Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

The details of around four million users are now being shared for free on underground hacking forums, according to ZDNet that has obtained samples from different sources, exposed records include usernames, email addresses, and hashed account passwords (bcrypt hashing algorithm). ” reads the post published Risk Based Security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Mozilla and Google have already fixed the critical flaws in Firefox and Chrome exploited by bug bounty hunters at 2020 Tianfu Cup hacking contest. Mozilla and Google have already addressed the critical Firefox and Chrome vulnerabilities that were recently exploited by white hat hackers at the 2020 Tianfu Cup hacking contest.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. conspired to hack into Yahoo email accounts belonging to victims in the United States.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

And there are thousands of black-hat researchers who examine every line of the tax code looking for exploitable vulnerabilities—tax attorneys and tax accountants. That’s not hacking the tax code. It’s hacking the processes that create them: the legislative process that creates tax law. The tax code can be hacked.

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The Hacker News

JULY 22, 2021

citizen has been arrested in the Spanish town of Estepona over his alleged involvement in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, resulting in the compromise of 130 high-profile accounts.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. SEC insisted Cetera was responsible for exposing the personal data of more than 4,300 clients and customers between 2017 November and 2020 June. A spokesperson representing Cetera did not respond to the ruling. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. The report states that the servers did not provide access to 2020 decennial census networks, this means that the attacker did not interfere with the results of the census.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 27, 2023

The culprits gained unauthorized access to the company's accounts and computer systems, subsequently laundering the stolen funds through numerous transfers and transactions. O'Connor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer hacking, wire fraud, and money laundering in relation to this case.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. But on Aug.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. He will also earn credit for the 229 days that he has already spent in jail.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

The company has over 4200 employees and accounts for over 90 million active users every month. The hacker claims to have hacked the company in March 2020, it has stolen just a small part of the company database. SecurityAffairs – Tokopedia, hacking). ZDNet confirmed the authenticity of the leaked data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Hackers have breached the online learning platform Unacademy and are selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Microsoft confirmed that it is investigating claims that its GitHub account has been hacked after some of its files were leaked online. Microsoft launched an investigation into the claims that its GitHub account has been hacked. pic.twitter.com/wKUOi0nDkk — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) May 6, 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The popular hacker group OurMine has hacked the official Twitter account of the FC Barcelona, along with the accounts of Olympics and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The hackers hijacked the official Barcelona and Olympic Twitter accounts and posted some tweets to claim responsibility for the hack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28) ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor , a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter , has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. 02, 2020, pitching O’Connor as a cryptocurrency expert and advisor. They can come arrest me.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. That's IT in 2020 -- it's not under your control, it's doing things without your knowledge and consent, and it's not necessarily acting in your best interests. I think I did pretty well. Security can only be defined in relation to something else.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Threat actors are attempting to hack Zyxel devices exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability CVE-2020-29583, security researchers warn. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 4, 2024

A US government-backed investigation has determined that a China-sourced hack last year that infiltrated Microsoft’s networks and, subsequently, the email accounts of US officials was “ preventable.” Not surprisingly, China has thus far refuted its involvement in the hack. Share your thoughts below.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. Data that emerged from the report are worrisome, in 2020 the reported losses exceeded $4.2 ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report. billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Initial investigation into the hack revealed that the attack was carried out by a nation-state actor for cyber espionage purposes. Now News Corp revealed that the threat actor behind the security breach first gained a foothold in the company infrastructure in February 2020. As soon as we became aware of the activity, we notified U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale account databases containing an aggregate total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. A data breach broker is selling account databases containing a total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. SecurityAffairs – hacking, account databases). million (8.1

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

HP released a security advisory that includes details for three critical and high severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-6925, CVE-2020-6926, and CVE-2020-6927, that impact the HP Device Manager. Base Score CVE-2020-6925 Weak Cipher All versions of HP Device Manager 7.0

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Nearly three years ago, chaos descended upon Twitter when a small group of hackers successfully breached the accounts of some of the platform's most high-profile users. RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack? Now, the U.S. O'Connor's criminal activities were described by U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Researchers discovered an ElasticSearch database exposed online that contained data for over 100000 compromised Facebook accounts. Researchers at vpnMentor discovered an ElasticSearch database exposed online that contained an archive of over 100.000 compromised Facebook accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, scam).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Argentinian governments Registro Nacional De Las Personas aka ReNaPer Registry has cleared the air that no hack took place on its database last month, as claimed by a hacker with @aniballeaks on Twitter. The post Twitter suspends account of hacker obtaining access to Argentina ID Card Database appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Parliament of Finland confirmed that threat actors had access to email accounts of multiple members of parliament (MPs). . “Parliament of Finland has been subjected to a cyberattack in the fall of 2020. Foreign hackers broke into the internal IT system and accessed email accounts for some MPs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. In H2 2020, 39.3%

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

VMware addressed CVE-2020-4006 zero-day flaw in VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector. VMware has finally released security updates to fix the CVE-2020-4006 zero-day flaw in VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

LastPass revealed that the home computer of one of its DevOp engineers was hacked as part of a sophisticated cyberattack. The attackers hacked the employee’s home computer by exploiting a deserialization of untrusted data in Plex Media Server on Windows. ” reads the advisory published by Plex.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 Edition has arrived. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 ). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 ). The post Cyber Defense Magazine – November 2020 has arrived. Always free, no strings attached. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20. More than 500,000 Activision accounts may have compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by the gaming firm on September 20, reported the eSports site Dexerto. ” concludes Dexerto.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Twitch, the American online streaming platform, was reportedly hacked by an anonymous hacker last month who now claims to leak over 100GB data online to disrupt the future business plans of the victimized company further. The post Twitch hacked, and 100GB data stolen appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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