Schneier on Security

MARCH 8, 2021

In 2019, Mladenov et al. Interesting paper: “ Shadow Attacks: Hiding and Replacing Content in Signed PDFs “: Abstract: Digitally signed PDFs are used in contracts and invoices to guarantee the authenticity and integrity of their content. A user opening a signed PDF expects to see a warning in case of any modification.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2019

“According to Microsoft, at least two of these vulnerabilities ( CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182 ) can be considered ‘wormable’ and [can be equated] to BlueKeep,” referring to a dangerous bug patched earlier this year that Microsoft warned could be used to spread another WannaCry-like ransomware outbreak.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The hacking campaign targeted 90 users and was disrupted in December, WhatsApp already alerted them of a possible compromise of their devices. WhatsApp linked the hacking campaign to Paragon, an Israeli commercial surveillance vendor acquired by AE Industrial Partners for $900 million in December 2024.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2021

Here’s a brief timeline of what we know leading up to last week’s mass-hack, when hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Exchange Server systems got compromised and seeded with a powerful backdoor Trojan horse program. 2, Microsoft patched four flaws in Exchange Server 2013 through 2019.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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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. But in a letter sent to affected individuals dated Feb. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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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. Constella found that a user named Shoppy registered on Cracked in 2019 using the email address finn@shoppy[.]gg.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

And BEARHOST has been cultivating its reputation since at least 2019. government for its hacking operations, CEO Eugene Kaspersky says he ordered workers to delete the code. Bulletproof hosts are so named when they earn or cultivate a reputation for ignoring legal demands and abuse complaints. Image: Intrinsec. Last year, the U.S.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 7, 2020

Another major vulnerability discovered in the operating system in 2019, called BlueKeep, has been traced back to several major hacking campaigns. . The post Windows 7 End of Life Presents Hacking Risk, FBI Warns appeared first on Adam Levin. Windows 7 users represented 98% of infected systems.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

I just went and looked at the pastes HIBP has collected since the clock ticked over to 2019 and found 20 of them already: Digging further, I found over a thousand pastes with "Spotify" in the title. And why would someone "hack" (I use the term loosely because they literally logged in with the correct username and password) Spotify accounts?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Court documents state that on October 29, 2019, plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, alleging that the defendants used WhatsApp to target approximately 1,400 mobile phones and devices to infect them with the surveillance software. said Gil Lanier, vice president of global communications for the Israeli firm.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 28, 2019

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

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2025

Launched in 2019, Garantex was first sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control in April 2022 for receiving hundreds of millions in criminal proceeds, including funds used to facilitate hacking, ransomware, terrorism and drug trafficking.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Andrew Appel discusses Georgia’s voting machines, how the paper ballots facilitated a recount, and the problem with automatic ballot-marking devices: Suppose the polling-place optical scanners had been hacked (enough to change the outcome). That would have been a nightmare scenario.

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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.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. In a legal settlement that is quintessentially Canadian, the matter was resolved in 2019 after Defiant Tech agreed to plead guilty.

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In September 2019, another similar vulnerability was found being exploited by the same hacking group. More discoveries in November 2019, January 2020, and April 2020 added up to at least five zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited from the same bug class in short order. Microsoft issued a patch and fixed the flaw, sort of.

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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. Salt Typhoon is a China-linked APT group active since at least 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

CVE-2019-16278 – is a directory traversal issue in the function http_verify in nostromo nhttpd through 1.9.6 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA ) Versions up to 2.3.6 and unpatched 2.3.7

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Atrium Health launched an investigation into the security breach and discovered that from January 2015 to July 2019, certain online tracking technologies were active on its MyAtriumHealth (formerly MyCarolinas) Patient Portal, accessible via web and mobile. The company notified the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The APT group targeted an organization in Latin America in 2019 and 2022. While investigating the 2022 attack, the researchers noticed that the victim organization had also suffered a 2019 attack using “Careto2” and “Goreto” frameworks. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Department of Justice charged a British national for hacking into the systems of five U.S. The Department of Justice charged the British national Robert Westbrook (39) for hacking into the systems of five U.S. From January 2019 to May 2020, the man carried out a hack-to-trade scheme, earning over $3 million in profits.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evgenii Ptitsyn and others allegedly ran an international hacking scheme since November 2020, deploying Phobos ransomware to extort victims. If convicted, the man could face up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count, 10 years for each computer hacking charge, and 5 years for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. The other three restaurants are all part of the same parent company and disclosed breaches in August 2019. Image: Gemini Advisory.

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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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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2019

That feature has been hacked : Researchers on Wednesday during Black Hat USA 2019 demonstrated an attack that allowed them to bypass a victim's FaceID and log into their phone simply by putting a pair of modified glasses on their face.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Black Basta ransomware gang claims the hack of the car maker Hyundai Motor Europe and the theft of three terabytes of their data. In December 2019, German media reported that hackers suspected to be members of the Vietnam-linked APT Ocean Lotus ( APT32 ) group breached the networks of the car manufacturers BMW and Hyundai.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

Sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

He admitted to hacking a U.S.-based based e-commerce company, stealing personal and financial data on 1,300 government employees, and providing the data to an Islamic State hacking group. Between 2015 and 2019, Ferizi was imprisoned at a facility in Illinois that housed several other notable convicts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Here’s a look at the havoc that lag has wrought, as seen through the purchasing patterns at one of the underground’s biggest stolen card shops that was hacked last year. In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2020

The attack requires physical access to the computer, but it's pretty devastating : On Thunderbolt-enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique can bypass the login screen of a sleeping or locked computer -- and even its hard disk encryption -- to gain full access to the computer's data. Intel responds.

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