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.] 15, 2018, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged then 27-year-old Bloom, of Thornhill, Ontario, with selling stolen personal identities online through the website LeakedSource[.]com.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2018

According to security firm Ivanti , the first of the two zero-day flaws ( CVE-2018-8373 ) is a critical flaw in Internet Explorer that attackers could use to foist malware on IE users who browse to hacked or booby-trapped sites. One nifty little bug fixed in this patch batch is CVE-2018-8345.

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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. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Researchers from Kaspersky have published a new report on the attacks on ICS systems observed by its products in the first half of 2018. Kaspersky Lab experts have published a new report titled “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems” report for H1 2018, that includes interesting data related to attacks against the ICS systems.

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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. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

million Pluto TV user accounts on a hacking forum for free, he claims they were stolen by ShinyHunters threat actor. million Pluto TV user records, he also added that the service was hacked by ShinyHunters. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ShinyHunters). The post ShinyHunters hacked Pluto TV service, 3.2M A hacker has shared 3.2

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Even more startling, as much as 61 percent of all internet traffic is automated traffic from bots, meaning these attacks do not discriminate based on the size or popularity of a website. No website is too small or too new to hack. That’s one cyberattack approximately every 25 minutes! Are you ready to start protecting your website?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.”

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. 12, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of Timothy Dalton Vaughn , a 20-year-old from Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper. According to SANS handler Renato Marinho, a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2018-1000861 was released in early March. ” reads the analysis published by Marinho. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

” Between 2018 and 2019 the researchers assessed 28 telecom operators in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America and verifies the presence of the vulnerabilities in the GTP protocol. phone number) of a real subscriber and impersonate him to access the Internet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 5G). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. “As we see, in Q2 2018 the leader by number of unique IP addresses from which Telnet password attacks originated was Brazil (23%). ” reads the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“In early 2018, Vaughn demanded 1.5 As KrebsOnSecurity noted in 2019 , Vaughn’s identity was revealed by following the trail of clues from a gaming website he used that later got hacked. Timothy Dalton Vaughn from Winston-Salem, N.C. attorney for the Central District of California. Federal judge Otis D.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2019

First detailed in September 2018, the toolkit was observed delivering malware families ranging from ransomware to backdoors, but also fingerprinting the browser profile to identify targets of interest. Security researcher Kafeine identified that Fallout is now the second exploit kit to add CVE-2018-15982.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. People getting up to mischief?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 28, 2018

There were many security issues present in corporate AD implementations, and hacking commonly-used voting machines was discussed. From L to R: the Tin-foil hat challenge; this year’s innovative DefCon badge; an attendee tries her best at the Car Hacking Village; Car Hacking Village challenge on display. Car Hacking.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 24, 2019

billion to Internet-enabled theft, fraud and exploitation in 2018, with business e-mail compromise scams resulting in the highest of these financial losses, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). in Losses in 2018 appeared first on The Security Ledger. Organizations lost $2.7

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

The North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT group is leveraging the recently patched CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability in the VBScript engine in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11, it was first disclosed last month by Trend Micro and affected all supported versions of Windows.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Talking about those systems, I said: Now, add into this mix the risks that arise from new and dangerous technologies such as the internet or AI or synthetic biology. Here, misaligned incentives and hacking can have catastrophic consequences for society. Or molecular nanotechnology, or nuclear weapons.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Microsoft today released an emergency software patch to plug a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already using to break into Windows computers. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

“Apart from the EdgeRouter devices, we also found compromised Raspberry Pi and other internet-facing devices in the botnet. The discovery underscores significant interest among different threat actors in compromising internet-facing routers. ” reported Trend Micro. ” concludes the report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The two issues are a Windows spoofing bug and a remote code execution flaw in Internet Explorer. According to the security expert Tal Be’ery , the vulnerability, dubbed GlueBall, has been known since August 2018, because a malware sample exploiting it was uploaded to VirusTotal. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2020-1464 ).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

. “As part of a detailed study of the cyber threat, a study of the received samples of malicious programs was conducted, the peculiarities of the functioning of the management server infrastructure were established, and more than 2,000 affected computers were identified in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2018

Cyber Defense Magazine August 2018 Edition has arrived. GLOBAL 2018 Awards – OPEN. USA 2018 Awards – CLOSED. Congratulations to our InfoSec Awards 2018 Winners! Securi ty Affairs – hacking, Cyber Defense Magazine). The post Cyber Defense Magazine – August 2018 has arrived.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten, also known as Fox Kitten or Parisite, is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. ” A review of the email’s message headers indicated it had indeed been sent by the FBI, and from the agency’s own Internet address.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Last week, network data from the Internet observatory NetBlocks detailed a near-total disruption to internet service in parts of Kurdistan in Iran from the evening of Monday 19 September 2022. Dear Iran, you shut down internet. Iranian Assembly Hacked, Their data's leaked. SecurityAffairs – hacking, OpIran).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2021

Supernova malware clues link Chinese threat group Spiral to SolarWinds server hacks. Supernova malware spotted on compromised SolarWinds Orion installs exposed on the Internets is likely linked to a China-linked espionage group. SecurityAffairs – hacking, GootKit). ” reads the analysis published by Secureworks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

International ‘Malvertiser’ Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited from the Netherlands to face hacking charges in New Jersey. The man is suspected to have carried out malvertising campaigns between October 2013 through May 2018. 3, 2018, and unsealed upon his arrival in the United States on May 2, 2019.” Attorney Carpenito.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. This is a follow on, with a lot more detail, to a story Bloomberg reported on in fall 2018. ”) Here’s me in 2018: Supply-chain security is an incredibly complex problem. Yes, it’s plausible.

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