Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet. ” who said Iza hired him to surveil Zelocchi but ultimately refused to pay him for much of the work.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The exposed data dates back from 2016 and earlier, most of the information belongs to customers from B.C. ” A ll LifeLabs users that share the same password for their LifeLabs account at other sites are recommended to change it. and Ontario. LifeLabs CEO Charles Brown apologized for the security incident. ” said Brown.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Luminosity RAT was first spotted in 2015 but it became very popular in 2016. In September 2016, the UK law enforcement arrested Colton Grubbs, the man admitted to designing, marketing, and selling LuminosityLink. Grubbs offered for sale the malware for $39.99 ” reads the DoJ’s sentence.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. This list did not include passwords or password hashes.". "A A list of our client account administrators, including names and email addresses.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Chrome exposing passwords is another example.) Someone documented it, and it's worth pointing out that the documentation doesn't apply to Powerpoint 2016. Washington Post, 2014). But these are not vulnerabilities, because we can have endless debate about it they should be fixed. If they're not vulnerabilities, what are they?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of cyber espionage operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2021

They fell foul to password reuse. This means criminals figuring out the passwords to other criminals’ web shells could also potentially access the compromised servers. The FBI requested a rule change for expanded access powers back in 2014 , and it was granted in 2016.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. August 2016.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E. Named after the infamous string of nation-state cyber attacks during the late 2000s, NightDragon was established in 2016 by former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Until the end of 2016, it was against the Rules of Criminal Procedure to issue warrants to impinge upon computers in bulk or without being able to identify where the computer actually was. The web shells were not protected by unique passwords, said Alperovitch; they could be coopted by any group and not just Hafnium.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

In addition to the above components, we found other stagers and post-exploitation malware implants during our research, some of which were attributed to or have been used by known Chinese-speaking threat actors: Microcin: a backdoor typically used by the SixLittleMonkeys threat actor, which we have been tracking since 2016.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We don’t know how, but last year the company’s update server was protected by the password “solarwinds123” — something that speaks to a lack of security culture.) In 2016, President Obama boasted that we have “more capacity than anybody both offensively and defensively.”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ScarCruft group (also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper) is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. documents), /??(pictures)

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? It's designed to be robust to withstand a nuclear war. What if I told you that this forceful distributed denial of service attack wasn't from a compromised, set of computers.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

And between 2016 and 2018, more than 1,000 IP addresses were found to be associated with it. The governments in question either denied using Pegasus at all—like Rwanda’s foreign affairs minister said—or they claimed that any surveillance carried out by their governments was lawful—like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s office did.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I did attend a SANS Course as a volunteer facilitator for MGT414: “SANS Training Program for CISSP Certification” at the Rocky Mountain SANS 2016 cybersecurity conference. I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Apple Inc has filed a legal suit against NSO Group for developing Pegasus malware that is being illegally used by companies/governments and individuals for conducting cyber surveillance. Note- Israel-based firm NSO Group developed Pegasus for conducting surveillance on mobile phones operating on Android and iOS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes of the internet, as happened in 2016 when Mirai malware infiltrated devices such as baby monitors and refrigerators and locked them into a botnet for the Dyn cyberattack. Out-of-date software or hardware or a supply network attack can allow malware onto a server.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

KABA1 was an implant used against targets throughout the South China Sea that we attributed to the Naikon APT back in 2016. For further surveillance of the victim, the malware operator may also deploy additional tools. The purpose of the campaign was to steal passwords stored in the password manager.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As organizations quickly adopt technologies like Okta Fastpass which uses biometrics for authentication instead of passwords, … we expect an increase in two areas: breaches caused by social engineering (already on the rise), and breaches caused by Insiders (already over 40% of all breaches).

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets. We first reported it in 2016 following a series of attacks against users in Italy and Belgium, where it used watering-hole attacks to deliver malicious versions of WinRAR and TrueCrypt.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2020

Learning about how hackers were able to intercept drone feed video from CIA observation drones during the war in Iraq, for instance, tells us a lot about how tenuous sophisticated surveillance technology really can be, out in the Internet wild. Other nation state groups learned from watching what worked for the Russians in 2016.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

The problem: The FBI warns that during the dismantling of the Moobot botnet, agents detected code from other Russian attackers, including the notorious Fancy Bear (AKA: APT28 or Military Unit 26165) also responsible for the attack on the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) before the 2016 election. and a medium (CVSS 4.3)

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