Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2022

By all accounts, the most urgent bug Microsoft addressed this month is CVE-2022-26925 , a weakness in a central component of Windows security (the “ Local Security Authority ” process within Windows). The flaw affects Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008 through 2022. in certain situations.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 9, 2020

Microsoft today released software patches to plug at least 129 security holes in its Windows operating systems and supported software, by some accounts a record number of fixes in one go for the software giant. Microsoft Server Message Block or “SMB” service).

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 13, 2024

In February, the All-India Anna Dravidian Progressive Federation party’s official X account posted an audio clip of Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the iconic superstar of Tamil politics colloquially called “Amma” or “Mother.” But Karunanidhi died in 2018. His party authorized the deepfake.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

. “An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by conducting a brute-force attack against valid user accounts,” Narang said. “Despite the high rating, the belief is that brute-force attacks won’t be successful against accounts with strong passwords.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

“This seems like a short sentence when taking into account the gravity of his actions and the life-altering consequences to thousands of people, but it’s almost the maximum the law allows for,” Kurittu said.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2024

Affected systems are running Windows 10 and 11 or one of the server versions (Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008.). And the affected systems are very likely to have Device Encryption enabled.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2024

CVE-2024-38080 allows an attacker to increase their account privileges on a Windows machine. The first Microsoft zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38080 , a bug in the Windows Hyper-V component that affects Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 systems. “Due to active exploitation in the wild this one should be prioritized for patching.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

. “CVE-2021-36948 is a privilege escalation vulnerability – the cornerstone of modern intrusions as they allow attackers the level of access to do things like hide their tracks and create user accounts,” said Kevin Breen of Immersive Labs.

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InfoWorld on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I often go through my old presentations from 2008 and before to review talks about the promise of cloud computing. Those applications (now called software as a service) covered tasks such as salesforce management, accounting, inventory control, etc. The most changes are in perception. To read this article in full, please click here

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

By nearly all accounts, the chief bugaboo this month is CVE-2019-1458 , a vulnerability in a core Windows component (Win32k) that is present in Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008-2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2019

related recommendations, dating as far back as 2008. The report also includes results from four classified reports and 20 unclassified reports that were drafted between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018, by the Government Accountability Office and DoD community. Additionally, as of September 30, 2018, there were 266 open cybersecurity?related

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” Bringing things full circle, Constella Intelligence shows that various online accounts tied to the email address unforgiven57@mail.ru .” Crypt[.]guru’s

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

bank accounts. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission. ws was registered to an Andrew Artz.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

The Microsoft advisory lists these Microsoft Server Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022. Further, stopping the Encrypting File System (EFS) service does not prevent the technique from being exploited. Vulnerable systems.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

” But by all accounts, the potential attack surface here is enormous, as many federal employees clearly will purchase these readers from a myriad of online vendors when the need arises. “Combine that with the apparent due diligence of the vendor outlined here, and well, it ain’t a pretty picture.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

KrebsOnSecurity first encountered Aqua’s work in 2008 as a reporter for The Washington Post. ” Only, in every case the company mentioned as the “client” was in fact a small business whose payroll accounts they’d already hacked into. tank: He is the account from which we cashed. HITCHED TO A MULE.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Internet’s co-designer, Vint Cerf, in a 2008 Guardian interview , explained how the Internet’s 1974, essential enabling Internet-protocol had a design flaw in not enabling packet authentication, security, or privacy at scale. Internet un accountability policy a root cause of Internet in security? Utopia meet reality.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you have a bunch of passwords and manually checking them all would be painful, give this a go: If you use 1Password account you now have a brand new Watchtower integrated with @haveibeenpwned API. Take logging onto a mobile app with @1Password on iOS: tap the email field, choose the account, Face ID, login button, job done!

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

But American and Finnish investigators say Kivimäki’s involvement in cybercrime dates back to at least 2008, when he was introduced to a founding member of what would soon become HTP. Kivimäki initially gained notoriety as a self-professed member of the Lizard Squad , a mainly low-skilled hacker group that specialized in DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2019

An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with administrator privileges.” An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” ” reads the security advisory published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2024

The PlugX malware is a remote access trojan (RAT) that has been used since 2008 by multiple China-linked APT groups, including Mustang Panda , Winnti , and APT41 The RAT uses DLL side-loading to load its own malicious payload malicious DLL when a digitally signed software application, such as the x32dbg debugging tool (x32dbg.exe), is executed.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Your business can use LastPass to maintain unique passwords for each employee’s online accounts—a critical practice for modern cybersecurity health. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2022

. “Lincoln College has survived many difficult and challenging times – the economic crisis of 1887, a major campus fire in 1912, the Spanish flu of 1918, the Great Depression, World War II, the 2008 global financial crisis, and more, but this is different. Lincoln College needs help to survive.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” The flaws affect Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Guerrero-Saade discovered that the SIG37 campaign references hacking activities dated back as far as 2008 that was carried out by an unknown threat actor, the expert tracked it as Nazar. Native Farsi speakers told the expert that the term ‘nazar’ translates to ‘supervision’ or ‘monitoring’ from Persian to Roman characters.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2021

Apple almost certainly got there first , yet Chrome’s 2008 creation has largely become the generic name for all private browsing activity. You can be logged into your Amazon account, your email accounts, social media, and anything else in your “main” browser. Sure, your Google account may know a lot about you.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. Plott said his company never refuses to issue a money-back request from a customer, because doing so would result in costly chargebacks for NextLevel (and presumably for the many credit card merchant accounts apparently set up by Mr. Mirza).

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sample portfolio of pay per install rogue fraudulent and malicious affiliate network domains known to have been in operation in 2008 include: vipsoftcash[.]com. Related pay per install rogue fraudulent and malicious domains known to have been used back in 2008 for various rogue fraudulent and malicious purposes include: drawn-cash[.]com.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Both require threat actors to steal credentials or perform some other kind of attack to gain access to the privileged account. Vertical Privilege Escalation Vertical privilege escalation involves a threat actor traveling from a lower-level account to a higher-level account.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2021

In addition to the usual password storage and sharing capabilities, Teams edition customers can enjoy 1GB of document storage for each user, 5 guest accounts, standard 2FA, and Duo integration for MFA. One of the best bonus features 1Password offers with its Business plan is a free family account for all users.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Windows Server has gone from 2008 R2 to 2012 to 2012 R2 to 2016 to 2019. Their site is still up and functional, but their Twitter account hasn't been active for 2 and a half years now and the last blog post they wrote was in 2014. Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser ( Chrome was in 3rd place back then ).

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.” ” The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. ” The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. exe handles certain calls.

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