The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Scammers will send reports known as bug bounties stating security vulnerabilities in a machine. These scammers are a security threat to honest, ethical hackers. They claim to be white hat hackers, which delegitimizes the services of trained and well-intentioned professionals.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. While the coordinated action did not name the Russian hackers allegedly behind RSOCKS, KrebsOnSecurity has identified its owner as a 35-year-old Russian man living abroad who also runs the world’s top Russian spamming forum.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. ” continues the blog post.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

” states the report published by Microsoft. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributes this campaign with high confidence to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group, based on observed tradecraft, infrastructure, malware patterns, and account affiliations.” Not all visitors to the site were infected.

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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. If every victim had paid the ransom, this attack would have netted the hackers about $4,484,700.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Only apps published by the developers in the list below or apps in the Tier 1 list (Google’s Play Services, AGSA (Android Google Search app), Chrome, Cloud, Gmail, and Chrome Remote Desktop) are in covered by the new program: Google LLC Developed with Google Research at Google Red Hot Labs Google Samples Fitbit LLC Nest Labs Inc.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

“We allege Zagala not only created and sold ransomware products to hackers, but also trained them in their use. If convicted, the man faces up to five years’ imprisonment for attempted computer intrusion, and five years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit computer intrusions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Santander Consumer Bank, the Belgian branch of the bank, had a misconfiguration in its blog domain that was allowing its files to be indexed. Our analysts found that the Belgian branch, Santander Consumer Bank, has a misconfiguration in its blog domain, allowing its files to be indexed. or critical information from the blog?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

Other victims included one of France’s largest hospital systems; a French automobile manufacturer; a major French bank; companies that work with or manage networks for French postal and transportation systems; a domestic firm that operates a number of airports in France; a state-owned railway company; and multiple nuclear research facilities.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed. link] - @troyhunt think this one is an interesting read, maybe worthy of a blog post. Now, maybe the password you're searching for is one of those 621.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

A white hat hacker discovered how to break Tchap, a new secure messaging app launched by the French government for officials and politicians. The key point Tchap is that encrypted communications flow through internal servers to prevent cyber attacks carried out by foreign nation-state actors. or @elysee.fr or @elysee.fr

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The SecureWorld News team has been watching small victories slowly pile up as authorities around the world crack down on malicious hackers. In case you forgot, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident caused fuel shortages across the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Authorities takedown multiple hackers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

A few hours of searching online turned up an interesting record at Ratsit AB , a credit information service based in Sweden. Arrested in Moldova in 2013 as part of a large-scale, international takedown against Blackshades and hundreds of customers, Yücel became the first person ever to be extradited from Moldova to the United States.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

Cisco’s advisory states that the SaltStack software package is bundled with some Cisco products, hackers exploited SaltStack issues to compromise six company servers: us-1.virl.info virl.info us-2.virl.info virl.info us-3.virl.info virl.info us-4.virl.info virl.info vsm-us-1.virl.info virl.info vsm-us-2.virl.info.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

Grubbs, using the hacker nickname “KFC Watermelon,” advertised and sold his RAT via Hackforums.net. A public filing at the Kentucky Secretary of State office lists Grubbs as the owner of Luminosity Security Solutions LLC. ” Linking Grubbs to LuminosityLink was likely not a tall hurdle for prosecutors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

It is a big show, but I wanted to share with you one specific observation that I made about this year’s conference, and a few of the more interesting things I learned from the hackers. Just to double check that my perception wasn’t false, I just did a search on “IoT” and only two Gartner sessions had that term in the title.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Querying Shodan for vulnerable versions of Exim it is possible to find 3,655,524 installs most of them in the United States (1,984,5538). release we can find 1,795,332 systems.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

A hacker can simply download the app and decompile it to get the API credentials. State of API security: malicious attack traffic grew 117%. Comparing July 2021 to July 2022, overall API traffic per customer grew 168%, indicating that API usage is also exploding, according to the Q3 2022 State of API Security report. UTM Medium.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. FBI is searching for contractors to monitor social media. Flaws in device drivers from 20 vendors allow hackers to install a persistent backdoor.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As a result, many people are searching for new sources of income. That’s because hackers know that SMBs often lack the budget or resources to implement enterprise-quality protection. When forming a business entity, even when starting an online business from home, you’ll need a business permit if your city, county or state requires one.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The FBI also states that in November 2020, a technical analysis of a remote access trojan (RAT) identified keyword searches on a victim's network, such as 10-q, 10-sb, n-csr, nasdaq, marketwired, and newswire, showing interest in the victim's current and future stock price. 7 FBI recommendations for defending against ransomware.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For most small businesses, the chances of falling prey to a long-term covert surveillance operation by well-resourced, likely state-backed actors are slim. hackers have an asymmetrical advantage when probing defenses. Other times, malicious hackers do not have the skills or resources to cover their tracks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. And while there are many benefits to using cloud-based servers, these environments also provide unique opportunities for hackers. On the other, providers take great care to use the most state-of-the-art scanning systems to search for spammers, hackers and viruses.”

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2022

The state of Twitter DM. That means Twitter can hand them over in response to law enforcement requests, they can be leaked, and internal access can be abused by malicious hackers and Twitter employees themselves (as has happened in the past),” the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote last month. What E2EE can’t do. UTM Medium.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This time eGobbler hackers extended their attacks to Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop devices. “This blog post will provide overviews and proof of concepts for both browser exploits. .” ” reads the analysis published by Confiant.

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Advertising Mobile Engineering Hacking 77

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this blog we compare celebrities to websites to help illustrate the correlation between website popularity and an increased likelihood of cyberattacks. The paparazzi are constantly trying to catch celebrities in a compromised state. Backdoors give hackers the ability to add, modify or delete a site’s content.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott Brady announces warrants for the arrests of hackers associated with cybercriminal group Evil Corp. OFAC’s advisory outright states: “OFAC may impose civil penalties for sanctions violations based on strict liability, meaning that a person subject to U.S. on December 5, 2019.

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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. ” The STRONTIUM hackers used the tcpdump packet analyzer to sniff the network traffic on the local subnets in the attempt to gain access to other info to use in the attack.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Just over a day later, it's a different story and I only knew there was an update pending because I fired up the app and looked at the device: I checked just one of the couple of dozen connected lights running in the Tuya app: This looks good, but it wasn't the default state! People just aren't going to do this themselves.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. KT shared several recent examples of fraudulent EDRs obtained by hackers who bragged about their success with the method.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The most common targets for hackers are web applications and websites. According to SiteLock data, websites are attacked 94 times per day on average and IT Chronicles estimates that 4,000 cybercrimes are being committed each day in the United States alone. Clicking malicious links within comments on a web forum or blog.

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Passwords Identity Theft Education Malware 97

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The unwanted behavior was spotted by a security researcher that goes online with Twitter account Privacy 1st , he discovered that Adware Doctor would gather browsing history from the Safari, Chrome, and the Firefox browsers, the search history on the App Store, and a list of running processes. ” Wardle states in his blog post.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

It includes: Full addresses, including street addresses, cities, counties, states, and zip codes Exact longitude and latitude Full names, including first, last, and middle initial Age Date of birth. Access to your full name can help hackers guess your email address. Your name and city are enough to run a comprehensive internet search.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

states, for instance. Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states in that region, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. Ermakov’s alleged hacker handles.

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