Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

Big companies have long been worried about the very real threat of disgruntled employees creating identities on darknet sites and then offering to trash their employer’s network for a fee (for more on that, see my 2016 story, Rise of the Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider ). Open our letter at your email. ” Image: Sophos.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. But in February 2016, Babam joined Verified , another Russian-language crime forum. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. Russian vehicle registration records from 2016 show the email address denispankov@yandex.ru Image: spur.us. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com. In 2013, U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Here are a few unexpected examples of supposedly anonymous data reversal: •In 2016, the Australian government released what they called the “anonymous” (i. LW contributor Goddy Ray is a content manager and researcher at Surfshark VPN. names and other identifying features were removed) medical data of 2.9 million people.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2016, Malwarebytes first discovered an info stealer called TrickBot that, when implanted on a persons device, would steal online banking credentials. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts. They are wildly adaptable.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 7, 2021

We’re telling you a story—with no guest interview included—that involves the use of VPNs. In 2016, a mid-20s man began an intense, prolonged harassment campaign against his new roommate. This record-keeping practice, known as VPN logging, is frowned upon in the industry. Can two VPN “wrongs” make a right?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

Enter VPN technology. One longtime cybersecurity solution for small teams up to global enterprise networks is virtual private networks (VPN). VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. Top VPN products. CyberGhost VPN.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

The complaint doesn’t explicitly name the cloud hosting provider from which the Capital One credit data was taken, but it does say the accused’s resume states that she worked as a systems engineer at the provider between 2015 and 2016. “She allegedly used web application firewall credentials to obtain privilege escalation.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2024

The document mentions Facebook’s so-called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) program, which existed between June 2016 and approximately May 2019. On June 9, 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg complained about the lack of analytics about competitor Snapchat. Onavo was a VPN-like research tool that Facebook acquired in 2013.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Wyatt admitted that starting in 2016, he operated as a member of the popular hacking group and stole sensitive data from its victims. Louis area beginning in 2016.” The indictment provides details about the criminal activities conducted by Wyatt from February 2016 to June 2017. On Monday, in a U.S. district court in St.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The popular whistleblower Edward Snowden recommends customers of ExpressVPN VPN service to stop using it. Edward Snowden expressed concerns about the VPN service offered by ExpressVPN and has warned users to stop using it. If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be. Why Snowden is worried about ExpressVPN?

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

The new vulnerabilities added to the catalog include one SonicWall SonicOS issue, tracked as CVE-2020-5135 , and 14 Microsoft Windows flaws addressed between 2016 and 2019. The flaw resides in the HTTP/HTTPS service used for product management as well as SSL VPN remote access.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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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. Then threat actors sent data as an image file to a web-accessible path: cp /var/tmp/test.tar.gz /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/medialogininit.png. php) on victim machines.

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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 data stolen by Nikulin were available on the cybercrime underground between 2015 and 2016, they were offered for sale by multiple traders. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

Below the recommendations provided by the company: SRA 4600/1600 (EOL 2019) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SMA 400/200 (Still Supported, in Limited Retirement Mode) Update to 10.2.0.7-34

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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. Attackers use stolen VPN credentials to securely connect the target network. “Operation Wocao (??

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. For the generation of remote work and operations, Check Point Remote Access VPN offers central management and policy administration for controlling access to corporate networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

NOTE- Netflix already imposed a VPN Blocking program since January 2016, thus blocking its users from accessing content from countries where its content is unavailable or not allowed for viewing, like China. Technically speaking, Netflix is not stopping the password sharing feature, but it is instead monetizing it.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

But this story is about so-called “bulletproof residential VPN services” that appear to be built by purchasing or otherwise acquiring discrete chunks of Internet addresses from some of the world’s largest ISPs and mobile data providers. .” So most mobile ISPs want to sell mass lines instead of single lines.”

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2023

The Australian case, which has rumbled on for the best part of two and a half years, has focused on claims related to a now discontinued Virtual Private Network (VPN). The subsidiary Onavo, acquired in 2013 by Facebook, was supposed to be keeping the VPN a separate brand from the main flagship company.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

In 2016, I bought a new smartphone that, as part of a promotion, came with an additional smart watch. Do use a VPN on public WiFi connections. A virtual private network, or VPN, will encrypt your traffic, which can be especially helpful when connecting to public WiFi networks which could be vulnerable to eavesdropping.

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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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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. Geo-blocking is a really weak, easily circumvented control that often does more harm than good. Blocking Paste.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft researchers have also identified that previous reports have used the vulnerability ID “ZERO-32906” for CVE-2018-20057, “GPON” for CVE-2018-10561, and “DLINK” for CVE-2016-20017; and that CVE-2020-7209 was mislabeled as CVE-2017-17106 and CVE-2022-42013 was mislabeled as CVE-2021-42013.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to the researcher, the vulnerability has existed at least since 2016. 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 All an attacker needs is access to the http(s) server port (typically 80/443). The post Patch now!

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2021

Users of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 are advised to apply the updates immediately to protect against these exploits, prioritizing the externally facing Exchange servers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The technologies used by organizations to facilitate remote work include virtual private network (VPN) connections and remote desktop protocol (RDP). Opportunistic threat actors know that with remote work not going away, there will be chances to gain entry to corporate networks by exploiting RDP and VPN connections. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) disconnect immediately and reset passwords. It describes continuing to use its end-of-life products or 8.x Mitigation.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 13, 2023

.” Rapid7 lead software engineer Adam Barnett pointed out by email that while the FAQ provided with Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2023-29357 states that both SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 and SharePoint Server 2019 are vulnerable, no related patches are listed for SharePoint 2016.

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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. In general it is not a good idea to make your cameras accessible from the internet and if you do, put them behind a VPN. The vulnerability. All an attacker needs is access to the http(s) server port (typically 80/443).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

Hacker that hit UK National Lottery in 2016 was sentenced to prison. Chinese police arrested the operator of unauthorized VPN service that made $1.6 New Bill prohibits intelligence sharing with countries using Huawei 5G equipment. 5G – The Future of Security and Privacy in Smart Cities. million from his activity.

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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. Consider installing and using a VPN. Install and regularly update anti-virus and anti-malware software on all hosts.

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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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