Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about “ juice jacking ,” a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile device into a public charging kiosk.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 20, 2021

In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The popular Italian hacktivist collective LulzSec ITA claimed via Twitter to have hacked three Italian universities. The popular Italian hacktivist collective LulzSec ITA has announced via Twitter the hack of three Italian universities, highlighting the importance of the cybersecurity for our society. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

Qualys experts discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011. Security experts from Qualys discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. The big names that pioneered in these targeted attacks are Sodinokibi (aka REvil) and Ryuk.

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The Hacker News

MAY 21, 2021

26, 2011 and Feb. India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System (PSS) provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered between Aug.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following revelations that the data had been exposed since 2011 — two years after responsibility for securing the state’s IT systems was centralized within Parson’s own Office of Administration. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R), vowing to prosecute the St. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox in 2011 and money laundering. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox ) The post Russians charged with hacking Mt.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 revealed that the US CIA has hacked Chinese organizations in various sectors for the last 11 years. Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 is accusing that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CIA).

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 19, 2021

Today, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted four members of the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as APT40 for hacking various companies, universities, and government entities in the US and worldwide between 2011 and 2018. [.].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The hacking campaign, called Salt Typhoon by investigators, hasn’t previously been publicly disclosed and is the latest in a series of incursions that U.S. and its allies for hacking activities in July. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, T-Mobile)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. O’Neill said he opened the investigation into Ngo’s identity theft business after reading about it in a 2011 KrebsOnSecurity story, “ How Much is Your Identity Worth? BEGINNINGS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

ALAC was developed in 2004 and Apple open-sourced it in 2011, since then many third-party vendors used it. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Android). The post Critical bug in decoder used by popular chipsets exposes 2/3 of Android devices to hack appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The hacking group claims to have compromised all of Sony's systems. However, the group has posted some sample data from the hack online, including screenshots of an internal login page, an internal PowerPoint presentation, and several Java files. At the time of this publication, Ransomed.vc has yet to provide any definitive proof.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi Electric, hacking). The post Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 9, 2023

Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner have been charged with the 2011 hacking of the leading (at the time) cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the laundering of around 647,000 bitcoins they stole. [.]

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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. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com At some point, mindjolt.com apparently also was hacked, because a copy of its database at Constella says the bo3dom@gmail.com used two passwords at that site: lebeda1 and a123456.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. Nikki Haley to head the state’s law enforcement division.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Related: Supply-chain hacks prove worrisome. Yes, and that is what Sony exactly lost when they were hacked and the personal info of every one of its customers leaked in 2011. Every second, even while you are reading this article, a hacker is trying to hack a site.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency. According to Snowden, the UK’s signals intelligence have hacked into the Belgian telco to spy on private communications in transit into its infrastructure. ” wrote The Intercept.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat, a term that generally refers to state-sponsored hacking groups.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2022

government on Thursday released a cybersecurity advisory outlining multiple intrusion campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors from 2011 to 2018 that targeted the energy sector in the U.S. and beyond. The [Federal Security Service] conducted a multi-stage campaign in which they gained remote access to U.S.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 20, 2021

4 members belonging to APT40, a hacking group supported by the Chinese government, were indicted yesterday by the U.S. They were charged with several hacking crimes that unfolded between 2011 and 2018 where they targeted state entities, universities, and enterprises. DOJ (Department of Justice).

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Recent reports have confirmed that the outage was caused by WastedLocker, a ransomware often used to specifically target and disrupt business operations, and closely associated with Evil Corp, the hacking group behind a $100 million crime spree that began in 2011.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 13, 2023

According to unsealed indictments released last week, Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, have been accused of conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins stolen from September 2011 through at

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2019

References Scott will be running my Hack Yourself First workshop in Glasgow next week (this is the last stop on the UK tour, get in while you still can!) The Zhenai breach from 2011 added another 5M records to HIBP (I'm still working through a ridiculously long backlog of breaches.)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2022

OpRussia continues, less than a week after my last update Anonymous has hacked other Russian companies and leaked their data via DDoSecrets. The financial institution was hacked by Anonymous’s affiliate Network Battalion 65, one of the most active hacking groups since the beginning of the invasion. million emails (1.7

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

It's usually something to the effect of "hey, have you seen the Spotify breach", to which I politely reply with a link to my old No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked blog post (it's just the output of a small set of credentials successfully tested against their service), and we all move on.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

Security experts at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) that exists since 2011. SecurityAffairs – Lenovo Solution Centre, hacking). The post Lenovo Solution Centre flaw allows hacking Windows laptop in 10 minutes appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. The post NASA hacked!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.” The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin had gone into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 20, 2022

The memo also clearly underlines the fact that any research done to extort money later will not contribute to good faith hacking. In September 2011, an amendment was made to the bill under the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Many other emails poured in, including numerous “bounced” messages delivered in reply to missives from Cashedge.com , a money transfer service that Fiserv acquired in 2011. “My accounts were hacked and if any funding is gone your [sic] sued from me and federal trade commission,” one wrote.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011 and 2018. Three of the defendants are said to be officers in a provincial arm of the MSS and one was an employee of a front company that was used to obfuscate the government’s role in the hacking campaigns.

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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. 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. Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2024

This isn’t the first incident suffered by IMF, the agency suffered a major security breach in 2011. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, International Monetary Fund)

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