Tech Republic Security

JUNE 13, 2017

Hidden Cobra, a North Korean-backed hacking group, may also be responsible for WannaCry and the Sony Pictures hack.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Darkode was taken down in 2015 as part of an FBI investigation sting operation , but screenshots of the community saved by this author show that DCReavers2 was already well known to the Darkode founders when his membership to the forum was accepted in May 2009. DCReavers2 was just the 22nd account to register on the Darkode cybercrime forum.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2024

Threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews researchers reported that threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. RockYou2021 had 8.4 billion passwords from various internet data leaks.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Megatraffer has been active on more than a half-dozen crime forums from September 2009 to the present day. In November 2009, Fitis wrote, “I am the perfect criminal. WHO IS MEGATRAFFER? And on most of these identities, Megatraffer has used the email address 774748@gmail.com.

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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. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, the timestamp for Mr. Carter’s inbox reads August 2009, but clicking that inbox revealed messages as recent as Feb. Wireless employees were published in clear text on the Internet. The timestamps listed do not appear to be accurate somehow. Within minutes of that notification, U.S.

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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. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

A newly detected hacking group named Aoquin Dragon from China has been found infiltrating servers from Southeast Asia and Australia. The post Aoquin Dragon from China hacking Australian Government Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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

JULY 10, 2019

The company pointed out that it is impossible to change gas mix parameters on systems manufactured after 2009, only older devices are affected by the issues. SecurityAffairs – anesthesia machines, hacking). The post Severe vulnerabilities allow hacking older GE anesthesia machines appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs. The latest document in the hacked archive is dated April 2021.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

According to the researchers, almost any mobile phone model is vulnerable to the SimJacker attack because it leverages a component on SIM cards and its specifications are the same since 2009. SecurityAffairs – SimJacker, hacking). ” states the post. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It is believed that the hacking group, which has been operating since 2009, is a state-sponsored group working for China. Thrip, Lotus Blossom, Spring Dragon) is responsible for a campaign that targeted a certificate authority, government agencies, and defense organizations in multiple countries in Asia.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Recorded Future, founded in 2009, has made its name in recent years by harnessing AI to provide real-time threat detection and predictive analytics. In the face of increasingly sophisticated threats such as ransomware, supply chain attacks, and nation-state-backed hacking groups , traditional cybersecurity methods are struggling to keep up.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2024

Most of the vulnerable systems are in the US (4686 at the time of this writing), followed by Japan (2009), and UK (1032). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, RCE)

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2024

The Finnish government contemplated expanding the options for individuals to change their social security number in certain circumstances, such as the aftermath of a hacking incident. Kivimäki, known online as Zeekill, was one of the leading members of several groups of teenage cybercriminals which caused chaos between 2009-2015.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2019

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2009-0692 , could be exploited by an attacker to crash the ISC DHCP client and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client. Avaya did not address the vulnerability issue in some of its VoIP devices by applying the necessary patches that were released after the discovery of the flaw in 2009.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 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. “North Korea’s intelligence apparatus controls a hacking team dedicated to robbing banks through remote internet access.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 31, 2018

I've spoken about this publicly in the past (deep link to the point in my "Hack Your Career" talk where I discuss this), but the blogging and the speaking and the courses and the HIBP stuff and especially the travel puts a lot of burden back onto Kylie.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Cyclone). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2024

The popular investigator Brian Krebs reported that Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted in 2014 that Tank told co-conspirators in a JabberZeus chat on July 22, 2009 that his daughter, Miloslava, was and told him Miloslava birth weight.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The group, also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , and Cloud Hopper , has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The Russian national named Aleksey Yurievich Burkov (30) was sentenced to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection, two credit card market that facilitated payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other illegal activities. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cardplanet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

NHK, a Japan-based news resource, has published that a cyber attack launched by a hacking group linked to Chinese military targeted nearly 200 research firms and institutions from Japan. TICK, a hacking group funded by People’s Liberation Army is said to be involved in the attack and is reported to be active since 2009.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EU sanctions). ” conclude the EU.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

He has been in charge of XZ Utils since he wrote it in 2009. Many open-source libraries, like XZ Utils, are maintained by volunteers. In the case of XZ Utils, it’s one person, named Lasse Collin. 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.)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

in threads asking for urgent help obtaining access to hacked businesses in South Korea. That email address and nickname had been used since 2009 to register multiple identities on more than a half dozen cybercrime forums. via sites that track hacked or leaked databases turned up some curious results. of GandCrab.

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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

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

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The US Treasury placed sanctions on three North Korea-linked hacking groups, the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andarial. The US Treasury sanctions on three North Korea-linked hacking groups, the Lazarus Group , Bluenoroff , and Andarial. SecurityAffairs – North Korea, hacking). ” continues the US Treasury.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, supply chain attack). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Orange Belgium is using Huawei equipment since 2007 for its mobile network in Belgium and Luxembourg, while the collaboration between Proximus and the Shenzhen-based company started in 2009 for the progressive upgrading of its network. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Proximus). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

“The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S. ” The report attributed the cyberespionage campaign to the China-linked APT10 (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda), the same group recently accused of hacking telco operators worldwide. SecurityAffairs – Cloud Hopper, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 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 – hacking, Lazarus APT). ” concludes the researchers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Related: How bots fuel ‘business logic’ hacking. This distortion method to fool the bot’s OCR (Optical Character Recognition) was actually a big innovation back then, which convinced Google to purchase the reCAPTCHA company back in 2009, and reCAPTCHA v1 continues to be reliable and popular throughout the 2010s.

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