Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016. According to court testimony, Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar , Liberia’s top mobile phone and Internet provider.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Russia’s internet watchdog, ‘Roskomnadzor’, has announced the ban of other VPN products, 15 VPN services are now illegal in Russia. Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six more VPN services. SecurityAffairs – hacking, VPN services). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service providers, online gaming platforms and Web hosting companies.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 revealed that the US CIA has hacked Chinese organizations in various sectors for the last 11 years. Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 is accusing that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Google warns that the North Korea-linked APT37 group is exploiting Internet Explorer zero-day flaw to spread malware. North Korea-linked APT37 group (aka ScarCruft , Reaper, and Group123) actively exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41128 , in attacks aimed at South Korean users.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks in May and June 2017, respectively, were the most devastating in history.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say measurably dampened demand for such services by explaining that their use to harm others is illegal and can land potential customers in jail. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

have reported that their devices have been hacked. The flaw has exposed the widely distributed smart vacuums to manipulation by bad actors, raising concerns about the cybersecurity of internet-connected home devices. Later, he realized that despite the vile language, the hack could've been much worse. The video is unnerving.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Large-scale attacks are threatening the global Internet infrastructure, the alarm was launched by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). After an emergency meeting, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) confirmed that the global Internet infrastructure is facing large-scale attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The group also created the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. Microsoft now spotted the subgroup compromising multiple Internet-facing infrastructures to enable Seashell Blizzard APT group to maintain persistence in the networks of high-value targets and support tailored network operations.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The source code of the infamous Dharma ransomware is now available for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source code of one of the most profitable ransomware families, the Dharma ransomware , is up for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source is offered for a price as low as $2,000, as reported by ZDNet.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 13, 2017

A couple of years ago, I was heavily involved in analysing and reporting on the massive VTech hack , the one where millions of records were exposed including kids' names, genders, ages, photos and the relationship to parents' records which included their home address. then totally screwing up the security. Yeah, didn’t think so.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If you’re into this sort of thing, it’s pretty much the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet without committing multiple felonies. Since 2017, China has held at least seven of these competitions—called Robot Hacking Games—many with multiple qualifying rounds. People train for months. Winning is a big deal.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A hacker collective claims to have hacked over 50,000 home security cameras and published their footage online, some of them on adult sites. “Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.” ” reported The New Paper.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

app), one very interesting Internet address is connected to all of them — 185.159.83[.]24. Investigators believe the intruders were using the ScreenConnect software on the hacked Wipro systems to connect remotely to Wipro client systems, which were then used to leverage further access into Wipro customer networks.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Webstresser.org (formerly Webstresser.co), as it appeared in 2017. WebStresser was one of many so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — virtual hired muscle that even completely unskilled users can rent to knock nearly any website or Internet user offline.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“And Norse’s much-vaunted interactive attack map was indeed some serious eye candy: It purported to track the source and destination of countless Internet attacks in near real-time, and showed what appeared to be multicolored fireballs continuously arcing across the globe.”

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It may be the most complete picture we've ever had of North Korean hacking campaigns. The unsealed documents highlight a number of attack targets and motives in an effort to hack, digitally intrude, and defraud. The hacking indictment filed in the U.S. It shows the nation-state's sweeping efforts to steal $1.3 global targets.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. This has been the reality for years, and was so well before Equifax announced its big 2017 breach. Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

A statement from the SEC read as follows: “According to SEC, it has penalized eight companies in three actions for negligence of their cyber protection guidelines and procedures that stimulated email account hacks exposing personal data of numerous clients and customers in each firm.” . Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

The company determined the hacking tools and activity appeared to come from Russian-based Internet addresses. 7 and 9, 2017, the hackers modified or removed critical security controls and withdrew the fraudulent credits using hundreds of ATMs. All told, the perpetrators stole more than $569,000 in that incident. Between Jan.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker named Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks. The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker that goes online with the moniker Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017). However, none of Babam’s posts on Exploit include any personal information or clues about his identity.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

com , a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. At the time, Coinhive was only responding to abuse reports when contacted by a hacked site’s owner. At the time, Coinhive was only responding to abuse reports when contacted by a hacked site’s owner.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2025

Tbps UDP DDoS attack against a Cloudflare Magic Transit customer, an Internet service provider (ISP) from Eastern Asia. This botnet also uses some existing exploits ( CVE-2024-7029 , CVE-2017-17215 ) to download the next-stage payloads. It mainly targets vulnerable AVTECH and Huawei devices. reads the advisory.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

” But critics say WebMonitor is far more likely to be deployed on “pwned” devices, or those that are surreptitiously hacked. court to computer hacking and to creating, marketing and selling Blackshades , a RAT that was used to compromise and spy on hundreds of thousands of computers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

According to ZDNet that first published the news, the list was leaked on a popular hacking forum by the operator of a DDoS booter service. The list appears to be the result of an Internet scan for devices using default credentials or easy-to-guess passwords. SecurityAffairs – Telnet credentials, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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