Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. The IT giant also removed 1,183 Google accounts, 908 cloud projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts used by the operators. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

million of its customers, exposed data includes the personal information of customers registered between August. 26, 2011 and February. ” The company recommends passengers to change their passwords to prevent unauthorized access to their accounts and ensure their data security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

It is estimated that the cryptocurrencies stolen between January 2011 and December 2021 amount to $12.1 billion from organizations in the industry and attacks against DeFi platforms accounted for $1.76 “Cryptocurrency crime stands in direct proportion to the size of the cryptocurrency market. Threat actors stole $3.18

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

New problems to Facebook , phone numbers associated with more than 400 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online. A new privacy incident involved Facebook, according to TechCruch, phone numbers associated with 419 million accounts of the social network giant were exposed online.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 “Prosecutors identified 20 businesses in six cities across France among the victims and following the money trail through various bank accounts — as much as $8 million — identified one as belonging to Vinnik.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018. Russia-linked cyber-espionage groups have used common tactics, such as spear-phishing, and brute force attacks. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The security breach was discovered after Mitsubishi Electric staff found a suspicious file on one of the company’s servers, further investigation allowed the company to determine that hack of an employee account. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” SP1 for Windows. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

contacts, images, and files) from various online accounts associated cloud storage services. Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . Some of the videos were showing how to exfiltrate data (i.e. continues IBM.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. Vinnik set up numerous such shell companies and financial accounts across the globe to allow BTC-e to conduct its business.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2024

Since 2011, Wang and his co-conspirators had been distributing malware through malicious VPN applications, including MaskVPN, DewVPN, PaladinVPN, ProxyGate, ShieldVPN, and ShineVPN. The FBI has published information at fbi.gov/911S5 to help identify and remove 911 S5’s VPN applications from your devices or machines.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Security experts at ClearSky analyzed attacks recently uncovered by Microsoft that targeted a US presidential candidate, government officials, journalists, and prominent expatriate Iranians. The messages include a link and claim to inform the recipient of an attempt to compromise their email account.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

.” The security breach was discovered after Mitsubishi Electric staff found a suspicious file on one of the company’s servers, further investigation allowed the company to determine that hack of an employee account. ” reported Kyodo News. ” reported Kyodo News.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees. “Phosphorus, an Iranian actor, has targeted with this scheme potential attendees of the upcoming Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 (T20) Summit in Saudi Arabia.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They may start with a low-level account, but they exploit permissions and pathways to work themselves up to an intimidating level of privilege where they’re poised to cause irreparable damage and also gain persistence or lockdown the account. Forrester estimated that 80% of security breaches involve privileged credentials.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

APT42’s TTPs overlap with another Iran-linked APT group tracked as APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) which made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

“This litigation is another step forward in holding cybercriminals accountable, by not just targeting those that operate botnets, but also those that profit from malware distribution.” Before downloading any software, do research on the product, and read reviews from others who have already downloaded and used the software.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

To validate the cookies and to grab more information about the YouTube user account, the malware starts one of the installed web browsers on the infected machine in headless mode and adds the cookie to its cookie store.” Aparat is an Iranian video-sharing site that was founded in 2011. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

“In this case the attacker, using an external user account, exploited weaknesses in JPL’s system of security controls to move undetected within the JPL network for approximately 10 months.” Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 3, 2021

Pam joins us with 25 years experience in the IT industry, with her most recent role being Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Anthem, Inc. I took an active role in understanding what the Security team were trying to achieve, and how my work and my team could help them. And when I was in town, we all got together.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The threat actors were returning periodically in the compromised network to launch xPack again and steal account credentials from the compromised organizations. Symantec speculates Antlion is has been active since at least 2011, its TTP overlaps the ones associated with China-linked nation-state actors.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The APT20 group has been active since at least 2011, but experts did not associate any campaign with this threat actors between 2016 and 2017. Fox-IT noticed that the APT20 group was able to abuse VPN accounts that were protected by 2FA, the experts believe that the group devised a specific technique to achieve this goal.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Knowing them, a threat actor could be able to hijack the session and therefore the account. If attackers had access to this key, they could create an admin account and have privileged access to a website. As reported in 2011, the company fell victim to two cyberattacks, which are suspected to be part of an espionage attempt.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Europe, the Middle East and India.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

released in 2011.” The researchers observed threat actors exploiting the flaw to gain access to the Openfire Plugins interface and creating new admin console user accounts to install a new plugin. Of those, the most popular version is 3.7.1,released ” adds the company. ” adds the company.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Dear blog readers, Do you know a lot about information security cybercrime research OSINT and threat intelligence gathering including cyber threat actors research? Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement agencies and organizations?

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Different wireless technologies operate within the RF spectrum, each utilizing specific frequency bands based on their intended applications (Molisch, 2011). Furthermore, stringent compliance requirements mandate comprehensive security checks, reinforcing the necessity of RF pentesting. IoT Security Techniques and Implementation.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The sensitivity and scale of data available to users within organizations has led to some of the most notorious security failures. While current employees are the biggest perpetrators of insider attacks, accounting for 30% of all incidents, former employees can also cause damage. Awareness of distinct usage across time.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Vamosi: At Black Hat USA 2011, hacker Jay Radcliffe demonstrated before a live audience how he could hack his own personal insulin pump.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Vamosi: At Black Hat USA 2011, hacker Jay Radcliffe demonstrated before a live audience how he could hack his own personal insulin pump.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

In the second half of 2019, ransomware remained the most frequent “stuffing” of phishing emails, accounting for 47 percent of the total number of malicious attachments. Figure 3 Top-10 threats hiding in phishing emails in H2 2019 and extension of attached malicious files.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Burkov calls himself a specialist in information security and denies having committed the crimes for which he’s been charged. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011. DirectConnection, circa 2011. authorities, and that the Russian government is probably concerned that he simply knows too much.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Gerstein, a 1980 West Point graduate, who served as the Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary (acting) and Deputy Undersecretary in the Science and Technology Directorate from 2011-2014, in his "Better Anticipating and Managing Today's Growing Cyber Risks" article.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

Why ChatGPT security concerns are both overblown and valid Artificial intelligence (AI) was once a science fiction cautionary tale—stories consistently warned against designing machines capable of surpassing human ingenuity. The program can help close the security knowledge gap by assisting in employee training.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2024

Google announced that it disrupted a hacking campaign carried out by Iran-linked group APT42 (Calanque, UNC788 ) that targeted the personal email accounts of individuals associated with the US elections. Google announced to have detected and blocked numerous attempts to log in to the personal email accounts of targeted individuals.

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