Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The tag-team campaign serves up ransomware known as Mortal Kombat, which borrows the name made famous by the video game, and Laplas Clipper malware, a clipboard stealer. It’s like a choose your own adventure game gone horribly wrong. YOU CAN GET THEM VIA ATM MACHINE OR ONLINE. DON’T WORRY YOUR FILES ARE SAFE.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Magecart Group 12, known for skimming payment information from online shoppers, now uses PHP web shells to gain remote administrative access to the sites under attack to steal credit card data, rather than using their previously favored JavaScript code. Rage against online payment systems. 2021 saw the appearance of two new botnets.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2021

We can see what happens when we deliberately enable a data / tagging related function. The reveal happened because someone recorded a video call and dropped it online , with participant’s faces on display. The secret identity game was up regardless of what was under the hood. The game is already lost. Cause and effect.

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SecureList

JUNE 1, 2021

Online-stores, banks, payment systems. We divided the search queries collected from November 2020 to April 2021 into the following subject categories: Games. The share for “Online-stores, banks, payment systems” category rose by two percentage points, to 13.46%. Internet communication. Videogames. News media.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

net which was attributed to Lazarus APT in Google TAG blog. org was hosted on this IP address in Jan 2021 which was attributed to Lazarus APT as per this tweet from ESET and Google TAG blog. The post A “Naver”-ending game of Lazarus APT appeared first on Security Boulevard. 253 in November 2021 and 45.147.231[.]213

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One of the most exciting things Jamie learned about Gutenberg is the use of / shorthand to autofill tags. Nicole Paschen Caylor showed us the advantages of teaching kids about computer science and coding through the use of online games. Nicole Paschen Caylor showing us online games to teach programming.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a watering hole campaign in Hong Kong, targeting journalists and pro-democracy political groups. According to TAG, more than 200 machines may have been targeted for infection at the time it discovered the campaign.). Watering hole campaign discovered by Google.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. However, online fraudsters keep contriving methods to bypass these barriers. The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The current website for Saim Raza’s Fud Tools (above) offers phishing templates or “scam pages” for a variety of popular online sites like Office365 and Dropbox. Helpfully, many of the faces in that photo have been tagged and associated with their respective Facebook profiles. ” Image: Scylla Intel.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

They can learn, think, solve problems – basically, they’re trying to outdo us at our own game. It’s the equivalent of inviting a mischievous digital poltergeist, wreaking havoc on your online presence and leaving your users and their sensitive information at the mercy of unseen threats.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Megan Kerns of Carnegie-Mellon University joins The Hacker Mind to talk about the early days and the continued evolution of this popular online infosec competition site. It's an online resource built by hackers for hackers. So getting cybersecurity education materials often comes with a price tag.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this article we take a look at the online activities of children around the world over the last three months to gain insight into the latest fads and to figure out perfect Christmas gift. Online stores, banks, payment systems. Squid Game. How we collect our statistics. Profanity, obscenity. Weapons, explosives, pyrotechnics.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Girls hack is creating an impressive online lab to help its members. Vamosi: S ecurity moves fast so that textbook from five years ago, is already kind of out of date, having real scenarios online helps black girls hack members simulate what's really happening today, not five years ago. Gamers solve problems.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Girls hack is creating an impressive online lab to help its members. Vamosi: S ecurity moves fast so that textbook from five years ago, is already kind of out of date, having real scenarios online helps black girls hack members simulate what's really happening today, not five years ago. Gamers solve problems.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The point, I think, with all these CTFs is that people are teaching themselves, through these games, how to be better hackers. For a lot of people that path starts with games, often computer games. These computers capture the flag events which are loosely based on the children’s game. Hammond: It's funny.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The term “phishing” was coined back in 1996, when cybercriminals attacked users of America Online (AOL), the largest internet provider at that time. Also in the 1990s, the first online scams appeared.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If any of them unwisely open the attached files, it’s game over! You can use online tools such as mxtoolbox to check if an SPF is correctly set for your domain. Every DMARC record must have at least two tag-value pairs: v=DMARC1. Companies can remain non-operational for a long time, struggling to go back online.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. The content of the lure document was copied from an online post by a health clinic. We previously observed the Lazarus group utilizing this cluster when attacking cryptocurrency businesses and a mobile game company.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. " with an ensuing discussion often explaining the origins of the term as it relates to gaming culture.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. The same with social media apps, I have to go through various settings to make sure that I'm not tagged without my permission, or in some cases even block a person now and again.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

OilRig has been connected to a number of intrusions at companies and government agencies across the Middle East and Asia, including technology firms, telecom companies, and even gaming companies. It takes as input the tagged task and it forwards to the requesting Agent the Base64 encoded content of the file. It is not a TXT request.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each).

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Mr Robot has an “Alternative Reality Game (ARG)” that has been part of the show from the start. The idea is that as you watch the show, you watch for clues and the clues from the show go into the game and you solve puzzles etc. Robot ARG Society Any show would be nothing without an audience to watch it.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

After the assessment was over, he cleaned it up and shared it online on a forum in August 2004. As we were scrapping it all and starting from scratch when starting with Kali, we moved to Git and used GPG to tag releases, at the same time, published all our build-scripts allowing anyone to build Kali on any platform.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You would literally have to know the phone number for a particular BBS then dial in-- and some times you were also charged long distance telephone rates, which meant that chatting online could be expensive. Anyone want to tag along? Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today. It's like I'm going to do this hack unbox tonight.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You would literally have to know the phone number for a particular BBS then dial in-- and some times you were also charged long distance telephone rates, which meant that chatting online could be expensive. Anyone want to tag along? Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today. It's like I'm going to do this hack unbox tonight.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You would literally have to know the phone number for a particular BBS then dial in-- and some times you were also charged long distance telephone rates, which meant that chatting online could be expensive. Anyone want to tag along? Mind you, this was pre-internet as we know it today. It's like I'm going to do this hack unbox tonight.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And, and then I ended up I ended up doing it, you know, kind of figuring it out and in the process of figuring it out and being more involved in this kind of community online that was into robotics and stuff. And so I ended up reverse engineering that and winning the challenge and so there's some articles online about that.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The cybercrime campaigns below demonstrate how crooks can get a leg up in this cat-and-mouse game. To ensnare users, bad actors publish sketchy news with well thought out structures of tags and keywords that correspond to hot topics. This ruse provided a double advantage to its instigators.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In June 2021, the Netfilter rootkit was reported , after which Microsoft published an advisory detailing that it was used as a means of geo-location cheating within the gaming community in China. If an attacker is able to obtain these private keys, they could sign their malware, so that the code is trusted and run by MSI computers.

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