Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there's Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex which leaked 33M records in 2017 , Exactis who had 132M records breached last year and the Apollo data breach which exposed 126M accounts, one of which was my own. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations.

Data breaches 363

Data breaches Technology Software Accountability 363

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Yesterday, July 6, 2019, hackers breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., On July 6, 2019, hackers have breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., Hackers at least created 11 new GitHub repositories in compromised Canonical account. the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. ” states the Canonical team.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2024

The unauthorized access to the IT infrastructure of the company occurred on June 26, threat actors used the credentials of a standard employee account within its IT environment. Upon detecting the suspicious activity by this account, the company immediately started the incident response measures. said company spokesman. “Out

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

The marketplace had been active since 2012, it was allowing sellers to offer stolen login credentials, including usernames and passwords for bank accounts, online payment accounts, mobile phone accounts, retailer accounts, and other online accounts. in restitution. These credentials were linked to $1.2

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A jury yesterday found former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan guilty of covering up a massive data breach; the conviction makes Sullivan likely to become the first executive to face prison time over the mishandling of a cyberattack. Serving as a Chief Information Security Officer is a daunting task. 0001% get through.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Compromised data vary by individuals and organizations, it includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers, and more. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the New York Times , the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and used it to inform internal personnel that the company had “suffered a data breach” and provided a list of allegedly hacked internal databases. “I This is not the first time that the company suffered a security breach.

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Hacking Data breaches Information Security Engineering 144

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Wyatt admitted that starting in 2016, he operated as a member of the popular hacking group and stole sensitive data from its victims. Louis area beginning in 2016.” WYATT registered a telephone account (Account B) used in the course of the conspiracy to send threatening and extortionate text messages to victims.“.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since 2016 , Microsoft has been alerting users of nation-state activity, now the IT giant added the same service to the Defender for Office 365 dashboard. The new security alert will notify companies when their employees are being targeted by state-sponsored attacks. It automatically investigates and remediates attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic revealed that the National Cyber and Information Security Agency blamed a foreign state for a cyber attack that targeted the Czech Foreign Ministry. The Czech experts discovered the security breach early January 2017.

Cyber Attacks 103

Cyber Attacks Advertising Information Security Government 103

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

QQAAZZ attempted to launder tens of millions stolen from victims starting with 2016 by the world’s foremost cybercriminals. “The funds were then transferred to other QQAAZZ-controlled bank accounts and sometimes converted to cryptocurrency using ‘tumbling’ services designed to hide the original source of the funds. .

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

The physical safety of things like airbags, rearview mirrors, and brakes is well accounted for; yet cybersecurity auto safety concerns are rising to the fore. Funso Richard , Information Security Officer at Ensemble , highlighted the gravity of these threats.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

According to DoJ, from at least in or about 2016 through or about April 2021, Nasab and other co-conspirators carried out a coordinated multi-year campaign to breach computers worldwide. In one case, the hackers successfully compromised an administrator email account associated with a defense contractor. ” continues the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Researchers from security firm ThreatNix spotted a new large-scale campaign abusing Facebook ads. Threat actors are using Facebook ads to redirect users to Github accounts hosting phishing pages used to steal victims’ login credentials. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

billion from organizations in the industry and attacks against DeFi platforms accounted for $1.76 The percentage increase in the number of scams per year is up by 850% in the last decade. Threat actors stole $3.18 The top 5 breaches in history are: 1. Gox, $615M. Poly Network, $611M+. Coincheck, $534M. KuCoin, $281M. PancakeBunny, $200M .

Cryptocurrency 117

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

A former CIA analyst, Asif William Rahman, pleaded guilty to leaking top-secret National Defense Information on social media in 2024. Asif William Rahman, a former CIA analyst with Top-Secret clearance since 2016, pleaded guilty to leaking classified information on social media in October 2024.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this. It’s amazing that one person could have had so much access with so little accountability, and could sneak all of this data out without raising any alarms. I visited him once in Moscow, in 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S., South Korea, and Europe.

