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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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

An ad for war.md, circa 2009. Constella finds that the password most frequently used by the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru was “ filecast ,” and that there are more than 90 email addresses associated with this password. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md Cached copies of DonChicho’s vanity domain ( donchicho[.]ru

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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. “ Dridex “) to steal banking credentials from employees at hundreds of small- to mid-sized companies in the United States and Europe. indep: Yeah.

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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

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

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 body of the messages includes a password to use to see the password-protected document.

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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. 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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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% We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies as well as the prevalence of various Windows and Android-based financial malware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2022

Calendar to spam in 2009. Calendar app spam leads to phishing pages. According to Bleeping Computer, it’s been abused to send phishing missives. The phish routine ends with that time honoured process of redirecting the phished individual to a real website afterwards.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

How Strong is Your Password? Millions of British people are using their pet's name as an online password, despite it being an easy target for hackers to work out, according to a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) survey. A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. With the active development of telehealth, medicine will only become a more commonly used bait, just as the digitalization of banks has turned banking phishing into one of the most popularly used types of phishing. Source: HIPAA Journal.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The attack chain starts with COVID19-themed spear-phishing messages that contain either a malicious Word attachment or a link to one hosted on company servers. . The experts discovered the custom backdoor while investigating an incident, it was used by attackers for lateral movements and data exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

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. ” continues the report.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

For Charlet, the 2009 Operation Aurora cyberattack on Google was a watershed moment for the company. For example, how do we discern when an email may be phishing; how do you know what to do and what not to do?". Using strong passwords and a password manager. Recognizing and reporting phishing. Updating software.

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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. The malware spreads through spear-phishing emails with a malicious Microsoft Office document as attachment.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

For users familiar with password management and the value of complex passwords, this makes sense. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel like a password manager. The longer and more complex the encrypted message is, the longer it’ll take to decrypt. Homomorphic Encryption.

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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.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

Forgotten passwords will tie up support’s time, for sure. It could be a fairly straightforward phish. 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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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.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Even small details like using financial hooks as part of a phishing awareness campaign can come across as poor taste at a time of rising consumer prices, she said. Passwords – and people’s tendency to reuse them – aren’t keeping people secure enough. Passwords are effectively a house key. Avast’s CISO – Jaya Baloo.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past ten years, his contact information has been used to register numerous phishing domains intended to siphon credentials from people trying to transact on various dark web marketplaces. That last domain was originally registered in 2009 to a Mikhail P. DomainTools.com [an advertiser on this site] reports mixfb@yandex.ru

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. Now you've just installed your malware on 1000s and 1000s of devices worldwide, but you're not done. Darki: So imagine malware is something like a Swiss knife. Well, that wasn't really mature.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Behold the tale of kid who reuses their passwords & ends up pwn'd, then learns how to stay safe.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

Here’s the story of a recent thread hijacking attack in which a journalist was copied on a phishing email from the unwilling subject of a recent scoop. But Sholtis said he didn’t enter his Outlook username and password. He was paroled in 2009, and in 2014 moved his family to a home in Lancaster County, Pa.

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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. There are several interesting takeaways from this phishing campaign.

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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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