Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked IndiaBulls Group , an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Gurgaon, India. CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked the Indian conglomerate IndiaBulls Group , its primary businesses are housing finance, consumer finance, and wealth management. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. IBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report analyzes the threat landscape in 2019, the experts observed a spike in the number of OT attacks. “ OT attacks hit an all-time high. ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

One day after last summer’s mass-hack of Twitter , KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. From there, the attackers can reset the password for any online account that allows password resets via SMS. BAD REACTION.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. Create and enforce a password policy with adequate complexity requirements for specific accounts. Store passwords in a secrets management system, that can also be used by development environments. Enable 2FA on all externally exposed accounts.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

After identifying a critical Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server, the cyber actors gained credentials to access the underlying Structured Query Language (SQL) database [ T1078 ] and utilized SQL commands to dump the credentials [ T1555 ], which contained both cleartext and hashed passwords for user and administrative accounts.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity published a brief writeup about the brazen Manipulaters team, noting that they openly operated hundreds of web sites selling tools designed to trick people into giving up usernames and passwords, or deploying malicious software on their PCs. ” A number of questions, indeed. .”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? .” ru in 2008.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication. But now, at long last, we’re on the brink of eliminating passwords altogether, once and for all. Password tradeoffs Passwords have always been a big pain. Here are a few big takeaways.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Justice Department announced the seizure of internet domains used to sell the remote access Trojan Warzone RAT (www.warzone[.]ws). Meli allegedly provided cybercriminals with malware products and services via online hacking forums. The two individuals are charged with selling and supporting the Warzone RAT and other malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

16 vulnerabilities in Codesys products could result in remote code execution and DoS attacks exposing OT environments to hacking. An attacker can trigger the flaw to gain remote code execution and conduct denial-of-service attacks under specific conditions, exposing operational technology (OT) environments to hacking.

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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 Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 com was identical to the one displayed by escrow.com while the site’s DNS records were hacked.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

” The organization reset SSH passwords in response to the incident. The first one came from the Leibniz Computing Center (LRZ), an institute under the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, which said it was disconnected a computing cluster from the internet following a security breach.” ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Why do hackers want to hack our webcams?”

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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. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. The intruders used a compromised password to access the provisioning system in the company’s legacy code base for Managed WordPress. We reset both passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2021

The eCh0raix ransomware has been active since at least 2019, when eExperts from security firms Intezer and Anomali separately discovered sample of the ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The Taiwanese vendor was informed of ongoing eCh0raix ransomware attacks that infected QNAP NAS devices using weak passwords.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

So, someone did that 167 million times, dumped the data and shared it on a popular hacking forum. Not hacked: Gravatar was not hacked. the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach. the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

. “Ransomware and brute-force attacks have been widely targeting all networking devices, and the most vulnerable victims will be those devices exposed to the Internet without any protection. “Check whether your NAS is exposed to the Internet.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, QNAP NAS ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

A new botnet, tracked as Lucifer, appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages close to a dozen exploits to hack Windows systems. “On May 29, 2020, Unit 42 researchers discovered a new variant of a hybrid cryptojacking malware from numerous incidents of CVE-2019-9081 exploitation in the wild.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. It’s notable that hacks to gain access to, and maintain control of, industrial control systems are a recurring theme in cyber warfare. The Saudis aren’t known for being transparent.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

This is the biggest leak of Telnet passwords even reported. 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 includes the IP address, username and password for the Telnet service for each device. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. Some of the files discovered on hacked Pulse Connect Secure devices were modified versions of legitimate scripts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The nation-state hackers are scanning the entire internet, in search of vulnerable webmail and Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover servers that expose TCP ports 445 and 1433. In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages.

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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. Ensure secure configurations for devices: Change the default password to a strong one, and block SSH from external access.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

million subscribers as of 2019. Payment details and account passwords have not been exposed in the attack. Optus services, including mobile and home internet, are not affected, and attackers did not access to messages and voice calls. SecurityAffairs – hacking, security breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

At this time, it is not clear how threat actors compromised the QNAP devices, some users claim that attackers exploited a flaw in the Photo Station software to hack them. “It is important to note that there is a free decryptor for files locked with an older version (before July 17th, 2019) of eCh0raix ransomware. TXTT” extension.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A new malware developed by Sandworm hacking group has targeted appliances that are fire walled and reports are in that the military intelligence of the Russian Federation developed the malicious software.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The DirtyMoe rootkit was delivered via malspam campaigns or served by malicious sites hosting the PurpleFox exploit kit that triggers vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, such as the CVE-2020-0674 scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. “Internet users found that 538 million Weibo user records are being sold on dark web marketplace. The ads published by the sellers claim that the data were stolen from Weibo in mid-2019. ” reported the website PingWest. ????????????? Good night.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by since 2019. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In 2019, DoppelPaymer ransomware operators used this trick to target Microsoft users in 2019, this year WastedLocker operators evolved the technique by using a multi-state attack chain and employing signed binaries to evade the detection. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Teams). ” reported Bleeping Computer.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2019-13473 and CVE-2019-13474. . The telnetd service is being deactivated and old and weak passwords are as well being removed or changed. SecurityAffairs – IoT radio devices, hacking). . Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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