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

OCTOBER 1, 2019

“The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.” “Affected individuals could be at risk of identity theft and should monitor their accounts closely. ” continues the experts. ” concludes the experts.

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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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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Fraud: Sophisticated scams, including bonus abuse and account takeovers, pose significant financial risks. Don't forget to enable MFA, use strong, unique passwords, and be suspicious of inbound messages about gaming that could be phishing attempts. Online gamblers, meanwhile, must remain vigilant.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. “A small shift from one of their previous conventions of [firstname],[lastname], [fournumbers] (overwhelmingly using protonmail accounts, with a handful of tutanota/keemail.me ” reads the blog post published by MalwareBytes.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 3, 2024

A compromised VPN account with a weak password led to a ransomware attack that disrupted fuel supplies throughout the U.S. Then there's Nvidia's 2023 cyberattack, where phishing schemes tricked personnel into surrendering their credentials and exposing sensitive records. The attacker's gateway? Human blunders. It starts with practice.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

However, one possible scenario is that they obtained a targeted employee’s login credentials and then used that employee’s account to pivot to and take control of the build system, Pericin says. It is undisclosed how the Russia-sponsored attackers got control of the SolarWinds build machine.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. A long time coming. Prove me wrong, plz.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. In this attack, spear phishing was used as the initial infection vector. The phishing emails claimed to have urgent updates on today’s hottest topic – COVID-19 infections.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most of the tax-related attacks follow a few tried and true methods: A phishing email or scam call from someone purporting to be from the IRS, or an accountant offering to help you get a big refund. The first snapshot promoting an online tax filing service shows up in 2010. They want your hard-earned dollars in their pockets.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. 2010 — Zeus Trojan Virus — An Eastern European cybercrime ring steals $70 million from U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

2010 Vancouver. The most interesting incident was probably a fake opening ceremonies website serving infections , via promotion from a bogus Twitter account. Phishing and bogus domains remained a strong contender for taking the scammer gold medal, with ATM carding grabbing a runner-up spot. 2012 London. 2020 Tokyo.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“The bad actor may have gained access via a phishing attack targeting your employees—or through a vulnerable third-party vendor attached to your company’s server.” Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We believe that Iran started heavily investing in its cyber operations program following the discovery of Stuxnet in 2010, and we can track the evolution from there. The campaign by these nation-state hackers started back in 2015 and included a hit list of more than 1,800 accounts from organizations in five countries, including the U.S.,

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

Individuals want to understand how to protect their identities, bank accounts, and personal data. This year’s predominant attack vectors and cybercrime trends Phishing attacks have continued to be the most prevalent attack vector as fraudsters have sought new ways to exploit our lives – both personally and professionally – any way they can.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2024

According to available data, more than 4,600 common IT vulnerabilities were discovered in 2010. It does not block phishing scams, hacking attempts, viruses, or malware. Kill Phishing This may be the easiest and hardest user behavior to control. Types of devices using network access have proliferated.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

Future Regulations Amongst the numerous challenges facing regulators, LRQA Nettitude anticipate that the initial focus will revolve around: Accountability : Determine who is accountable for compliance with existing regulation and the principles.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Through acquisitions in the 2000s, SAP launched their database platform, HANA, in 2010. With several attacks in the last year due to a breach of an administrator or personnel’s account, organizations must take a zero trust approach to protect data security. Also Read: With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Imagine for a moment that your employee uses one password to access their social media profiles and to sign in to their Office 365 corporate account. Your employee’s password to Office 365 might get cracked or stolen during a phishing attack. This way, a system ensures only veritable users can get access to the account.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As cloud computing upends traditional perimeter models of cybersecurity, new cloud security models have emerged, and CWPP was one of the first to appear back in 2010. Shared accountability is followed by CSPs; service providers safeguard infrastructure, while customers secure data and apps.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. Stealers also bridge the realms of criminal and nation-state focus. me/+ZjiasReCKmo2N2Rk (Mystic Stealer News).

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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

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. “I used to steal their QIWI accounts with up to $500k in them,” Wazawaka recalled. ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA?

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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

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. For $200, vetted users could hire his botnet to blast one million emails containing malware or ads for male enhancement drugs.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Unfortunately it also threatens to clean out somebody’s bank account. A huge amount of wealth had accumulated up there in space on account of his wages still being paid somehow, instead of just bringing him back down from the super secret space station. 2010: Still hitching a ride. Did I mention the arrow is in space?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct employee phishing tests.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2020

SecureWorld recently covered the news about Twitter's widespread celebrity account hijacking. Lamo passed away in 2018, but @Lucky225 continues to run the @6 account, per the request of Lamo's family. Now, we have a few updates. Sure enough my Twitter app showed that I had been logged out 'due to an error.'.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. It could install a keylogging program, allowing the hacker to gain access to sensitive information like bank account details, passwords, and physical addresses as long as the victim typed that information into their computer at any point. Read More: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2022.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The 2010 Census had an overall undercount of only 0.01 The problem in 2010 was not how many people were undercounted, but rather who wasn’t counted: 700,000 Latin Xers and almost five percent of the Native American and Alaska native population living on reservations; a million children under the age of four; 1.1 percent in 2010.

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