Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Attacks that seek to completely destroy data and servers without any warning or extortion demand are not as common as, say, ransomware infestations , but when they do occur they can be devastating (the 2014 Sony Pictures hack and the still-unsolved 2016 assault on U.S.-based based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The CryptoLocker wave went into a decline in June 2014 as a result of the so-called Operation Tovar , an initiative orchestrated by law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The REvil ransomware operators made the headlines again, this time the gang claims to have hacked the Gaming Partners International (GPI). “Absolutely all servers and working computers of the company are hacked and encrypted. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” Only one of the men sanctioned today is known to have been criminally charged in connection with hacking activity. Secret Service determined that he ran a massive “money mule” scheme, which used phony job offers to trick people into laundering money stolen from hacked small to mid-sized businesses in the United States.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The vulnerabilities impact the Mazda Connect Connectivity Master Unit (CMU) system installed in multiple car models, including the Mazda 3 model year 2014-2021. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mazda Connect) ” reads the advisory.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 24, 2020

” China had also stepped up its hacking efforts targeting biometric and passenger data from transit hubs… To be sure, China had stolen plenty of data before discovering how deeply infiltrated it was by U.S. intelligence personnel, these new capabilities made China’s successful hack of the U.S. intelligence agencies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, HP). The post HP Device Manager flaws expose Windows systems to hack appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2022

It’s been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. “Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. In 2014, ALM reported revenues of $115 million.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

.” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Energetic Bear). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Security experts say both VPNFilter and Cyclops Blink are the work of a hacking group known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear , the same Russian team blamed for disrupting Ukraine’s electricity in 2015. SANDWORM AND TRITON. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

As noted in that April story, PCM was one of the companies targeted by the same hacking group that compromised Wipro. Earlier this week, cyber intelligence firm RiskIQ published a lengthy analysis of the hacking group that targeted Wipro, among many other companies. Insight has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. Shotliff said he sold his BHProxies account to another Black Hat World forum user from Egypt back in 2014. He also shared a PayPal receipt and snippets of Facebook Messenger logs showing conversations in March 2014 with legendboy2050@yahoo.com. com on Mar.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

First debuting in early 2019, CLOP is one of several ransomware groups that hack into organizations, launch ransomware that encrypts files and servers, and then demand an extortion payment in return for a digital key needed to unlock access. ? /.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2022

A T-Mobile employee, who has been now ousted from the post, was found guilty of indulging in a $25 million scam where he hacked into the internal systems of mobile carrier to unlock and unblock cell phones on network. The post Employee of T-Mobile hacks internal systems to unlock and unblock phones appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The hacking group claims to have compromised all of Sony's systems. However, the group has posted some sample data from the hack online, including screenshots of an internal login page, an internal PowerPoint presentation, and several Java files. At the time of this publication, Ransomed.vc has yet to provide any definitive proof.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2021, the exclusive Russian cybercrime forum Mazafaka was hacked. In a retrospective post published to Livejournal in 2014 titled, “Mazafaka, from conception to the present day,” Stalker said Djamix had become a core member of the community. Technical capabilities cannot overcome intelligence and cunning.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. Shefel says he is now flat broke, and that he currently has little to show for a storied hacking career.

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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 million people. said investigators determined the breach began on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. “Then I used the same vulnerability to hack other websites. BEGINNINGS. ” MICROBILT.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Threat actors have hacked at least three Swiss universities, including the University of Basel and managed to drain employee salary transfers. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

While the breach itself is relatively minor, it highlights the relative lack of progress made by the department to enact more rigorous security measures, despite repeated hack attempts and security breaches. The information included personally identifiable information of an undisclosed number of employees who have since been notified.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Here’s a look at the havoc that lag has wrought, as seen through the purchasing patterns at one of the underground’s biggest stolen card shops that was hacked last year. In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The availability of the huge trove of account data was first reported by BleepingComputer , the threat actor told them that it is only acting as a broker and did not hack the seventeen companies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, account databases).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

It is still unclear if the funds were transferred by the owner themselves, or if someone has hacked the wallet. The wallet was monitored since 2015 because it was associated with hacking activities, it had been “ dormant ” since 2015. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences. ” Frigg promises to include “elements that stems [sic] from major data hacks of known systems like Ashley Madison, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Fling.com, AdultFriendFinder and hundreds more. Last month, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Department of Justice (DOJ) today unsealed an indictment against a 38-year-old man from Novosibirsk, Russia for allegedly operating Joker’s Stash, an extremely successful carding shop that came online in late 2014. ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities.

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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. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. com , an Arabic-language computer hacking forum. In this two-hour Arabic language YouTube tutorial from 2014 , Fatal.001

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison sentence for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of hospitals in 2014. Daniel Kaye. Photo: National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye , an Israel-U.K.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

“Based on the message body of the leak, the cyber attack indicates hacktivism, but last year, around May 23, 2019, UK warned NATO allies of hacking activities of Russia -> Link. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Affiliates are essential to spread malicious code through hacking operations against businesses. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, REvil ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2020

Coverage types “Put simply, cyber insurance covers financial losses that stem from a data breach, hacking, and other cybersecurity events,” explains Sidd Gavirneni, CEO and Co-Founder at Zeguro. For instance, cyber insurance will not pay for additional software or hardware you buy after experiencing hacking.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting the computer with hacked TLS engine substituted on the fly, "marking" infected TLS handshakes by compromising the underlining random-number generator, and adding new digital certificates. The COMpfun malware was initially documented by G-DATA in 2014.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

Google: 2021 included the detection and disclosure of 58 in-the-wild 0-days, the most ever recorded since Project Zero began tracking in mid-2014. We’ve tracked publicly known in-the-wild 0-day exploits in this spreadsheet since mid-2014.

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