Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018.

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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

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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since 2018, access to an exhaustive report commissioned by the U.S. The data at issue refers to communications traversing the Domain Name System (DNS), a global database that maps computer-friendly coordinates like Internet addresses (e.g., The first page of Alfa Bank’s 2020 complaint. trump-email.com).

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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. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. This has become an engrained pattern in our modern digital world.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

I’ve written this countless times: keep your antivirus updated, click judiciously, practice good password hygiene. As part of this mindset, more consumers are subscribing to a personal VPN service which they use to shield themselves from disinformation sweeps and to protect themselves from Covid 19-related hacks and scams.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. Viruses Get Their Name: 1974-1986. Want to Learn More About Malware?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. The software includes illegal Adobe Photoshop 2018, a Windows cracking tool, and several cracked games.” million entries) Opera (2 million entries) Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge (1.3 SecurityAffairs – hacking, custom malware). terabyte of stolen data. million files.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Kaspersky has addressed several vulnerabilities in the web protection features implemented in its antivirus solutions, including Internet Security, Total Security, Free Anti-Virus , Security Cloud, and Small Office Security products. As in: under some circumstances, antivirus would still crash. ” continues the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Each and every major advance of Internet-centric commerce – from e-tailing and email, to social media and mobile computing, and now on to the Internet of Things – has translated into an exponential expansion of the attack surface available to cybercriminals. 2018 was no exception. Shock-immune public. The wider context?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that was obvious even to the untrained eye. Zoobashop is also a presently hacked e-commerce site.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Beta, D6220, D6400, D7000 CVE-2018-10561, CVE-2018-10562 GPON home routers CVE-2013-3307 Linksys X3000 1.0.03 CVE-2018-10088 XiongMai uc-httpd 1.0.0 BotenaGo was written in Golang (Go) and at the time of the report published by the experts, it had a low antivirus (AV) detection rate (6/62). Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta,

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

There has been much discussion of antivirus protection, patching your software, and using VPNs. a consumer watchdog in the UK, recently released its findings about routers issued by UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs). But what if the security flaws aren’t in your phones or laptops, but the router your ISP gave you?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ happens every day Some 15 months earlier, in March 2018, Atlanta was hit by a similar assault, and likewise refused to pay a $51,000 ransom, eating $17 million in damage. Meanwhile, the advanced hacking collectives invest in innovation and press forward. mayors attending the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The experts initially detected the specially-crafted PDF files in December 2018. “Since late December 2018, EdgeSpot has detected multiple PDF samples in the wild which exploit a Google Chrome zero-day flaw.” SecurityAffairs – zero-day, hacking). ” reads the analysis published by EdgeSpot. Below the timeline.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2021

Coined by Gartner in late 2018, SASE is gaining momentum as a generational disruptive force. Defense-in-depth meant adding on layers of intrusion detection and data loss prevention systems, while also keeping antivirus software updated and vulnerabilities patched. Security got bolted on by installing firewalls at web gateways.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. In March 2021, government experts observed state sponsored hackers scanning the internet for servers vulnerable to the above flaws, the attackers were probing systems on ports 4443, 8443, and 10443.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

Microsoft declared that an Emotet attack took down an organization’s network by overheating all the computers and bringing its Internet access down. “He’d been told the organization had an extensive system to prevent cyberattacks, but this new virus evaded all their firewalls and antivirus software. .

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

While it is crucial to protect against more well-established hacking techniques, to invest in security training, and to follow good data hygiene, it is also necessary to look ahead to possible forms of cyberattack from newer and still developing vectors. Internet of Things, or IoT devices, already represent a mature technological industry.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. He was quoted as saying that he and his co-conspirators would steal the data and if Tesla refused to pay the ransom the company's secrets would be placed on the internet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. In May, Internet scans found nearly one million systems vu lnerable to the BlueKeep flaw. ” reads a blog post published by Intezer. ” continues the analysis.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. In the same repository, we have found additional hacking tools collected from several different sources. Background. The original source of the code is yet unknown.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Germany and the Netherlands agreded to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. Germany and the Netherlands agreed to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. Vulnerability in Medtronic insulin pumps allow hacking devices. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

His book, Hacking Google was a best seller, but after, he just wasn't feeling it. Welcome to the hacker mind in original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Either version, the idea here is to empower others to help themselves, to hack.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A 2018 study regarding VPN use worldwide is worth considering. Usage increased 185% from 2016 to 2017 and 165% from 2017 to 2018. If, for example, a user resides in a country with major Internet restrictions (think: the Great Firewall of China ), he or she may connect to a VPN outside of that country and bypass local laws.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

“If you want proof we have hacked T-Systems as well. who picked up his cell phone and said shut it off from the Internet.” When we looked at this in retrospect, during these three days the cybercriminals slowly compromised the entire network, disabling antivirus, running customized scripts, and deploying ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Widespread Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability Under Active Attack Type of attack: Attackers actively exploit vulnerabilities in internet-facing IOS XE systems to add new privileged users and back doors. The problem: Similar to 2018’s Spectre processor vulnerability, the iLeakage vulnerability stems from Apple CPU performing speculative execution.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Just in 2020, the SolarWinds hack could’ve been prevented for organizations that promptly patch software. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Zero Trust. Offline Backups.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

SI-LAB noted that Portuguese users were targeted with malscam messages that reported issues related to a debt of the year 2018. It downloads the next stage from the compromised server available on the Internet on an AWS S3 bucket. This is a clear signal that most of the antivirus engines don’t detect yet the malware signature.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis. The latter leverages the WinRar/Ace vulnerability ( CVE-2018-20250 ) dropping the malware itself into the Windows startup folder.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

The malware is also able to inject JavaScript adware in Internet Explorer, install Chrome/Opera extensions to inject JavaScript adware on these browsers as well, exfiltrate browsing history, silently display ads or muted YouTube videos to users via Chrome, and subscribe users to YouTube video channels.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In 2018, they targeted card processing using supply-chain attack , picking up 550 000 USD via ATMs of the bank’s counterpart over one weekend. In April 2018, two months after they successfully targeted card processing, the group decided to leverage its previous scheme and stole roughly 150 000 USD through ATMs.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web antivirus recognized 675,832,360 unique URLs as malicious. Our file antivirus detected 68,294,298 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects. Microsoft Office exploits most often tried to utilize the memory corruption vulnerability CVE-2018-0802. Countries that serve as sources of web-based attacks: Top 10.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. That malware is known as FlawedAmmyy RAT and was discovered by Proofpoint researchers in March 2018.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. This server was disabled a day after our discovery last December. Other interesting discoveries.

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