Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

In July 2017, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull held a press conference to announce that the government was drafting legislation that would compel device manufacturers to assist law enforcement in accessing encrypted information.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FBI warned of a fresh wave of HiatusRAT malware attacks targeting internet-facing Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. ” reads the PIN report.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

van Oorschot: Abstract: Best practices for Internet of Things (IoT) security have recently attracted considerable attention worldwide from industry and governments, while academic research has highlighted the failure of many IoT product manufacturers to follow accepted practices. by Christopher Bellman and Paul C.

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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. Daniel Kaye.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 9, 2017

From that moment, the timeline in their public disclosure began which I highlighted in this tweet: 23 hours and 42 minutes from initial private disclosure to @disqus to public notification and impacted accounts proactively protected pic.twitter.com/lctQEjHhiH — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 6, 2017. Bugs happen and they suck.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Google warns that the North Korea-linked APT37 group is exploiting Internet Explorer zero-day flaw to spread malware. North Korea-linked APT37 group (aka ScarCruft , Reaper, and Group123) actively exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41128 , in attacks aimed at South Korean users.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2025

Mobile VPNs are apps that connect your smartphone to the internet via different computers around the world. A “kill switch” is important; it disconnects your internet connection if the VPN drops, preventing data leaks.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

com, circa 2017. who pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in A screenshot of databooter[.]com, Image: Cisco Talos. com and zstress[.]net.

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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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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The infrastructure at the core of the internet is vulnerable to attack from state-sponsored hackers, its governing body warned. . The hackers harvested usernames, passwords, and domain name information between 2017 and 2019. This practice is called “DNS hijacking.”.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2018

In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a failure to patch one of its Internet servers against a pervasive software flaw — in a Web component known as Apache Struts — led to a breach that exposed personal data on 147 million Americans.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 11, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday took the wraps off a new cyberespionage group that has been behind a series of targeted attacks against diplomatic entities and telecommunication companies in Africa and the Middle East since at least 2017.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When we think of ransomware and brute force password guessing attacks, we normally think of RDP, but recent research from Securonix reminds us that anything secured with a password and exposed to the Internet is of interest to cybercriminals. At the time this was said to represent 47% of Internet-connected MongoDB databases.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

My primer on the going forward privacy and security implications of IoT — What Everyone Should Know About the Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things — won second place in the contest’s IoT Security category. So keep reading and sharing. And thanks for your support.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach. ” Part of the difficulty in patching against the Log4Shell attack is identifying all of the vulnerable web applications, said Johannes Ullrich , an incident handler and blogger for the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. KG is a German multinational software company best known for their Avira Free Security (a.k.a. Avira Free Antivirus). In January 2021, Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based based NortonLifeLock Inc., the same company that now owns Norton 360.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

In October 2012, the WorldWiredLabs domain moved to another dedicated server at the Internet address 198.91.90.7, That Facebook profile is no longer active, but back in January 2017, the administrator of WorldWiredLabs posted that he was considering adding certain Android mobile functionality to his service.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The group also created the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. Microsoft now spotted the subgroup compromising multiple Internet-facing infrastructures to enable Seashell Blizzard APT group to maintain persistence in the networks of high-value targets and support tailored network operations.

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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. A depiction of the outages caused by the Mirai attacks on Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company. Source: Downdetector.com.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 31, 2017

29: World Internet Day — #WorldInternetDay. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. Based upon the survey results of 4,084 donors worldwide, the 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report explores the impact of gender, generation, and ideology upon giving and volunteerism. 2: World Habitat Day — #WorldHabitatDay.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. This has been the reality for years, and was so well before Equifax announced its big 2017 breach. Consumers in every U.S. But Equifax has changed a few things since then.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Webstresser.org (formerly Webstresser.co), as it appeared in 2017. WebStresser was one of many so-called “booter” or “stresser” services — virtual hired muscle that even completely unskilled users can rent to knock nearly any website or Internet user offline.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct , an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. HOSTING IN THE WIND. ” ONE OF THE LARGEST SPAMMERS IN HISTORY?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

But this story is about so-called “bulletproof residential VPN services” that appear to be built by purchasing or otherwise acquiring discrete chunks of Internet addresses from some of the world’s largest ISPs and mobile data providers. WHAT IS RESNET? com , are hidden behind domain privacy protection.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 13, 2017

link] pic.twitter.com/qRUUCmz1SY — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 12, 2017. So I gave VTech a suggestion: Hey @vtechtoys , how about put this warning on the box so it can be seen before purchasing? Yeah, didn’t think so. Now that may have been (a bit) tongue in cheek, but it got me thinking - what would this actually look like?

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Like the United States, China is more likely to try to get data from the US communications infrastructure, or from the large Internet companies that already collect data on our every move as part of their business model. If there's any lesson from all of this, it's that everybody spies using the Internet. The United States does it.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

The company determined the hacking tools and activity appeared to come from Russian-based Internet addresses. But just eight months later — in January 2017 according to the lawsuit — hackers broke in to the bank’s systems once more, again gaining access to the financial institution’s systems via a phishing email.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“As worrying as it may seem, this comes as a clear reminder that when cameras are placed on the internet, they must be properly installed with security in mind. In 2017, thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by the Persirai IoT botnet that targeted more than 1,000 IP camera models.

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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. For example, in April 2017, someone using a Cognizant account utilized the “fiddler” hacking program to circumvent cyber protections that Maritz had installed several weeks earlier.”

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