Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? WHO IS MEGATRAFFER?

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2024

The compilation has been named ‘RockYou2021’ by the forum user, presumably in reference to the RockYou data breach that occurred in 2009, when threat actors hacked their way into the social app website’s servers and got their hands on more than 32 million user passwords stored in plain text.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

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. Intel 471 reports that gumboldt@gmail.com was used in 2009 to register a user by the nickname “ Kolumb ” on the Russian hacking forum Antichat.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

HP recently announced the findings of a new study – Nation States, Cyberconflict, and the Web of Profit – showing that nation state cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, varied, and open, moving us closer to a point of “advanced cyberconflict” than at any time since the inception of the internet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2024

Shadowserver researchers have scanned the Internet for instances vulnerable to CVE-2024-21894 and reported that about 16,500 are still vulnerable. Most of the vulnerable systems are in the US (4686 at the time of this writing), followed by Japan (2009), and UK (1032).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

From February’s piece: At issue is a problem known as “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. In our ongoing commitment to customer security, we also acquired the Corp.com domain.”

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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

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. The Chinese giant was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

“Internet users found that 538 million Weibo user records are being sold on dark web marketplace. 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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Adam Levin

JANUARY 30, 2019

While not inaccurate, describing Shodan as a “search engine” for “internet-connected devices” is something of an understatement. Shodan doesn’t help provide much in the way of reassurance by featuring the top three searches on the site: all are links to vulnerable or unprotected internet-enabled cameras.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Most of us internet users are obviously familiar with CAPTCHAs: a challenge or test that is designed to filter out bots (automated programs) and only allow legitimate human users in. Related: How bots fuel ‘business logic’ hacking. That is, however, no longer the case.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

As first reported by Cyberscoop in 2020, a trial brief in the California investigation identified Nikulin, Kislitsin and two alleged cybercriminals — Oleg Tolstikh and Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko — as being present during a 2012 meeting at a Moscow hotel, where participants allegedly discussed starting an internet café business.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

federal prison for his role in the theft of $9 million from RBS WorldPay in 2009. KrebsOnSecurity installed the FSB’s software on a test computer using a separate VPN, and straight away it connected to an Internet address currently assigned to the FSB (213.24.76.xxx). Horohorin’s BadB carding store, badb[.]biz,

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Scary Beasts Security

AUGUST 4, 2010

For background reading, see my Dec 2009 original post and an update that notes Firefox fixing the issue. It turns out that Internet Explorer is not compliant in either of these aspects, leaving it more vulnerable that the other browsers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

And it includes identity theft, online criminal activity, threats related to internet routing, and other online incidents. In the year 2009, DHS opened the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center that protects computer networks and networked infrastructure.

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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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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 10, 2024

It's 2009 and I just stumbled upon the extremely sophisticated Xedant Human Emulator (XHE) (hxxp://humanemulator.info) which basically automates human interactions with Web and online properties to the point of sophisticated and was in a way heavily advertised on various cybercrime-friendly forum communities back in the day.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The survey found that nearly 80% of TLS certificates on the Internet are vulnerable to Man in the Middle (MiM) attacks, while as many as 25% of all certificates are expired at any given time. Some of the report’s key findings include: Palanisamy •Only 21% of servers on the internet utilize TLS 1.3, New York, NY, Aug.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. This has raised concerns that Russian agents are checking the cables for weak points, with a view to tapping or even damaging them in the future.” Source [link].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows slap Internet giants on the face”. You may not remember your MySpace password from 2008, but the Internet does: 360 million email addresses and passwords were allegedly offered for sale last year.

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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. ” reads the data breach notice published by the Maryland Department.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Bloomberg, Vodafone identified hidden backdoors in software that could have handed Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy used to connect to the internet. Bloomberg obtained Vodafone’s security briefing documents from 2009 and 2011 and spoke with people involved in the situation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2019

According to the Russian media, SyTech has been working with FSB since 2009, in particular, they contributed to several projects for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum. Hope/ Nadezhda – a project to analyzed the overall Russian internet and its connections to the global WWW. ” continues CrimeRussia.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. But lobbying strategies are not always so blunt, and the interests involved are not always so obvious. Political scientist Amy McKay coined the term.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

.” The malware was able to steal data from both office IT networks and a restricted network (one containing mission-critical assets and computers with highly sensitive data and no internet access). ” The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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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.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

In 2005 the company released the security note 8218752 and in 2009 released the security note 14080813 containing instructions on how to properly configure the access list for Gateway. Researchers also found many SAP systems exposed on the internet that could be hit by remote, unauthenticated attackers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

National Security Agency (NSA) in 2009, LookingGlass Cyber Solutions provides three threat intelligence analysis products: a threat intelligence platform ( scoutPrime ), a threat modeling tool ( scoutThreat ), and an attack surface monitoring solution ( scoutInspect ). Company Description Spun out from the U.S.

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Google Security

MARCH 28, 2024

Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., Cache poisoning mitigations in Google Public DNS Improving DNS security has been a goal of Google Public DNS since our launch in 2009. 192.0.2.1)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

News the security breach has happened in 2009, the Iranian intelligence infiltrated a series of websites used by the CIA to communicate with agents worldwide, including Iran and China. The alleged hack of the communications network used by CIA agents allowed Iranian intelligence to identify and kill at least 30 spies. According to Yahoo !

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The last global recession occurred in 2009. Trust in online activities decreases as internet users understand the risks. Can criminal operations shut down like others do as an unfortunate side effect of economic unrest? Predicting the Future by Looking to the Past. Every nation analyzed the trends of cybercrime as apprehensions rose.

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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.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

IDIQ has been offering IdentityIQ services since 2009. Benefits of IdentityIQ Let’s take a closer look at how IdentityIQ protects its members : Dark Web and Internet Monitoring IdentityIQ surveils the dark web and the internet to help ensure your private information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

I started with WordPress in 2009, probably more like 2010, because my mom introduced me to it. It’s not about who has the internet, it’s not about who has a device, it’s about who can use the things that we’re building the internet with, and who can communicate best with people who are already in that space.

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Google Security

JUNE 27, 2024

C=US CN=Entrust Root Certification Authority - G2,OU=See www.entrust.net/legal-terms+OU=(c) 2009 Entrust, Inc. - Certification Authorities (CAs) serve a privileged and trusted role on the Internet that underpin encrypted connections between browsers and websites. for authorized use only,O=Entrust, Inc.,C=US limits liab.)+OU=(c)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in cyber-criminal campaigns, to modern cyber arsenal like the Sofacy one. Introduction. Figure 4: Bot’s registration on the C2.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2019

Brinqa was founded in 2009 by Amad Fida and Hilda Perez, industry veterans seeking to leverage their collective expertise in risk management and identity and access management. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Talk more soon.

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