Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

CVE-2021-31959 affects everything from Windows 7 through Windows 10 and Server versions 2008 , 2012 , 2016 and 2019. .” Microsoft also patched five critical bugs — flaws that can be remotely exploited to seize control over the targeted Windows computer without any help from users.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2022

Some of the flaws added to the catalog in this turn are dated back to 2016, such as the issues affecting Apple ( CVE-2016-4655 , CVE-2016-4656 , CVE-2016-4657 ), Microsoft ( CVE-2016-0162 , CVE-2016-3351 , CVE-2016-3298 ) and Cisco Devices ( CVE-2016-6366 , CVE-2016-6367 ).

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations. i'm a pluralsight author, microsoft regional director and most valued professional (mvp) specialising in online security and cloud development.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Bitfinex hacker, Ilya Lichtenstein , who stole 1 billion worth of Bitcoins from Bitfinex in 2016, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. Law enforcement also seized over $3.6

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in the country vulnerable to critical flaws. According to current findings from the BSI , around twelve percent of them are so outdated that security updates are no longer offered for them.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CryptXXX, another major family discovered in April 2016 and later rebranded as UltraCrypter, relied on exploit kits that used software vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cryptographers hate being rushed into things, which is why NIST began a competition to create a post-quantum cryptographic standard in 2016. 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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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

JUNE 30, 2024

The popular Ars Technica reporter Dan Goodin reported that an alert issued by security firm NCC Group reports a “significant compromise of the TeamViewer remote access and support platform by an APT group.” Der Spiegel pointed out that TeamViewer did not disclose the security breach to the public. “In wrote the company.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620 , was fixed for the first time in 2013, but in 2016 experts discovered a way to bypass the fix. CVE-2022-22620 was initially fixed in 2013, reintroduced in 2016, and then disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022.” Its fix was just regressed in 2016 during refactoring.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

Adobe has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability in the ColdFusion product (versions?2021, 2021, 2016, and?2018) Adobe has released security patches to address a critical vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. 2021, 2016 and?2018.?These

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These issues impacts Windows Server 2019 and lower versions, including Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 SP2.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” Please see this KB for more information. ” continues Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

The blog featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world,” and even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We don’t have an estimate right now as to when full access to tools will be restored, so thank you for bearing with us,” Latha Maripuri, Uber’s chief information security officer, told NYT via email. This is not the first time that the company suffered a security breach.

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Anton on Security

MARCH 1, 2021

Naturally, one may counter that chess is mathematically solvable while information security is not (by a wide, wide, wide margin). There was a concept of human+machine chess that looked really awesome in 1998–2015, but then was quickly and mercilessly killed by the improving neural networks. Sure, this argument holds water …today.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

PopeyeTools was a dark web marketplace specializing in selling stolen credit cards and cybercrime tools, facilitating fraud and illicit online activities since 2016. Stolen information offered for sale on the carding website included bank account, credit card, and debit card numbers and associated information for conducting transactions.

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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. This was in 2016, when Poitras built a secure room in New York to house the documents. I visited him once in Moscow, in 2016. And what I was working on would become public in a few weeks. And Edward Snowden?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

This is sensitive information that could lead to discrimination, persecution, or otherwise cause harm to individuals by violating their privacy and exposing them to various types of cyberattacks. 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits. At the end of October 2016, the hackers leaked a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

Year Total Money Lost ($) Year Increase In Money Lost (%) 2021 4,250,000,000 2020 – 2021 185% 2020 1,490,000,000 2019 – 2020 -57% 2019 3,500,156,000 2018 – 2019 259% 2018 974,000,000 2017 – 2018 51% 2017 645,901,000 2016 – 2017 341% 2016 146,509,000 2015 – 2016 -64%. The top 5 breaches in history are: 1. Gox, $615M.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Today, I was alerted to the fact after spotting a warning by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) about the same vulnerability, Something the BSI does not do lightly. Last year, Microsoft introduced Extended Protection support as an optional feature for Exchange Server 2016 CU23.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SonicWall SonicOS, ImageMagick and Linux Kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. ” Attackers can exploit the flaw to take over websites running the widely used image-enhancing app.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

Between July 2016 and May 2021, Kavzharadze listed over 626,100 stolen login credentials on Slilpp and sold more than 297,300 of them. The Russian man was sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,233,521.47 in restitution. These credentials were linked to $1.2 million in fraudulent transactions.

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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. .

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

Funso Richard , Information Security Officer at Ensemble , highlighted the gravity of these threats. Notably, in 2016, Nissan suspended a remote telematics system in its all-electric hatchback, the Leaf, due to a vulnerability in the NissanConnect app’s server.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Microsoft addressed the flaw with the release of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2021 , the vulnerability impacts on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. “We Our recommendation is to install these updates immediately to protect your environment.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

In the second half of 2017, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed it was the victim of a cyber-attack in 2016. At the time, hackers were focused on non-public information stored in its EDGAR filing system. ” reads an advisory published by the US State Department.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 20 (Chief Judge Jeong Seon-jae Baek Suk-jong Lee Jun-hyun) charged Mr. A for being a developer for the TrickBot gang since 2016. A, this is the pseudonym used to identify the individual, was forced to live in Seoul waiting for the replacement of his passport from the local Russian embassy.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. The man was recruited by the criminal organization in 2016. Operators continue to offer the botnet through a multi-purpose malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model. ” Mr.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The Mirai botnet was first discovered in August 2016 by the MalwareMustDie researcher Mirai source code , two months later its source code was leaked online. Since 2016, security experts have discovered numerous variants of the Mirai botnet such as Masuta , Okiru , Satori , Mukashi , SORA , and Tsunami.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The Dharma ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in February 2016, at the time experts dubbed it Crysis. In November 2016, the master decryption keys for Crysis were released online, victims of CrySis versions 2 and 3 were able to recover their files.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Rydox marketplace has been active since February 2016, it facilitated over 7,600 sales of stolen PII, access devices, and cybercrime tools, generating $230,000 since 2016. It offered over 321,000 products to 18,000 users, including names, social security numbers, and hacking tools. Thousands of U.S. victims were affected.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2016-6277 NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, build 001 CVE-2020-9377 D-Link DIR-610 CVE-2016-11021 D-Link DCS-930L devices before 2.12 Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Between 2012 and 2016 she served as president and managing partner at cyber consulting firm Liberty Group Ventures. In 2016, she was chosen by President Obama to lead an independent commission on enhancing national cybersecurity. “I .” reads CISA’s announcement.

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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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