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.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 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.” ” reads the filing.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

NIST is an old hand at this competitive process, having previously done this with symmetric algorithms (AES in 2001) and hash functions (SHA-3 in 2015). Fun fact: Those three algorithms were broken by the Center of Encryption and Information Security, part of the Israeli Defense Force.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The wallet was monitored since 2015 because it was associated with hacking activities, it had been “ dormant ” since 2015. 2015* apparently, maybe the owner? 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

AUGUST 21, 2020

The university notified appropriate law enforcement entities, and the university’s Information Security Office (ISO) investigated and resolved the incident in consultation with an external firm that specializes in responding to ransomware attacks.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Daniel Miessler

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

I think there are four main trends that will play out in the field of information security in the next 20 years. I wrote my first big piece on it in August of 2015, and I still think it’s the future. Keep in mind that trend #1 will be counterbalanced by the growth of people who need basic information security help.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

” The US agency also added the CVE-2015-2051 remote code execution flaw impacting D-Link DIR-645 routers. “An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.An attacker must have the ability to execute code on a victim system to exploit this vulnerability.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability in Servicing Stack that has rolled back the fixes for some vulnerabilities affecting Optional Components on Windows 10, version 1507 (initial version released July 2015).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

On August 6, during a review of email configuration and rules, the staff at the SANS Institute discovered a security breach. 28,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been forwarded to an unknown email address. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2020

The BeagleBoyz APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The BeagleBoyz have attempted to steal nearly $2 billion since at least 2015, according to public estimates. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2025

” In 2015, TalkTalk Telecom Group announced that four million subscribershave been impacted by a sustained cyberattack that hit its servers. . “ We have no evidence that CSGs technologies and systems were compromised or that CSG was the cause of the unexpected access to the data.

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Cisco Security

MAY 5, 2022

covers these security compliance framework and certification standards: SOC 2® – SOC for Service Organizations: Trust Services Criteria. ISO IEC 27001:2013 – Information technology — Security techniques — Information security management systems — Requirements. Today, the Cisco CCF V1.0

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

ShadowPad is a modular backdoor considered a hallmark of China-linked APT groupssince at least 2015. The threat actors behind this campaign used RDP for lateral movement and side-loaded malicious DLLs to deploy ShadowPad and PlugX, leveraging legitimate executables for persistence and privilege escalation.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The hackers have already published on the leak site 3.5MB of documents stolen from a construction company. Let’s wait for new entries on the leak site! Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Furthermore, the report confirms that although the Sandvine DPI tears down the majority of connections established to blocked websites, 25% of the traffic goes through the DPI equipment. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This ‘line of work’ is coordinated by the FSB’s 18th Center (Information Security Center) based in Moscow.” The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. .” reads the announcement published by the SSU.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

’ The Lazarus APT is linked to North Korea, the activity of the Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. 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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

” In the past, the US Census has been hit by attacks, such as hacks and DDoS attacks during a 2018 test of census systems attributed to Russia-linked hackers and a 2015 hack attributed to the Anonymous collective. ” This HTA annual report provides information of threats targeting the US to government and private sector partners.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

. “I have breached the internal network of D-Link in Taiwan, I have 3 million lines of customer information, as well as source code to D-View extracted from system,” reads the announcement on BreachForums. So far, no evidence suggests the archaic data contained any user IDs or financial information.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 7, 2021

Back in 2015 and 2017, I ran articles in Inc. For various reasons, when I wrote those two pieces, I intentionally featured innovators from outside of the information-security sector. For various reasons, when I wrote those two pieces, I intentionally featured innovators from outside of the information-security sector.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

1, 2015, and on or about Jan. ” RaidForums was launched in 2015, its community reached over half a million users. The police arrested Coelho in the United Kingdom on Jan. 31, at the United States’ request and remain in custody pending the resolution of his extradition proceedings.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. It added that part of the misappropriated funds was now in foreign accounts.” ” reads the site SwissInfo. “Umbrella organisation swissuniversities has sent a warning email to keep universities on their guard.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The tools in REMnux toolkit allow to dissects suspicious executables and artifacts, perform static and dynamic analysis of malicious code, run memory forensics on a compromised host, explore network and system interactions for behavioral analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

Spanish police dismantled a pirated TV streaming network that allowed its operators to earn over 5,300,000 euros since 2015. The Spanish National Police dismantled a network that illicitly distributed audiovisual content, earning over 5,300,000 euros since 2015.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Exposed data could be abused by threat actors to carry out malicious activities, including identity theft and phone call scams. Customers that received the data breach notification could contact the company by phone for any questions or concerns. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In 2015, the hacker who breached the systems of the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team leaked a 400GB package containing hacking tools and exploits codes. ” ~ 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 5, 2024

DFS immediately reported the attack to national security authorities. Cybersecurity experts linked the attack to the Russian nation-state actor APT28 which was responsible for the 2015 attack on the Bundestag.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

Pedro Tavares is a professional in the field of information security, working as an Ethical Hacker, Malware Analyst, Cybersecurity Analyst and also a Security Evangelist. He is also a founding member at CSIRT.UBI and Editor-in-Chief of the security computer blog seguranca-informatica.pt.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. “There was a DDoS attack on telecom systems serving some of the banking services on Thursday,” reads the statement issued by the bank. “We Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

To check if your information has been exposed in this and other data leaks, you can search for your email using the Cyble’s “ Am I Breached” data breach monitoring service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, gun exchange).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2024

” Versa Networks is aware of one confirmed customer reported instance where this vulnerability was exploited because the Firewall guidelines which were published in 2015 & 2017 were not implemented by that customer.” This oversight allowed the attacker to exploit the vulnerability without needing to access the GUI.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. In June 2020, the same ransomware was employed in an attack on the Texas Department of Transportation. The good news is that the RansomEXX ransom, unlike other families of ransomware, does not appear to exfiltrate data before encrypting target systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

” The availability of sensitive documents like the ones discovered by the experts could allow threat actors to gather intelligence on potential targets and use the leaked information to carry out spear-phishing campaigns. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

. “TAG observed a North Korean government-backed attacker group that previously targeted security researchers posing as recruiters at Samsung and sending fake job opportunities to employees at multiple South Korean information security companies that sell anti-malware solutions.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 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 -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, UberEats).

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