Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. An analysis of the webpage reveals it would check any submitted credentials at the real Microsoft website, and return an error if the user entered bogus account information.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioners, in a split-vote (3-2), issued a policy statement on September 15, requiring both health applications and connected devices to comply with the “ Health Breach Notification Rule (August 2009).” To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2024

Threat actors rely on password compilations like the RockYou2024 to carry out credential stuffing attacks and compromise users’ accounts. Revealing that many passwords for threat actors substantially heightens the risk of credential stuffing attacks,” CyberNews researchers explained. RockYou2021 had 8.4 RockYou2021 had 8.4

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab estimated that by the time the program ceased operations, GandCrab accounted for up to half of the global ransomware market. That email address and nickname had been used since 2009 to register multiple identities on more than a half dozen cybercrime forums. of GandCrab. HEAVY METALL.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

bank accounts. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. But the Rescator story was a reminder that 10 years worth of research on who Ika/Icamis is in real life had been completely set aside. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

107 million records include personal data and basic account information such as the user ID, number of Weibo tweets, number of followers and accounts users are following, account gender, geographic location and more. The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. 5.38??????????????

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

According to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Journal, over the past eleven years (2009-2020) there have been more than 3,705 healthcare data breaches impacting more than 268 million medical records. The healthcare industry sector is increasingly the target of cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions , one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed. ” continues the notice.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

He has been in charge of XZ Utils since he wrote it in 2009. We don’t know by whom, but we have account names: Jia Tan, Jigar Kumar, Dennis Ens. And, at least in 2022, he’s had some “ longterm mental health issues. ” (To be clear, he is not to blame in this story. This is a systems problem.) They’re not real names.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” An ad for war.md, circa 2009. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2024

The name "RockYou2024" pays homage to the infamous RockYou data breach of 2009, which exposed 32 million passwords due to insecure storage practices. The number represents a significant portion of the world's online user base, raising concerns about the security of countless online accounts across various platforms.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The two individuals, Aleksandr Skorodumov (33) of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi (30) of Estonia, administrated the bulletproof hosting service between 2009 and 2015. Stassi conducted several administrative tasks for the group, such as registering webhosting and financial accounts using stolen and/or false personal information.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. A 2009 census found that Russians make up about 24 percent of the population of Kazakhstan. “If that happens, Kazakhstan may have to make some very unpleasant decisions.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

Experts spotted a new botnet named Orchard using Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s account information to generate malicious domains. The latest version is dedicated to mining and has started using more unpredictable information like transaction information of bitcoin accounts as input to DGA, making detection more difficult.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2024

At the time, DoJ accused Penchukov of coordinating the exchange of stolen banking credentials and money mules and received alerts once a bank account had been compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Qualys researchers found that the flaw has existed for 13 years, since pkexec’s first release in May 2009. The only inconvenience is that it requires initial access, which can be achieved by exploiting another vulnerability first, but hackers can use the least privileged accounts like the nobody user to root the machine.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

billion unique password variations with other breach compilations that include usernames and email addresses, threat actors can use the RockYou2021 collection to mount password dictionary and password spraying attacks against untold numbers of online accounts. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all of your online accounts.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

The library has been active since 2009, it offers e-book files in a variety of file formats, stripped of their copyright protections. The list of the domains seized by the authorities includes singlelogin.me, which is used to register new accounts for the service. The library is still reachable through TOR and I2P networks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

At the time, DoJ accused Penchukov of coordinating the exchange of stolen banking credentials and money mules and received alerts once a bank account had been compromised.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In 2009, after Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed, Congress authorized the SEC to award bounties from civil penalties recovered from securities law violators. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is engaged in a modern-day version of tax farming. It worked in a big way.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries. A German User’s Account. An Australian User’s Account. Account Takeover. The breach is a danger to both FBS and its customers. Who is FBS. User ID and Credit Card Photo Uploads.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Qbot , aka Qakbot , is a data stealer worm with backdoor capabilities that was first detected by Symantec back in 2009. The bot also makes lateral movements via network share exploits to infect other systems on the same network and leverage brute-force attacks to target Active Directory admin accounts. ” concludes the report.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But a hallmark of the event since it was first held in 2009 is visiting speakers who aren’t afraid to challenge popular narratives. It’s all about having a series of systems and processes to be able to account for the unknown, for situations we’ve never encountered before,” he said.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

The reporting of security incidents has been part of the EU’s regulatory framework for telecoms since the 2009 reform of the telecoms package. System failures accounted for 363 million user hours lost compared to 419 million user hours in 2020. The number of incidents labeled as malicious actions passed from 4% in 2020 to 8% in 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

” Threat actors accessed to files stored in the Literacy Works Information System that are dated back 2009, 2010, and 2014. The Department is notifying the impacted customers, potentially affected users have to carefully monitor their accounts. ” continues the Department. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Bondars is one of the two hackers found to have been running Scan4you from 2009 to 2016, its service was very popular in the cybercrime community and was used by malware developers to test their malicious codes. “In issuing the sentence, the court found a loss amount of $20.5 In addition to the term of imprisonment, U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

In the fraud scheme, the criminals impersonate Chinese authorities and attempt to trick victims into transferring money to accounts controlled by the scammers. “The callers typically masquerade as Chinese authorities and pressure or persuade the victims to transfer money to the scammers’ accounts.”

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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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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. Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics). “a password-protected RAR archive containing a LNK file. ” continues the report.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2018

In defining similarities, we take into account only unique code connections, and disregard common code or libraries. For example, the “Common SMB module” that was part of the WannaCry Ransomware (2017) was similar to the code used the malware Mydoom (2009), Joanap , and DeltaAlfa. ” states the report.

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