Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

And why would someone "hack" (I use the term loosely because they literally logged in with the correct username and password) Spotify accounts? pic.twitter.com/d3sSR8PCu1 — Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) December 9, 2017. 5/5 — Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) December 10, 2017.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 7, 2020

The FBI pointed to vulnerabilities in Windows 7 preceding the EOL announcement that made users the primary target of the Wannacry ransomware campaign in 2017. Another major vulnerability discovered in the operating system in 2019, called BlueKeep, has been traced back to several major hacking campaigns. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider. I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered a year after it happened, when the information was published by WikiLeaks, in March 2017. The anti-secrecy group dubbed the release " Vault 7 ," and U.S.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Check Point has evidence that (probably government affiliated) Chinese hackers stole and cloned an NSA Windows hacking tool years before (probably government affiliated) Russian hackers stole and then published the same tool. Mid 2017: Microsoft quietly fixed the vulnerability exploited by the leaked EpMo exploit.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] ” COME, ABUSE WITH US The gold farming reference is fascinating because in 2017 KrebsOnSecurity published Who Ran LeakedSource? In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Vice Motherboard is reporting that " Firm Hired to Monitor Data Breaches Is Hacked, 143 Million Social Security Numbers Stolen." The FTC should require Equifax to send a voucher to each impacted individual which can be used to purchase any identity theft protection service on the market as of August, 2017.

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Bleeping Computer

DECEMBER 3, 2023

North Korean-backed state hackers have stolen an estimated $3 billion in a long string of hacks targeting the cryptocurrency industry over the last six years since January 2017. [.]

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Fast forward to 2017. Branching attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The two vulnerabilities are: CVE-2017-3066 Adobe ColdFusion Deserialization Vulnerability CVE-2024-20953 Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Deserialization Vulnerability CVE-2017-3066 (CVSS score of 9.8) CVE-2025-24989 (CVSS score: 8.2)

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” Only one of the men sanctioned today is known to have been criminally charged in connection with hacking activity. Secret Service determined that he ran a massive “money mule” scheme, which used phony job offers to trick people into laundering money stolen from hacked small to mid-sized businesses in the United States.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. A whopping 80 percent were due to stolen credentials (nearly a 30 percent increase since 2017!). Unauthorized access via default, shared, or stolen credentials constituted more than a third of the entire Hacking category and over half of all compromised records.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Fireeye is reporting that a hacking group called Ghostwriter broke into the content management systems of Eastern European news sites to plant fake stories. In some cases, FireEye says, Ghostwriter has deployed a bolder tactic: hacking the content management systems of news websites to post their own stories.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The attack took place in April 2017 and the man is accused of conducting the attack for the Russian military intelligence service GRU. German investigators believe that Kozachek is a member of the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear), which is the same group that hacked the German Bundestag in 2015. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

ZDI researchers pointed out that this is the largest number of vulnerabilities addressed in by Microsoft montly security updates since 2017. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Microsoft Patch Tuesday) are actively exploited in the wild.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 10, 2019

The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of a U.S. HPE spun-off its services arm in a merger with Computer Sciences Corporation in 2017 to create DXC. Waves of hacking victims emanate from those six plus HPE and IBM: their clients. It was much bigger than originally reported.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Confirmed thefts attributed to the group include the 2016 hacking of the SWIFT payment system for Bangladesh Bank, which netted thieves $81 million; $6.1 Other moneymaking and laundering schemes attributed to the North Korean hackers include the development and marketing of an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 called Marine Chain Token.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2025

In July 2017, Dr.Web researchers discovered many smartphonemodels were shipped with the dreaded Triada trojan such as Leagoo M5 Plus, Leagoo M8, Nomu S10, and Nomu S20. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,malware)

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations. An example seller’s panel at deer.io. Click image to enlarge.

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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 SecurityAffairs – hacking, Uber). states the message. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks in May and June 2017, respectively, were the most devastating in history. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

Many Google Pixel devices shipped since September 2017 have included a vulnerable app that could be exploited for malicious purposes. Many Google Pixel devices shipped since September 2017 have included dormant software that could be exploited by attackers to compromise them. ” reads the report. ” reads the report.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

They were investigated because they had the bad luck of locking up Washington, DC's video surveillance cameras a week before the 2017 inauguration. They were found because -- as generally happens -- they made mistakes covering their tracks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Security experts say both VPNFilter and Cyclops Blink are the work of a hacking group known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear , the same Russian team blamed for disrupting Ukraine’s electricity in 2015. SANDWORM AND TRITON. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. ” HYDRA. . ” HYDRA.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The group was also observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Telerik UI such as CVE-2017-9248 and CVE-2019-18935. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, newsletter)

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Kaspersky is reporting on a series of bank hacks -- called DarkVishnya -- perpetrated through malicious hardware being surreptitiously installed into the target network: In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to research a series of cybertheft incidents.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying they’re eligible to claim a class action payment in connection with the 2017 megabreach at consumer credit bureau Equifax. Justice Department indicted four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for perpetrating the 2017 Equifax hack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

The third issue added to the KeV catalog is a directory traversal vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-12637 , in scheduler/ui/js/ffffffffbca41eb4/UIUtilJavaScriptJS in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java 7.5. dot dot) in the query string, as exploited in the wild in August 2017.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

As noted in that April story, PCM was one of the companies targeted by the same hacking group that compromised Wipro. Earlier this week, cyber intelligence firm RiskIQ published a lengthy analysis of the hacking group that targeted Wipro, among many other companies. Insight has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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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. Daniel Kaye. Photo: National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye , an Israel-U.K. Daniel Kaye , an Israel-U.K. to face charges there.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

have reported that their devices have been hacked. Later, he realized that despite the vile language, the hack could've been much worse. Back in 2017, SecureWorld News reported that cybersecurity researchers took control of an LG 'Smart' vacuum and spied on the home through the device's camera.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon PierluigiPaganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,HiatusRAT)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say measurably dampened demand for such services by explaining that their use to harm others is illegal and can land potential customers in jail. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Argishti Khudaverdyan, a former retailer of T-Mobile company, received a 10-year jail imprisonment sentence at the end of last as he was found guilty of hacking into the servers of the telecom provider and gaining access to phone unlocking and unblocking of cellphones. It is unclear yet on how the person got access to internal servers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

Among the more notable Russian hackers released in the prisoner swap is Roman Seleznev , 40, who was sentenced in 2017 to 27 years in prison for racketeering convictions tied to a lengthy career in stealing and selling payment card data. prosecutors called a “$93 million hack-to-trade conspiracy.” Marine Paul Whelan.

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