Security Affairs

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. ” reads the statement published by the company.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus.

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Security Affairs

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 ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the New York Times , the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and used it to inform internal personnel that the company had “suffered a data breach” and provided a list of allegedly hacked internal databases. “I This is not the first time that the company suffered a security breach.

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Hacking Data breaches Engineering Information Security 134

Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The attack took place in April 2017 and the man is accused of conducting the attack for the Russian military intelligence service GRU. Kozachek hacked the computed of the NATO think tank in 2017 and installed a keylogger to spy on the organization. ” reported the Tagesschau website. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

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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Hacking Government Accountability Information Security 94

Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

. “SCHULTE’s theft is the largest data breach in the history of the CIA, and his transmission of that stolen information to WikiLeaks is one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the history of the U.S.”

Computers and Electronics 95

Computers and Electronics Engineering Hacking Data breaches 95

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

” According to the 2017 indictment , Wyatt used email and telephone accounts to send messages used to threaten the hacked companies of releasing their information. “a. WYATT registered a telephone account (Account B) used in the course of the conspiracy to send threatening and extortionate text messages to victims.“.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there's Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex which leaked 33M records in 2017 , Exactis who had 132M records breached last year and the Apollo data breach which exposed 126M accounts, one of which was my own. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations.

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Security Affairs

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.”

Marketing 84

Marketing Accountability Cybercrime Passwords 84

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“Kaye allegedly operated The Real Deal, a Dark Web market for illicit items, including stolen account login credentials for U.S. Kaye also trafficked login credentials for Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. ’s National Crime Agency (NCA) in February 2017. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Marketing Government Hacking Accountability 88

Security Affairs

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.

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Security Affairs

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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Marketing Cybercrime Accountability Education 84

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

billion from organizations in the industry and attacks against DeFi platforms accounted for $1.76 The percentage increase in the number of scams per year is up by 850% in the last decade. Threat actors stole $3.18 The top 5 breaches in history are: 1. Gox, $615M. Poly Network, $611M+. Coincheck, $534M. KuCoin, $281M.

Cryptocurrency 105

Cryptocurrency Scams Marketing Hacking 105

Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Bilyuchenko is also charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to run the virtual currency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. million to overseas bank accounts controlled by Bilyuchenko, Verner, and their co-conspirators.” The duo has been charged with conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins stolen from Mt.

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Security Affairs

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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Retail Data breaches Identity Theft Banking 121

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Balada injector is a malware family that has been active since 2017. In another wave, the threat actors were observed using a malicious script to create rogue WordPress administrator accounts. Sucuri researchers reported that more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised in September with the Balada Injector.

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Security Affairs

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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Phishing Social Engineering Government Accountability 108

Security Affairs

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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Hacking DNS Cryptocurrency Accountability 79

Security Affairs

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. ” reads the advisory published by Slack.

Passwords 92

Passwords Password Management Antivirus Encryption 92

Jane Frankland

JUNE 15, 2022

ISC)² has not given us a separate report on women, drawing from their Workforce Study, like they did in 2017, and that’s OK. For example: In 2017, the Center for Cyber Safety and Education (Center) and (ISC)² released The Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Levashov used these services on and off from at least May 2014 until his arrest in April 2017 and paid the operators of the crypting services approximately $3,000 per month” reads the criminal compliant. Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Identity Theft Financial Services Cybercrime 94

Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Balada injector is a malware family that has been active since 2017. 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.” The malware supports multiple attack vectors and persistence mechanisms.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

“Considering that downloading the app is conditional on having an account and new account registration was not possible for us, we believe that potential victims were specifically targeted.” Therefore, we believe that potential victims are highly targeted.” ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

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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Mobile Telecommunications Cyber Attacks Internet 90

Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

In October 2017, the city of Fort Worth, Texas became the target of a phishing scam. Their accounts payable department received an email that appeared to be from Imperial Construction, a company that was doing business with the city at the time. Fadipe, requested a change of account. However, this wasn’t the case.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2022

More details + TTPs in this MSTIC blog: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) August 15, 2022. SEABORGIUM has been active since at least 2017, its campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. .

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Mobile Telecommunications Data breaches Identity Theft 93

Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It endeavors to elucidate the underlying methodology, a comprehensive array of tools employed, and the typical vulnerabilities that security experts strategically target (Anderson & White, 2017). It encompasses a range of electromagnetic radio waves utilized for wireless information transmission. IEEE Access, 6, 12725-12738.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Accessing an online account, users could make several actions, such as manage insurance claims and pay bills. “State Farm recently detected an information security incident in which a bad actor used a list of user IDs and passwords obtained from some other source, like the dark web, to attempt access to State Farm online accounts.

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Insurance Data breaches Financial Services Passwords 86

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic revealed that the National Cyber and Information Security Agency blamed a foreign state for a cyber attack that targeted the Czech Foreign Ministry. The Czech experts discovered the security breach early January 2017.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. ” CERT-UA urges Ukrainian critical organizations using multi-factor authentication for VPN accounts, network segmentation and filtering of incoming, outgoing and inter-segment information flows.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017. The Kelihos botnet was used to send out a large volume of spam messages, conduct denial of service attacks, harvest account credentials, and distribute malware.

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