Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

A researcher received a $50,000 bug bounty by Microsoft for having reported a vulnerability that could’ve allowed to hijack any account. Microsoft has awarded the security researcher Laxman Muthiyah $50,000 for reporting a vulnerability that could have allowed anyone to hijack users’ accounts without consent.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. . But on Nov.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The popular children’s online playground Animal Jam has suffered a data breach that affected more than 46 million accounts. Animal Jam has suffered a data breach impacting 46 million accounts belonging to children and parents who signed up for the game. . records include the birth year the player entered at account creation 23.9M

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K. A Scattered Spider phishing lure sent to Twilio employees.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

Traditional payment cards encode cardholder account data in plain text on a magnetic stripe, which can be read and recorded by skimming devices or malicious software surreptitiously installed in payment terminals. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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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 malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers. .”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At issue is the Zoom Personal Meeting ID (PMI), which is a permanent identification number linked to your Zoom account and serves as your personal meeting room available around the clock. The PMI portion forms part of each new meeting URL created by that account, such as: zoom.us/j/5551112222

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? We still have a way to go!

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

. “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.” 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

Mandiant found the compromised 3CX software would download malware that sought out new instructions by consulting encrypted icon files hosted on GitHub. In many cases, the phony profiles spoofed chief information security officers at major corporations , and some attracted quite a few connections before their accounts were terminated.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

By all accounts, the most pressing priority this month is CVE-2021-31166 , a Windows 10 and Windows Server flaw which allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute malicious code at the operating system level. .” You’ll also note this CVE is from 2020, which could indicate Microsoft has been working on this fix for some time.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This includes pivoting from or converting a single compromised Microsoft Windows user account to an administrator account with greater privileges on the target network; the ability to sidestep and/or disable any security software; and gaining the access needed to disrupt or corrupt any data backup systems the victim firm may have. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

27, a new Twitter account “ Contileaks ” posted links to an archive of chat messages taken from Conti’s private communications infrastructure, dating from January 29, 2021 to the present day. The Contileaks account did not respond to requests for comment. 22, 2020, the U.S. On Sunday, Feb. ” GAP #1.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

As first reported here on July 16, prior to bitcoin scam messages being blasted out from such high-profile Twitter accounts @barackobama, @joebiden, @elonmusk and @billgates, several highly desirable short-character Twitter account names changed hands, including @L, @6 and @W. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. Khafagy said he couldn’t remember the name of the account he had on the forum.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Change or modify system settings. Record audio. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. Related: The case for quantifying cyber risks The most important factor that should be taken into account is a security risk assessment.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru account and posted as him.

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Adam Levin

MAY 26, 2020

ShinyGroup, a hacking group notorious for selling compromised data, announced that they had breached Mathway in January 2020. It is currently unknown if the salts and hashes used to encrypt the passwords can be deciphered, but if they are the value of the data to hackers would increase significantly. “We

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Searching on ubsagency@gmail.com in Constella Intelligence shows the address was used sometime before February 2019 to create an account under the name “ SammySam_Alon ” at the interior decorating site Houzz.com. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and targets Docker installs. “The shell script is cloning a GitHub project from what seems to be a TeamTNT account. “Breaking the cryptographic encryption is considered “Mission: Impossible”. ” continue the experts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

“Upon further examination, we determined that the unauthorised user appeared to have initially gained access on 9 February 2020, and could have gained access to a database in which we store user data.” ” @troyhunt pic.twitter.com/HfAwV7gtVq — Sylvia van Os (@SylvieLorxu) March 12, 2020. .”

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access. This threat hunt identifies accounts at risk of this attack vector.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wazawaka has since “lost his mind” according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. Wazawaka, a.k.a. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The Conti ransomware gang hit infected the systems of industrial automation and Industrial IoT (IIoT) chip maker Advantech and is demanding over $13 million ransom (roughly 750 BTC) to avoid leaking stolen files and to provide a key to restore the encrypted files. billion in 2019. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Advantech).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. 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. Takeaways .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

“The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. Norton Crypto lets users withdraw their earnings to an account at cryptocurrency platform CoinBase, but as Norton Crypto’s FAQ rightly points out, there are coin mining fees as well as transaction costs to transfer Ethereum. ”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware operators implement a double extortion model by exfiltrating victims’ data before encrypting it. Earlier versions of the ransomware were written in C++ and the malware added the.akira extension to the encrypted files. The attackers mostly used Cisco vulnerabilities CVE-2020-3259 and CVE-2023-20269.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. Feedback message data contained Account id, feedback rating given, and users’ email addresses. The leaked account data included in-game transaction history, user id, and username. The leak has since been secured.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

million worth of cryptocurrency from cryptocurrency investment accounts. . Hackers stole roughly €1.183 million worth of cryptocurrency from investment accounts of 2gether, 26.79% of overall funds stored by the accounts. We're sorry to announce that yesterday, at 18:00 CEST, the 2gether crypto accounts were hacked.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

SPR claims his site lost access to a significant inventory — more than 600,000 unsold stolen payment card accounts. The database is in the hands of the police, but it’s encrypted.” 16, 2020, several of Joker’s long-held domains began displaying notices that the sites had been seized by the U.S.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Its parameters are also encrypted — they are decrypted once dropped by the first stage. The target DLL is loaded via a malicious shellcode and encrypted with AES-128 in the same way as described earlier in the initial stage. The decryption of later versions is also implemented with AES-NI instructions. sys driver running inside.

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