Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. Kislitsin also was indicted in Nevada in 2013, but the Nevada indictment does not name his alleged victim(s) in that case. ”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Experts from SecureWorks discovered a large phishing campaign targeting universities carried out by an Iran-linked threat actor COBALT DICKENS. According to the Treasury Department, since 2013, the Mabna Institute hit 144 US universities and 176 universities in 21 foreign countries. “In March 2018, the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said given the entities compromised — and that only a handful of known compromises occurred outside of France — there’s a strong possibility this was the result of an orchestrated phishing campaign targeting French infrastructure firms. There is a third Skype account nicknamed “Fatal.001”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2018

According to the researchers, the complex Dark Tequila malware went undetected since at least 2013. Dark Tequila is a multistage malware that spreads via spear-phishing messages and infected USB devices. The post Dark Tequila Banking malware targets Latin America since 2013 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

The Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT group leveraged on WhatsApp and LinkedIn to carry out phishing attacks, researchers warn. Clearsky security researchers revealed that Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT group is using WhatsApp and LinkedIn to conduct spear-phishing attacks. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Controversially, Blue accounts gained the same visual checkmark as verified accounts despite not using the same identity verification process. This resulted in an early wave of imitation accounts causing confusion. Twitter recently announced that all legacy accounts would lose their checkmark on April 1.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us Copies of near-reality[.]com

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The attackers first disable protections for running macro scripts in Outlook then deploy the code to send phishing messages to the victim’s contacts. . ” read the post published by ESET.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in attacks carried out between August and September. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) observed the APT group making more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft customers and then attack 241 of those accounts.

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Doctor Chaos

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Created in 2013, the framework documents in detail countless cyberattack strategies. For example, by using the framework to learn about phishing attack strategies, you could develop a detailed training program for your team. Phishing attacks and ransomware attacks surged the most. Building a Community of Security.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

The scale of this breach, if confirmed, would rival or exceed other notorious data breaches in history, such as the 2013 Yahoo breach that affected an estimated 3 billion accounts. Use complex, unique passwords for all accounts and consider using a password manager. Stay alert for phishing attempts and other scams.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Iran-linked Cobalt Dickens APT group carried out a spear-phishing campaign aimed at tens of universities worldwide. This operation is similar to the threat group’s August 2018 campaign , using compromised university resources to send library-themed phishing emails.” ” reads the analysis published by Secureworks.

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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. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years of prison for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees with business email compromise (BEC) attacks carried out between 2013 and 2015. He used multiple bank accounts at banks from Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Latvia to receive the fraudulent payments.

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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. This allowed hackers to breach many user accounts. Near the holiday season of 2013, hackers exposed the credit and debit card information of over 110 million Target customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Ukraine’s CERT-UA warns of an ongoing phishing campaign aimed at distributing the SmokeLoader malware in the form of a polyglot file. CERT-UA warns of an ongoing phishing campaign that is distributing the SmokeLoader malware in the form of a polyglot file.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 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 APT group previously targeted medical research organizations in the US and Israel in late 2020, and for targeting academics from the US, France, and the Middle East region in 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. The APT group has persistently refined its social engineering tactics, making its spear-phishing campaigns progressively harder to detect.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon is behind spear-phishing attacks against Ukrainian entities and organizations since October 2021. Palo Alto Network experts mapped out three large clusters of the infrastructure used by the nation-state APT group used to support different phishing and malware campaigns.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Identity Theft: Leaked personally identifiable information (PIIs) can be used to access accounts on other websites, leading to further information leaks and outright identity theft. The leak has since been secured. What’s Happening?

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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. More than 4.7

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 4, 2025

Malware New details reveal how hackers hijacked 35 Google Chrome extensions Bleeping Computer A phishing campaign targeting Chrome extension developers (including a cybersecurity firm, Cyberhaven) has enabled attackers to compromise multiple Google Chrome extensions. The compromised extensions were injected with data-stealing code.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI. gov/Home/BEC.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command : USCYBERCOM has discovered active malicious use of CVE-2017-11774 and recommends immediate #patching. US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

George Garofano, 26, of North Branford, has been sentenced to eight months in prison, he was charged earlier this year with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to Hollywood celebrities. Garofano also traded the stolen credentials, as well as the information he stole from the victims’ accounts, with other individuals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The modern era of mass data breaches perhaps began in 2009, with the hack of 32 million account credentials held by software developer RockYou, in which a SQL injection attack revealed that passwords were simple held in cleartext in a database table. 2013, Adobe, 153 million, home-made obfuscation. million records exposed.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Valid Accounts [ T1178 ]. Phishing [ T1566 ]. Account Discovery [ T1087 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. CVE-2013-2185. CVE-2013-2134. Percent of. organizations. Techniques seen. (in in order of frequency). Initial Access. Native API [ T1106 ].

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Elsewhere, leaks in which passwords may feature prominently can run the full range of “secure password” to “plaintext data and viewable by anyone” When passwords are exposed, it potentially provides inroads into multiple accounts owned by the victim. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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Spinone

MARCH 11, 2018

The Internet blew up with the latest news about Gmail phishing attack. What Was the Goal of Gmail Phishing Attack? The most intriguing part of the Google Docs phishing attack is that a victim received the email with a phishing link from a person who was familiar to him /her. What can we expect? What should we do next?

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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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