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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations.

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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 21, 2023

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. The very first post by Kerens on Exploit in 2011 was a negative review of a popular crypting service that predated Cryptor[.]biz frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.”

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2019

So "Plan A" was to publish Pwned Passwords V5 on Tuesday but a last-minute check showed control characters had snuck in due to the quality (or lack thereof) of the source data. 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!)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). Last week, Google rolled out emergency fixes to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3075 , in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild. CISA orders federal agencies to fix these vulnerabilities by September 29, 2022. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

million of its customers, two months after its Passenger Service System provider SITA was hacked. 26, 2011 and February. The airline pointed out that neither CVV/CVC numbers associated with the credit cards nor passwords were impacted. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Air India). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. That’s when you hack and hijack a website, embed Coinhive on it so that all of the visitors are now mining Monero, and that goes to your wallet as an attack. Bilogorskiy: Correct, because people share passwords. It was insane. Bilogorskiy.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fast-forward a decade from now and imagine teaching emerging cybersecurity professionals about an obsolete thing called a password. Password problems because of the human factor. Manual and annoying for a long time, passwords were a key technology, beginning in the early digital age, to protect servers, accounts, and eventually email.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The source code of the Zeus Trojan is available in the cybercrime underground since 2011 allowing crooks to develop their own release since. SecurityAffairs – Silent Night, hacking). Experts found multiple variants in the wild, many of them belonging to the Terdot Zbot/Zloader malware family. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. . Microsoft notified all the impacted users about the hacks and provided supports to the victims to secure their accounts. SecurityAffairs – Iran, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

the attacker does not need to know the user’s password). The vulnerability was introduced in July 2011 ( commit 8255ed69 ), and affects all versions from 1.8.2 SecurityAffairs – hacking, Intel). The privilege escalation issue is a heap-based buffer overflow that was discovered by security researchers from Qualys.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

Microsoft removes Password-Expiration Policy in security baseline for Windows 10. Over 23 million breached accounts were using ‘123456 as password. But it was 2011. How to Hack Dell computers exploiting a flaw in pre-installed Dell SupportAssist. Amnesty International Hong Kong Office hit by state-sponsored attack.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. SplashData has released its annual list of the most common passwords compiled from more than 3.3

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2023

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 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., ” reads the report published by Volexity.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

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 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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 ransomware copies files into password-protected WinRAR archives, it uses a renamed freeware version of the legitimate file utility WinRAR. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT35).

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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. W? ”, used as “s**t” or “damn”) is the name that Fox-IT uses to describe the hacking activities of a Chinese based hacking group.” SecurityAffairs – APT20, 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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The protocol protects your incoming and outgoing internet traffic and makes it difficult for cyber criminals to intercept your data or hack your device. The typical username and password for Wi-Fi routers is “admin” for both, but you may need to search online or contact your ISP if that doesn’t work.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The decryption password is provided as a command-line argument (Base64 encoded string), and the xPack backdoor can run as a standalone application or as a service (xPackSvc variant). 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

MARCH 14, 2023

In particular, recent investigations were able to identify four of them: the ARestore escalation tool, the backdoor, and other publicly available toolkits such as Advanced_Port_Scanner and a particular popular Chinese hack tool. 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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Adam Levin

JUNE 3, 2019

Case in point: the hacking group Lulzsec’s 2011 hack of the U.S. Every access point has the potential for a breach, be it from an unprotected drive , a re-used password , an irresponsible click, a compromised cell phone or a bad player. Like a severed head, stolen data is the proof of success in this arena.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Privacy and Passwords: Two-step verification is done by default, but multi-factor authentication (MFA) is recommended. Password security Ring requires two-step verification (2SV) by default, which adds an extra layer of security by requiring a second form of identification in addition to your password. Who is Ring?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

I mean, there are so many positive stories about people who are hacking for a living and doing good things because of it. In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. Don't use familiar passwords seriously. And he had.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

It is a more secure way of authenticating users compared to the legacy username and password mechanism. The year 2011 was an infamous year for certificate authority hacks that caused the breach of high profile domains as well as the end of business for some.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011. Dynamic configuration served by the C2 During March 2023, the resulting binary is a.NET file packed with ConfuseEx v1.0.0.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I’ve consistently spoken, and written about the dangers of burnout in cybersecurity, and proposed leadership strategies for employee wellbeing. This increases the likelihood of making mistakes, such as clicking on phishing links, sharing data in insecure ways, using weak passwords, or not spotting cyber threat patterns.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

In an ironic twist, the marketing empire that owns the hacked online properties appears to be run by a Canadian man who’s been sued for fraud by the U.S. A (redacted) screen shot shared by the apparent hacker who was selling access to usernames and passwords for customers of multiple data-search Web sites.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

At each conference, we have a hack-a-thon: to create, prove, test, improve and finally put into production new or improved integrations. Cleartext passwords and usernames disclosed in traffic. A lot has changed since my first Black Hat at Caeser’s Palace in 2011, it really is a shame.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. Welcome to the Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. Welcome to the Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unbeknownst to Ika at the time, his Pustota forum also had been completely hacked that week, and a copy of its database shared with this author. Much of my reporting on Vrublevsky’s cybercrime empire came from several years worth of internal ChronoPay emails and documents that were leaked online in 2010 and 2011.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So on December 31, 2011, at almost midnight, a developer with direct access to OpenSSL, Robin Seggelmann, committed the change that changed the heartbeat function. Welcome to the Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Threat actors included the passwords for accessing the archives’ contents in the subject of the email, the name of the archive, or in their subsequent correspondence with the victim. SecurityAffairs – phishing attacks, hacking). Figure 3 Top-10 threats hiding in phishing emails in H2 2019 and extension of attached malicious files.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. However, despite claims from U.S.

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