Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] ” COME, ABUSE WITH US The gold farming reference is fascinating because in 2017 KrebsOnSecurity published Who Ran LeakedSource? In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

” This is related to the SolarWinds hack I have previously written about , and represents one of the techniques the SVR is using once it has gained access to target networks. This SAML forgery technique has been known and used by cyber actors since at least 2017.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In 2017 the number could double. This year companies were rocked by over 90 million cyberattacks. Cybersecurity expert Sameer Dixit explains how new innovation leads to increased vulnerability.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. conspired to hack into Yahoo email accounts belonging to victims in the United States.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people , many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. But not Jessamyn West. Others are following suit.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. It’s all for show to try and discredit my report and my talk.”

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 7, 2020

The FBI pointed to vulnerabilities in Windows 7 preceding the EOL announcement that made users the primary target of the Wannacry ransomware campaign in 2017. Another major vulnerability discovered in the operating system in 2019, called BlueKeep, has been traced back to several major hacking campaigns. .

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Threat actors from North Korea have been increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector since 2017 as a source of generating revenue. In this article, we’ll dive into […] The post Lazarus Cryptocurrency Hacks Estimated To Be $3 Billion appeared first on TuxCare.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps DDoS in September 2017, the culmination of a six-month campaign that utilized multiple methods of attack.

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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. German investigators believe that Kozachek is a member of the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear), which is the same group that hacked the German Bundestag in 2015. ” continues the post.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 17, 2020

CIA-developed hacking tools stolen in 2016 were compromised by an organizational culture of lax cybersecurity, according to an internal memo. The hacking tools and other data were developed by the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), often referred to as the hacking arm of the CIA. .

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Security Affairs

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. SecurityAffairs – Nazar, hacking). The post Expert identifies new Nazar APT group referenced in 2017 Shadow Brokers leak appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Well, it’s because of privacy concerns, as hackers can hack the camera and see what a person is doing in front of the screen or get a glimpse of what was happening in front of the camera placed in a room or office. Now coming to the main point, i.e., how is this hacking takes place? Similar to extortion tactics….

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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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 SecurityAffairs – hacking, Uber). states the message. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Argishti Khudaverdyan, a former retailer of T-Mobile company, received a 10-year jail imprisonment sentence at the end of last as he was found guilty of hacking into the servers of the telecom provider and gaining access to phone unlocking and unblocking of cellphones. It is unclear yet on how the person got access to internal servers.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

“Don’t open this post from Johnny Cyberhack, or your account will be stolen and your C drive will be wiped” Complete nonsense, but vague and scary hacking-themed missives will always find a receptive audience. This specific hoax has been bouncing around since at least 2017. Be careful because it is very dangerous.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool. Mid 2017: Microsoft quietly fixed the vulnerability exploited by the leaked EpMo exploit.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

eCommerce Growth Hacks. It wasn’t until 2002 when Rami saw major success again with Spider-Man. Norcross’ message, “ continuing to show up,” can be the critical element for putting you in the right place at the right time. Balkhi started his first website when he was 16, and through those years has learned to measure and test everything.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” Only one of the men sanctioned today is known to have been criminally charged in connection with hacking activity. Secret Service determined that he ran a massive “money mule” scheme, which used phony job offers to trick people into laundering money stolen from hacked small to mid-sized businesses in the United States.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. A whopping 80 percent were due to stolen credentials (nearly a 30 percent increase since 2017!). Unauthorized access via default, shared, or stolen credentials constituted more than a third of the entire Hacking category and over half of all compromised records.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

And why would someone "hack" (I use the term loosely because they literally logged in with the correct username and password) Spotify accounts? pic.twitter.com/d3sSR8PCu1 — Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) December 9, 2017. 5/5 — Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) December 10, 2017.

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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. Gox ) The post Russians charged with hacking Mt. Gox in 2011 and money laundering.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered a year after it happened, when the information was published by WikiLeaks, in March 2017. The anti-secrecy group dubbed the release " Vault 7 ," and U.S.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. million stolen cards; 2017 saw some 4.9 Correct subject would be the data center was hacked. HACKING BACK? The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million more. million cards.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 16, 2020

Internal CIA report released today shows poor security controls surrounding the intelligence agency's hacking tools.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The source code for the Paradise Ransomware has been released on a hacking forum allowing threat actors to develop their customized variant. The source code for the Paradise Ransomware has been released on the hacking forum XSS allowing threat actors to develop their own customized ransomware operation. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

have discovered that smart home products such as Google Nest and Amazon Echo smart speaker can be hacked at any moment as security patch updates have been stopped to such devices from the past three years and so they are or might have already fallen prey to hackers. Security researchers from the consumer group ‘Which?’ NOTE- Which?

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook. Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command : USCYBERCOM has discovered active malicious use of CVE-2017-11774 and recommends immediate #patching.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

The spam messages are sent in various European languages, threat actors are exploiting the Microsoft Office and Wordpad CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. Windows Defender ATP detects the documents as Exploit:O97M/CVE-2017-11882.AD SecurityAffairs – CVE-2017-11882 , spam campaign). AD and the payload as Trojan:MSIL/Cretasker.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

91204 CVE-2017-11774 10/10/2017 Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps Security Update October 2017 7.8 SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarWinds). SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarWinds). 50098 CVE-2016-0167 04/12/2016 Microsoft Windows Graphics Component Security Update (MS16-039) 7.8

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 25, 2023

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named "track[.]violetlovelines[.]com" violetlovelines[.]com"

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

The Wall Street Journal revealed that Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over the 2017 data breach. According to The Wall Street Journal, Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over the 2017 data breach. “Equifax Inc. ” states The WSJ.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Four members of China's People Liberation Army hacked the information broker, leading to the theft of sensitive data on approximately 145 million citizens.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2021

The Swedish Sports Confederation organization was compromised in 2017-18 by hackers working for Russian military intelligence, officials said. This is the first time that Swedish officials formally blamed Russia for the 2017 hack of the Swedish Sports Confederation (SSC). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russia).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The social network giant Facebook is still the target of hackers, its Facebook and Instagram accounts have been hijacked by the popular hacking group Our M ine. Yesterdat the popular hacking group OurMine hacked the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook and Messenger. SecurityAffairs – OurMine, hacking).

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