Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

Mobile 275

Mobile Technology Manufacturing Malware 275

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. Nikulin used data stolen from Linkedin to launch spear-phishing attacks against employees at other companies, including Dropbox. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

Hacking 116

Hacking Cybercrime Data breaches Advertising 116

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com 2333youxi[.]com

Mobile 186

Mobile Technology Manufacturing Software 186

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The oil giant employs has over $200 billion in annual revenue, and the threat actors are offering the stolen data at an initial price of $5 million. Bleeping Computer reached the company who confirmed a data breach on third-party contractors, but pointed out that the incident had no impact on Aramco’s operations.

Engineering 144

Engineering Data breaches Telecommunications Wireless 144

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. That search shows the user bo3dom registered at ipmart-forum.com with the email address devrian27@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Vilnius, Lithuania. A different UK phone number in a more recent record for the wwwebuygold[.]com com , and portalsagepay[.]com.

Ransomware 348

Ransomware Passwords Accountability Cybercrime 348

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. I think it was around the end of 2012, and they were terrible! I wanted to build a data breach search service. Did that make them the product?

Data breaches 299

Data breaches Passwords Password Management Software 299

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. " It means "this is private." " You may be having a private conversation with Satan.

VPN 363

VPN Phishing DNS Encryption 363

Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

Both of these entities are owned by Jesse Willms , a man The Atlantic magazine described in an unflattering January 2014 profile as “The Dark Lord of the Internet” [not to be confused with The Dark Overlord ]. He also insisted that the panel in question did not have access to customer credit card data. Nor has Mr. Willms.

Marketing 226

Marketing Passwords Hacking Advertising 226

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. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

Cybercrime 265

Cybercrime Banking Computers and Electronics DDOS 265

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.

Malware 98

Malware Cybercrime Data breaches Internet 98

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.

Passwords 99

Passwords Internet Internet Data breaches 99

Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bushnell first joined IDIQ in 2012 as the senior vice president for product, project and development. The company offers the IdentityIQ® and MyScoreIQ® brands for identity theft and credit report monitoring and the DataBreachIQ® brand for business data breach preparation and response support.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Data breaches Consumer Services Marketing 98

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

(HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. The site has been around for almost a decade, and through the years it has proven itself to be an extremely useful tool for everyday Internet users, governments, and organizations alike.

Passwords 144

Passwords Password Management Authentication Data breaches 144

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. ” PicTrace appears to have been a service that allowed users to glean information about anyone who viewed an image hosted on the platform, such as their Internet address, browser type and version number.

Hacking 231

Hacking Accountability Data breaches Marketing 231

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. bank accounts in 2012 by cybercrooks using malware like keyloggers.

Cybercrime 87

Cybercrime Small Business Antivirus Malware 87

Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bushnell first joined IDIQ in 2012 as the senior vice president for product, project and development. The company offers the IdentityIQ® and MyScoreIQ® brands for identity theft and credit report monitoring and the DataBreachIQ® brand for business data breach preparation and response support.

Identity Theft 52

Identity Theft Data breaches Consumer Services Marketing 52

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As computer and internet use exploded over the past forty years, the number of passwords each of us must remember has climbed precipitously. In 2012, a group of researchers gave us a big clue about how small our capacity for remembering passwords is by looking at how often users forgot theirs, or got them mixed up.

Passwords 98

Passwords Password Management Accountability Internet 98

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

US to Raise Breach of Government Records at Talks with China. This Monday, The United States began the annual security talks with China and an official said that the US government representative would raise directly the major data breach at OPM during the discussion.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Surveillance Government Software 52

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Privafy aims to serve a valuable corner of the market – securing data-in-motion. As up to 80 percent of data breaches occur while data moves between cloud networks, Privafy offers security for cloud infrastructure as well as a list of edge computing solutions to securely deploy IoT devices and edge networks in the years to come.

Cybersecurity 142

Cybersecurity Threat Detection Artificial Intelligence Risk 142

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don Duncan, security engineer at NuData Security, told eSecurity Planet by email that POS systems are often dangerously easy to penetrate with malware , including the following (among many others): Dexter was discovered by Seculert (now Radware) researchers in 2012. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013.

Retail 52

Retail Encryption Malware Artificial Intelligence 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Let's move on and talk about why this makes a lot of sense when it comes to fixing data breaches. across the internet.

Data breaches 128

Data breaches Marketing Penetration Testing Government 128

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. It is a vulnerability in SSL/TLS, protocols that are designed to protect data in transit. It would be a massive data breach. The internet, has some source sites. I’m talking about Heartbleed or CVE 2014-0160.

Encryption 52

Encryption Software Artificial Intelligence Marketing 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. It is a vulnerability in SSL/TLS, protocols that are designed to protect data in transit. It would be a massive data breach. The internet, has some source sites. I’m talking about Heartbleed or CVE 2014-0160.

Encryption 52

Encryption Software Artificial Intelligence Marketing 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. It is a vulnerability in SSL/TLS, protocols that are designed to protect data in transit. It would be a massive data breach. The internet, has some source sites. I’m talking about Heartbleed or CVE 2014-0160.

Encryption 52

Encryption Software Artificial Intelligence Marketing 52

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the time, USinfoSearch had a contractual agreement with a California company named Court Ventures , whereby customers of Court Ventures had access to the USinfoSearch data, and vice versa. One big tipoff, Donahue said, was that the person creating the account did so using an Internet address in Brazil.

Accountability 295

Accountability Cybercrime Advertising Mobile 295

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

And purloined passwords are an evergreen lure because your average Internet user hasn’t the slightest inkling of just how many of their passwords have been breached, leaked, lost or stolen over the years. A key component of a targeted phishing attack is personalization.

Phishing 175

Phishing Passwords Scams Password Management 175

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. A DSW data breach also exposes transaction information from 1.4

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Hacking Banking 135

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For initial access, RansomHub affiliates often compromise internet-facing systems and user endpoints via phishing emails, password spraying, and exploiting high-risk remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation vulnerabilities. It uses automated tools to exfiltrate data through secure channels, often encrypting it to avoid detection.

Ransomware 88

Ransomware Encryption Technology Malware 88

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For initial access, RansomHub affiliates often compromise internet-facing systems and user endpoints via phishing emails, password spraying, and exploiting high-risk remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation vulnerabilities. It uses automated tools to exfiltrate data through secure channels, often encrypting it to avoid detection.

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Encryption Technology Malware 52

Krebs on Security

JUNE 20, 2024

. “Ultimately, my clients don’t care what you say about any of the websites or corporate entities in your Article, as long as you completely remove my clients’ names from the Article and cooperate with my clients to have copies of the Article where my clients’ names appear removed from the Internet,” Mr. Gurvits wrote.

Marketing 333

Marketing Telecommunications DNS Data privacy 333

Jane Frankland

MARCH 22, 2025

On October 8, 2012, I had the rare opportunity to sit down with Donald Trump for an hour. Back to 2012: Donald Trump on Rolling the Dice This year, Donald Trump is being showcased at the NAC, London. It’s 2012, and thousands of people have stayed to hear him speak, including me. The atmosphere at the ExCeL is excitable.

Cybersecurity 130

Cybersecurity Data breaches Cyber threats Marketing 130