Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Brute Ratel post-exploitation toolkit has been cracked and now is available in the underground hacking and cybercrime communities. blog incoming pic.twitter.com/3NpUh2lOYF — Chetan Nayak (Author of Brute Ratel C4) (@NinjaParanoid) September 28, 2022. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Brute Ratel). ” wrote Thomas.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In February 2023, Microsoft disclosed its new AI-assisted search engine, Bing Chat, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. Even though Google has been dominating the search industry for years, this event was significant enough to generate not only interest but also plant the seed for a possible change in the balance in the future.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

In a blog post , Microsoft said that it believed a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called “Hafnium” were behind the attacks. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says that it is “aware of threat actors using open source tools to search for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

“The code then will construct a $user object using the get_user_by function by searching the login (username) value that match the $rp_login variable. If we already pass all of above condition, the code will construct a $rp_login variable from $_POST[‘rp_login’].” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A simple search could show you plenty. Type your name and address in a search bar and see what comes up. If you’re like most people, your search results turned up dozens of sites with your information on them. And maybe the search you did on yourself made you a little uneasy. All it takes is your name and address. .

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Cybercriminals will pretend to represent these organizations by posting sponsored ads online or through promoted search results. The post Social engineering: Cybercrime meets human hacking appeared first on Webroot Blog. “One method of attack bad actors use quite frequently involves spoofing legitimate vendor support centers.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this blog I want to show you how you can operationalize the data linked to this alert in MVISION Insights together with your investigation and protection capabilities to better protect your organization against this threat. Last September we hosted a webinar focused on threat intelligence and protection against hacking tools.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A search in Google for a string of text from that script turns up a December 2023 blog post from cryptocurrency security firm SlowMist about phishing attacks on Telegram from North Korean state-sponsored hackers. “When the project team clicks the link, they encounter a region access restriction,” SlowMist wrote.

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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. The Department of Justice claims the alleged perpetrator posed as a company whistleblower after the FBI had searched his home.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 29, 2021

At one end of the spectrum, we employee search techniques like google dorking, which requires no more than a browser and knowledge about searching with special operators, like ‘+’ and ‘-’. At the other end of the spectrum, we wade into the murkier waters of the dark web to search for and collect information from data breaches.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

wp-blog-header.php. png files, then the malware uses the window.location.href function to redirect to a Google search result URL of a spam domain under his controlù. Sucuri experts have yet to discover how the WordPress websites employed in the campaign have been hacked. SecurityAffairs – hacking, WordPress).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users.” . “We found several high-impact, vulnerable Microsoft applications. ” reads the post published by security firm Wiz.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Nobelium is a Russian-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) organization that achieved attention towards the end of 2020 after breaching SolarWinds’ software development supply chain to obtain access to espionage targets, and it continues to deploy creative approaches in its search for new victims. What Happened?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

PHP PEAR official site hacked, attackers replaced legitimate version of the package manager with a tainted version in the past 6 months. The PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) is a framework and distribution system that allows anyone to search and download free packages written in PHP programming language. phar discovered.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

LeakedSource services were often advertised on hacking forums and there was suspicion that its operators were actively looking to hack organizations whose data they could add to their database. You may only search information about yourself, or those you are authorized in writing to do so.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The authorities are searching for information about the administrators of the platform, a circumstance that suggests that the FBI has yet to identify them.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2024

February was a particularly busy month for search-based malvertising with the number of incidents we documented almost doubling. One malware family we have been tracking on this blog is FakeBat. All the incidents described in this blog have been reported to Google. Indicators of Compromise Hacked sites cecar[.]com[.]ar

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. com , an Arabic-language computer hacking forum. But he denied ever participating in illegal hacking activities.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

According to a statement and videos released today, the Ukrainian Cyber Police charged six defendants with various computer crimes linked to the CLOP gang, and conducted 21 searches throughout the Kyiv region. CLOP’s victim shaming blog on the deep web.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Researchers identified an ongoing BatLoader campaign relying on Google Search Ads to deliver rogue web pages for ChatGPT and Midjourney. In February 2023, eSentire reported another BatLoader campaign targeting users searching for AI tools. “Both AI services are extremely popular but lack first-party standalone apps (i.e.,

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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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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

If you like to read the full technical details, we happily refer you to the Blackwing researcher’s blog: A TOUCH OF PWN – PART I. This means that a separate chip stores the biometric credentials (in this case the fingerprints), making it almost impossible to hack into. For a less technical summary, carry on.

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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. ” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2023

The attack chain starts with a user searching for specific information in a search engine. In the campaign blocked by eSentire, the threat actors compromised legitimate WordPress websites and added new blog posts without the knowledge of their admins. This forum hosted a ZIP archive that contains the malicious.js

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

NB65 hacking group created its ransomware based on the leaked source code of the Conti ransomware and targets Russia. According to BleepingComputer , NB65 hacking group is targeting Russian organizations with ransomware that they have developed using the leaked source code of the Conti ransomware. Why CTI is fun? Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

The low sophistication attacks, which are outlined by Mandiant in a new blog post released Tuesday, encompass simpler attacks, where actors with varying levels of skill and resources use common IT tools and techniques to gain access to and interact with exposed OT systems. ‘How do I make money off of this?'

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Denis Emelyantsev , as the apparent owner of RSOCKS, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. ” Kloster’s blog even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Bad actors publish posts with titles containing popular keywords to allow Google Search to index the content. web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research) that match the user’s search term(s). Upon indexing the content, Google Alerts will alert people who are searching those specific terms. .’

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

The malware is able to redirect the user’s traffic and hijacking user search queries to popular search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and Bing. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). SecurityAffairs – hacking, chromeloader).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In a recent investigation, we discovered a prolific campaign of fraudulent ads shown to users via Google searches. This blog post has two purposes: the first one is to draw awareness to this problem by showing how it works. Fraudulent utility scam ads The scam begins when a user searches for keywords related to their energy bill.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

Later operators added to the Lemon_Duck miner a port scanning module that searches for Internet-connected Linux systems listening on the 22 TCP port used for SSH Remote Login, then launches SSH brute force attacks. The LemonDuck also performs lateral movements by searching for SSH keys on the filesystem. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

362 (Unauthorized actions with information that is processed in computers, automated systems, computer networks or stored on carriers of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and on the basis of a court order, law enforcement officers came to the person involved to conduct a search.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

Internet search engine Censys reported a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks targeting QNAP NAS devices. Internet search engine Censys reported that QNAP devices were targeted in a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. In a blog post published on Monday, Censys said there had been 1,146 hacked devices on March 19.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

For a preview of the talk @edoerr is giving Thursday, see our guest blog from MSTIC, describing early-stage detection of attacks leveraging common IoT devices. SecurityAffairs – Russia APT, hacking). The post Russia-linked STRONTIUM APT targets IoT devices to hack corporate networks appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The attackers used a BAT script dubbed RoarBat that recursively searches for files with specific extensions (.doc,docx,rtf,txt,xls,xlsx,ppt,pptx,vsd,vsdx,pdf,png,jpeg,jpg,zip,rar,7z,mp4,sql CERT-UA started investigating the attack after it received information about an attack against an ICS system of one of the state organizations of Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2022

The fake sites are promoted via search engine poisoning, attackers mainly targeted Baidu and other Chinese search engines. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”) To nominate, please visit:? SecurityAffairs – hacking, SeaFlower campaign).

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