Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2016, I wrote about an Internet that affected the world in a direct, physical manner. This was the Internet of Things (IoT). This was the Internet of Things (IoT). The classical definition of a robot is something that senses, thinks, and acts—that’s today’s Internet.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Don’t ruin your device.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016. According to court testimony, Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar , Liberia’s top mobile phone and Internet provider.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. Many used browsers that they were accustomed to, not browsers of choice, or default browsers set by organizations, such as the Internet Explorer. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. Only when we demand it, will the Internet of Things achieve a level of trust that makes it stable. This is coming. This time the stakes are too high. Talk more soon.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Microsoft today released an emergency software patch to plug a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already using to break into Windows computers.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Many modern vehicles let owners use the Internet or a mobile device to control the car’s locks, track location and performance data, and start the engine. Mathew Marulla began leasing a Ford Focus electric vehicle in 2013, but turned the car back in to Ford at the end of his lease in 2016.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

The user “RSOCKS” on the Russian crime forum Verified changed his name to RSOCKS from a previous handle: “ Stanx ,” whose very first sales thread on Verified in 2016 quickly ran afoul of the forum’s rules and prompted a public chastisement by the forum’s administrator. ” the post enthuses.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences. “Frigg not only shows background checks, but social profiles and a person’s entire internet footprint, too. Remember Norse Corp. ,

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

for both 2015 and 2016, overstating its income by millions of dollars. The doctored 2016 DMI P&L was inflated by Manafort by more than $3.5 To create the false 2016 P&L, on or about October 21, 2016, Manafort emailed Gates a.pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Mirai enslaves poorly secured “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers for use in large-scale online attacks. Not long after Mirai first surfaced online in August 2016, White and Jha were questioned by the FBI about their suspected role in developing the malware.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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The State of Security

MAY 5, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

has pleaded guilty to federal hacking charges tied to his role in operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a crime machine powered by hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that was built to conduct massive denial-of-service attacks targeting Internet service providers, online gaming platforms and Web hosting companies.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. “HAFNIUM has previously compromised victims by exploiting vulnerabilities in internet-facing servers. . “HAFNIUM has previously compromised victims by exploiting vulnerabilities in internet-facing servers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com and rurimeter[.]com com , buydudu[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

He briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi , an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile Web sites. Masters’ Instagram profile states that she was in a relationship with Woody. Brooklyn, NY native Islam, a.k.a.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

A little bit of a change of pace this week with the video being solely on the events unfolding around removing content, people and even entire platforms from the internet. These are significant events in history, regardless of your political persuasion, and they're likely to have a very long-lasting impact on the way we communicate online.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

app), one very interesting Internet address is connected to all of them — 185.159.83[.]24. based company in 2016 and 2017. “This was the same tool that was used to effectuate the cyber-attack in Spring 2016. This address is owned by King Servers , a well-known bulletproof hosting company based in Russia.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If you’re into this sort of thing, it’s pretty much the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet without committing multiple felonies. In 2016, DARPA ran a similarly styled event for artificial intelligence (AI). In 2016, none of the Cyber Grand Challenge teams used modern machine learning techniques.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Ukrainian Cyber Alliance has been active since 2016, the Pro-Ukraine group has targeted Russian entities since the invasion of Ukraine. Internet monitoring service NetBlocks confirmed a disruption in Nodexs connectivity following the attack on Tuesday night. Internet should work for many. Please reboot your routers.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

Three years later, October 2016, a DDoS attack, dubbed Mirai, topped 600 gigabytes per second while taking aim at the website of cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. The author of Mirai used a sledgehammer to kill a fly: the DDoS bombardment was so large that it also wiped out Dyn , a UK-based internet performance vendor. Beyond DDoS.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. In December 2016 , the Turkish blocked social media in the country to prevent the sharing of a video of the executions of Turkish soldiers by the IS group. ”added Netblocks. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

.” Indeed, while the exploit also works against more than a dozen of Zyxel’s NAS product lines, the company only released updates for NAS products that were newer than 2016. “Do not leave the product directly exposed to the internet. Its advice for those still using those unsupported NAS devices?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Way back in 2016, security firm Fortinet blogged about LinkedIn’s redirect being used to promote phishing sites and online pharmacies. Linkedin’s parent company — Microsoft Corp — is by all accounts the most-phished brand on the Internet today. Let me be clear that the activity described in this post is not new.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

A full 17 other critical flaws fixed in this release tackle security weaknesses that Microsoft assigned its most dire “critical” rating, such as in Office , Internet Exploder , SharePoint , Visual Studio , and Microsoft’s.NET Framework.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2021

Flash helped bring multimedia content to the Internet in the early 2000s, but, within a few years, the problems that it introduced became clear. In fact, starting on January 21, in order to protect users who do not remove the software, Adobe will begin blocking Flash content from running. Flash’s death was not unexpected.

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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. For a quick visual breakdown of each update released today and its severity level, check out the this Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh was incorporated in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2016. The dust-up over Pushwoosh came in part from data gathered by Zach Edwards , a security researcher who until recently worked for the Internet Safety Labs , a nonprofit organization that funds research into online threats. THE PINCER TROJAN CONNECTION. “Pushwoosh Inc.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

It was late fall in 2016 when a fellow researcher joined him at the InGuardians lab, where he is director of research. His friend wanted to see how fast Mirai , a novel internet of things (IoT) botnet installer, would take over a Linux-based DVR camera recorder that was popular with medium-size businesses.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Top of the heap on this Fat Patch Tuesday is CVE-2024-21412 , a “security feature bypass” in the way Windows handles Internet Shortcut Files that Microsoft says is being targeted in active exploits. Microsoft Corp. It’s also smart to back up your data and/or image your Windows drive before applying new updates.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

Many of the infected systems were Internet of Things (IoT) devices , including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. RSOCKS, circa 2016. Later in its existence, the RSOCKS botnet expanded into compromising Android devices and conventional computers. “I

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University , his former alma mater. 2016 attack that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days. Paras Jha, in an undated photo from his former LinkedIn profile. Paras Jha, a 22-year-old computer whiz from Fanwood, N.J., After the Sept.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

The dark web is a part of the internet that isn't indexed by search engines. The number of dark web listings that could harm an enterprise has risen by 20% since 2016. Dark web definition. You've no doubt heard talk of the “dark web” as a hotbed of criminal activity — and it is. To read this article in full, please click here

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