Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies set up to obtain more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the nonprofit organization that leases the digital real estate to entities in North America. ”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Kislitsin also was indicted in Nevada in 2013, but the Nevada indictment does not name his alleged victim(s) in that case. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. ”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2024

On July 16, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sent a letter to the owners of the.top domain registry. ICANN’s warning redacted the name of the recipient, but records show the.top registry is operated by a Chinese entity called Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology Co. ” Image: Shutterstock.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Monitoring and management of many existing industrial control systems’ (ICS) embedded devices, like pumps, valves and turbines, are ancient in technological terms. Isolating OT operations from public networks like the internet had once been considered best practice. Dismantling the silos.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. Pushwoosh says it is a U.S. “However, in February 2022, Pushwoosh Inc. ” GOV 311.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Also known as “ Assad Faiq” and “ The Godfather ,” Iza is the 30-something founder of a cryptocurrency investment platform called Zort that advertised the ability to make smart trades based on artificial intelligence technology. Troy Woody Jr. left) and Mir Islam, are currently in prison in the Philippines for murder.

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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. pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. A records search at Domaintools for “Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co” returns 11 domains, including blazefire[.]net, jyhxz.net 2013-07-02 — longmen[.]com com , buydudu[.]com

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. SSL/TLS certs).

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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. Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? I am less trusting of communications technology. Very probably.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

is investigating reports that attackers are exploiting two previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server , a technology many organizations rely on to send and receive email. In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019.

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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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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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. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, confirmed the finish of the buyout and added that integrating new technology into its portfolio will help enterprises shield themselves at every stage of their security lifecycle. billion and will integrate the newly gained technology into its Google Cloud Division.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. Fundamentally, SIEMs collect event log data from internet traffic, as well as corporate hardware and software assets. Exabeam is a bold upstart in the SIEM space.

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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. ” The user interface for an EAS device.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

There are a few random, non-technology businesses tied to the phone number listed for the Hendersonville address, and the New Mexico address was used by several no-name web hosting companies. SammySam_Alon registered at Houzz using an Internet address in Huntsville, Ala. The website Domainnetworks[.]com 68.35.149.206).

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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. It turns out there is a natural opening for this technology: microlegislation. Political scientist Amy McKay coined the term.

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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. North Korea-linked cyber espionage group Kimsuky (aka Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. ” reported the Reuters.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China. A marketing slide deck promoting i-SOON’s Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) capabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The company launched in 2013, the brainchild of Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, a couple of buddies working as security analysts in a U.S. zettabytes to 40 zettabytes, as the Internet of Things and 5G networks take hold. You can’t just throw technology at it,” Couch observes. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2021

Forescout Research Labs last month released a 14-page white paper and a 47-page research report detailing 33 vulnerabilities affecting millions of Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and IT devices. The four TCP/IP protocol layers are the link layer, internet layer , transport layer, and application layer.

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A lot has changed in the Microsoft technology world in the last 7 years since I launched ASafaWeb in September 2011. Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser ( Chrome was in 3rd place back then ). The.NET framework evolved and technology moved but ASafaWeb staid frozen in time.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. For over 30 years I have studied the technologies of security and privacy. I am also a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer of IBM Resilient. They collect everything about what we do on the Internet. Before the.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

CVE-2013-1493. March 2013. CVE-2013-0431. February 2013. “Thus, we recommend organizations adopt defense-in-depth strategies to detect and respond to these attacks via anti-malware, EDR and deception technologies ,” he said. Used by Ransomware Family. Patch Available from Vendor. Patch Available Since.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Geyer attributes the growing number of bugs to “the long depreciation period of equipment in critical infrastructure environments” as well as “technology obsolescence.” In addition, many ICS solutions were designed for non-internet facing environments, and therefore did not incorporate certain basic security controls.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 2, 2022

Dubbed as Bvp47 and linked to Equation Group-an NSA funded threat actor was first detected by anti-virus firm Virus Total in 2013. In the year 2013, Edward Snowden, a former employee of NSA, revealed some startling facts about the activities taking place inside the agency in the name of National Integrity.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. Accel Investments. Evolution Equity Partners. EEP Investments.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

Regarding files in the affected unemployment insurance service database, they are dated back from 2013 and contained first names, last names, and social security numbers. ” reads the data breach notice published by the Maryland Department. ” continues the Department. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Remote Technology. The speed at which cyber attacks exploiting remote technology increased during the Covid-19 pandemic serves as a telling example of how threat actors dynamically adapt the attack vectors they use in response to changing conditions. IoT Devices. Many organizations don’t have visibility into all of their IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

As with many inventions of the 20th century, the internet has drastically changed using the phone. Once a vital necessity in every building, PBX boxes are driven towards extinction by devices supporting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). However, as with everything connected to the internet, beware of vulnerabilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows slap Internet giants on the face”. 2013, Adobe, 153 million, home-made obfuscation. Keyloggers – programs or hardware which record keystrokes to be retrieved by an attacker – are Cold War technology that is still with us.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2019

In 2013, he co-founded Nozomi Networks aiming to deliver a more holistic and efficient way to defend industrial controls of all types. Operational technology, or OT, has traditionally been siloed from the information technology, or IT, systems that came to dominate the corporate workspace. You cannot protect what you don’t see.”

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