CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now fresh reports are in that a Chinese sponsored hacking group aka APT has stolen $20 million from US Covid relief funds, and the figure might vary as the probe in still underway on this note. The post Chinese hacking stories trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. 2000 Sydney. A non-hacked games were enjoyed by all. People getting up to mischief?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Seashell Blizzard (aka Sandworm , BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRUs Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). “ Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Russia)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Britain’s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds for the 2018 hack that exposed data of 400,000 customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, British Airways). The post Britain’s information commissioner fines British Airways for 2018 Hack appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the ICO.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2019

A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Fxmsp is a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking group focused on breaching high-profile private corporate and government information. ” continues AdvIntel.

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Adam Shostack

JUNE 22, 2020

There’s topics for ‘misconfiguration,’ and ‘human error’ but not ‘vulnerability exploitation’ or even the ever-popular ‘hacking’ as a cause of breach. And as I look at the topic map, I note some things. There’s no ‘feature abuse’ or ‘account takeover.’

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Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2020

Overall, Fresenius employs nearly 300,000 people across more than 100 countries, and is ranked 258th on the Forbes Global 2000. The company provides products and services for dialysis, hospitals, and inpatient and outpatient care, with nearly 40 percent of the market share for dialysis in the United States.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. What Can Be Done?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency. According to Snowden, the UK’s signals intelligence have hacked into the Belgian telco to spy on private communications in transit into its infrastructure. ” wrote The Intercept.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The ILOVEYOU Worm (2000). Plenty of people worldwide try to hack into networks and retrieve sensitive information to commit further crimes, like identity theft or fraud. While no data was destroyed or compromised, emails experienced severe delays, and military and university operations halted.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

That changed recently when Punchmade’s various video and social media accounts began promoting a new web shop that is selling stolen payment cards and identity data, as well as hacked financial accounts and software for producing counterfeit checks. Punchmade Dev’s shop. Among them is mainpage[.]me/punchmade, Devon Turner, a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Every day I receive several emails asking me to resume the Security Affairs newsletter, for this reason, I decided to open it again for the first 2000 users. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BISMUTH). Security Affairs newsletter is back, it is the right time to subscribe to it. indicates required. Email Address *. First Name.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The analysis of the sources of the attack revealed that they were devices with open ports 2000 and 5678 (2000 “Bandwidth test server” and port 5678 “Mikrotik Neighbor Discovery Protocol”), a combination that suggests the involvement of Mikrotik systems. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). ris botnet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 30, 2021

Britain-based luxury clothing designer & lifestyle service offering company says that DarkTrace has thwarted most of the weekly cyber attacks that include 200 targeted hacks such as spear phishing emails targeting high-level executives and cyber campaigns that help steal critical data from companies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Eu authorities pointed out that the rules were never revisioned since 2000, the new laws have been anticipated by commissioners Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton. ” “Our rules on digital services in Europe – the most coveted single market in the world – date back to 2000. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

There's topics for 'misconfiguration,' and 'human error' but not 'vulnerability exploitation' or even the ever-popular 'hacking' as a cause of breach. And as I look at the topic map, I note some things. There's no 'feature abuse' or 'account takeover.' My longstanding interest in how attackers get access is underserved.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Chinese Military personnel charged with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax. Dell SupportAssist flaw exposes computers to hack, patch it asap! OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports. The Altsbit exchange will exit in May following a hack. Adobe addresses 42 flaws in its five products.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

Well, according to the SANS Institute, 26% of devices using the above-mentioned passcodes were easily hacked by cybercriminals in the past three years. However, according to a research study carried out by the SANS Institute, the most commonly used PIN on mobile phones is 1234.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The security expert Andreas Kellas detailed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the SQLite database library, which was introduced in October 2000. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SQLite). The CVE-2022-35737 flaw is an integer overflow issue that impacts SQLite versions 1.0.12 through 3.39.1.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

Over 3,000 Android Malware spotted using unsupported/unknown compression methods to avoid detection WinRAR flaw enables remote code execution of arbitrary code #OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific Massive phishing campaign targets users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2020

US DOE confirmed that threat actors behind the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack also hacked the networks of the US NNSA nuclear agency. Department of Energy that was established by Congress in 2000. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was helping the federal agencies to respond to the hacking campaign.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Threat actors stole $18.7M Threat actors stole $18.7M US NCSC and DoS share best practices against surveillance tools Swiss army asks its personnel to use the Threema instant-messaging app Russian submarines threatening undersea cables, UK defence chief warns. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Early in his career (circa 2000) Shakhmametov was known as “ v1pee ” and was the founder of the Russian hacker group nerf[.]ru ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. The Russian hacker group Nerf as described in a March 2006 article in the Russian hacker magazine xakep.ru.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Reported by [pwn2car] on 2023-09-05 [$2000][ 1475798 ] High CVE-2023-5187: Use after free in Extensions. Google also addressed this month the following vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser: [$TBD][ 1478889 ] High CVE-2023-5186: Use after free in Passwords.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

Attackers used “super-aged” domains, usually registered before the year 2000, to avoid DNS blocklists and blending in with old malware at the same time The attackers manipulate MX (Mail Exchange) records by injecting fake responses through China’s Great Firewall. .”

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While checking my cybersecurity news feed a couple of days ago, an account (re-)publishing stories from years gone by was highlighting a late 2000 (actual year 2000, not the decade) event involving Microsoft and a hack that affected the company.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). SecurityAffairs – hacking, RansomBoggs ransomware). 1/9 pic.twitter.com/WyxzCZSz84 — ESET research (@ESETresearch) November 25, 2022.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm (UAC-0165) has compromised eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023, reported the Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The data was posted on file-sharing service MEGA and also on an unnamed popular hacking forum, it includes more than 12,000 files for a total size of 87 gigabytes. 82% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) January 16, 2019. ” wrote Troy Hunt. ” concludes Hunt.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

This month, the experts noticed that the number of infected hosts passed from 2000 to around 30,000. “While the group has operated for years, by mid 2021, the botnet was observed operating with roughly 2000 hosts globally. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, 8220 Gang ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The leaker also added that the source code for multiple Microsoft operating systems is circulating in the hacking community for years. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Windows XP). T he leaker goes online with the moniker billgates3 and claims to have collected the source code over the course of the last few months. MS-DOS 6.0.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). SecurityAffairs – hacking, ANSSI). This backdoor is version 3.1.4. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

Below the recommendations provided by the company: SRA 4600/1600 (EOL 2019) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SRA 4200/1200 (EOL 2016) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SSL-VPN 200/2000/400 (EOL 2013/2014) Disconnect immediately Reset passwords SMA 400/200 (Still Supported, in Limited Retirement Mode) Update to 10.2.0.7-34

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

1/3 pic.twitter.com/pMij9lpU5J — ESET Research (@ESETresearch) January 27, 2023 The Sandworm group has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The #SwiftSlicer wiper is written in Go programing language.

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Threatpost

JUNE 18, 2019

The Department of Homeland Security urged system administrators to update their Windows machines after testing a working BlueKeep exploit for Windows 2000.

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