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 we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

But this also means when a Sendgrid customer account gets hacked and used to send malware or phishing scams, the threat is particularly acute because a large number of organizations allow email from Sendgrid’s systems to sail through their spam-filtering systems. ”

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2021

— TP-LINK UK (@TPLINKUK) November 17, 2020 The manufacturer is under no obligation to support us tinkerers. It feels like the very early days of the web where everything was a bit of a kludge we hacked together but we made things work and it turned into something amazing. If you have issues, pls feel free to let us know.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thanks to a couple of milestone hacks disclosed at the close of 2020 and start of 2021, they will forever be associated with putting supply-chain vulnerabilities on the map. Similarly, the SolarWinds and Mimecast hacks are precursors of increasingly clever and deeply-damaging hacks of the global supply chain sure to come.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Tripwire VERT security team spotted almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. Security experts from the Tripwire VERT security team have discovered 795,357 SonicWall VPN appliances that were exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2023

New reporting from Wired reveals that the Department of Justice detected the SolarWinds attack six months before Mandient detected it in December 2020, but didn’t realize what they detected—and so ignored it. The DOJ asked the security firm Mandiant to help determine whether the server had been hacked.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

On deck this month are patches to quash a wormable flaw, a creepy wireless bug, and yet another reason to call for the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. ” Another curious bug fixed this month is CVE-2020-24587 , described as a “Windows Wireless Networking Information Disclosure Vulnerability.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

GreyNoise Intelligence firm warns of a mysterious phenomenon observed since January 2020, massive waves of spoofed traffic called Noise Storms. GreyNoise Intelligence has been tracking a mysterious phenomenon since January 2020 consisting of massive waves of spoofed traffic, tracked by the experts as ‘Noise Storms.’

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. In early 2020, several cybercriminals groups followed suit.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. 22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers. TARGETED PHISHING. Urgency should be a giant red flag.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. In H2 2020, 39.3%

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. 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. BAD REACTION. “They can come arrest me. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The Agency identified 1,785 cyber incidents in 2020, including brute-force attacks, email-related attacks, impersonation attacks, improper usage of the systems, loss/theft of equipment, and web-based attacks. In 2020, most of the incidents were improper usage issues, followed by loss/theft of equipment and web-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Experts found a critical flaw in Real-Time Automation’s (RTA) 499ES EtherNet/IP stack that could allow hacking industrial control systems. Tracked as CVE-2020-25159 , the flaw is rated 9.8 The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-25159, has received a CVSS score of 9.8 SecurityAffairs – hacking, industrial automation systems).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Dec. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

For instance, many smart home and internet-of-things devices are rarely updated, and Wi-Fi security is the last line of defense that prevents someone from attacking these devices. ” Summarizing, the design flaws discovered by the expert are: CVE-2020-24588 : aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Medov warns of the chaining of this issue with other ones, like CVE-2020-29015 that Positive Technologies discovered in May. The CVE-2020-29015 is a blind SQL injection flaw that a remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit to execute SQL commands or queries by sending a specially crafted request. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

The cybersecurity community is waiting for the next shoe to drop in the wake of the audacious MOVEit-Zellis hack orchestrated by the infamous Russian hacking collective, Clop. ” Post SolarWinds This is a prime example of what multi-stage supply chain hacks have morphed into two years after the milestone SolarWinds hack.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. ”] Kislitsin was hired by Group-IB in January 2013, nearly six months after the Formspring hack. Department of Justice.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

The investigation into the intrusion revealed the involvement of 13 internet addresses including one traced to the Kimsuky APt group. Currently, the Atomic Energy Research Institute is investigating the subject of the hacking and the amount of damage, etc. ? SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea). ” reported the Reuters.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. Source: DZone’s Edge Computing and IoT, 2020 . A Safer Internet of Things.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

In October last year, experts reported a critical stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5135 , in SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) appliances. This flaw exists pre-authentication and within a component (SSLVPN) which is typically exposed to the public Internet.”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. For several years, WeLeakInfo was the largest of several services selling access to hacked passwords. 2020, the U.K.’s PLENTY OF TIME FOR OPSEC MISTAKES.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

link] — Junade Ali (@IcyApril) August 5, 2020 This tweet isn't entirely accurate; it was all Junade's idea and he designed the k-anonymity implementation for HIBP's Pwned Passwords. I asked on Twitter earlier today, and it's, well, extensive: Chromium — Isaac Weaver (@IsaacjWeaver) August 7, 2020 Wordpress.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

A statement from the SEC read as follows: “According to SEC, it has penalized eight companies in three actions for negligence of their cyber protection guidelines and procedures that stimulated email account hacks exposing personal data of numerous clients and customers in each firm.” . Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

It seems #Kucoin got hacked. Usually, after being hacked, the $BTC outflow increases rapidly and then becomes zero. Chart: [link] pic.twitter.com/qgycevVsnT — CryptoQuant (@cryptoquant_com) September 26, 2020. “We detected some large withdrawals since September 26, 2020 at 03:05:37 (UTC+8). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2021

Internal actors moved significantly towards External in 2020. Top actions in breaches were: phishing (social), use of stolen credentials (hacking), other, ransomware (malware), pretexting (social), misconfiguration (error), misdelivery (error), brute force (hacking), C2 (malware), and backdoor (malware).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Back in 2015, a security researcher decided to make that very point when he claimed to have hacked a plane , accessed the thrust system, and made it fly higher than intended.

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