Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

According to the New York Times, FIFA has suffered the second hack in a year, new documents are set to be published on Friday by Football Leaks. This is the second time that Federation was hacked in a year, the organization confirmed the incident, but did not disclose details of the cyber attack. ” states The New York Times.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Verified and other Russian language crime forums where MrMurza had a presence have been hacked over the years, with contact details and private messages leaked online. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.” relied on the passwords asus666 and 01091987h. also used the password 24587256. and asus@mail.ru.

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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. A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S. prison system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Energetic Bear). The post FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. com , a malware-based proxy network that has been in existence since at least 2010. Image: Spur.us.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. In March, Joshua Schulte , a former CIA software engineer that was accused of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks, was convicted of only minor charges.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft has taken control of 42 web domains that a hacking group was using to try to breach its targets. Sadly, any setback to the Chinese hacking group or others will likely be temporary as the hackers will find and build new infrastructure to use in forthcoming attacks. An overview of Chinese hacking groups and their aliases.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft has taken control of 42 web domains that a hacking group was using to try to breach its targets. Sadly, any setback to the Chinese hacking group or others will likely be temporary as the hackers will find and build new infrastructure to use in forthcoming attacks. An overview of Chinese hacking groups and their aliases.

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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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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2020

The charges are that he actively helped the people who actually did the hacking: Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist played a "clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime." Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 found that Internet address also was used to register the account “Nordex” on the Russian hacking forum Exploit back in 2006.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Security researchers from ESET revealed that the infamous Russian hacker group known as Energetic Bear is behind the hack of two San Francisco International Airport (SFO) websites. The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted s LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2024

He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted a LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets.

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SecureList

JUNE 8, 2022

Routers are forever being hacked and infected, and used to infiltrate local networks. Number of router vulnerabilities according to cve.mitre.org, 2010–2022 ( download ). Number of router vulnerabilities according to nvd.nist.gov, 2010–2022 ( download ). search results for “default password” in June 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

Stolen records belong to 2 million user records of MyFreeCams Premium members, they include usernames, email addresses, MyFreeCams Token (MFC Token) amounts, and passwords in plain text. In response to the incident, MyFreeCams reset the passwords of impacted users. SecurityAffairs – hacking, MyFreeCams). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted s LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets. “In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country. . ” states DoJ.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2020

Way back in 2010 I was writing about this as part of the OWASP Top 10 for ASP.NET series and a near decade on, it's still a problem. NewPassword: passw0rd ConfirmPassword: passw0rd This is a real request from my Hack Yourself First website I use as part of the workshops Scott Helme and I run. Why is this possible?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

“The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S. ” The report attributed the cyberespionage campaign to the China-linked APT10 (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda), the same group recently accused of hacking telco operators worldwide. SecurityAffairs – Cloud Hopper, hacking).

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Experts warn of an ongoing hacking campaign that already compromised at least nine organizations worldwide from critical sectors by exploiting CVE-2021-40539. KdcSponge allows capturing the domain name, username, and password. The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

New malware compiled on Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses a network data encoding scheme based on XOR, creates a backdoor in systems that gives an attacker near full control over infected machines. ( “Linux password file” by Christiaan Colen is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

Security researchers are monitoring a new hacking campaign aimed at Joomla and WordPress websites, attackers used.htaccess injector for malicious redirect. The features include the redirect functionality, content password protection or image hot link prevention. htaccess, hacking). htaccess) injector found on a client website.

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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.". Why did @6 get hacked? This story offers some valuable information regarding Twitter's hack. Only, not the way you're thinking.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

The Naikon APT group is a China-linked cyber espionage group that has been active at least since 2010 and that remained under the radar since 2015 while targeting entities in Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT). If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

Gyllensvaan “It’s a way to isolate corporate data from the device itself, so that even if the device gets hacked or becomes corrupt, the corporate data is still highly protected,” Gyllensvaan says. “So BYOD threw a monkey wrench into IT operations starting in 2010 or so. BYOD tensions Some historical context is needed here.

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

But now some miscreant has posted the entire dataset on a hacking forum, so every lowlife out there has access. To be honest, between scraping vulnerabilities dating back to 2010 , and the Cambridge Analytica scandal , an old data breach is still a data breach, and you’re probably still going to need to pay attention to it.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 2, 2019

Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. The post Podcast Episode 140: passwords are. Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. Half a century later, the password has long since outlived its usefulness. Read the whole entry. »

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Often, they start their journey by stealing an initial set of credentials or somehow spoofing the application or network so they don’t have to use a password at all. Credential Stuffing In a credential stuffing attack, a threat actor will attempt multiple commonly-used and known passwords, usernames, or both to see if they work.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The company behind it launched in 2010, and it reportedly gained its first overseas customer just one year later. The company behind it launched in 2010, and it reportedly gained its first overseas customer just one year later. ” Pegasus is not new.

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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. The perp claims to have stolen usernames, emails, clear text passwords, and MFC Token balances of 2 million Premium and Diamond members.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Not long afterwards, in about the 2010 time frame, IAM vendors first arrived on the scene, including Optimal IdM, Centrify, Okta and CyberArk, followed by many others. For instance, when several folks needed access to privileged accounts, it became common practice to write down usernames and passwords on slips of paper and pass them around.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. The question here was disruptive.

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