Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. police as part of an FBI investigation into the MGM hack. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico. Click to enlarge.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

Motherboard obtained and published the technical report on the hack of Jeff Bezos's phone, which is being attributed to Saudi Arabia, specifically to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.investigators set up a secure lab to examine the phone and its artifacts and spent two days poring over the device but were unable to find any malware on it.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The only federal law that applies to the cybersecurity of water treatment facilities in the United States is America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 , which requires water systems serving more than 3,300 people “to develop or update risk assessments and emergency response plans.” NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook told KrebsOnSecurity it seized hundreds of accounts — mainly on Instagram — that have been stolen from legitimate users through a variety of intimidation and harassment tactics, including hacking, coercion, extortion, sextortion , SIM swapping , and swatting. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. The complaint doesn’t specify which agency portal was hacked, but it does state that the portal included access to law enforcement databases that track narcotics seizures in the United States. federal government portal without authorization.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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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 13, 2019

In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. 12, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of Timothy Dalton Vaughn , a 20-year-old from Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In December 2018, Romero tweeted that service had been disrupted by a DDoS attack that he attributed to “script kiddies,” a derisive reference to low-skilled online hooligans. Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider. based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 28, 2019

The attack took place between June and November 2018 and according to our telemetry, it affected a large number of users. [.]. Kaspersky Labs is reporting on a new supply chain attack they call "Shadowhammer.". In January 2019, we discovered a sophisticated supply chain attack involving the ASUS Live Update Utility.

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The post Warning To Employers And Their Former Employees: Ex-Engineer Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison For Hacking Cisco’s WebEx appeared first on Joseph Steinberg. Million in damage (including $1 Million of refunds to impacted customers and $1.4

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. The first documented attack against a Sophos facility is the one that targeted Cyberoam in 2018.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. 13, 2018 and Mar. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled , English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. 30, the U.S. gg , an e-commerce platform that caters to the same clientele as Sellix.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 6, 2018. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 7, 2018.

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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. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

ThreatFabric observed threat actors using two publicly available exploits (CVE-2018-4233, CVE-2018-4404) to deliver macOS implants. The experts noticed that a portion of the CVE-2018-4404 exploit is likely borrowed from the Metasploit framework. ” concludes the report that includes Indicators of compromise for this threat.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“In early 2018, Vaughn demanded 1.5 As KrebsOnSecurity noted in 2019 , Vaughn’s identity was revealed by following the trail of clues from a gaming website he used that later got hacked. Timothy Dalton Vaughn from Winston-Salem, N.C. attorney for the Central District of California. Federal judge Otis D.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

I want to talk about 3 upcoming events which Scott Helme and I are going to be running our Hack Yourself First workshop at starting with this one: NDC Security Australia, 26-27 March, AU$800 This is an extra special event that we've only just decided to run. but due to it going online, it looks like "I'm going" to Denmark!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The news of the hack was reported by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, and unfortunately, it isn’t the first time that the Pegasus spyware was used in the country. In 2021, the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab Internet reported that a Polish opposition duo was hacked with NSO spyware.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

In April, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a 22-year-old from Kansas who’s accused of hacking into a public water system in 2019. The defendant in that case is a former employee of the water district he allegedly hacked. In February, we learned that someone hacked into the water treatment plan in Oldsmar, Fla.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But in all likelihood, there will be more than a handful of domain subscribers who take issue with that volume of people data sitting there in one corpus easily downloadable via a clear web hacking forum.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Crimenetwork facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services, including drugs, forged documents, hacking tools, and stolen data. Nearly $100M in cryptocurrency was traded on the platform from 2018-2024, with operators taking 1-5% commissions. Source Computerworld.ch

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

29, 2018, the attackers broke in through a compromised login account on Christmas Eve and quickly began infecting servers with the Ryuk ransomware strain. 2, 2018 shows the company is still struggling to restore services more than a week after the attack began. A status update shared by Data Resolution with affected customers on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The software giant said it learned about the weakness ( CVE-2018-8653 ) after receiving a report from Google about a new vulnerability being used in targeted attacks. “As the flaw is being actively exploited in the wild, users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible to reduce the risk of compromise,” Narang said. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

DCRat first appeared in the threat landscape in 2018, but a year later it was redesigned and relaunched. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Ukraine)

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

T-Mobile confirmed being a victim of recent hacking campaigns linked to China-based threat actors targeting telecom companies. T-Mobile confirms it was hacked as part of a long-running cyber espionage campaign targeting Telco companies. and its allies for hacking activities in July. Wall Street Journal reported.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act included funding for the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Transportation to jointly conduct demonstrations of various alternatives to GPS, which were concluded last March. A report on the technologies was submitted to Congress last week.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

1, 2018 and March 30, 2019 led to the theft of personal and medical information on 11.9 million spent on mailing more than 7 million individual notices to people whose information had been potentially hacked,” wrote Jeremy Hill. The company also reportedly slashed its staff from 113 to 25 at the end of 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Since 2018, Sophos has faced increasingly aggressive campaigns, including the India-based Sophos subsidiary Cyberoam, where attackers exploited a wall-mounted display for initial access. The first documented attack against a Sophos facility is the one that targeted Cyberoam in 2018.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

ThreatFabric observed threat actors using two publicly available exploits (CVE-2018-4233, CVE-2018-4404) to deliver macOS implants. The experts noticed that a portion of the CVE-2018-4404 exploit is likely borrowed from the Metasploit framework.

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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

JULY 26, 2021

One day after last summer’s mass-hack of Twitter , KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. Social media personality Addison Rae had 55 million followers when her TikTok account got hacked last August. When the U.S.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 9, 2019

The malware, called CT-GAN, served as a proof of concept to show the potential for hacking medical devices with fake medical news that was convincing enough to fool medical technicians. A recent study showed that 1 in 4 healthcare facilities were hit by ransomware in 2018 alone.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

In the 15-month span of the GandCrab affiliate enterprise beginning in January 2018 , its curators shipped five major revisions to the code, each corresponding with sneaky new features and bug fixes aimed at thwarting the efforts of computer security firms to stymie the spread of the malware. The GandCrab identity on Exploit[.]in

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