Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Reliaquest says QakBot infections accounted for nearly one-third of all loaders observed in the wild during the first six months of this year. Qakbot/Qbot was once again the top malware loader observed in the wild in the first six months of 2023.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. Brovko was involved in the illegal practice between 2007 and 2019. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2018

In a post to Reddit, the social news aggregation platform said it learned on June 19 that between June 14 and 18 an attacker compromised a several employee accounts at its cloud and source code hosting providers. “We point this out to encourage everyone here to move to token-based 2FA.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. It is unclear why APT28 is using compromised email accounts of (mostly) defense companies in the Middle East.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. The data breach was discovered on June 19, 2018, according to Reddit, between June 14 and 18, 2018, the attacker compromised some of the employees’ accounts with the company cloud and source code hosting providers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

bank accounts. In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure. ws was registered to an Andrew Artz.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2024

The unauthorized access to the IT infrastructure of the company occurred on June 26, threat actors used the credentials of a standard employee account within its IT environment. Upon detecting the suspicious activity by this account, the company immediately started the incident response measures.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

IKEA, the furniture giant from Sweden, has disclosed that its servers were hit by a Qakbot malware that could have compromised its staff and partner accounts to a certain extent. However, as the investigation is still underway, compromise of accounts is yet to be determined.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Since at least 2007, the MOIS coordinated a series of cyber operation against government entities and private organizations around the world. We join in Prime Minister Rama’s call for Iran to be held accountable for this unprecedented cyber incident. “Today, the U.S. “The ally and set a troubling precedent for cyberspace.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. As expected, Ukraine topped the list, accounting for 40% of the activity.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

They also activated files that forced infected computers to register email accounts with AOL.” “The defendants registered more than 100,000 email accounts using this method. The defendants would then steal account credentials. . “The defendants used stolen email credentials to copy a victim’s email contacts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Zynga confirmed that the account login information for certain players of Draw Something and Words With Friends that may have been exposed in the data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2023

Afterward, cybercriminals leaked data of thousands of the company’s employees onto the dark web, including social security numbers and bank account details of employees involved in the R&D of infrastructure products.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2021

His alleged hacking activities “lay claim to the largest theft of US customer data from a single financial institution in history, accounting for a staggering 80 million-plus victims,”. From 2007 to 2015 TYURIN also conducted cyberattacks against multiple foreign companies. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. APT28 used the compromised email accounts to send malicious emails and compromised routers to recover exfiltrated data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. According to the Treasury and DOJ, Tian and Li received funds from North Korea-controlled accounts in at least two cases.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Today's sentence holds Jimenez accountable for brazenly selling the identities of children to his customers for his own profit.". Since setting up his business in 2007, Jimenez has amassed millions of dollars, which he used to purchase real estate and fund a lavish lifestyle. A lavish lifestyle. He admitted to spending a total of $5.5M

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outlook account settings contain important information essential for your inbox to operate properly. Restoring this data in case of loss might take much time especially when you have multiple accounts. This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. This specific campaign accounted for 86% of the batch of warnings that the Google team sent out for this month.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 15, 2022

You can reach back to 2007 and look in amazement at the 419 death threat. FBI Chicago released several good pieces of advice in March, which take into account the social engineering side of things: Never post news of upcoming travel dates and locations online. These tactics have been around for a very long time.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. It’s unknown how the attackers were able to obtain the credentials for that account, but it’s possible the credentials were saved in one of the infected system’s browser password managers.” ” reads the report published by the experts.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2022

Application and software developers are responsible for establishing the necessary backend database and protocol for storing and accepting user account credentials. led the way, the first two iterations of OIDC, OpenID, were released in 2006 and 2007 as alternative authentication protocols. Identity Managers. In 2005, OASIS released 2.0,

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 3, 2021

Kidz Academy opened a new Regions Bank checking account on 25JUN2019. Bouvier Hair opened a new Regions Bank checking account on 07MAY2020. Slim Fit opened a new Trustmark checking account on 22APR2020. Kidz Academy opened a new Trustmark checking account on 06MAY2020. The story in her Regions account was about the same.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On February 16th, an account linked to that email uploaded a batch of files including marketing documents, images, screenshots, and a substantial collection of WeChat messages exchanged between I-SOON employees and clients. An analyst based in Taiwan, known as Azaka, discovered the data leak and shared their findings on social media.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

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.” Attackers used Twitter profiles for sharing links to a blog under their control ( br0vvnn[.]io

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Spinone

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Essentials for Google Account Backup Innovation and leadership have been two of the main keys to their success. We saw, how Gmail was launched in 2007, then we saw, how they started engaging in the cloud war by launching their own cloud storage: Google Drive , and they continued to go on and on, making our lives easier with their products.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. ” Most accounts used to initiate the transactions had a minimal activity or zero balances.

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Banking Retail Advertising Malware 111

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “To send the malicious files, the attackers either used LinkedIn directly, or a combination of email and OneDrive.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. io ), to share videos of their claimed exploits, and for amplifying and retweeting posts from other accounts under their control.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. This specific campaign accounted for 86% of the batch of warnings that the Google team sent out for this month.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 28, 2016

On April 22, 2007 Google launched the professional package of Google Apps for Enterprise. There are 3 ways to get a Business plan: “Upgrade” an existing account. Create a Business account during initial registration. Now back to the G Suite Administrator account. Changing the number of users in an account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The APT41 group, aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. The researchers noticed that the most common attack against networks and cloud instances is the account takeover. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2018

” The experts discovered that the flaw was first discovered in 2007 and it was publicly disclosed in 2009 during the CanSecWest security conference. The vulnerability is the result of a combination of several arbitrary memory dereference issued and an unbounded memory write vulnerability. ” continues Trustwave.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. It contains logic that generates one of three fraudulent responses to fraudulent transaction requests.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

Below is a brief description of the most popular types of threats that SMB employees encountered in January–May 2023: Exploits The biggest threat to SMBs in the first five months of 2023 were exploits , which accounted for 483,980 detections. If an employee enters their credentials, the scammers get access to their account.

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