The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. Here’s what I took away from our discussion: Transient hacks. This quickly gets intricately technical. Branching attacks.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. BEGINNINGS.

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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

JULY 8, 2019

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab estimated that by the time the program ceased operations, GandCrab accounted for up to half of the global ransomware market. in threads asking for urgent help obtaining access to hacked businesses in South Korea. In 2010, the hottabych_k2 address was used to register the domain name dedserver[.]ru

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SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2020

If you've heard any statements about Twitter over the last few days, they've probably included the words "hack," "verified users," "cryptocurrency," and potentially "Kanye West.". SecureWorld recently covered the news about Twitter's widespread celebrity account hijacking. Why did @6 get hacked? Now, we have a few updates.

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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. The domain wmpay.ru

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

Matthew Keys, a former Reuters journalist, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with an attack on a magazine. 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.

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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. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” ” In July 2022, Schulte was found guilty in a New York federal court of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks in 2017. . District Judge Jesse M.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2020

2020 – A zero-day vulnerability in the ThemeREX Addons was actively exploited by hackers in the wild to create user accounts with admin permissions. March 2010 – A critical privilege escalation flaw in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin can allow registered users to gain administrator privileges. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Exchange). “Unfortunately, as of our study on Sept.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. 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. com (2017).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Julian Assange). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued Thallium North Korea-linked APT for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. 27 in the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. By 2004, v1pee had adopted the moniker “ Vega ” on the exclusive Russian language hacking forum Mazafaka , where this user became one of the more reliable vendors of stolen payment cards.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. Guerrero-Saade discovered that the SIG37 campaign references hacking activities dated back as far as 2008 that was carried out by an unknown threat actor, the expert tracked it as Nazar.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 25, 2021

A data broker who allegedly hacked adult chat and web-streaming website MyFreeCams.com has sold nearly 2 million user records on a dark web forum, CyberNews researchers have discovered. After selling the stolen records, he immediately deleted his account and post from the forum.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Both require threat actors to steal credentials or perform some other kind of attack to gain access to the privileged account. Vertical Privilege Escalation Vertical privilege escalation involves a threat actor traveling from a lower-level account to a higher-level account.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, VPN). ” reads the press release published by the Europol. day to $190/year.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

US Department of Justice announced indictments against 5 Chinese nationals alleged members of a state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41. In August 2010, the same federal jury announced an indictment that charges Malaysian businessmen Wong Ong Hua, 46, and Ling Yang Ching, 32, for conspiring with two of the Chinese hackers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The vulnerability was disclosed after a Chinese security researcher published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit before deleting its account (helloexp). It was leaked by a Chinese security researcher who, since sharing and/or leaking it, has deleted their Twitter account. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Spring4Shell).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Court documents and government contracting records show the agencies tasked with monitoring the Mexican border have spent record sums on car hacking tools, while talking up the extraordinary amount of valuable evidence that can be reaped from onboard computers.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, infotainment systems).

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Listen to EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems. In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. They invited us and other members of the public to try to hack it. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A source said they’d stumbled upon a way to intercept and read the daily online chats between Aqua and several other mule recruiters and malware purveyors who were stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars weekly from hacked businesses. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Uyghurs). Record phone calls. Take pictures. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2020

Many people are now so accustomed to cloud computing that they use it multiple times per day, whether to collaborate with co-workers, log into email accounts or do other everyday tasks. A Massive Hack of a Google Cloud Database. fire department dating back to 2010. The convenience is undoubtedly one of its perks.

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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. It’s notable that hacks to gain access to, and maintain control of, industrial control systems are a recurring theme in cyber warfare. One prime demonstration of U.S. That was a glitch. drone fired on Gen.

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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. The Department is notifying the impacted customers, potentially affected users have to carefully monitor their accounts. SecurityAffairs – Maryland Depar t ment of Labor , hacking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Researchers from MalwareBytes and HYAS Threat Intelligence linked one of the hacking groups under the Magecart umbrella to the notorious Cobalt cybercrime Group. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. ” reads the blog post published by MalwareBytes. ” continues the experts. .

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