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 .” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2021

From the year 2007, BPL has been assigned with the service of free to use wireless internet across all of its 24 branches and from 2011 the premises were also holding pay-for-print services for local public. Populace living in the district can access over 24 million books and are also entitled to participate in over 10,000 programs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

government agency created in 2011 to protect consumers in the financial sector, ensuring fair, transparent, and competitive financial markets The agency has issued a directive to employees to reduce the use of their phones and invite them to use Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx for their meetings and conversations that involve nonpublic data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 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., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. ” concludes the post.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. A sinkhole is a way of redirecting malicious internet traffic so that it can be captured and analyzed by security professionals, and are often used to seize control of botnets.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Yahoo and Altavista were our gateways to the internet. That network connectivity is both full internet connectivity, that is, Internet Protocol stacks, and also local network connectivity, such as Bluetooth and Zigbee. [no description provided] Twenty years ago, Windows 95 was the most common operating system.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

i-SOON CEO Wu Haibo, in 2011. But Will Thomas , a cyber threat intelligence researcher at Equinix, found an Internet address in the leaked data that corresponds to a domain flagged in a 2019 Citizen Lab report about one-click mobile phone exploits that were being used to target groups in Tibet. Image: nattothoughts.substack.com.

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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. Google partnered with Internet infrastructure providers and hosting providers, such as CloudFlare, to take down servers used by the gang.

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Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

Drafted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF) in 1998, it became an Internet Standard in 2017. IP addresses, those numbers assigned to every internet-connected device, or node, were designed to contain 32 bits. What continued IPv6 adoption means for internet security. IPv6 has been a long time coming.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 27, 2021

It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. We’re fans: in fact, Cisco Umbrella has supported Encrypted DNS since 2011. Read more about DoH in this blog by my colleague Nancy Cam-Winget. What’s next.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that is currently being exploited in the wild, as well as a sneaky bug in certain versions of Office for Mac that bypasses security protections and was detailed publicly prior to today’s patches.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 — The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) launched the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) in 2020 to establish a baseline for how virtual private network (VPN) providers should operate. Social Responsibility: VPN providers will promote VPN technology to support access to the global Internet and freedom of expression.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Experts suspect the state-sponsored hackers have gathered extensive internet traffic and potentially compromised sensitive data. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” The investigation into the breaches of the U.S. Wall Street Journal reported.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2023

Reddit was urging a US court to maintain the anonymity of six Reddit users who’d mentioned piracy all the way back in 2011 and 2018. According to Ars Technica, the most recent Reddit users were in the firing line for having their identities revealed for similar posts made in 2011. One individual posted that “I have Grande.

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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. Experts found multiple variants in the wild, many of them belonging to the Terdot Zbot/Zloader malware family. Experts believe that Axe is the developer of the Axe Bot 1.4.1, comparing Axe Bot 1.4.1

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

KashmirBlack scans the internet for sites using vulnerable CMS versions and attempting to exploit known vulnerabilities to them and take over the underlying server. Experts observed a continuous growth of the botnet since its discovery along with an increasing level of complexity.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2022

But this isn't an internet age thing, the origins go back way further, originally being used to describe TV viewers being served ads. How about ASafaWeb in 2011 ? How many times have you heard the old adage about how nothing in life is free: If you're not paying for the product, you are the product Facebook. So why do it?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

“Several industry sectors have been targeted including aviation organizations, scientific research institutions, petroleum industry, Internet companies, and government agencies.” The Chinese researchers also discovered that the WISTFULTOOL data plugin was used in an attack against a large Internet company in China in 2011.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to global market data provider IHS Markit, Hikvision has 38% of the global market share, and it has been the market leader since 2011. In general it is a good idea not make your cameras accessible from the internet and if you do, put them behind a VPN. The vulnerability. The post Patch now!

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 4, 2021

I had a lively discussion about this with Rohyt Belani, co-founder and CEO of Cofense, which started out as PhishMe in 2011. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2018

Like the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) role I've had since 2011, it's one that only comes from being an active member of the technology community and contributing to it in a meaningful way. And that's that - another 2 years of Regional Director and hopefully, another year of MVP come July.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A lot has changed in the Microsoft technology world in the last 7 years since I launched ASafaWeb in September 2011. Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser ( Chrome was in 3rd place back then ). Windows XP is no longer the dominant operating system ( Win 7 actually caught up the month I launched ASafaWeb ).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals. Businesses.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Related: Securing the Internet of Things I’ve been writing about organizations struggling to solve the productivity vs. security dilemma that’s part and parcel of the BYOD craze for some time now. By 2011 or so, it was clear the BYOD trend was unstoppable, and companies began to impose much tighter security constraints. Talk more soon.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Microsoft is not the only company to reveal that internet users have been reluctant to adopt MFA. Google introduced 2FA to Gmail in 2011. It’s a widely used JavaScript package manager and the largest repository of computer programming packages on the Internet. There’s low MFA adoption elsewhere, too. percent).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. 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.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

The Tropic Trooper APT that has been active at least since 2011, it was first spotted in 2015 by security experts at Trend Micro when it targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. “tracert -h 8 8.8.8.8”

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

Sidenote: she's an avid 1Password user and has been since 2011, this password dated back a couple of decades when, like most people still do today, she had reused it extensively). I'm like yo my credit cards and financial information your entering into this internet system isn't even fully encrypted.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

OCSP is an internet protocol which browsers use to determine the revocation status of digital certificates that are deployed on websites. . But even OCSP stapling can be made vulnerable to DoS if the remote web server is using a vulnerable version of OpenSSL as has been uncovered by CVE-2011-0014 , published back in 2011. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

. “The previously unreported global problem originated in Iran and spiderwebbed to other countries, and was left unrepaired — despite warnings about what was happening — until more than two dozen sources died in China in 2011 and 2012 as a result, according to 11 former intelligence and national security officials.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

Although version 1 of SweepWizard has been available for download from the Apple App Store since 2016, according to archived information, Wired could access sweep data as far back as 2011. The report mentioned ( and we have confirmed this ) that SweepWizard's standalone website was around that same year.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

Any version released before then is not vulnerable, and these older versions make up nearly 25% of the internet-facing Openfire servers. released in 2011.” ” “We found there are a variety of Openfire forks that may or may not be vulnerable, making up about 5% of the internet-facing servers.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What began as an obscure experiment to tie together mainframe computers residing on three remote campuses ultimately became a key piece of what was to become the Internet as we know it today. It was founded in 1966 by three state universities; Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State, ergo the “triad.”

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