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Passwords Accountability Malware Authentication 143

Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2020

. “The leaked information, which ZDNet obtained a copy with the help of data breach monitoring service Under the Breach, contains information on users who registered or used the Aptoide app store app between July 21, 2016, and January 28, 2018.” ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The attacks against the country attributed to China raised since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, who always claimed the independence of the island from Beijing. The ministry’s information security and protection centre handled around 1.4

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Government Hacking Cyber Attacks Information Security 110

Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

Phishing 145

Phishing Accountability Advertising DNS 145

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. A notable feature of earlier Dolphin versions we analyzed is the ability to modify the settings of victims’ signed-in Google and Gmail accounts to lower their security, most likely to maintain access to victims’ email inboxes.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

These contained information for millions of credit cards, bank account numbers and routing information, and the usernames and associated passwords needed to access online accounts.” ” According to Europol, the joint effort and intense information sharing were the key to the success of Operation TOURNIQUET.

Cybercrime 145

Cybercrime Banking Accountability Hacking 145

Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2020

US military claims to have disrupted the online propaganda activity of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016. “Today the National Security Archive is releasing 6 USCYBERCOM documents obtained through FOIA which shed new light on the campaign to counter ISIS in cyberspace.”

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Hacking Advertising Accountability Media 93

Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

Matthew Keys is a former Reuters journalist who was convicted in October 2015 of supporting the Anonymous collective and that was sentenced to 24 months in prison for computer hacking charges in April 2016. “Now, federal officials say, Keys has done it again.” ” states the Sacramento Bee.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

Furthermore, attackers used proof-of-concept code to attack SAP systems, but also brute-force attacks to take over high-privileged SAP user accounts. The goal of these attacks was to take full control of an SAP deployment in order to modify configurations and user accounts to exfiltrate business information.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. In 2016, the company warned its 9.5

Data breaches 96

Data breaches Hacking Advertising Accountability 96

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The former National Security Agency contractor Harold Thomas Martin III , who was accused and subsequently pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of classified NSA data, was sentenced to nine years in prison. 13, 2016, asked one of the researchers to arrange a conversation with Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky.

Government 110

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. million for the settlement of 3 billion hacked accounts. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”.

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Data breaches Small Business Advertising Cryptocurrency 106

Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

The messages link the legitimate advisory for the CVE-2016-9223 vulnerability: hxxps://cve[.]mitre[.]org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9223. name=CVE-2016-9223. Experts noticed that the fake login page, unlike the original one, doesn’t check that email addresses are associated with existing accounts.

Phishing 145

Phishing Advertising Healthcare Cyber Attacks 145

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S., South Korean, and Europe. .”

Passwords 136

Passwords Accountability Authentication Hacking 136

Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

The black marketplace has been active since 2014, it was first analyzed by experts at Kaspersky Lab in 2016. In 2016 the service was offering up to 70,000 hacked servers for as little as $6, and with 416 registered sellers in 173 countries, the platform was operating a highly successful global business model.

Cybercrime 132

Cybercrime Identity Theft Government Hacking 132

Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

In a Sitting Ducks attack scenario, threat actors take control of a registered domain at an authoritative DNS service or web hosting provider without accessing the domain owner’s accounts. The researcher Matt Bryant first detailed the attack vector in 2016 [ 1 , 2 ]]. This helps verify ownership.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Vinnik set up numerous such shell companies and financial accounts across the globe to allow BTC-e to conduct its business.” French authorities accused Vinnik of defrauding more than 100 people in six French cities between 2016 and 2018.

Cryptocurrency 130

Cryptocurrency Computers and Electronics Identity Theft Hacking 130

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian criminal was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. Nikulin also hacked into an employee account of a Formspring engineer and used it to access the company network between June 13, 2012, and June 29, 2012. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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Hacking Cybercrime Advertising Data breaches 116

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2024

Cado Security Labs recently became aware that Cerber ransomware is being deployed into Confluence servers via the CVE-2023-22518 exploit. Cerber has been active since at least 2016, most recently it was involved in attacks against Confluence servers. ” states Cado Security.

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