Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

The indictment alleges that from 2013 to 2022, Kadariya played a key role in distributing the Angler Exploit Kit, which was used to spread various malware, including ransomware, through malvertising and other methods. Kadariya has been indicted for distributing the Angler Exploit Kit and other malware to millions of victims.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. ” Islam and Woody were both core members of UGNazi, a hacker collective that sprang up in 2012 and claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile websites. “ JoshTheGod ,” referred to in the Iza complaint as “M.I.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 says Fearlless first registered on Verified in February 2013. However, in Sept.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Yesterday, July 6, 2019, hackers breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., On July 6, 2019, hackers have breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., Hackers at least created 11 new GitHub repositories in compromised Canonical account. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ubuntu). ” states the Canonical team.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. Recently, a client with several different social media accounts and a large team of people working on them approached BH Consulting to review its security and policies around them. Another risk is social media hacking.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2024

UAC-0006 has been active since at least 2013. The threat actors focus on compromising accountants’ PCs (which are used to support financial activities, such as access to remote banking systems), stealing credentials, and making unauthorized fund transfers. ” continues the report.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

In what could be one of the largest data breaches in history, personal information of potentially billions of individuals may have been compromised in a hack of National Public Data (NPD), a Florida-based background check company. Use complex, unique passwords for all accounts and consider using a password manager.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2022

One way to tame your email inbox is to get in the habit of using unique email aliases when signing up for new accounts online. But not all websites allow aliases, and they can complicate account recovery. Aliases can help users detect breaches and fight spam. Aliases can help users detect breaches and fight spam.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

In a world in which all databases — including hacker forums — are eventually compromised and leaked online, it can be tough for cybercriminals to maintain their anonymity if they’re in the habit of re-using the same unusual passwords across multiple accounts associated with different email addresses.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. RELATED: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Yahoo data breach (2013). Damages: sensitive leaked account information. Damages: leaked account information.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2024

Russia-linked APT group, reportedly APT29, is suspected to be behind a hack of TeamViewer ‘s corporate network. The unauthorized access to the IT infrastructure of the company occurred on June 26, threat actors used the credentials of a standard employee account within its IT environment.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

That dossier can include name, address, phone numbers, email addresses (with passwords), date of birth, SSN or Employee ID Number (EIN), bank account information (account & routing numbers, account type), online banking credentials (varying degrees of completeness), or credit card information. A date of birth costs just $11.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2024

UAC-0006 has been active since at least 2013. The threat actors focus on compromising accountants’ PCs (which are used to support financial activities, such as access to remote banking systems), stealing credentials, and making unauthorized fund transfers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT33) South Korea, and Europe.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The intrusions into the competitor’s systems took place repeatedly between 2013 and 2015. The intrusions into the competitor’s systems took place repeatedly between 2013 and 2015. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. As always, enabling multi-factor authentication across both business and personal email accounts will successfully thwart most credential harvesting attacks like these.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target. bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. In 2013, U.S. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In 2013, Kurittu worked on an investigation involving Kivimäki’s use of the Zbot botnet, among other activities Kivimäki engaged in as a member of the hacker group Hack the Planet (HTP).” The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In May 2013, the U.S. Federal officials charged that Liberty Reserve facilitated a “broad range of criminal activity, including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography, and narcotics trafficking.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. By 2004, v1pee had adopted the moniker “ Vega ” on the exclusive Russian language hacking forum Mazafaka , where this user became one of the more reliable vendors of stolen payment cards. A screenshot of a website reviewing PM2BTC.

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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. By the time the Secret Service caught up with him in 2013, he’d made over $3 million selling fullz data to identity thieves and organized crime rings operating throughout the United States. BEGINNINGS.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. The Record Media reported that the Iran-linked hacking group Homeland Justice claimed responsibility for the attack. The group also claimed to have hacked Air Albania. “INSTAT assures the public that the 2023 Census data are not the subject of this attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The WBSC, headquartered in Switzerland, was established in 2013 and currently has 141 countries as members located in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. Malicious actors can use stolen information to engage in fraudulent activities like opening bank accounts, applying for loans, and executing other types of fraud.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. This allowed hackers to breach many user accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breaches).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” These last two nicknames correspond to accounts on several top cybercrime forums way back in 2013, where a user named “Yaroslav2468” registered using the email address yarik45@gmail.com. Prosecutors say Vasinskyi also used the monikers “ Yarik45 ,” and “ Yaroslav2468.” 3 was Lublin, Poland.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. The Russian man also advertised the platform on other hacking forums. platform since October 2013. “The stores were offering for sale a variety hacked and/or compromised U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and the content of messages collected on accounts,” reads a statement published by the company. “It’s not clear who is behind the LetMeSpy hack or their motives. A copy of the hacked database also appeared online later the same day.”

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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. Danowski said that in 2013, i-SOON established a department for research on developing new APT network penetration methods.

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