Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The very first account in the leaked Blacklist user database corresponds to its CEO Seth Heyman , an attorney southern California. Some wireless providers now offer additional services and features to help block automated calls. If and when you do receive robocalls, consider reporting them to the FTC.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The IPv6 addresses were traced to Verizon Wireless, which told the investigators that the addresses were in use by an account belonging to Williams. Data obtained by Avondale police from Google did show that a device logged into Molina’s Google account was in the area at the time of Knight’s murder.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2023

A deployment guide for wireless ThousandEyes agents deployed to monitor the Black Hat 2023 conference by Adam Kilgore & Ryan MacLennan ThousandEyes (TE) Black Hat 2023 Deployment Guide This guide documents the setup and installation procedures used to deploy ThousandEyes at Black Hat 2023.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

.” The intrusion came to light on Twitter when the account @und0xxed started tweeting the details. Und0xxed said the hackers found an opening in T-Mobile’s wireless data network that allowed access to two of T-Mobile’s customer data centers. . WHO HACKED T-MOBILE?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

UScellular, one of the largest wireless carriers in the US, has disclosed a data breach after the hack suffered in December 2021. United States Cellular Corporation, is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with over 4.9 million customers in 426 markets in 23 states as of the second quarter of 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” China has long targeted global internet service providers and recent attacks are aligned with past operations linked to Beijing. In 2019, T-Mobile disclosed data breach affecting prepaid wireless customers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code). Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

“On January 6, 2021, we detected a data security incident in which unauth0rized individuals may have gained access to your wireless customer account and wireless phone number,” the notification reads. “Your customer account was impacted in this incident,” the company said.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

One might even say passwords are the fossil fuels powering most IT modernization: They’re ubiquitous because they are cheap and easy to use, but that means they also come with significant trade-offs — such as polluting the Internet with weaponized data when they’re leaked or stolen en masse. TARGETED PHISHING.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. I later received an email from the seller, who said his Amazon account had been hacked and abused by scammers to create fake sales.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile is investigating a post made on an underground forum that claims 100 million user accounts have been compromised in a data breach. According to the culprit, T-Mobile left a Gateway GPRS Support Node, or GGSN, exposed to the internet. GGSNs are critical components that connect mobile devices to the internet.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

NetBlocks is a global Internet monitor based in London. It uses “diffscans”, which map the IP address space of a country in real time, and show Internet connectivity levels and corresponding outages. Communication lines and infrastructure include physical lines, satellites, and other wireless methods.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The flaws "allowed an attacker within wireless proximity to install a 'backdoor' account on the device, enabling them to send commands to it remotely over the internet, access its microphone

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2024

When the alleged perpetrator landed at Perth airport, his bags were searched and authorities found a portable wireless access device, a laptop, and a mobile phone in his hand luggage. Access points and wireless router networks broadcast their SSIDs to identify themselves, but the identifiers are not unique.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The attackers thus gained remote access to the CRM systems running on the store computers – and a foothold to access customers’ wireless phone numbers and associated account information. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Like many people, over the last couple of years, my main real interaction with people outside of my immediate family and Amazon delivery drivers has been via the internet. The beauty of the internet is that you don’t need to shower, put on decent clothes, or worry about offending anyone. Less space than a nomad.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Quad7 botnet evolves and targets new SOHO devices, including Axentra media servers, Ruckus wireless routers and Zyxel VPN appliances. The operators are maintaining the botnet for launching distributed brute-force attacks on VPNs, Telnet, SSH, and Microsoft 365 accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.” com and rurimeter[.]com com, 2333youxi[.]com

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Protect your wireless system with full backups. Make sure your wireless network is protected, concealed, and safe. . Secure passcodes are a mix of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that increase the safety of all your internet accounts. Once you cover the hardware and cloud, focus on the network.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

An unsecure database owned by webcam app Adorcam has exposed thousands of user accounts, according to security researcher Justin Paine. We noticed your $CAMERA_TYPE with $CAMERA_SERIAL_NUMBER seems to be malfunctioning on your wireless network named $WIRELESS_SSID_NAME. This is Bob from Adorcam customer support.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The FXA3000 and FXA2000 Series are access points that are manufactured by Japan-based firm Contec that conform to IEEE 802.11n/a/b/g wireless. “It is found that our wireless products, FLEXLAN FX3000/2000 series, have a firmware vulnerability. “[CVE-2022-36158] – Hidden system command web page.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2023

Google Fi, a wireless phone plan offered only to Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary customers, has confirmed a data breach that could have occurred because of a security incident on T-Mobile servers that leaked data related to millions of customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2024

An Evil Twin Wi-Fi attack is a type of cyberattack where a threat actor sets up a rogue wireless access point that mimics a legitimate one. The investigators found a portable wireless access device, a laptop, and a mobile phone in the man’s luggage at Perth Airport.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The scammer takes advantage of a two-factor authentication and verification weakness and uses your phone number to access your accounts. Without a SIM card, you won’t be able to receive calls, send text messages, or access the internet. They may even call you, pretending to be your wireless provider. What is a SIM Card?

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The vulnerability at hand is listed as: CVE-2023-20198 ( CVSS score 10 out of 10: Cisco is aware of active exploitation of a previously unknown vulnerability in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software when exposed to the internet or to untrusted networks. The attacker can then use that account to gain control of the affected system.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A good place to start is requiring employees to use strong passwords, setting appropriate Internet use guidelines and implementing strict rules around how customer information and data are handled. You can hide your Wi-Fi network by setting up a wireless access point or router so that it does not broadcast the network name.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 7, 2021

Through the network, if, for instance, a home WiFi network shuts down, the Amazon smart devices connected to that home network will still be able to function, as they will be borrowing internet connectivity from neighboring products. link] — Whitney Merrill (@wbm312) May 30, 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 15, 2022

All these days, smart phones were being used for the authentication of online accounts. Google the internet juggernaut has planned to extend the phishing protection support to all its services such as Docs, Sheets and slides and will roll out to others such as Keep Notes by this year end.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. Nexus Zeta allegedly a.k.a

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 4, 2023

wherever you go, you'll probably find a free Wi-Fi captive portal to access the internet free of cost for a limited time or usage. Hackers can also take advantage of this and trap hundreds of victims at once and steal their credentials of social accounts. In my case, I have an internet connection through eth0.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords. Hackers use intercepted data to hijack your current session on a website, giving them access to your private accounts and information. Check your social media accounts for active sessions and log out of any you don’t recognize.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 1, 2022

While criminals can’t open financial accounts and credit cards in your name using only your phone number, they can use it in other ways. These text messages may claim to be from your bank, the IRS or other official organizations, but their real goal is to get you to give out personal data or information about your financial accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Service providers and 5G-enabled device manufacturers both have critical roles to play in the success and sustainability of this wireless network rollout. Exposing the Internet of Things (IoT) Universe. The above graphic shows how wireless capabilities like latency, average data transfer speeds, and bandwidth have changed over time.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.” com and rurimeter[.]com com, 2333youxi[.]com

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