Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. million to overseas bank accounts controlled by Bilyuchenko, Verner, and their co-conspirators.”

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APRIL 23, 2020

A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. Somehow, this operation found its way onto the NSA’s radar pre-2013, as far as I can tell, it’s eluded specific coverage from the security industry. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MAY 13, 2024

“The operations have primarily targeted audiences in Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland with anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives, often leveraging website compromises or spoofed email accounts to disseminate fabricated content, including falsified correspondence from military officials” reads the report published by FireEye.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. Six days later, on December 19, 2017.

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MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

. “According to his plea agreement, from February 2017 until at least July 2017, Simon-Ebo conspired with others to perpetrate a BEC scheme.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ. ” During the same period, Simon-Ebo and his co-conspirators conspired to commit money laundering. .

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Researchers from Dutch security firm Hunt & Hackett observed Sea Turtle cyber espionage group (aka Teal Kurma, Marbled Dust, SILICON and Cosmic Wolf) targeting telco, media, ISPs, IT service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands. Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The office of the South Korean President explained that the compromise of the account occurred due to the staff member utilizing commercial email services for official responsibilities. panel of experts announced an investigation into 58 suspected North Korean cyberattacks between 2017 and 2023 valued at approximately $3 billion.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that JOSHUA ADAM SCHULTE was sentenced to 40 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jesse M.

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JANUARY 2, 2021

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The attacks aimed at stealing information to gain an advantage over CrowdSurge, which was acquired by Warner Music Group (WMG) in 2017. ” Both Mead and Zaidi were fired by Ticketmaster in 2017.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Among the most clamorous attacks against industrial organizations, there is the 2015 attack against the electric grid in Ukraine and the 2017 Triton attack against a Saudi petrochemical plant. Using these accounts, we gained control of management servers, application servers, and operator workstations in the OT network.”

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Narelle Devine, the company’s chief information security officer for the Asia Pacific region, added that no customer account information was stored on the third-party platform. It seems that the security breach also impacted other companies. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Telstra Telecom).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

A United Kingdom national, member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group was sentenced to five years in federal prison, announced the US DoJ. The United Kingdom national Nathan Wyatt (39), a member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group, was extradited to the United States in December 2019. The man was charged by U.S. On Monday, in a U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

. “Kaye allegedly operated The Real Deal, a Dark Web market for illicit items, including stolen account login credentials for U.S. ” The now-defunct Real Deal marketplace was used by crooks to sell and buy illegal goods and services, including narcotics, hacking tools and stolen login credentials. . Attorney Ryan K.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

Paige Thompson is a transgender woman suspected to be the hacker behind the Capital One hack and attacks on 30 other organizations, in August 2019 he has been indicted on wire fraud and computer fraud. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Capital One). Thompson (33). Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. In 2016, the company warned its 9.5

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APRIL 3, 2021

Thompson for the security breach. THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. “ Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Securitynumbers were not compromised.”.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One of the vulnerabilities is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Windows SAM (Security Accounts Manager) vulnerability. “An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.An SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

The researchers speculate the originating accounts of the instant messaging applications were compromised through the leaked credentials available on cybercrime forums. The message sent to the victims from a compromised Skype account contains a VBS script with a filename following the following format: <filename.pdf> www.skype[.]vbs.

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JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi Electric, hacking).

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

According to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), Burns worked with Jet2 through ICT services provider Blue Chip until December 2017. On January 18, 2018, he removed user accounts from the compromised systems, locking out over 2,000 Jet2 employees from accessing the company’s systems, including their emails. ” reported the BBC.

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JULY 17, 2023

In April, the FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. The price for a stolen account was very cheap, paying a few dollars crooks were able to use it for a specific period. Accounts on the forums will not be transferred, the new owner will create new accounts if necessary.”

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APRIL 5, 2023

The FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. The price for a stolen account was very cheap, paying a few dollars crooks were able to use it for a specific period. Genesis Market was an invite-only marketplace, but it was not complex to find invite codes online.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Balada injector is a malware family that has been active since 2017. “Doctor Web has discovered a malicious Linux program that hacks websites based on a WordPress CMS. In another wave, the threat actors were observed using a malicious script to create rogue WordPress administrator accounts.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Nonetheless, a robust review of the files involved was conducted to identify individuals whose personal information may be contained in the files.” In November 2017, the US clothes retailer FOREVER 21 announced it had suffered a security breach, at the time the hackers stole payment card data at some locations.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

The Balada injector is a malware family that has been active since 2017. Doctor Web has discovered a malicious Linux program that hacks websites based on a WordPress CMS. It checks up to 3 levels above the current directory, looking for the root directory of the current site and any other sites that may share the same server account.”

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MARCH 14, 2024

The remaining 90% of individuals being notified have had some other form of personal information impacted; including copies of loan-related transaction statements for loan accounts, employment or salary information or general information such as dates of birth.”

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MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

billion from organizations in the industry and attacks against DeFi platforms accounted for $1.76 SecurityAffairs – hacking, crypto security breaches). The post Crypto security breaches cause $4.25 billion losses worth of cryptos in 2021 appeared first on Security Affairs. Threat actors stole $3.18 Gox, $615M.

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JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. The post NASA hacked!

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

On January 4, 2017, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), located in Cleveland, Ohio, became aware of an infection on more than 100 of its computers. The university was notified by an undisclosed third party, who provided information to help the team find and identify the malware. Who is Phillip Durachinsky?

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Microsoft disrupted a hacking operation linked conducted by Russia-linked APT SEABORGIUM aimed at NATO countries. Microsoft has disrupted activity by SEABORGIUM, a Russia-based actor launching persistent phishing, credential and data theft, intrusions, and hack-and-leak campaigns tied to espionage. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NATO).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.

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AUGUST 30, 2020

US DoJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korea-linked hackers. The complaint did not name the hacked exchanges, it only reports two attacks that took place in July 1, 2019, and September 25, 2019. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea).

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AUGUST 6, 2022

This issue was reported by an independent security researcher and disclosed to Slack on 17 July 2022. The company states that the bug affected all users who created or revoked shared invitation links between 17 April 2017 and 17 July 2022. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Slack). ” reads the advisory published by Slack.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. ” reads the advisory published by the CERT-UA. “Note (!)

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. The SBU determined that the threat actors would have been able to steal personal information, track the locations of phones, intercept SMS-messages and perhaps steal Telegram accounts with the level of access they gained.

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