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

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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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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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. Vpn-service[.]us

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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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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. 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. . The huge amount of data is available for 0.177 Bitcoin, approximately USD 1032. Good night.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 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, North Korea). ” continues Kaspersky. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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

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. Plain Text (base64) Passwords.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The group (also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , MenuPass group, Bronze Riverside, 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.

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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 Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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.” The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

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. The experts pointed out the lack of visibility into the UPPERCUT 5.2.x

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 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. Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zinc).

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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. SecurityAffairs – Operation In(ter)reception , hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

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. “One file contains a public SSL certificate and the payload of the file appears to be encoded with a password or key.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

According to the company, attackers hacked a “limited number” of systems that allowed them to access the huge trove of data. Network Solutions is notifying affected customers via email and via its website, it also requiring all users to reset their account passwords. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. Vulnerabilities like the one mentioned above enable cybercriminals to hack into users’ devices, and steal their most sensitive data, that is, medical information. Moreover, it’s likely that cybercriminals will try to hack telehealth services.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

based financial institutions that occurred in 2009 and 2010, predating his involvement in Dyre or the Trickbot Group. ” TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The APT group was discovered by Microsoft in 2016, it targeted organizations in South and Southeast. ” continues the analys i s.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

Console hacks weren’t taken particularly seriously. Forgotten passwords will tie up support’s time, for sure. World of Warcraft developers Blizzard released their first authenticator way back in 2009. If players set up a OTP (one time password) process for their logins, they were rewarded with a 7-day value pack.

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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. One misconception about cryptocurrency is that threat actors hack cryptocurrencies or blockchains themselves – this is not true. A Growing Number of Different Cryptocurrencies Lend to an Expanding Attack Surface.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

This increases the likelihood of making mistakes, such as clicking on phishing links, sharing data in insecure ways, using weak passwords, or not spotting cyber threat patterns. Organisations When employees suffer from burnout, their brains become tired and less able to cope with the demands of their job. Naturally, attackers take advantage.

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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. An ad for war.md, circa 2009. Dfyz also used the nickname DonChicho , who likewise sold bulletproof hosting services and access to hacked Internet servers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

But in more recent years, Wazawaka has focused on peddling access to organizations and to databases stolen from hacked companies. Those three passwords were used by one or all of Wazawaka’s email addresses on the crime forums over the years, including wazawaka@yandex.ru , mixseo@mail.ru , mixseo@yandex.ru , mixfb@yandex.ru.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. It's about challenging her expectations about the people who hack reliving. And what it's like to hack sensors such as a lidar, or even a smart meter. Vamosi: Hash initially didn't start out hacking smart meters.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Today, Mitnick operates his consultancy and serves as Chief Hacking Officer for KnowBe4.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Vamosi: Welcome to The Hacker Mind and original podcast from ForAllSecure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Darki: So there were things happening, you know, for a long time, I guess, like 2009, I guess, was the first ones that came for IoT, but with Mirai. Well, that wasn't really mature.

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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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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

He argued that security works when it costs €100,000 for spyware to hack into a politician’s iPhone. Passwords – and people’s tendency to reuse them – aren’t keeping people secure enough. Passwords are effectively a house key. It’s a message that organisers Irisscert have promoted since the very first IRISSCON back in 2009.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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