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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Do run security updates.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2020

A week ago, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone was attempting to disrupt the Trickbot botnet , a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ransomware. A new report Friday says the coordinated attack was part of an operation carried out by the U.S. military’s Cyber Command.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. Probably the most active Internet address accessing Snatch’s darknet site is 193.108.114[.]41 top , sntech2ch[.]top

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. Attackers are taking advantage of TLS-protected web and cloud services, for malware delivery and for command-and-control, right under the noses of IT security teams and most security technologies.”.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled , English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com. ” Image: Ke-la.com. 30, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In November 2024, the Akamai Security Intelligence Research Team (SIRT) observed increased activity targeting the URI /cgi-bin/cgi_main.cgi , linked to a Mirai-based malware campaign exploiting an unassigned RCE vulnerability in DVR devices, including DigiEver DS-2105 Pro. ” reads the analysis published by Akamai. in newer ones.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, the Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the resilience of the country to an internet shutdown. If somebody got your password in 2018, just an upgrade will not help.

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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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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. CVE-2018-13379: The Eternal Exploit What is CVE-2018-13379?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018. Only when we demand it, will the Internet of Things achieve a level of trust that makes it stable. This is coming.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Meanwhile, security experts argue that even in cases where online abusers provide intentionally misleading or false information in WHOIS records, that information is still extremely useful in mapping the extent of their malware, phishing and scamming operations.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. These findings come from the 2025 State of Malware report. By 2018, TrickBot was the largest threat to businesses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Computer Emergency Response Team in Ukraine (CERT-UA) reported that a PurpleFox malware campaign had already infected at least 2,000 computers in the country. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. nl — circa October 2018. 6 in Miami, Fla.

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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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 28, 2020

Attacks targeted some of the most widely used open source tools on the internet. Examples: Cdorked/Darkleech , RubyGems Backdoor , Colourama , and JavaScript 2018 Backdoor. Some attacks even targeted developer tools ­ meaning every app later built using that tool was potentially compromised.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Unlike traditional malware, which relies on a file being written to a disk, fileless malware is intended to be memory resident only, ideally leaving no trace after its execution. For an attacker, fileless malware has two major advantages: There is no file for traditional anti-virus software to detect. Is fileless malware new?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link].

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest GoDaddy’s fix hasn’t gone far enough, and that scammers likely still have a sizable arsenal of hijacked GoDaddy domains at their disposal. 1 to allow the sending of email from Internet addresses tied to two ISPs identified in my original Jan. 31 and Feb.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

Operators behind the Amadey Bot malware use the SmokeLoader to distribute a new variant via software cracks and keygen sites. Amadey Bot is a data-stealing malware that was first spotted in 2018, it also allows operators to install additional payloads. Then the malware contacts the C2 and sends system information (i.e.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to a joint security advisory published yesterday by US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies, a new malware called Cyclops Blink has surfaced to replace the VPNFilter malware attributed to the Sandworm group, which has always been seen as a Russian state-sponsored group. Cyclops Blink.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Faults in the GTP protocol directly impact 5G networks.”

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software. Credit: blog.bushidotoken.net.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Experts spotted a new mysterious malware that was used to collect a huge amount of data, including sensitive files, credentials, and cookies. Threat actors used custom malware to steal data from 3.2 million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. The malware stole nearly 26 million login credentials holding 1.1

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The TinyNuke malware is back and now was used in attacks aimed at French users working in manufacturing, technology, construction, and business services. Proofpoint researchers uncovered a campaign exclusively targeting French entities and organizations with operations in France with the banking malware TinyNuke. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

US and UK cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory about the spread of QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware that already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. The QSnatch malware implements multiple functionalities, such as: . The experts were alerted about the malware in October and immediately launched an investigation.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

Experts pointed out that the malware is being actively developed. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 The malware can quickly adopt one-day vulnerabilities (within days of a published proof of concept).” ” concludes the report.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities. Users attacked by adware in 2018 through 2020 ( download ). Interestingly enough, the share of adware attacks increased in relation to mobile malware in general.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. ” In at least some of those recruitment ads — like one in 2018 on the forum sysadmins[.]ru

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was a great look back at the beginnings of the WordPress and a look into the future of the open source software that powers over 30% of the internet. Each event is unique, and WordCamp Europe 2018 was no different. Jenny Beaumont (@jennybeaumont) June 15, 2018. John Maeda (@johnmaeda) June 16, 2018.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A review of the screenshots posted to the cybercrime forum as evidence of the unauthorized access revealed several Internet addresses tied to systems at the U.S. Other domains and Internet addresses included in those screenshots pointed to Miracle Systems LLC , an Arlington, Va.

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