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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If it sounds unlikely that a normal Internet user could make millions of dollars unmasking the identities of REvil gang members, take heart and consider that the two men indicted as part this law enforcement action do not appear to have done much to separate their cybercriminal identities from their real-life selves. 3 was Lublin, Poland.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

The long-running Breadcrumbs series here tracks how cybercriminals get caught, and it’s mostly through odd connections between their online and offline selves scattered across the Internet. And unbeknownst to him at the time, that forum was hacked, with all email addresses and hashed passwords exposed. SOME ADVICE FOR EVERYONE.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. BEGINNINGS.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

The investigation into the intrusion revealed the involvement of 13 internet addresses including one traced to the Kimsuky APt group. Currently, the Atomic Energy Research Institute is investigating the subject of the hacking and the amount of damage, etc. ? SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea). ” reported the Reuters.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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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

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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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. Reading about the NSA’s hacking abilities will do that to you. Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

A 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks — including a 2013 swatting incident at my home — was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping his best friend dump the body of a housemate into a local river. Suspects Troy Woody Jr.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By that time, Kivimäki was no longer in Finland, but the Finnish government nevertheless charged Kivimäki in absentia with the Vastaamo hack. A lengthy history of the commands run by that user show they used krebsonsecurity-dot-org to host hacking and scanning tools. “This sends an important message: online crime does not pay.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2019

” But critics say WebMonitor is far more likely to be deployed on “pwned” devices, or those that are surreptitiously hacked. court to computer hacking and to creating, marketing and selling Blackshades , a RAT that was used to compromise and spy on hundreds of thousands of computers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2019

International ‘Malvertiser’ Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov extradited from the Netherlands to face hacking charges in New Jersey. The man is suspected to have carried out malvertising campaigns between October 2013 through May 2018. based internet advertising company to spread malicious advertising. Attorney Carpenito.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2018

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. Securi ty Affairs – UPnProxy, NSA hacking tools). The UPnP communication protocol is widely adopted even if it is known to be vulnerable.

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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. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2022

That way, if anyone other than example.com starts sending email to it, it is reasonable to assume that example.com either shared your address with others or that it got hacked and relieved of that information. “I can tell you that certain threat groups have rules on ‘+*@’ email address deletion,” Holden said.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. One popular strain of exploits revolves around hacking known vulnerabilities in the authentication protocol known as Kerboros , which integrates with AD. Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2022

.” But Pyle said a great many EAS stakeholders are still ignoring basic advice from the manufacturer, such as changing default passwords and placing the devices behind a firewall, not directly exposing them to the Internet, and restricting access only to trusted hosts and networks. and Marquette, Mich.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

was shut down by the FBI today, and its suspected administrator – alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich Firsov – was arrested and charged with crimes related to the hacking of U.S. 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.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson (23) from Utah hit the principal gamins networks in 2013 and 2014, including Sony Online Entertainment. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Previously, it was acquired by FireEye in December 2013 for $1 billion and in March this year, the internet juggernaut announced it will acquire the security firm for $5.4 Note- Mandiant rose to fame in Feb’13 when it discovered and revealed to the world the espionage activities taken up by China.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. 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.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

As part of this mindset, more consumers are subscribing to a personal VPN service which they use to shield themselves from disinformation sweeps and to protect themselves from Covid 19-related hacks and scams. I first encountered consumer VPNs back in 2013, when I interviewed the founders of Hotspot Shield and TunnelBear for this news story.

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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). Target data breach (2013). MySpace data breach (2013). To others, it was amusing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. ” concludes the post.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2021

Ticketmaster executives and employees emailed each other about the benefits of these hacks. How did the Ticketmaster hacking scheme get started? Between 2013 and 2015, a UK company named CrowdSurge was successfully offering this service for some big name artists and Ticketmaster wanted to break into this line of business.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A new malware developed by Sandworm hacking group has targeted appliances that are fire walled and reports are in that the military intelligence of the Russian Federation developed the malicious software. According to a report released by Cisco Talos, over 1 billion malware programs have been tested and discovered to date- since 2013.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 The above accounts, as well as the email address semen_7907@mail.ru , were all registered or accessed from the same Yekaterinburg Internet address mentioned previously: 31.192.175.63. 63 , which is in Yekaterinburg, RU. so with the nickname Trojan7907.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. Another word for a strategy like this is a “hack.” ” Hacks follow the rules of a system but subvert their intent.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

. “Otherwise, the software attempts to contact one of three URLs to download the second-stage payload embedded inside a file masquerading as a PNG file using the static User-Agent ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’: hxxps[:]//i.stack.imgur[.]com/NDTUM.png com/NDTUM.png hxxps[:]//www.webville[.]net/images/CL202966126.png

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “ LuminosityLink ,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New research from Cisco Talos suggests a second tier of APT actors serving in a support role for government hacking campaigns, behaving more like cybercriminals. . You might be targeted just because you are there on the internet, not because you have a specific target of an APT, but because you are there.” .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

The vulnerability impacts Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” The researchers working with the peers at BinaryEdge discovered 220,000 Outlook Web Access installs exposed on the Internet, most are 2013, 2016, and 2019. “How many of these are vulnerable?

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