Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Memory hacking is being carried out across paths that have been left comparatively wide open to threat actors who are happy to take full advantage of the rather fragile framework of processes that execute deep inside the kernel of computer operating systems.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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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. ” continues the report “While CIA was an early leader in securing our enterprise information technology (IT) system, we failed to correct acute vulnerabilities to our mission IT systems.”.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The Equifax hack occurred in May 2017 when attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability in the Jakarta Multipart parser upload function. The attackers breached an online dispute portal than queried internal databases in an effort to find personally identifiable information (PII). The Equifax breach.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

From 2017 to 2019, the FBI says credential stuffing attacks were the most common type of attack against the financial sector, accounting for 41% of total incidents. According to a 2020 case study on one of the firms, security researchers identified more than 1,500 email addresses and 6,000 passwords exposed in more than 80 data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

W3LL first rose to popularity in 2017 by providing a platform for sending bulk emails, and it eventually concentrated on marketing a special phishing kit for Microsoft 365 business accounts. The flaws can expose systems to remote code execution, credential theft, and data breaches.

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