Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process. “I was trying to get more records at once, but the speed of our Internet in Vietnam then was very slow,” Ngo recalled.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

He briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi , an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile Web sites. On June 25, 2012, Islam and nearly two-dozen others were caught up in an FBI dragnet dubbed Operation Card Shop.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi , a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012. One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. attorney general.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great. Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least). Don’t give a smartphone as the first phone.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there's Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex which leaked 33M records in 2017 , Exactis who had 132M records breached last year and the Apollo data breach which exposed 126M accounts, one of which was my own. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security update to fix a critical zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Microsoft has rolled out an out-of-band security update to address a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. ” reads the security advisory.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Image: Shutterstock.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. . ” reads the post published by ESET. ” continues the report. ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Maybe they're plugging into the API directly from the account page there? " It means "this is private."

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2024

This week, we also saw some older issues return to light, including an Internet Explorer vulnerability first discovered in 2012. The first is a use-after-free vulnerability from 2012, tracked as CVE-2012-4792 , that affects Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a browser that’s now rarely used.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Curry and his team scanned the internet to find domains owned by SiriusXM and perform reverse-engineering of the mobile apps of SiriusXM customers to figure out how the service works. The experts analyzed the NissanConnect app and reached out to some Nissan owners who signed into their accounts to inspect the HTTP traffic.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet. This is how the Internet works. They use mascots and spokesmodels.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser ( Chrome was in 3rd place back then ). Windows Server has gone from 2008 R2 to 2012 to 2012 R2 to 2016 to 2019. Their site is still up and functional, but their Twitter account hasn't been active for 2 and a half years now and the last blog post they wrote was in 2014.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Historical context There was strong anti-American sentiment woven into the Shamoon “wiper” virus that devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco in August of 2012. They use a botnet to feed a large number of usernames and passwords into accounts associated with the targeted entity. For whatever’s coming, it can make a difference.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

According to the indictment against him, Grubbs “recruited and encouraged co-conspirators to answer questions on Skype, an internet messaging service, from potential and actual purchasers of LuminosityLink seeking to use the software to get unauthorized and undetected access to victim computers and steal information.”

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

So, if HIBP says your email address was involved in the great big LinkedIn breach of 2012, the Canva breach of 2019, or any other notable episode of credential theft, you know to change your passwords on those systems, and not use them anywhere else. So, what do you do now, knowing that your account might have been compromised?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? It’s amazing that one person could have had so much access with so little accountability, and could sneak all of this data out without raising any alarms. They were leaked in 2013, but most of them were from 2012 or before.) Very probably.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Damages: sensitive leaked account information.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2019

The list of flaws addressed by the tech giant doesn’t include zero-days or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, 29 issues were rated as ‘Critical’ and affect Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers, Windows, Outlook and Office. Unlike BlueKeep, the flaws cannot be exploited via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

The NetWire Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is available for sale on cybercrime forums since 2012, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the infected systems. DomainTools further shows this email address was used to register one other domain in 2012: wwlabshosting[.]com, ” reads the press release published DoJ.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows slap Internet giants on the face”. Then, like Premier League transfers, the numbers went up and household names began to appear: 2012, LinkedIn, 178 million records, unsalted SHA-1 hashes. 2013, Adobe, 153 million, home-made obfuscation.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Andrei Tyurin is accused of being the mastermind of the organization that targeted the US financial institution from 2012 to mid-2015. His alleged hacking activities “lay claim to the largest theft of US customer data from a single financial institution in history, accounting for a staggering 80 million-plus victims,”.

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Elie

JULY 13, 2017

in Internet Explorer and. This post analyzes the results of this survey and, whenever possible, contrasts the responses received in June 2017 with the ones from April 2012 and the. As of 2017, almost two out of three Internet users (61%) think they know what private browsing is, as reported in the pie chart above. also known as.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

It was in 2012 that CRITICAL START burst onto the Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) scene with bold intentions. Radical transparency gives the customer a clear vision of what the MSSP is doing on their behalf, and thus empowers the customer to be able to hold the service provider accountable. Mauriello wondered. Getting radical.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

According to a new report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) almost any new weapon systems in the arsenal of the Pentagon is vulnerable to hack. Multiple test teams reported using free, publicly available information or software downloaded from the Internet to avoid or defeat weapon system security controls.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The man funded nine fraudulent accounts with an initial deposit of 200 to 2,000 bitcoin and then triggered 140 withdrawal transactions in rapid succession. “JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace.

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