Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Those who hacked the Internet Archive haven’t gone away. Users of the Internet Archive who have submitted helpdesk tickets are reporting replies to the tickets from the hackers themselves. Earlier in October, the Internet Archive suffered from a data breach and DDoS attack. We’ll keep you posted.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 20, 2024

This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story , this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional bicycle races like the Tour de France, which provides an incentive to actually implement this attack. Research paper. Another news story. Slashdot thread.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

US CFPB warns employees to avoid work-related mobile calls and texts following China-linked Salt Typhoon hack over security concerns. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. and its allies for hacking activities in July. Wall Street Journal reported.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Intrinsec said its analysis showed Prospero frequently hosts malware operations such as SocGholish and GootLoader , which are spread primarily via fake browser updates on hacked websites and often lay the groundwork for more serious cyber intrusions — including ransomware. A fake browser update page pushing mobile malware.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2024

It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. North Korea is the government we know that hacks cryptocurrency in order to fund its operations.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. Spying is another matter.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. Further reading: A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack. At Least 30,000 U.S.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Prosecutors say Anonymous Sudan offered a “Limited Internet Shutdown Package,” which would enable customers to shut down internet service providers in specified countries for $500 (USD) an hour. ” However, the DDoS machine the Omer brothers allegedly built was not made up of hacked devices — as is typical with DDoS botnets.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 10, 2021

Nick Weaver has an excellent post on the Microsoft Exchange hack: The investigative journalist Brian Krebs has produced a handy timeline of events and a few things stand out from the chronology. 2, at which point the attacker simply sought to compromise almost every vulnerable Exchange server on the Internet. 5 and another on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2025

A graphic from the FBI explaining how Funnull generated a slew of new domains on a regular basis and mapped them to Internet addresses on U.S. cloud providers. based cloud networks, as doing so can result in blocking access to many legitimate web destinations that are also on that same shared network segment or host.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Threat actors already hacked thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls exploiting recently patched zero-day vulnerabilities. Shadowserver researchers, who are tracking the number of compromised Palo Alto Networks firewalls, reported that approximately 2,000 have been hacked due to a CVE-2024-0012/CVE-2024-9474 campaign.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

Working with law enforcement partners in France, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Romania and the United Kingdom, the DOJ said it was able to seize more than 50 Internet servers tied to the malware network, and nearly $9 million in ill-gotten cryptocurrency from QakBot’s cybercriminal overlords.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2024

Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2024

So, Martin taught herself ethical hacking skills and then founded Black Girls Hack to guide others down the trail she blazed. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. As Black Hat USA 2024 rolls into high gear next week, BGH is thriving.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. police as part of an FBI investigation into the MGM hack. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In November 2021, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Pompompurin abused a vulnerability in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities, and how that access was used to blast out thousands of hoax email messages — all sent from an FBI email and Internet address.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Any one of these bugs could be used to install malware if an authenticated user connects to a malicious or hacked SQL database server. For a more detailed breakdown of today’s patches from Microsoft, check out the SANS Internet Storm Center’s list.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2025

GreyNoisediscovered the AyySSHush botnet has hacked over 9,000 ASUS routers, adding a persistent SSH backdoor. The threat intelligence firm uncovered a stealth campaign on March 18, 2025, where attackers gained persistent access to thousands of internet-exposed ASUS routers. ” states GreyNoise. . ” states GreyNoise.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

The new ransomware group Arkana Security claims to have hacked US telecom provider WOW!, is a US-based telecommunications company that provides broadband internet, cable TV, and phone services. is known for offering high-speed internet and competitive pricing in markets where it competes with larger providers. ” WOW!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2025

Japan s Financial Services Agency (FSA) warns of hundreds of millions in unauthorized trades linked to hacked brokerage accounts. Japan s Financial Services Agency (FSA) reported that the damage caused by unauthorized access to and transactions on internet trading services is increasing. ” reads the FSA’s alert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to first prepare the target so that it uses Edge in Internet Explorer Mode.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2025

prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and co-conspirators hacked into dozens of companies in the United States and abroad, and that he personally controlled more than $26 million stolen from victims. Internet address was used to operate a Discord account that specified a cryptocurrency wallet when asking another user to send funds.

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Identity Theft Phishing Cryptocurrency Cybercrime 197

Schneier on Security

MARCH 30, 2023

Now this is interesting: Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands through crafted HTTP GET requests, affecting over 61,000 devices on the Internet.” The experts observed roughly 1,100 Internet-facing devices potentially vulnerable to this issue., .” reads the post published by Netsecfish.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

French internet service provider (ISP) Free disclosed a cyber attack, threat actors allegedly had access to customer personal information. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. Free S.A.S. is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad S.A.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 20, 2025

The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 Image: Cloudflare.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

One was hacked by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The other was hacked both by Pegasus and by the spyware from another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: Cytrox. Citizen Lab published another report on the spyware used against two Egyptian nationals. We haven’t heard a lot about Cytrox and its Predator spyware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The bot conducts ad fraud by accessing websites in the background and operates as a residential proxy, sharing the users internet connection for criminal activities, which can link the users IP address illegal activities. BadBox can also download additional payloads, amplifying the risks for the users.

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Firmware Malware Internet Internet 142

Schneier on Security

MAY 17, 2024

The seizure messages include ways to contact the FBI about the seizure, including an email, a Telegram account, a TOX account, and a dedicated page hosted on the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). co and run by pompompurin) operated a similar hacking forum from March 2022 until March 2023. . ”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled , English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com. gg , an e-commerce platform that caters to the same clientele as Sellix.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

image: x.com/vxunderground The golden rule of cybercrime in Russia has always been that as long as you never hack, extort or steal from Russian citizens or companies, you have little to fear of arrest. An image tweeted by Matveev showing the Justice Department’s wanted poster for him on a t-shirt. “Mother Russia will help you.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“We are calling on the Tor community and the Internet freedom community to help us scale up WebTunnel bridges. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, WebTunnel bridges) If you’ve ever thought about running a Tor bridge, now is the time.

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Government Internet Internet Hacking 128

Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2025

8037 or newer The vendor also provided the following mitigation: “To minimize the potential impact of SSLVPN vulnerabilities, please ensure that access is limited to trusted sources, or disable SSLVPN access from the Internet. hardware firewalls: SonicOS 6.5.5.1-6n 6n or newer Gen 6 / 6.5 NSv firewalls: SonicOS 6.5.4.v-21s-RC2457

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