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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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. in threads asking for urgent help obtaining access to hacked businesses in South Korea. via sites that track hacked or leaked databases turned up some curious results.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

From 2009 to the present, Aqua’s primary role in the conspiracy was recruiting and managing a continuous supply of unwitting or complicit accomplices to help Evil Corp. ” Only, in every case the company mentioned as the “client” was in fact a small business whose payroll accounts they’d already hacked into.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. The post NASA hacked!

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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. The post Symantec shared details of North Korean Lazarus’s FastCash Trojan used to hack banks appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

“ Two Chinese nationals were charged with laundering over $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from a hack of a cryptocurrency exchange. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. million from another exchange.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov)

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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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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 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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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

At least a dozen patriotic Russian hacking groups have been launching DDoS attacks since the start of the war at a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. 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).”

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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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, IcedID Malware)

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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

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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus).

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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zinc). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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

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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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 data compilation was leaked on a popular hacking forum, where it quickly gained notoriety for its sheer size and potential impact.

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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

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. SecurityAffairs – Operation In(ter)reception , hacking). Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics). ” continues the report.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Exchange). Who is FBS. User ID and Credit Card Photo Uploads.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The US-CERT has released a joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and the Treasury warning about a new ATM cash-out scheme, dubbed “ FASTCash ,” being used by the prolific North Korean APT hacking group known as Hidden Cobra (aka Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace).

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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. SecurityAffairs – Maryland Depar t ment of Labor , hacking).

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

She studied the 564 amendments to the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) considered by the Senate Finance Committee in 2009, as well as the positions of 866 lobbying groups and their campaign contributions. Another word for a strategy like this is a “hack.” Political scientist Amy McKay coined the term.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, telecom security incidents). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security researchers when analyzing a hacking campaign attempt to attribute it to a specific threat actor also evaluating the code reuse. Each node represents a malware family or a hacking tool (“ Brambul ,” “ Fallchill ,” etc.) Each node represents a malware family or a hacking tool (“ Brambul ,” “ Fallchill ,” etc.)

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team, the suspect, dubbed Dr HeX by Group-IB based on one of the nicknames that he used, has been active since at least 2009 and is responsible for a number of cybercrimes, including phishing, defacing, malware development, fraud, and carding that resulted in thousands of unsuspecting victims.

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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

MAY 13, 2023

Founded in 2009, the company provides luggage and passenger transportation services on many popular hiking routes, including the famous Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail. The Cybernews research team has discovered a data leak on La Malle Postale’s system that exposed the personal data of their clients. One of them is identity theft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zeus). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group , then it published online the data dump called “ Lost in Translation.” The DarkUniverse has been active at least from 2009 until 2017. Attackers used C2 servers on cloud storage at mydrive.

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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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