Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The FBI revealed that foreign hackers compromised the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting flaws in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that an APT group had breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

NSA is warning of multiple state-sponsored cyberespionage groups exploiting enterprise VPN Flaws. Last week, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have been exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in enterprise VPN products in attacks in the wild.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. Upon compromising the domain administrator account, threat actors could distributee malware to other systems on the same network. ” reads the post published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of attacks exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure. Threat actors leverage VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure, to breach into the target networks. ” reads the alert issued by the NCSC.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games) to hijack the channel of YouTube creators. Below are the job descriptions used to recruit the hackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

At least one China-linked APT group exploited a new zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors. In all the intrusions, the attackers targeted Pulse Secure VPN appliances in the breached networks. ” reads the report published by FireEye. ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” For more on this dynamic, please see The Value of a Hacked Email Account.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. Vpn-service[.]us

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

TransUnion, 2019: The credit reporting bureau reported the data compromise of 37,000 Canadians, however the nature and content of that compromise are not clear. . Experian, 2013 – 2015: Hackers stole a trove of information from T-Mobile customers whose data had passed through Experian to check credit there and open a new account.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

Secure networks : Avoid using untrusted public Wi-Fi to access social media accounts, instead, use mobile data. If you have to use a trusted VPN then use that, but be aware a VPN doesn’t make your connection secure it just moves the threat to the VPN provider. Multi-Factor authentication (MFA). Why do I need it?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. “But a registrar should not act on instructions coming from a random email address or other account that is not even connected to the domain in question.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Attorney Sherri Lydon , who in May 2019 filed criminal wire fraud charges against Golestan , alleging he’d orchestrated a network of shell companies and fake identities to prevent ARIN from knowing the addresses were all going to the same buyer. But the legal tussle caught the attention of South Carolina U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, found out that the year of 2019 was marked by ransomware evolution and was dominated by increasingly aggressive ransomware campaigns, with its operators resorting to more cunning TTPs, reminding those of APT groups to get their victims shell out.

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SecureBlitz

APRIL 11, 2024

Social media platforms and online forums are full of lamentations by Disney+ users’ complaints about their hacked Disney accounts. The highly anticipated launch of Disney+ in November 2019 wasn't without its hiccups.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Twitter announced it has banned 936 accounts managed by China-linked actors that attempted to sow political discord in Hong Kong. Twitter has observed and banned 936 accounts managed by China-linked actors that attempted to stir up riots and sow political discord in Hong Kong. ” reads the announcement published by Twitter.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Keep a close eye on your accounts. So, either check your bank and credit card accounts daily or sign up for free transaction monitoring programs which notify you whenever there is activity in your bank, credit union or credit card accounts. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9% On top of that, 80.5% Bottom line.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2020

Since December 2019, researchers from Qihoo 360 observed two different attack groups that are employing two zero-days exploits to take over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks. The attacker is snooping on port 21,25,143,110 (1/2) — 360 Netlab (@360Netlab) December 25, 2019. #0-day

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages. The group was observed using this scheme between 2019 and 2020, and according to the experts, most of the compromised email accounts belong to defense companies in the Middle East.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. billion, are due to BEC (Business Email Compromise) frauds, also known as EAC (Email Account Compromise) crimes. During 2019, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported an increase in the number of BEC complaints related to the diversion of payroll funds.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

They must be convoluted to be any good, which means they’re difficult to remember, especially since the average person has to juggle passwords to access dozens of online accounts. Credential stuffing has enabled criminal hacking rings to turbo-charge their malware spreading and account hijacking campaigns.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

That data included approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers on U.S. “Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” Capital One said in a statement posted to its site.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2021

Expect that the risk from data stolen or modified (including credentials, accounts, and software) before a device was patched will not be alleviated by patching or simple remediation actions. Assume that a breach will happen, enforce least-privileged access, and make password changes and account reviews a regular practice.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

PCS provides Virtual Private Network (VPN) facilities to businesses, which use them to prevent unauthorized access to their networks and services. Most of the problems discovered by Pulse Secure and Mandiant involve three vulnerabilities that were patched in 2019 and 2020. The old vulnerabilities. The post Take action!

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. adpvpn.adpolice.gov.ae: VPN service for the Abu Dhabi Police.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” is a company that tracks VPNs and proxy services worldwide. “And at least two of them explained that Stark offered them free VPN services that they were reselling.”

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SecureList

MARCH 19, 2025

It grabs account information from VPN and gaming clients, and all kinds of network utilities like ngrok, Playit, Cyberduck, FileZilla and DynDNS. At the end of 2024, we discovered a new stealer distributed via YouTube videos promoting game cheats. What’s intriguing about this malware is how much it collects.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 13, 2023

It is essential for organizations using SharePoint 2019 to apply the patch to mitigate this serious vulnerability.” “ CVE-2023-32031 could potentially trigger malicious code in the context of the server’s account through a network call,” Goettl wrote. is also worth noting.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

. “The current data leak includes snapshots of highly sensitive bank-related documents of the company such as account transaction details, vouchers, letters sent to bank managers, and much more.” Below one of the snapshots leaked by the CLOP ransomware operators as proof of the hack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The United Kingdom national Nathan Wyatt (39), a member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group, was extradited to the United States in December 2019. ” Wyatt was extradited from the United Kingdom to the Eastern District of Missouri in December 2019. The man was charged by U.S. reads the indictment. reads the indictment. “b.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The threat actors initially leveraged compromised credentials for Microsoft Office 365 (O365) accounts, domain administrator accounts, and credentials for the agency’s Pulse Secure VPN server. “First the threat actor logged into a user’s O365 account from Internet Protocol (IP) address 91.219.236[.]166

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI, as well as Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre – the campaign dates back to at least the middle of 2019 and has targeted hundreds of U.S. and foreign organizations across the world, with a particular focus on the United States and Europe.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The hacking campaign has been active since July 2015 and continued until at least February 2019. . The three hackers used fake online profiles and email accounts to impersonate US citizens working in the satellite and aerospace fields. ” reads the DoJ’s press release.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting. Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ].

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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. com , also known as “ IAPS Security Services ” (formerly intl-alliance[.]com

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) Request for access to corporate VPN. A special mention should be made of the method for capturing legitimate accounts based on stealers. Profit will only be obtained from private service accounts. General topic.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. In May, Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. .”

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