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Hackers Expose Russian FSB Cyberattack Projects

Schneier on Security

More nation-state activity in cyberspace, this time from Russia : Per the different reports in Russian media, the files indicate that SyTech had worked since 2009 on a multitude of projects since 2009 for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum.

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RockYou2024 compilation containing 10 billion passwords was leaked online

Security Affairs

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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538 Million Weibo users’ records being sold on Dark Web

Security Affairs

Data of 538 million Weibo users are available for sale on the dark web the news was reported by several Chinese media and users on social networks. Weibo is a popular Chinese micro-blogging ( weibo ) website, it was launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it claimed over 445 million monthly active users as of Q3 2018. .

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

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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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

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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Billions of FBS Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak

Security Affairs

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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AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program

Schneier on Security

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.