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

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

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

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Security experts soon discovered Ransom Man had mistakenly included an entire copy of their home folder, where investigators found many clues pointing to Kivimäki’s involvement. By that time, Kivimäki was no longer in Finland, but the Finnish government nevertheless charged Kivimäki in absentia with the Vastaamo hack.

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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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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. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2024

UAC-0006 has been active since at least 2013. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Security Service of Ukraine) .” concludes the CERT-UA.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

they impact Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019, an authenticated attacker can trigger them to elevate privileges to run PowerShell in the context of the system and gain arbitrary or remote code execution on vulnerable servers. It's perhaps just Exchange 2013 that requires a tweak. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ProxyNotShell).

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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. “Phosphorus, an Iranian actor, has targeted with this scheme potential attendees of the upcoming Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 (T20) Summit in Saudi Arabia.”

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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. Weak passwords are the easiest way hackers can hack into a system. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2024

UAC-0006 has been active since at least 2013. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine) The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of surge in in cyberattacks linked to the financially-motivated threat actor UAC-0006.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

At the time of this writing, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the security breach. CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was operating between 2008 and 2013. In 2013, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) shut down the website due to concerns related to copyright infringement. According to German media , one of the two operators was also involved in the operations of the site mega-downloads.net.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

.” “ MAB5 was described in gushing terms and with incredible detail, even naming the military leader – a Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) in the Royal Corps of Signals, who was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2013 when he was a Major. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620 , was fixed for the first time in 2013, but in 2016 experts discovered a way to bypass the fix. CVE-2022-22620 was initially fixed in 2013, reintroduced in 2016, and then disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Apple Safari). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, SIM swapping). The post CISA urges to fix actively exploited Firefox zero-days by March 21 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. These are based on publicly disclosed incidents in the media or security reports.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). ” reads the project description.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2024

Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka Springtail, ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, MoonPeak malware)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

. “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.” The hacker intimated that they deleted LetMeSpy’s databases stored on the server. ” reported TechCrunch. India, and Africa.

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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. National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said. “We NATO , and the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Mandiant is considered a leading cyber security firm, in 2013 FireEye acquired it, but FireEye separated Mandiant Solutions in 2021 as part of a $1.2 SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google). billion appeared first on Security Affairs. per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

This steganography technique is rare, according to the expert it was observed the last time in the wild in 2013 when hackers have hidden the entire webshell backdoor in the header. The post Crooks used rare Steganography technique to hack fully patched websites in Latin America appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

billion in transactions between July 2013 and August 2023, with 32% of the traced bitcoin linked to criminal activity. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, virtual currency exchanges) This included over $158 million from fraud, $8.8

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

“The hackers were believed to be linked to a North Korean group that researchers call Kimsuky, and they carried out their hack via emails to South Korean contractors working at the South Korea-U.S. “It was confirmed that military-related information was not stolen,” police said in a statement on Sunday.

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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 Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers, the nation-state actor has been active since at least 2007. wrote the company.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Bvp47 backdoor was first discovered in 2013 while conducting a forensic investigation into a security breach suffered by a Chinese government organization. In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A second round of puzzles began one year later on January 4, 2013, and then a third round following the confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014. Cicada 3301 is the name given to three sets of puzzles posted under the name “3301” online between 2012 and 2014. The third puzzle has not been solved yet.

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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. Worryingly, among the contents of the misconfigured AWS bucket, which the WBSC closed after being contacted by the team, were copies of 4,600 national passports.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. I started doubting my own security procedures. Reading about the NSA’s hacking abilities will do that to you. Probably not.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Exposed data, some of which go back to 2013, include sensitive information and credit card details. However, if it did, there would be enormous implications for the privacy, security and financial wellbeing of those exposed.”. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Prestige). ” reads a post published by Website Planet.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Denis Emelyantsev , as the apparent owner of RSOCKS, 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. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” Please see this KB for more information. ” continues Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2021

Inglis retired from NSA in 2014 where he served the US government for 28 years, since 2013 as the agency’s deputy director. President Biden also appointed a former deputy for counterterrorism at the NSA, Jen Easterly, as the chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security.

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