Malwarebytes

MAY 17, 2022

A security researcher has disclosed how he chained together multiple bugs in order to take over Facebook accounts that were linked to a Gmail account. Linked accounts. Linked accounts were invented to make logging in easier. You can use one account to log in to other apps, sites and services. Sandboxed CAPTCHA.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

RockYou2021, the largest password compilation of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum, it contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords. . What seems to be the largest password collection of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. The same user also claims that the compilation contains 82 billion passwords.

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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.” Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The tsunami of passwords that exist across every aspect of our digital life means that there’s a thriving underground industry of cyber-criminals trying to get at them. This time passwords were lightly protected by the 1970s-era DES algorithm. Taking a password dump from a server isn’t, of course, the only route to compromise.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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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?????????????? Good night.”

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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

Kislitsin is accused of hacking into the now-defunct social networking site Formspring in 2012, and conspiring with another Russian man convicted of stealing tens of millions of usernames and passwords from LinkedIn and Dropbox that same year. A 2009 census found that Russians make up about 24 percent of the population of Kazakhstan.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault.

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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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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. A German User’s Account. Who is FBS.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

The leaked information included names, phone numbers, emails, private communication via SMS messages, passwords, and employees’ credentials. Founded in 2009, the company provides luggage and passenger transportation services on many popular hiking routes, including the famous Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

MI5 said the faked LinkedIn accounts are created and operation by nation-state spy agencies, with an intent to recruit individuals or gather sensitive information. How Strong is Your Password? A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%. Stay safe and secure.

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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. “a password-protected RAR archive containing a LNK file. . “a password-protected RAR archive containing a LNK file.

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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

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 also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 29, 2023

During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023). Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don't use for anything else.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

There was a time when stolen gaming accounts were almost treated as a fact of life. Gaming accounts had an essence of innate disposability to them, even if this wasn’t the case (how disposable is that gamertag used to access hundreds of dollars worth of gaming content)? Customer support: compromised accounts all the way down.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

District Court for the District of New Jersey charging Kovalev with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and eight counts of bank fraud in connection with a series of intrusions into victim bank accounts held at various U.S.-based based financial institutions that occurred in 2009 and 2010, predating his involvement in Dyre or the Trickbot Group.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. When registering for telehealth services, always use a strong password; however securely the service stores data, a simple password can allow an attacker to gain access to it. The HIPAA Journal , which is focused on leaks in the U.S. Source: HIPAA Journal.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% PayPal users maintained their position as the most frequently targeted payment system users, with phishing pages mimicking this payment system accounting for 37.8%

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It was active in the wild for at least for eight years—from 2009 to 2017—and targeted at least 20 civilian and military entities in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, Russia, Belarus, and the United Arab Emirates. DarkUniverse. DarkUniverse is another APT framework we discovered and reported on in 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. Features include automated discovery, port scans and patch status, password integrity , and protections for database-specific risks. Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Microsoft Azure. Database security features.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Founded in 2009, a16z already has an extensive track record of success, investing in over 500 companies and producing 160 exits. Formerly located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Greylock migrated headquarters to Menlo Park, California, in 2009. Accel Investments. Insight Partners.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2022

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and was released for public use as open-source software in 2009. Cryptocurrency is accounted for in wallets. First, and like passwords, they provide a method of authentication and establish ownership over wallets and assets. DEXs enable transactions on specific blockchains.

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

However, it wasn’t until 2009 that Craig Gentry, a researcher at IBM, produced and demonstrated a fully homomorphic encryption scheme that the technology was considered a viable option. However, there has been much progress made with the fully homomorphic algorithms since the original draft in 2009.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Enable 2FA and get a password manager. Samy Kamkar | @samykamkar.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2014, Wazawaka confided to another crime forum member via private message that he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on these marketplaces. “I used to steal their QIWI accounts with up to $500k in them,” Wazawaka recalled. That last domain was originally registered in 2009 to a Mikhail P.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I, therefore, enlisted at the age of 18 and began my career as a Communications Computer Systems Controller, which was converted to Cyber Transport Systems in 2009. I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. Besides my love for computers, I always imagined myself serving in the Air Force.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site launched in 2009. And with good reason — sex sells (the second most-read piece here was my 2015 scoop about the Ashley Madison hack ).

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