Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

VPNLab was launched in 2008 and was offering online anonymity to criminal organizations. Its technology was based on OpenVPN and adopted 2048-bit encryption, the price for the subscription was very low, just $60/year. VPNLab operators were advertising their platform on several hacking forums and dark web forums.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

was recommended for IETF protocols in 2008 and became obsolete with the introduction of TLS version 1.3 SecurityAffairs – hacking, TLS 1.0). The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally deprecates Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 (RFC RFC 2246) and 1.1 (RFC TLS version 1.2 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

SurfingAttack – hacking phones via ultrasonic waves. CIA Hacking unit APT-C-39 hit China since 2008. Lets Encrypt CA is revoking over 3 Million TLS certificates due to a bug. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). . $1B to help telecom carriers to rip and replace Huawei and ZTE equipment. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova. DomainTools says myiptest[.]com

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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. LastPass disadvantages: history of hacking. One of the biggest risks with using LastPass is its track record with preventing hacks. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“However, instead of sending it in cleartext, the client deploys a symmetric AES encryption for any communication over the WebSocket for the first exchange, as no shared secret is established yet, and the AES encryption will generate a default key for this first exchange. SecurityAffairs – hacking, PurpleFox botnet).

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. Despite their extensions, the attachments are not Office documents, but rather encrypted blobs of data that include a specific command to be executed. SecurityAffairs – Tesla, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. A source said they’d stumbled upon a way to intercept and read the daily online chats between Aqua and several other mule recruiters and malware purveyors who were stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars weekly from hacked businesses.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Each module of the CommonMagic framework is used to perform a certain task, such as communicating with the C2 server, encrypting and decrypting C2 traffic, and executing plugins. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008. ” reads the new report published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. ” The spam messages contain URLs to.ZIP files that serve VBS content designed to download the payload from one of six hardcoded encrypted URLs. .

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework. The Crypton module performs encryption and decryption of all communications. module execution results) is encrypted with a combination of AES and RSA. and new (5.0)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2025

The PLAYFULGHOST backdoor shares functionality with Gh0stRAT whose source code was publicly released in 2008. TIM.exe then loads a malicious launcher DLL libcurl.dll whichwilldecrypt and load the PLAYFULGHOST payload from an encrypted file named Debug.log.”

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Today’s special columnist, Scott Register of Keysight Technologies, says government and industry must come together to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. Credit: Colonial Pipeline. True or not, the intense focus on a Russian attack that has real economic consequences in the U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

As a result, the proportion of American hospitals with an electronic health record went from just 9% in 2008 to 96% in 2015. And “Electronic health records contain a trove of personal data, making them an ideal target of one-stop hacking for cyber thieves.”. Thales eSecurity Recommendations. For data in motion and in use.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2021

All of your 1Password data is stored with AES 256-bit, end-to-end encryption that can only be decrypted with a Secret Key that’s stored locally on your devices. Perhaps most importantly, 1Password has a clean history when it comes to hacks, data breaches, and other vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2021

A major drawback with using LastPass, however, is its track record with corporate hacks. Since the company’s launch in 2008, LastPass has reported numerous security breaches that range in severity from vulnerabilities in browser extensions to full-blown breaches.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. We conducted an analysis of the IoT threat landscape for 2023, as well as the products and services offered on the dark web related to hacking connected devices. per day, or $1350 per month.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. The encryption is performed by a simple xor having as key the single byte 0 while the encoding procedure is a multi conversion routine which could be summarized as follows: chr(asc(chr(“&h”&mid(x,y,2)))).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

On the other hand, while passkeys may do much to stop email phishing , as biometrics won’t be an easy target, cyber criminals can turn to other malware to remotely hack and unlock a phone. They convert the data into templates that, even if leaked or breached, cannot be used to hack an account. But some are not fully convinced.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The Turla’s arsenal is composed of sophisticated hacking tools and malware tracked as Turla ( Snake and Uroburos rootkit), Epic Turla (Wipbot and Tavdig) and Gloog Turla. This is a binary blob with a special format that contains encrypted commands for the backdoor ,” reads the report released by ESET.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Since 2008, LastPass has given users a platform that’s supremely easy to use across multiple devices. They each employ a 256-bit AES encryption that can only be decrypted at the device level. This makes it extremely difficult to successfully intercept private information even in the event of a successful hacking attempt.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Advanced persistent threats come from skilled attackers possessing advanced hacking tools, sophisticated techniques, and possibly large teams. Threat groups have been tolerated in Russia, for example, in exchange for assurances that their hacking activity will be conducted in other countries. What Are APTs?

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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Telnet has been largely replaced by SSH (Secure Shell) due to its lack of encryption, it’s still in use, especially in older systems or poorly secured networks. For example, if the target is running Windows Server 2008 , you could look for known vulnerabilities or misconfigurations specific to that OS.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In this industry, there's everything from income-producing equipment to conferences to charitable donations to an organisation like Let's Encrypt that can reduce your tax bill (obviously get expert advice on this if you're not sure). Incidentally, the talk I referenced earlier on Hack Your Career covers all of this in more detail.)

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Enter Mystic Stealer, a fresh stealer lurking in the cyber sphere, noted for its data theft capabilities, obfuscation, and an encrypted binary protocol to enable it to stay under the radar and evade defenses. Example Mystic Stealer constant obfuscation technique Encrypted binary custom protocol. All data is encrypted with RC4.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Modern variants of ransomware, called crypto ransomware, entomb the files stored on a hard drive using strong encryption. It gives the example of Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Vupen Security, based in France. If the victim wishes them back, they will have to pay a ransom.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Using his amazing hacking skills and unique tools he’d built over the years, Joe was able to extract the password from the chip, and Dan was able to retrieve his cryptocurrency. All of which speaks to the power of hacking. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Remember WEP?

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 16, 2024

Luke Langefels, Security Consultant One of the talks that I went to while at DefCon was Matt Burch’s presentation on defeating ATM disk encryption. Switching to full-disk encryption would have effectively remediated the 6 findings. Vehicle hacking fascinates me due to its potential impacts.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Just don’t.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Just don’t.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Enter BackTrack 3 in June 2008. 2008 was no exception. At one stage, Wireless hacking “was the thing”, so we needed to support injection on as many cards as possible. There was then a shift to “Live-Boot” (either CDs or USBs). Times were different to how it is now. From time-to-time we have made slip ups.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2022

. “The search activities were based on the appeal of the US authorities, who reported on the leader of the criminal community and his involvement in encroaching on the information resources of foreign high-tech companies by introducing malicious software, encrypting information and extorting money for its decryption,” the FSB said.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Like in 2008, when I presented with Chris Boyd from the UK, on the rise of teenage hackers. So if a company doesn't get hacked, no one knows if a company gets hacked, it's headline news. But most of us failed. That's not news.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Paper ballots can be miscounted or lost and DRE machines are susceptible to hacking and software errors. This approach also protects the integrity of the entire voting process, from casting to tallying, by allowing independent verification of results through a public bulletin board that contains anonymous encrypted votes.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. It has operated since 2008. It's a framework, a tabletop adversary emulation, that provides the good guys on red teams and blue teams with some guidance to harden their defenses against future ATT&CKs. In the case of ransomware.

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