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. continues the alert. 34 or 9.0.0.10 x firmware versions.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian criminal was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. Nikulin first breached LinkedIn between March 3 and March 4, 2012, the hacker first infected an employee’s laptop with malware then used employee’s VPN to access the LinkedIn’s internal network.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Make sure your smartphone, tablet and laptop are password-protected, particularly if you’re in the habit of carrying them around wherever you go. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. Create long and strong passwords. Change passwords repeatedly.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

News that Virtual Private Network ( VPN ) provider NordVPN was breached spread quickly. While the breach of a major VPN service is newsworthy, this one wasn’t particularly. But one of the watchwords of good cyber hygiene, a VPN, was breached. Who Is Using VPNs? The incident put NordVPN in the hot seat.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These emails persuade employees to reveal passwords for important applications or download malicious files to their devices. Using stolen passwords is an easy way to masquerade as a genuine user and access sensitive information or infiltrate deeper into your network. IoT Devices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Let’s summarize the criminal activities of the man who was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is exactly what happened on October 12, 2016, when the Mirai botnet used an army of IoT devices — like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers — to execute a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which left much of the internet inaccessible. Think your table lamps can’t expose you to danger?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Mamba was first spotted on September 2016 when experts at Morphus Labs discovered the infection of machines belonging to an energy company in Brazil with subsidiaries in the United States and India. Regularly, change passwords to network systems and accounts, and avoid reusing passwords for different accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

The notice mentions the following products along with recommended actions: SRA 4600/1600 (EOL 2019) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. Mitigation.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Experts observed the bot attempting to gain access to the device by using a combination of eight common usernames and 130 passwords for IoT devices over SSH and telnet on ports 23 and 2323. Ensure secure configurations for devices: Change the default password to a strong one, and block SSH from external access.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

Citrix reported that successful exploitation requires that the appliance is configured as a Gateway (VPN virtual server, ICA Proxy, CVPN, RDP Proxy) OR AAA virtual server. The attackers obtained encrypted passwords from NetScaler ADC configuration files, and the decryption key was stored on the ADC appliance. php) on victim machines.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers. Blocking Paste.

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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 attackers connects to a dedicated commercially-shared VPN server using OpenVPN and then uses compromised email credentials to send out credential spam via a commercial email service provider.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The APT20 group has been active since at least 2011, but experts did not associate any campaign with this threat actors between 2016 and 2017. In order to move laterally within the target networks, hackers used well-known techniques, such as dumping credentials from memory and accessing password managers on compromised systems.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

How Strong is Your Password? Millions of British people are using their pet's name as an online password, despite it being an easy target for hackers to work out, according to a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) survey. A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to the researcher, the vulnerability has existed at least since 2016. No username or password is needed, nor are any actions needed from the camera owner. In general it is a good idea not make your cameras accessible from the internet and if you do, put them behind a VPN. The critical bug has received 9.8

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Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

" Also: The best power banks you can buy: Expert tested Model A1263 was sold online at Anker's official website, Amazon, Newegg, and eBay between June 1, 2016, and December 31, 2022, where it was sold exclusively in the United States. So, if you bought it in the US, you should replace or get rid of the device immediately. 

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to the researcher that reported it last year, the vulnerability has existed at least since 2016. No username or password is needed, nor are any actions needed from the camera owner, and the attack is not detectable by any logging on the camera itself. The vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Before we dive into the specific cybersecurity concerns, let us remind you about the attack that took place in October 2016. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded.

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Zero Day

JUNE 14, 2025

But every PC that was sold with Windows preinstalled after mid-2016 was required to have a TPM, so that's a simple matter of flipping a switch in the firmware menu.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

When it first surfaced in September 2016, they were using TrickBot , aka TrickLoader, a highly popular banking Trojan. Below is a list of recommended mitigations from the FBI, which it issued along with an alert on Conti ransomware late last week: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the German Federal Chancellery in 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The Kubernetes cluster used to carry out the attacks used the TOR onion router to hide their true location and metadata, while also leveraging commercial VPN services like CactusVPN, IPVanish, NordVPN, ProtonVPN, Surfshark and WorldVPN.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Trickbot was first discovered in October 2016. Web sessions and user passwords saved in the browser are available in hVNC sessions.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

In the case above, HostGator was being taken to task for storing passwords in a retrievable fashion (i.e. pic.twitter.com/ZJSDF2VMzv — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2016. not as a strong cryptographic hash), and rightly so too.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In 2016, 108.5 Typically, something you know (such as a password) and something you have (such as code that’s been texted to you.) Alternately, consider investing in a Virtual Private Network (VPN). million Americans shopped online over the long weekend. Almost 1 million visited physical stores.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects. In 2018, their number grew to 3.6%, while in H1 2019 saw an unusual rise of up to 27.8%.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 27, 2018

government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors since at least March 2016. The threat actors ultimately seek to gain information from the intended target on “network and organizational design and control system capabilities within organizations.”

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to our data, its main vector of distribution is cracking RDP passwords. Crysis is an old piece of cryptomalware known since 2016. The main vector of distribution is cracking RDP passwords. According to our information, its main vector of distribution is cracking RDP passwords. Password generation in XMRLocker.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Here is a list containing some of the services that the Nigerian Tesla threat actor used: PerfectMoney Glassdoor signupanywhere (could be a source to get victims emails) omail.io (service for extracting emails) warzone.ws (Warzone RAT) worldwiredlabs (NetWire RAT) le-vpn.com and bettervpn.com zenmate.com tigervpn hotvpn (VPN provider) securitycode.eu

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

For users familiar with password management and the value of complex passwords, this makes sense. In 2016, only 40% of websites protected their web pages and visiting users with HTTPS. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel like a password manager.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

According to the Flash report, this threat is believed to have existed since 2016, with several encounters since the June 2020 incident: In July 2018, an employee of a US pharmaceutical company with business interests in China downloaded the Baiwang Tax Control Invoicing software program from baiwang.com.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E. Named after the infamous string of nation-state cyber attacks during the late 2000s, NightDragon was established in 2016 by former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

The problem: The FBI warns that during the dismantling of the Moobot botnet, agents detected code from other Russian attackers, including the notorious Fancy Bear (AKA: APT28 or Military Unit 26165) also responsible for the attack on the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) before the 2016 election.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Finally, we cover a Microsoft Exchange privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable motivated threat actors to steal your NTLM password hash. The research endeavored to edit the grub boot loader to force a shell to boot, but the grub password was password protected. CVE-2024-22107 (RCE) High Low 7.2

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