Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“As worrying as it may seem, this comes as a clear reminder that when cameras are placed on the internet, they must be properly installed with security in mind. When smart devices are set up, they are still regularly placed around the home with no second thought for privacy,” said ESET Security Specialist Jake Moore.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

The bot uses exploits for multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2014-6287 , CVE-2018-1000861 , CVE-2017-10271 , ThinkPHP RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-20062) , CVE-2018-7600 , CVE-2017-9791 , CVE-2019-9081 , PHPStudy Backdoor RCE , CVE-2017-0144 , CVE-2017-0145 , and CVE-2017-8464.

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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 Kyivstar mobile network serves about 26 million mobile customers and more than 1 million broadband fixed internet customers in the country. All mobile communications and internet access were temporarily interrupted.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly. It encompasses a range of electromagnetic radio waves utilized for wireless information transmission.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The master decryption keys work for victims that were infected between July 2017 and early 2021. The keys have been verified as authentic by Michael Gillespie , a malware analyst at security firm Emsisoft and the creator of the ID-Ransomware service.”. The gang has now rebranded as the new El_Cometa group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers discovered a new variant of the Zerobot botnet (aka ZeroStresser) that was improved with the capabilities to target more Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The IT giant is tracking this cluster of threat activity as DEV-1061. “Since the release of Zerobot 1.1,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

million unique records containing customers’ info, including customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and some purchased vehicle information to determine the impact. Data belongs to individuals that provided their information to Mercedez-Benz and dealer websites between 2014 and 2017.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2020

The list appears to be the result of an Internet scan for devices using default credentials or easy-to-guess passwords. ” The lists leaked online are dated October-November 2019, let’s hope that Internet Service Providers will contact ZDNet to receive them and check if the devices belong to their network and secure them. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. Sandworm were observed targeting open ports and unprotected RDP or SSH interfaces to gain access to the internet-facing systems. “Note (!) .’ “Note (!) ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The French security agency ANSSI is warming of a series of attacks targeting Centreon monitoring software used by multiple French organizations and attributes them to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The first attack spotted by ANSSI experts dates back to the end of 2017 and the campaign continued until 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence shows that in 2017, someone using the email address istanx@gmail.com registered at the Russian freelancer job site fl.ru “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

On August 2018, Schuchman has been indicted on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori that infected at least 500,000 internet routers around the word. Schuchman, Vamp, and Drake created the Satori botnet in between July and August 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. The module that implements the warm capabilities was spotted scanning the internet and performing password brute-force attacks against Windows systems with SMB port open online.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts from Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Lab discovered a new botnet, dubbed EwDoor , that targets AT&T customers using EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller (ESBC) edge devices that are publicly exposed to the Internet. ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360.

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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

JUNE 17, 2019

The attackers are leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6526 , to gain full control over the targeted systems. The vulnerability in dnaLIMS was reported to the vendor in 2017, but it is still unpatched. The attacks were originated from the 2.176.78.42 IP address that is located in Iran.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The protocol enables secure and low-cost data transfer. It is designed to address the limitations of current Internet infrastructure, which is centralized, inefficient, and vulnerable to censorship. NKN (New Kind of Network) is a decentralized peer-to-peer network protocol that relies on blockchain technology.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Consider that most of us spend more time navigating the Internet on our laptops and smartphones than we do behind the wheel of a car. But the larger point is that Xbash is just one of dozens of malware families circulating far and wide across the Internet. Credential stuffing campaigns have become part of the fabric of the Internet.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Now Avast researchers provided details of a DirtyMoe module that uses worm-like techniques to allow the threat to spread without user interaction.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Truebot has been active since 2017 and some researchers linked it to the Silence Group , while a recent investigation linked it to threat actor TA505 (aka Evil Corp). Cisco Talos researchers reported an increase in TrueBot infections, threat actors have shifted from using malicious emails as their primary attack vector to other techniques.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

According to the experts, the BackdoorDiplomacy APT group has been active since at least 2017. The attack chain starts with exploits for vulnerable internet-exposed systems such as web servers and management interfaces for networking equipment.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. 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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On August 2018, Schuchman has been indicted on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori that infected at least 500,000 internet routers around the word. Schuchman , Vamp, and Drake created the Satori botnet in between July and August 2017.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The French security agency ANSSI recently warned of a series of attacks targeting Centreon monitoring software used by multiple French organizations and attributes them to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The first attack spotted by ANSSI experts dates back to the end of 2017 and the campaign continued until 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2020

“According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which provides the public with a means of reporting Internet-facilitated crimes, romance scams result in greater financial losses to victims when compared to other online crimes.” ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. Experts warn of an increase of IoT attacks on a global scale, making internet routers one of the primary targets. ” reads the advisory published by TrendMicro.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Unlike the CVE-2017-0144 flaw triggered by the EternalBlue exploit, which only affected the SMB protocol, the CVE-2022-37958 flaw could potentially affect a wider range of Windows systems due to a larger attack surface of services exposed to the public internet (HTTP, RDP, SMB) or on internal networks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

CVE Number Affected devices CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 Log4J RCE CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG IP RCE No CVE (vulnerability published on 2022-02) Adobe ColdFusion 11 RCE CVE-2020-7961 Liferay Portal – Java Unmarshalling via JSONWS RCE No CVE (vulnerability published on 2022-04) PHP Scriptcase 9.7 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Microsoft announced that sensitive data belonging to some of its customers were exposed on the Internet due to a misconfigured Microsoft server. The data leak was discovered by the security threat intelligence firm SOCRadar which notified the IT giant on September 24, 2022. The exposed data are dated from 2017 to August 2022.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As a result, the darkweb marketplace was shut down in 2017 by the BKA also arrested its operator and sentenced him to seven years in prison in 2018. The accused is suspected of operating a criminal trading platform on the Internet in accordance with Section 127 of the Criminal Code.” ” continues the announcement.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 Affected models that are end-of-support: NSA210, NSA220, NSA220+, NSA221, NSA310, NSA310S, NSA320, NSA320S, NSA325 and NSA325v2 CVE-2017-18368 ZyXEL P660HN-T1A v1 TCLinux Fw $7.3.15.0 Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Siemens Metaverse, a virtual space built to mirror real machines, factories, and other highly complex systems, has exposed sensitive data, including the company’s office plans and internet of things (IoT) devices. The most worrying discovery was that of exposed office management platform ComfyApp user credentials.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

ransomware, that was first spotted in late 2017 and was available for sale on the open market as of August 2018. Microsoft announced to have taken down 62 of the original 69 TrickBot C&C servers, seven servers that could not be brought down last week were Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

The Coronavirus has prompted thousands of information security professionals to volunteer their skills in upstart collaborative efforts aimed at frustrating cybercriminals who are seeking to exploit the crisis for financial gain. “I’ve never seen this volume of phishing,” Rogers told Reuters. “I

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