The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Bitcoin wallets created between 2011 and 2015 are susceptible to a new kind of exploit called Randstorm that makes it possible to recover passwords and gain unauthorized access to a multitude of wallets spanning several blockchain platforms.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. In December 2015, Ferizi was apprehended in Malaysia and extradited to the United States. He admitted to hacking a U.S.-based The Pentagon Crew forum founded by Ferizi.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. There definitely was something that somebody didn’t want found. Or, I really pissed someone off. That’s always possible.”

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Schneier on Security

MAY 17, 2024

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the criminal hacking forums known as BreachForums and Raidforums,” reads a dedicated subdomain on the FBI’s IC3 portal. co and run by pompompurin) operated a similar hacking forum from March 2022 until March 2023. .

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

File encryption 2013 – 2015. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. Another fundamental tweak was the onset of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) in May 2015.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

An information technology specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested this week on suspicion of hacking into the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2014, stealing personal data on more than 65,000 UPMC employees, and selling the data on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A joint law enforcement operation led to the seizure of 39 domains tied to a Pakistan-based HeartSender cybercrime group (aka Saim Raza and Manipulators Team) known for selling hacking and fraud tools. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,HeartSender group)

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities. Shefel says he is now flat broke, and that he currently has little to show for a storied hacking career. I was often in that city, and [it’s where] I met my second wife.”

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2023

Booklist reviews A Hacker’s Mind : Author and public-interest security technologist Schneier ( Data and Goliath , 2015) defines a “hack” as an activity allowed by a system “that subverts the rules or norms of the system […] at the expense of someone else affected by the system.” The book will be published on February 7.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Chinese government’s 2015 breach of OPM was a significant US security failure, and it illustrated how personnel data could be used to identify intelligence officers and compromise national security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2024

An international law enforcement operation coordinated by the FBI led to the seizure of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum. The authorities also seized the Telegram page for the hacking forum The website currently displays a message that informs visitors it was seized by law enforcement. In March 2023, U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2021

million at the Tianfu Cup hacking contest by finding vulnerabilities in popular software. The Tianfu Cup is the most important hacking contest held in China, this year white hat hackers earned $1.88 First time since 2015 as I remembered [link] — mj0011 (@mj0011sec) October 16, 2021. White hat hackers earned $1.88

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2025

” FIN7is a Russian criminalgroup (aka Carbanak ) that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces.

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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 Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Atrium Health launched an investigation into the security breach and discovered that from January 2015 to July 2019, certain online tracking technologies were active on its MyAtriumHealth (formerly MyCarolinas) Patient Portal, accessible via web and mobile. The company notified the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Star Blizzard group, aka “ Callisto “, Seaborgium , ColdRiver , and TA446, targeted government officials, military personnel,journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Russia)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

“Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, this is to inform you that the Company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT assets.” Company client delivery services were not impacted by the attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

German investigators believe that Kozachek is a member of the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear), which is the same group that hacked the German Bundestag in 2015. Kozachek hacked the computed of the NATO think tank in 2017 and installed a keylogger to spy on the organization. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

Ransomware group Hunters International claims to have hacked Tata Technologies, threatening to leak 1.4 “Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, this is to inform you that the Company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT assets.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2025

It is not a first time that smartphones come with pre-installed malware, earlier 2015, the security firm Bluebox discovered a preinstalled malware , many malicious apps, and a series of security holes on the Xiaomi Mi 4 smartphone. The kits analyzed by the company are commercialized by many manufacturers including Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In July, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about an analysis by researchers at New York University , which looked at patterns surrounding more than 19 million stolen payment cards that were exposed after the hacking of BriansClub, a top competitor to the Joker’s Stash carding shop.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2020

An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico’s top tourist destinations disrupted their highly profitable business, which raked in an estimated $1.2 See the video and everything.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

Two years have passed since the notorious Colonial Pipeline hack, an incident that plunged the nation into a state of emergency, causing fuel disruptions in airlines and commercial sectors, and triggering panic-buying among consumers leading to a sharp rise in gas prices.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The hack was first detected on October 4th, but may have occurred months ago and could have affected more accounts than initially reported. The credit card data and travel records of roughly 30,000 employees of the U.S. Defense Department have been compromised in a data breach. Read more about the story here.

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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 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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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 was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Argishti Khudaverdyan, a former retailer of T-Mobile company, received a 10-year jail imprisonment sentence at the end of last as he was found guilty of hacking into the servers of the telecom provider and gaining access to phone unlocking and unblocking of cellphones. It is unclear yet on how the person got access to internal servers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

I know that because my account at Experian was recently hacked, and the only way I could recover access was by recreating the account. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. Entering my SSN and birthday at Experian showed my identity was tied to an email address I did not authorize.

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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. 2015* apparently, maybe the owner? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw. But just days before the event Western Digital released MyCloud OS 5 , which eliminated the bug they found.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It invokes cpio and CVE-2015-1197 is triggered. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zimbra). The post Threat actors hacked hundreds of servers by exploiting Zimbra CVE-2022-41352 bug appeared first on Security Affairs. On receiving the e-mail, Zimbra submits it to Amavis for spam and malware inspection. Zimbra has released version 9.0.0

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Those stories prompted a flood of tips from Davies’ victims that paint a much clearer picture of this serial con man and his cohorts, including allegations of hacking, smuggling, bank fraud and murder. citizen who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. After eluding justice in the U.K.,

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. Not all of those undercover buys went as planned.

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