Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29) have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox ) The post Russians charged with hacking Mt. Gox ) The post Russians charged with hacking Mt.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 8, 2022

A financial-motivated threat organization that has been active since 2013, FIN7 has targeted the retail, restaurant, and hospitality industries in the United States, often deploying point-of-sale malware to achieve its objectives. Combi Security, a front firm for FIN7, was used to administer a component of the organization.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

A newly detected hacking group named Aoquin Dragon from China has been found infiltrating servers from Southeast Asia and Australia. The post Aoquin Dragon from China hacking Australian Government Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 29, 2022

Someone hacked the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow and found a document related to Ecuador’s 2013 efforts to bring Edward Snowden there. If you remember, Snowden was traveling from Hong Kong to somewhere when the US revoked his passport, stranding him in Russia.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 billion in 2013. million people. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Hacked or ill-gotten accounts at consumer data brokers have fueled ID theft and identity theft services of various sorts for years. In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms Dun & Bradstreet , and Kroll Background America Inc.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 9, 2022

A previously unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been uncovered by threat analysts SentinelLabs who were able to link it to malicious activity going as far back as 2013. [.].

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Graham Cluley

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A malicious hacking group, thought to have been operating since at least 2013, may have suffered a significant blow after the arrest of a suspected leading member by Spanish police late last week. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Below the timeline of the PKPLUG attacks over the years: The first campaign associated with the PKPLUG was observed in November 2013, when the group targeted Mongolian individuals with PlugX RAT. The post 6 cyber-espionage campaigns since 2013 attributed to PKPLUG China-linked group appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2024

Finnish hacker was sentenced to more than six years in prison for hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic and attempted extortion. Threat actors hacked the clinic and stole a database containing information of some 33,000 clients. Kivimäki was deported to Finland and his trial concluded in March 2024.

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Pen Test Partners

APRIL 11, 2024

TL;DR Ships can be hacked Was the MV Dali hacked? Initial outlandish claims asserted that the MV Dali was certainly hacked, whilst others made the equally incorrect claim that there was no possible way that any ship could be hacked. Ships can be hacked. Propulsion should be available shortly after Hacking ships?

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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. 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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Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool. This allows someone with a foothold on a machine to commandeer the whole box.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The title of this blog post is from our 2013 RSA Conference panel presentation on the ethics and business of “hack back”, a stage we shared with CrowdStrike and Trend Micro. The post Is it Whack to Hack Back a Persistent Attack? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

Currently, the Atomic Energy Research Institute is investigating the subject of the hacking and the amount of damage, etc. ? North Korea-linked cyber espionage group Kimsuky (aka Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

A Pakistani national has been sentenced to 12 years of prison in the US for his role in a hacking scheme against the telecom giant AT&T. “Later in the conspiracy, Fahd had the bribed employees install custom malware and hacking tools that allowed him to unlock phones remotely from Pakistan. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, PGminer). The post PgMiner botnet exploits disputed CVE to hack unsecured PostgreSQL DBs appeared first on Security Affairs. It is interesting to note that threat actors have started to weaponize disputed CVEs, not only confirmed ones. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks Unit42.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

” 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. In 2017, Taylor was sentenced to three years probation for participating in multiple swatting attacks, including the one against my home in 2013.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 24, 2021

Well, a recent hacking case in Pennsylvania highlights how serious the consequences can be and what hackers can gain. Hack leads to stolen identities and fraud. After so many data breaches in the news, many end-users begin to wonder if it really matters when their personal information or user credentials are taken.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

depending on the Windows version), SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 Service Pack 1, SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 , SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 2, SharePoint Server 2019, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2020-1147). The CVE-2020-1147 vulnerability impacts.NET Core 2.1,NET NET Framework 2.0

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2024

Telegram Messenger is a cloud-based, cross-platform instant messaging service launched in 2013 for iOS and Android. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganin ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) Telegram and the French Interior Ministry have not yet commented on the news.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“Researchers from Mandiant, a Google subsidiary, uncovered and analyzed a cyberattack by the North Korean hacking group Kimsuky targeting Diehl Defence.” Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka Springtail, ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013.

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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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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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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

I wrote about it for the Guardian in 2013, an essay that reads so dated in light of what we’ve learned since then.) Without the FBI deploying some form of surveillance technique, or Al-Azhari using another method to visit the site which exposed their IP address, this should not have been possible.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Looking to hack into someone else’s website or steal their data? That will cost you around $20 for 1,000 computers and $250 to infect 15,000 computers. Need someone to develop a Trojan to plant on those infected computers? That can cost as little as $50. Hire a hacker to do the job for as little as $100.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday said they uncovered evidence of attempted attacks by a Russia-linked hacking operation targeting a Ukrainian entity in July 2021. In November 2021,

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Well, a recent hacking case in Pennsylvania highlights how serious the consequences can be and what hackers can gain. Hack leads to stolen identities and fraud. After so many data breaches in the news, many end-users begin to wonder if it really matters when their personal information or user credentials are taken.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

CVE-2013-6282 : Linux Kernel – The get_user and put_user API functions of the Linux kernel fail to validate the target address when being used on ARM v6k/v7 platforms. CVE-2013-2596 Linux Kernel – Linux kernel fb_mmap function in drivers/video/fbmem.c SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). 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. 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. Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2024

I started Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) in 2013 as a pet project that scratched an itch, so I never really thought of myself as an "employee" Over time, it grew (and I tell you what, nobody is more surprised by that than me!) We often do that in this industry, the whole "1.0" " thing, but it seems apt here.

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