Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. In early January, the Cactus ransomware group claimed to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2020

SolarWinds said the intrusion also compromised its Microsoft Office 365 accounts. FireEye didn’t explicitly say its own intrusion was the result of the SolarWinds hack, but the company confirmed as much to KrebsOnSecurity earlier today. Also on Dec. Treasury and Commerce departments. ”

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Adam Shostack

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Capture the Flag Events (CTFs) and electronic Sports (eSports) are good examples of a relatively new trend. Capture the Flag events, a collective obsession. In the hacking communities, CTF events have always been the practitioner’s favorite. The more you successfully hack, the more you get flags that gives points.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 1, 2020

closed or ia idk | BLM (@pjnkmin) May 31, 2020 Just to be clear: there's not necessarily a direct link between whoever put the video above together and the data now doing the rounds and attribution is tricky once you get a bunch of different people under different accounts and pseudonyms all flying the "Anonymous" banner.

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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.” The review board found Microsoft responsible for the event because the company failed to secure a critical cryptographic key properly.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. By all accounts, rooting out these intruders is going to require an unprecedented and urgent nationwide clean-up effort.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The threat actors target individuals and employees that may have access to a Facebook Business account, they use an information-stealer malware that steals browser cookies and abuse authenticated Facebook sessions to steal information from the victim’s Facebook account. Like older versions (.NetCore), mediafire[.]com),

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. Employees often reuse passwords between other services and accounts. Related: How China challenged Google in Operation Aurora. MFA, however useful, is no silver bullet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 14, 2021

Germany is expecting a cyber attack on the election event that is likely to be held in September this year and says that a foreign nation could intend to do so for reasons. From the past two years, several email accounts of a German Member of Parliament were hacked to access classical info from the accounts, respectively.

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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. It was also the first major Olympics event where organizers braced for hacking related impact.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The advisory published by the vendor states that the exploitation of the vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The FBI warns of ransomware attacks on businesses involved in “time-sensitive financial events” such as corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ransomware gangs target these companies because there is a high likelihood that they will pay the ransom to avoid the impact of the disclosure of sensitive data during these events.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Trojan has been linked to a China-aligned hacking group tracked as GREF. Both apps were built on open source code available from Signal and Telegram. Interwoven into that code was an espionage tool tracked as BadBazaar. BadBazaar has been used previously to target Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic minorities.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

Major global events attract fans and onlookers, but they also draw in malicious cyber actors who would consider disrupting the event a coup. High-profile events beget high-profile credibility among hacking circles,” said Jerry Ray, chief operating officer of SecureAge.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. By May 24, 2024 we identified a small number of login attempts using old VPN local-accounts relying on unrecommended password-only authentication method,” the company said.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Ragnar Locker gangs started hacking into a Facebook advertiser’s account and creating advertisements their hack, this has already happened with the recent attack on the Italian liquor company Campari Group. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ragnar Locker ransomware). 9, on Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Google Calendar RAT is a PoC of Command&Control (C2) over Google Calendar Events, it was developed red teaming activities. “To use GRC, only a Gmail account is required.” “The script creates a ‘Covert Channel’ by exploiting the event descriptions in Google Calendar.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2019

For many years and until quite recently, credit card data stolen from online merchants has been worth far less in the cybercrime underground than cards pilfered from hacked brick-and-mortar stores. The increasing value of CVV data may help explain why we’ve seen such a huge uptick over the past year in e-commerce sites getting hacked.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. The Facebook ad blitz was paid for by Hodson Event Entertainment , an account tied to Chris Hodson , a deejay based in Chicago. On the evening of Monday, Nov. Image: Chris Hodson.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. Correct subject would be the data center was hacked. HACKING BACK? “When people talk about ‘hacking back,’ they’re talking about stuff like this,” Nixon said. BRIANS CHAT.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Airbus has apparently confirmed the cybercriminal’s account to the threat intelligence firm Hudson Rock , which determined that the Airbus credentials were stolen after a Turkish airline employee infected their computer with a prevalent and powerful info-stealing trojan called RedLine. Microsoft Corp. government inboxes.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

In a brazen announcement, the hacking group says it has compromised personal records belonging to a jaw-dropping 560 million users across the two platforms. Its standard operating procedure involves hacking into databases, exfiltrating sensitive information, and monetizing the spoils on Dark Web marketplaces.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

All of these can be extinction-level events. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. . ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. What Can Be Done?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2020

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has confirmed that hackers have breached 300,000 accounts since early April, financial data were not exposed. The Japanese video game giant Nintendo has admitted that threat actors have breached 300,000 accounts since early April. ” reads a post published by the CNN. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Unfortunately, brackets create opportunities for a wide array of phishing and hacking campaigns, particularly in workplaces where a lot of brackets are distributed. The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. Keep employee email accounts up to date.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. ” reported ZDNet.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A former employee of Ubiquiti Networks, Nickolas Sharp, has been arrested and charged for allegedly hacking company servers, stealing gigabytes of information, and then rounding it all off with a splash of extortion. This is, frankly, an astonishing chain of events. Especially considering this hack had such a big impact on stock.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

A credential stuffing attack is a type of cyber attack where hackers use large sets of username and password combinations, typically obtained from previous data breaches, phishing campaigns, or info-stealer infections, to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on various online services.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Researchers at AppOms discovered a vulnerability in Zoom Room as part of the HackerOne live hacking event H1-4420. The experts discovered the vulnerability in June 2023, they warned that an attacker can take over a Zoom Room’s service account and gain access to the victim’s organization’s tenant.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Over the past few weeks, a good number of readers have written in to say they feared their calendar app or email account was hacked after noticing a spammy event had been added to their calendars. Under “Event Settings,” change the default setting to “No, only show invitations to which I have responded.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 20, 2021

The agency that was devised to protect the information technology infrastructure in India is urging its populace using FB platform to strengthen their account privacy settings that will disallow them from falling prey to any data scrapping future incidents related to Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. In January 2018 Coincheck was hacked and attackers stole $400 million. ” reads a press release published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The City of Brotherly Love discovered an incident on May 24 after noting suspicious activity on city email accounts; but the City just reported the breach days ago. We launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the event. The investigation is ongoing.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) recently made a statement accusing the United States National Security Agency (NSA) of repeatedly hacking the Northwestern Polytechnical University, a key public military research university located in Xi'an, China. TAO is a tactical implementation unit of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” ” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

On May 30, 2023, the vendor provided a Preliminary Summary of Key Findings related to its investigation that includes a timeline of events, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), and recommended actions for impacted customers. The company notified via the ESG user interface the customers whose appliances they believe were impacted.

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