Google Security

APRIL 24, 2023

Christiaan Brand, Group Product Manager We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator , across both iOS and Android, which adds the ability to safely backup your one-time codes (also known as one-time passwords or OTPs) to your Google Account. It’s also the primary entry point for risks, making it important to protect.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Once inside a victim company’s bank accounts, the crooks would modify the firm’s payroll to add dozens of “ money mules ,” people recruited through work-at-home schemes to handle bank transfers. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process. “They would discover [my accounts] and fix it, and I would discover a new vulnerability and hack them again.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. account).

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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.” In 2010, someone with the username Pepyak on the Russian language affiliate forum GoFuckBiz[.]com .” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

” That handle used the same ICQ instant messenger account number ( 555724 ) as a Mazafaka denizen named “ Nordex.” ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. In 2017, U.S. Constella tracked another Bankir[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

Constella Intelligence , a service that indexes information exposed by public database leaks, shows this email address was used to register an account at the clothing retailer romwe.com, using the password “ 123456xx.” ” In 2010, someone using the email address dugidox@gmail.com registered the domain dugidox[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts used by election officials at the state and local level. “I hope that doesn’t happen, but politicians are regular people who use the same tools we use.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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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. bank accounts. ws was registered to an Andrew Artz.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Many readers were aghast that the IRS would ask people to hand over their biometric and personal data to a private company that begin in 2010 as a way to help veterans, teachers and other public servants qualify for retail discounts. These readers had reasonable questions: Who has (or will have) access to this data?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

People who responded to recruitment messages were invited to create an account at one of these sites, enter personal and bank account data (mules were told they would be processing payments for their employer’s “programmers” based in Eastern Europe) and then log in each day to check for new messages. indep: Yeah.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities. .”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. DomainTools reports that stairwell.ru Image: Shutterstock.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

In 2010, Microsoft — in tandem with a number of security researchers — launched a combined technical and legal sneak attack on the Waledac botnet, successfully dismantling it. The government acknowledged that it was difficult to come to an accurate accounting of how much Levashov’s various botnets cost companies and consumers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Rapid7 reported that 87% of almost 138,000 Exchange 2016 servers and 77% of around 25,000 Exchange 2019 servers are still vulnerable to CVE-2020-0688 attacks, and roughly 54,000 Exchange 2010 servers have not been updated in six years. After Microsoft addressed the flaw experts reportedly observed that APT actors exploiting the flaw.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2019

By most accounts, it’s a relatively light patch batch this month. Other notable vulnerabilities addressed this month include a pair of critical security holes in Microsoft Excel versions 2010-2019 for Mac and Windows, as well as Office 365. Here’s a look at the highlights.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

“Taking account of all of the information available to him, he considered Mr Assange’s risk of suicide to be very high should extradition become imminent. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 14, 2021

Instagram, the subsidiary of Facebook company, has announced that it is going to roll out an additional security feature that allows its users to review their login info, data related to other accounts that share the login info, and recovery contact information.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

When Keys left Tribune Company-owned Sacramento KTXL Fox 40 in 2010, he shared login credentials of the CMS used by the website with members of Anonymous. Keys was accused of providing Anonymous login credentials that allowed the group to deface access and deface the website of the Los Angeles Times in 2013. ” states the Sacramento Bee.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

According to the company, threat actors have stolen data of individuals employed between July 1, 2010, and December 12, 2021. According to the company, threat actors likely accessed files containing direct deposit bank account information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 2, 2021

Malaysia Airlines, also known as Malaysian Airlines System in some parts of the world was reportedly cyber attacked by hackers during the period of March 2010 to July 2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

At the time of this writing, the threat actor has deleted its post, as well as its account, and emptied the cryptocurrency wallet used for the sale. The investigation conducted by MyFreeCams revealed that data were stolen in “a security incident that occurred more than ten years ago in June 2010.” ” reported CyberNews. .

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010. A common technique to achieve persistence is to leverage stolen account logons, especially ones that give access to privileged accounts. Branching attacks. Fast forward to 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

VPN bulletproof services are widely adopted by cybercrime organizations to carry out malicious activities, including ransomware and malware attacks, e-skimming breaches, spear-phishing campaigns, and account takeovers. ” reads the press release published by the Europol. The services were offered for prices ranging from $1.3/day

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. net 2010-11-22 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn 2333youxi[.]com blazefire[.]com blazefire[.]net

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010. They use a botnet to feed a large number of usernames and passwords into accounts associated with the targeted entity. When it comes to cyber warfare, America is no shrinking violet, of course.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

To understand the significance, there were far more “critical” and “high severity” vulnerabilities in 2020 (10,342) than the total number of all vulnerabilities recorded in 2010 (4,639), according to Redscan, which ran the analysis of NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

Furthermore, attackers used proof-of-concept code to attack SAP systems, but also brute-force attacks to take over high-privileged SAP user accounts. The goal of these attacks was to take full control of an SAP deployment in order to modify configurations and user accounts to exfiltrate business information.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010. To account for data sovereignty, Oracle has set up “ sovereign cloud regions ” in Germany and Spain to meet new data privacy rules. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup. Oracle launched OCI in October 2016.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Government Accountability Office is recommending the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) immediately develop and implement a strategy to address offshore oil and gas infrastructure risks. A cyberattack on the network of more than 1,600 facilities that produce much of U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Schulte was identified a few days after WikiLeaks started leaking the precious dumps. . ” continues the AP.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A separate set of startups soon cropped up specifically to handle the provisioning of log on accounts that gave access to multiple systems, and also the de-provisioning of those accounts when a user left the company. Efforts to balance security and productivity sometimes backfired.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

According to the American College Health Association, the percentage of undergraduates in the US—so, mainly young adults in college—who were diagnosed with anxiety increased 134% since 2010. Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least). That’s not all.

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