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

JANUARY 25, 2024

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago. com , filezillasoft[.]com

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

Cyber criminals gain unauthorized access to home networks by either configuring the product with malicious software prior to the users purchase or infecting the device as it downloads required applications that contain backdoors, usually during the set-up process. “Most of the infected devices were manufactured in China.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 89 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. Any one of these bugs could be used to install malware if an authenticated user connects to a malicious or hacked SQL database server.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2024

When Tanisha Martin, a veteran software quality assurance analyst, sought to move over to a security team a few years ago, the doors should have been wide open, given the much-ballyhooed cybersecurity skills shortage. So, Martin taught herself ethical hacking skills and then founded Black Girls Hack to guide others down the trail she blazed.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Russia’s interior ministry last week issued a statement saying a 32-year-old hacker had been charged with violating domestic laws against the creation and use of malicious software. The announcement didn’t name the accused, but the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cited anonymous sources saying the man detained is Matveev.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2025

A vulnerability in the 7-Zip file software allows attackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature. Attackers can exploit a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0411 , in the free, open-source file archiver software 7-Zip to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature.

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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. Aisuru reportedly went quiet after that exposure, only to reappear in November with even more firepower and software exploits. Image: Cloudflare.

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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. The key works without the need for any special software drivers. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans.

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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.” ” reads the advisory published by AhnLab.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. The catastrophe is yet another reminder of how brittle global internet infrastructure is. The CrowdStrike failure was the result of a buggy software update.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

On the off chance you were looking for more security to-dos from Microsoft today…the company released software updates to plug more than 82 security flaws in Windows and other supported software. The SANS Internet Storm Center no-frills breakdown of the fixes.

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Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 3, 2024

A Chinese hacking group tracked as StormBamboo has compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) to poison automatic software updates with malware. [.]

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

According to rumors, the Polish special services are using surveillance software to spy on government opponents. The news of the hack was reported by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, and unfortunately, it isn’t the first time that the Pegasus spyware was used in the country.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

SolarWinds and Mimecast are long-established, well-respected B2B suppliers of essential business software embedded far-and-wide in company networks. Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A hacker stole $31 million from the blockchain company MonoX Finance , by exploiting a bug in software the service uses to draft smart contracts. Specifically, the hack used the same token as both the tokenIn and tokenOut, which are methods for exchanging the value of one token for another.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2025

Researchers found a fake Bitdefender site spreading the Venom RAT by tricking users into downloading it as antivirus software. While the open-source nature of these tools can help security experts spot them faster, the primary victims here are everyday internet users.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 20, 2020

DDoS attacks involve flooding a target Web site with so much junk Internet traffic that it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors. But that 2016 story came on the heels of an exclusive about the hacking of vDOS — at the time the world’s most popular and powerful DDoS-for-hire service.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Ptitsyn and his co-conspirators hacked not only large corporations but also schools, hospitals, nonprofits, and a federally recognized tribe, and they extorted more than $16 million in ransom payments.” Use always-on cybersecurity software that can prevent exploits and malware used to deliver ransomware.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 8, 2025

You may also like to read: How Hackers Spy On Hacked Phone? How To Detect and Secure Yourself Hacker's Most Preferred Hacking Techniques These techniques can be described as the most liked techniques of users to hack Android devices. By using this technique, hackers extract any information required to hack your Android device.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Internet of Everything ( IoE ) is on the near horizon. Our reliance on artificially intelligent software is deepening, signaling an era, just ahead, of great leaps forward for humankind. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FBI warned of a fresh wave of HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting internet-facing Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. ” reads the PIN report.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. Cloud Router was previously called 911 S5.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

The experts used a diagnostic software to analyze the vehicle architecture, scan the Electronic Control Unit (ECU), identify its version, and test diagnostic functions. The research combined hardware interfaces and software to communicate with the vehicle via Diagnostic Over Internet Protocol (DoIP).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

The abrupt closure comes ten days after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at 911 and its connections to shady pay-per-install affiliate programs that secretly bundled 911’s proxy software with other titles, including “free” utilities and pirated software. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Dec. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2023

Suspicions were triggered when the department detected unusual traffic emanating from one of its servers that was running a trial version of the Orion software suite made by SolarWinds, according to sources familiar with the incident. The DOJ asked the security firm Mandiant to help determine whether the server had been hacked.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 16, 2023

Clop, the Russia-based ransomware gang that executed the MOVEit-Zellis supply chain hack, has commenced making extortion demands of some big name U.S. Related: Supply-chain hack ultimatum The nefarious Clop gang initially compromised MOVEit, which provided them a beachhead to gain access to Zellis, a UK-based supplier of payroll services.

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