Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. Source: DZone’s Edge Computing and IoT, 2020 . A Safer Internet of Things.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. Image: Akamai. Image: ZeroFox.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Early June, researchers at F5 Networks have addressed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, that resides in undisclosed pages of Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) of the BIG-IP product. The CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability received a CVSS score of 10, this means that is quite easy to exploit.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

. “Interestingly, due to a simple mistake in their attack chain, the attackers behind the phishing campaign exposed the credentials they had stolen to the public Internet, across dozens of drop-zone servers used by the attackers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing). ” reads the post published by Check Point.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2020

There seems to be a new stealer in town called #TroyStealer , targeting Portuguese internet users EXE: [link] Exfil email address: domionhuby@gmail.com Has anyone seen this threat before? /cc cc @CNCSgovpt @sirpedrotavares pic.twitter.com/1bDK3BtYeE — abuse.ch (@abuse_ch) June 12, 2020. h/t: abuse.ch.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2020

CISA is warning of the active exploitation of the unauthenticated remote code execution CVE-2020-5902 vulnerability affecting F5 Big-IP ADC devices. “This Alert also provides additional detection measures and mitigations for victim organizations to help recover from attacks resulting from CVE-2020-5902.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. For several years, WeLeakInfo was the largest of several services selling access to hacked passwords. 2020, the U.K.’s If you used paypal or [bitcoin] ur all good.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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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

JULY 11, 2020

A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The state of stalkerware in 2020 (PDF). Kaspersky’s data shows that the scale of the stalkerware issue has not improved much in 2020 compared to the last year: The number of people affected is still high. In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. Main findings.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. “Recently, a new infection vector that cracks Windows machines through SMB password brute force is on the rise” reads the analysis published by AVAST. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. In early 2020, several cybercriminals groups followed suit.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

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. Reduce the number of systems that can be reached over internet using SSH. Enable 2FA on all externally exposed accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 received a CVSS score of 7.8, of Zyxel USG devices contains an undocumented account (zyfwp) with an unchangeable password. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. 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. BAD REACTION. “They can come arrest me. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data via a public GitHub repository since July 2020. ” Wiz Research Team discovered the repository while scanning the Internet for misconfigured storage containers exposing cloud-hosted data. .”The ” reads the report published by Wiz.”The

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2021

The supermarket chain Wegmans US Wegmans discloses a data breach, customers information was exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration issue. Exposed data include customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, Shoppers Club numbers, as well as e-mail addresses and Wegmans.com account passwords.

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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. In the first half of 2020 alone, SonicWall registered over 3.2 Now some statistic facts about malware. billion malware attacks.

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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. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.”

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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. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

We learned, for instance, that even IT pros could use a refresher on basic password hygiene through security awareness training. Firewalls embed threat intelligence and DNS security solutions are used to both block malware and control internet use. In fact, other than the infamous CC Cleaner hack of 2017, in which more than 2.3

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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? WHO IS MEGATRAFFER?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In that breach, which occurred in October 2020, a hacker using the handle “Ransom Man” threatened to publish patient psychotherapy notes if Vastaamo did not pay a six-figure ransom demand. By that time, Kivimäki was no longer in Finland, but the Finnish government nevertheless charged Kivimäki in absentia with the Vastaamo hack.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. SALOMON As an affiliate of Spamdot, Salomon used the email address ad1@safe-mail.net , and the password 19871987gr.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Password abuse emerged as a criminal specialty shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to jump start the commercial Internet using a security framework built on shared secrets. What a lot of people overlook is that MFA and password managers are still built on top of passwords,” Avetisov observes.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The database containing personal information of over 600,000 clients of the US fitness chain Town Sports was exposed on the Internet. US fitness chain Town Sports has suffered a data breach, a database belonging to the company containing the personal information of over 600,000 people was exposed on the Internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

Researchers Radek Domanski and Pedro Ribeiro originally planned to present their findings at the Pwn2Own hacking competition in Tokyo last year. Domanski said MyCloud users on OS 3 can virtually eliminate the threat from this attack by simply ensuring that the devices are not set up to be reachable remotely over the Internet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

In late 2020, credentials for US-based universities were found for sale on the dark web. In May 2021, over 36,000 email and password combinations for.edu email accounts were offered for sale on a publically available instant messaging platform. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FBI). To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

We are from the internet. GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/NU3FXG7SCp — Anonymous (@LatestAnonNews) May 31, 2020. “The Minneapolis official website was been hacked and database with emails and passwords leaked.” Anonymous pic.twitter.com/RcVnBVeti6 — Anonymous (@Anonymous4usall) May 31, 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

North Korea-linked InkySquid group leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom implant in attacks aimed at a South Korean online newspaper. “The use of recently patched exploits for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge will only work against a limited audience.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, InkySquid).

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