Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group. co — first came online in February 2023.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 2, 2022

ICS vulnerability disclosures have grown by 110% since 2018, which Claroty said suggests more types of operational technologies are coming online and presenting soft targets. The post Get ready for security in the age of the Extended Internet of Things, says Claroty appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. 2018 , when the FBI joined with law enforcement partners overseas to seize 15 different booter service domains. Charles, Ill.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Key Findings Even years after their disclosure, VPN-related vulnerabilities like CVE-2018-13379 and CVE-2022-40684 remain essential tools for attackers, driving large-scale campaigns of credential theft and administrative control. CVE-2018-13379: The Eternal Exploit What is CVE-2018-13379?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). W3Techs’ June 2018 survey shows that 35 percent of the top 10 million websites have adopted it. Related: How PKI can secure IoT.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. and international authorities in December 2018 as part of a coordinated takedown targeting attack-for-hire services.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by —at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a bunch of arrests, imprisonments, and executions.

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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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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 make it easy for criminals.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Russia’s internet watchdog, ‘Roskomnadzor’, has announced the ban of other VPN products, 15 VPN services are now illegal in Russia. Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six more VPN services. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018. But in Wednesday’s filing, the DFS said First American was unable to determine whether records were accessed prior to Jun 2018.

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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. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018. Only when we demand it, will the Internet of Things achieve a level of trust that makes it stable. This is coming.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023. billion in 2023. ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2020

On October 2, KrebsOnSecurity reported that twice in the preceding ten days, an unknown entity that had inside access to the Trickbot botnet sent all infected systems a command telling them to disconnect themselves from the Internet servers the Trickbot overlords used to control compromised Microsoft Windows computers. The Post said U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. trillion by 2026, up from $190 billion in 2018. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide.

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This is a follow on, with a lot more detail, to a story Bloomberg reported on in fall 2018. ”) Here’s me in 2018: Supply-chain security is an incredibly complex problem. It sounds ridiculous on its face, but the Internet itself was a solution to a similar problem: a reliable network built out of unreliable parts.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2020

While the proposed privacy initiative was initially met with significant opposition, particularly from large technology companies, some of that opposition faded in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Mark Zuckerberg's April 2018 testimony before Congress. Enforcement was supposed to start this year, but we haven't seen much yet.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here’s the internet safety rules checklist. billion data breaches in 2018 alone. As technology and life online take over, protecting ourselves and our information on the internet and social media has become more critical than ever. Are you one of those people who worry about online data security? There were around 1.2

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“In early 2018, Vaughn demanded 1.5 Among the Apophis Squad’s targets was encrypted mail service Protonmail, which reached out to this author in 2018 for clues about the identities of the Apophis Squad members after noticing we were both being targeted by them and receiving demands for money in exchange for calling off the attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina. Click to enlarge.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most people who who filed a tax return in 2018 and/or 2019 and provided their bank account information for a debit or credit should soon see an Economic Impact Payment direct-deposited into their bank accounts. More importantly, it appears one doesn’t really need to supply one’s AGI in 2018.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 2, 2024

It banned default passwords in 2018, the law taking effect in 2020. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security standards for manufacturers, and demands that these companies are open with consumers about how long their products will receive security updates for.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Censys researchers warn of more than 4,000 vulnerable Pulse Connect Secure hosts exposed to the Internet. Now Censys researchers discovered that 4,460 Pulse Connect Secure hosts out of 30,266 installs, which are exposed to the Internet, lack of security patches. ” reads the post published by Censys. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com. ” Image: Ke-la.com. 30, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link]. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018. A live Paypal phishing site that uses [link] (has the green padlock).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. Probably the most active Internet address accessing Snatch’s darknet site is 193.108.114[.]41 top , sntech2ch[.]top

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

“The Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor’s Office – Central Office for Combating Internet Crime ( ZIT ) – and the Federal Criminal Police Office ( BKA ) arrested one of the administrators of the criminal trading platform” Crimenetwork” on Monday. .”

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Schneier on Security

JULY 28, 2020

Attacks targeted some of the most widely used open source tools on the internet. Examples: Cdorked/Darkleech , RubyGems Backdoor , Colourama , and JavaScript 2018 Backdoor.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Talking about those systems, I said: Now, add into this mix the risks that arise from new and dangerous technologies such as the internet or AI or synthetic biology. So, while I am worried about intelligent and even driverless cars, most of the risks arealready prevalent in Internet-connected drivered cars.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

million attacks between 2018 and 2022, and attracted some 50,000 registered users. million attacks between 2018 and 2022. The Justice Department says its trying to impress upon people that even buying attacks from DDoS-for-hire services can land Internet users in legal jeopardy. sx ; and Shamar Shattock , 19, of Margate, Fla.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In 2021, the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab Internet reported that a Polish opposition duo was hacked with NSO spyware. According to the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, the spyware was used to spy on the phone of Jacek Karnowski, mayor of the city of Sopot, in 2018-2019.

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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. “But even after a factory reset, you may still have work to do,” reads an FTC consumer privacy notice from 2018.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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