would soon be phased out in favor of Faceless, and that existing iSocks users could register at Faceless for free if they did so quickly — before Faceless began charging new users registration fees between $50 and $100. also used the password 24587256.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Password Management : Use strong, unique passwords and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) whenever possible, prioritizing authentication apps or hardware tokens over SMS text-based codes. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Phorpiex botnet)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The Hancitor downloader has been active since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. Upon installing the ransomware, it downloads two executable files, which include the password stealer “pones.exe” and “krots.exe,” (aka) KPOT, which allows threat actors to write to the compromised system’s temporary (TMP) file.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. None of these early threats went pro.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This type of MFA sends a notification to a user whenever their username and password are used. The idea is that a stolen username and password are useless to an attacker unless they also have physical access to the victim's phone. Uber famously covered up a 2016 data breach that affected its 57 million customers and drivers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

” Upon compromising the IP camera, an attacker can also use the hacked device to access internal networks posing a risk to the infrastructure that use the devices. No username or password needed nor any actions need to be initiated by the camera owner. SecurityAffairs – hacking, IoT). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. For several years, WeLeakInfo was the largest of several services selling access to hacked passwords. 24, 2016 with the domain registrar Dynadot. design was registered on Aug.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

91541, 91534 CVE-2014-1812 05/13/2014 Microsoft Windows Group Policy Preferences Password Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (KB2962486) 9 91148, 90951 CVE-2020-0688 02/11/2020 Microsoft Exchange Server Security Update for February 2020 8.8 50098 CVE-2016-0167 04/12/2016 Microsoft Windows Graphics Component Security Update (MS16-039) 7.8

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This was more than a multi-password via ssh exploit, and there was no ransom. . “Every VM [virtual machine] is lost. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. Just attack and destroy.” based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations. An example seller’s panel at deer.io. Click image to enlarge.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2022

Upon compromising the IP camera, an attacker can also use the hacked device to access internal networks posing a risk to the infrastructure that use the devices. No username or password needed nor any actions need to be initiated by the camera owner. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hikvision). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. In March, Joshua Schulte , a former CIA software engineer that was accused of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks, was convicted of only minor charges.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

” The attack took place in November 2016 and impacted the National Lottery customer database containing about 9,000,000 records. Hackers used credentials obtained as a result of third-party breaches and exploited the bad habits of passwords reusing on multiple online services. SecurityAffairs – National Lottery, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2019

The security researcher Gynvael Coldwind (@voltagex) discovered that the stored attributes can include user usernames and passwords. This includes the cases where the URL has a user/password in it $ getfattr -d -m – test user.xdg.origin.url="[link] — Gynvael Coldwind (@gynvael) December 25, 2018. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Some of the databases are dated as 2016, but data starts from March 28, 2020. Most of the listed databases are from online stores in Germany, others e-store hacked by threat actors are from Brazil, the U.S., The hacked stores were running Shopware, JTL-Shop, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Magento v1 and v2 e-commerce CMSs.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

A federal court has ruled that violating a website's tems of service is not "hacking" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. So in 2016 they sued the federal government, seeking a declaration that this part of the CFAA violated the First Amendment. Someone violates the CFAA when they bypass an access restriction like a password.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

On May 8, KrebsOnSecurity received a tip that hackers obtained a username and password for an authorized user of esp.usdoj.gov , which is the Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) system managed by the DEA. “Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) allows for a federated search of 16 Federal law enforcement databases.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The 911 user interface, as it existed when the service first launched in 2016. net available at the Wayback Machine shows that in 2016 this domain was used for the “ ExE Bucks ” affiliate program, a pay-per-install business which catered to people already running large collections of hacked computers or compromised websites.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

A newly detected malware targeting macOS devices can steal passwords and capture iPhone backups. And it's coming from the same group believed to be responsible for the 2016 election hacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

After the discovery of hacking attempts, the French firm logged users out and forced a password reset procedure by including in the notification a link to change the password and re-gain access to the account. In 2016, Dailymotion suffered a massive data breach that exposed 87 million accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 20 (Chief Judge Jeong Seon-jae Baek Suk-jong Lee Jun-hyun) charged Mr. A for being a developer for the TrickBot gang since 2016. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Trickbot)

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. But in February 2016, Babam joined Verified , another Russian-language crime forum. com (2017).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. huawei) for the initial compromise.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The exposed data include email addresses, password hashes, client IDs, IP addresses, and tokens for business API users, authentication tokens for connected accounts, and non-personal and internal data was compromised. The good news is that passwords are hashed using the BCrypt, a hashing algorithm that is considered robust.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

LeakedSource services were often advertised on hacking forums and there was suspicion that its operators were actively looking to hack organizations whose data they could add to their database.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

” Organized cybercrime gangs that coordinate unlimited attacks typically do so by hacking or phishing their way into a bank or payment card processor. million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

2016 sales thread on Exploit. ” Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks exposed databases, finds that 774748@gmail.com was used in connection with just a handful of passwords, but most frequently the password “ featar24 “ Pivoting off of that password reveals a handful of email addresses, including akafitis@gmail.com.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. immediately Reset passwords Enable MFA. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SonicWall). 34 or 9.0.0.10

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

That same day, AWM Proxy — a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals — suddenly went offline. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed that virtually all of the hacked systems for rent at AWM Proxy had been compromised by TDSS (a.k.a

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The man listed the credentials of more than 35,000 compromised computers for sale and according to the investigators, he obtained more than $350,000 in illicit proceeds between 2016 and 2019. The powerful malware was capable of compromising protected computers by decrypting login credentials, such as passwords.

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