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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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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DNS Malware Software Hacking 109

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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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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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

JUNE 20, 2022

German investigators believe that Kozachek is a member of the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear), which is the same group that hacked the German Bundestag in 2015. Kozachek hacked the computed of the NATO think tank in 2017 and installed a keylogger to spy on the organization. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28).

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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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Authentication Manufacturing Engineering Risk 124

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

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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System Administration Advertising Malware Hacking 93

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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Nitrogen is the name given to a campaign and associated malware that have been distributed via malicious search ads. In this blog post, we look at a recent Nitrogen campaign and specifically at how the initial payload is being served onto victims.

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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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Media Internet Internet Engineering 121

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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Cybercrime Data breaches Malware Ransomware 205

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

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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Malware Ransomware Engineering Internet 81

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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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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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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Cryptocurrency Malware Internet Internet 85

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The trouble is, there’s little to stop criminals from leveraging newly registered or hacked LinkedIn business accounts to create their own ad campaigns using Slinks. This search via Urlscan reveals dozens of recent phishing attacks that have leveraged the Slinks feature.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 326

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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Ransomware Firmware Internet Internet 97

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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Education Accountability Banking Mobile 93

Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2022

A researcher discovered critical flaws that can be exploited by remote attackers to hack a building controller popular in Russia. A researcher has identified critical vulnerabilities that can allegedly be exploited to remotely hack a building controller predominantly used by organizations in Russia. ” wrote the expert.

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Hacking Firmware Internet Internet 96

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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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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VPN Education Accountability Cyber Attacks 86

DoublePulsar

JULY 25, 2023

It became clear this was being exploited in the wild a few days ago, after the Norwegian government disclosed 12 of their ministries were hacked using this MobileIron zero day , and they had to tell Ivanti about the issue. In this blog we take a look at MobileIrony, aka CVE-2023–35078. What can customers learn?

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Mobile InfoSec Government Accountability 91

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

Once vetted and accepted, threat hunters will go into these message boards and communities and search for anything connected to your business, for example: •Corporate login credentials. Think of the Cybersixgill Portal as a complex search engine that can reach the deepest depths of the Underground.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

The hackers abused Exchange Web Services to gain full access to email inboxes, then they were able to perform “thousands of search activities” and impersonate a high-ranking employee to send emails both internally and externally.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As outlined in a recently unsealed search warrant in the Southern District of Florida, the FBI has taken control of various websites operated by the group. “During this investigation, law enforcement gained visibility into the Blackcat Ransomware Group’s network,” reads an unsealed search warrant.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

The software performs real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, protocol analysis, content searching and matching. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DoS). Snort is a free open source network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) which is currently developed by Cisco.

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Engineering Software Internet Internet 125

Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, 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. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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Advertising Cybercrime System Administration Hacking 267

Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Searching on Shodan.io sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). SecurityAffairs – hacking, VMWare). .” The experts pointed out that the CVE-2022-22972 issue is a relatively simple Host header manipulation vulnerability.

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Authentication Healthcare Education Cybersecurity 139

SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Hackers are hacking hackers. Group-IB researchers on Thursday said in a blog that user data of the Swarmshop card shop – which trades in stolen personal and payment records – was leaked online on March 17 and posted on a different underground forum that contained 12,344 records of the card shop admininstrators, sellers and buyers.

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Banking Hacking Insurance Accountability 142

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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Hacking Cybercrime Ransomware Antivirus 104

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. They introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents leaked in the TOR network. Additional info is available in the post published by Resecurity on its blog: [link].

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