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com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. The RCMP arrested Bloom in December 2017, and said he made approximately $250,000 selling hacked data, which included information on 37 million user accounts leaked in the 2015 Ashley Madison breach.
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Subsequent analysis revealed earlier instances of suspicious code dating back to 2017. Importantly, our investigation, which considered binary timestamps, indicated that this exploit was created prior to April 2017. It is worth noting that the EternalBlue exploit was publicly disclosed by the Shadow Brokers group on April 14, 2017.
change DNS settings to hijack the traffic, perform MitM attacks). ” In previous research, Kenin discovered similar flaws ( CVE-2017-5521 ) in at tens of models of Netgear routers that were potentially affecting over one million Netgear customers. ” reads the security advisory. ” continues the advisory. download=true.
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2017 analysis of the RAT. These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems. Sometimes, the missives were taunting, or vaguely ominous and threatening.
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