Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico.

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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. GoDaddy has not disclosed the source of the breach in December 2022 that led to malware on some customer websites. A U2F device made by Yubikey.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

According to recent figures from the managed security firm Reliaquest , QakBot is by far the most prevalent malware “loader” — malicious software used to secure access to a hacked network and help drop additional malware payloads. Today’s operation is not the first time the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 25, 2023

Paul Nakasone, broadly discussed that first organization’s offensive cyber operations during the runup to the 2022 midterm elections. The head of both US Cyber Command and the NSA, Gen. “We understood how foreign adversaries utilize infrastructure throughout the world.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. The board was established in early 2022, modeled in spirit after the National Transportation Safety Board. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails of senior U.S. government officials.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In January 2022, KrebsOnSecurity identified a Russian man named Mikhail Matveev as “ Wazawaka ,” a cybercriminal who was deeply involved in the formation and operation of multiple ransomware groups. The men were among 14 suspected REvil members rounded up by Russia in the weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Worst in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2022-37969 , which is a “privilege escalation” weakness in the Windows Common Log File System Driver that allows attackers to gain SYSTEM-level privileges on a vulnerable host. .” CVE-2022-32984 is a problem in the deepest recesses of the operating system (the kernel).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2025

government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. 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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The ICRC said the hacked servers contained data relating to the organization’s Restoring Family Links services, which works to reconnect people separated by war, violence, migration and other causes. .” In their online statement about the hack (updated on Feb. Image: Ke-la.com. ” On Jan.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

10, 2022, the relatively new cybercrime forum Breached featured a bombshell new sales thread: The user database for InfraGard, including names and contact information for tens of thousands of InfraGard members.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 17, 2024

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the criminal hacking forums known as BreachForums and Raidforums,” reads a dedicated subdomain on the FBI’s IC3 portal. co and run by pompompurin) operated a similar hacking forum from March 2022 until March 2023. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

At the beginning of the year, and as a positive start for us, and in order to solidify the name of our group in your memory, we are proud to announce our first official operation: Will be published of sensitive data from over 15,000 targets worldwide (both governmental and private sectors) that have been hacked and their data extracted.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2025

networks since the summer of 2022. “ Flax Typhoon is a China-linked hacking group that has been active since 2021, it targets critical infrastructure globally, exploiting vulnerabilities for persistent access. . According to OFAC, between 2022 and 2023, Flax Typhoon hacked U.S. critical infrastructure sectors.“

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has been active since April 2022, it impacted several businesses and critical infrastructure entities across North America, Europe, and Australia. Black Basta is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) variant, first identified in April 2022. reads the CSA.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 12, 2024

Businesses and individuals with AT&T accounts from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022 and on January 2, 2023 will be notified if their data was affected.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

. “Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global cryptocurrency exchange.” Billion in stolen cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” Only one of the men sanctioned today is known to have been criminally charged in connection with hacking activity. Secret Service determined that he ran a massive “money mule” scheme, which used phony job offers to trick people into laundering money stolen from hacked small to mid-sized businesses in the United States.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Since April 2021, Russian state-sponsored hackers have exploited vulnerabilities, including Zimbra’s CVE-2022-27924 for injecting commands to access credentials and emails, and JetBrains TeamCity’s CVE-2023-42793 for arbitrary code execution through an authentication bypass.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2024

An international law enforcement operation coordinated by the FBI led to the seizure of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum. The authorities also seized the Telegram page for the hacking forum The website currently displays a message that informs visitors it was seized by law enforcement. In March 2023, U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

authorities seized $23M in crypto linked to a $150M Ripple wallet theft, experts believe the incident is linked to the 2022 LastPass breach. authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. ” reads the complaint. ” However.

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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 21, 2024

The cybercrime group Scattered Spider is suspected of hacking into hundreds of organizations over the past two years, including Twilio , LastPass , DoorDash , and Mailchimp. As this case shows, phishing and hacking has become increasingly sophisticated and can result in enormous losses. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2024

The Blackbasta extortion group claims to have hacked Atlas, one of the largest national distributors of fuel in the United States. The gang published a series of documents as proof of the hack, including people’s ID cards, data sheets, payroll payment requesters and a picture of the folder exfiltrated from the victim’s systems.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2024

Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls , a single-volume book containing French versions of the latest editions of both the best selling CyberSecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg, and Hacking For Dummies by Kevin Beaver, is now available to the public.

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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. to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2025

The group NoName57 has been active since March 2022 and has targeted government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide. In September 2022, Avast researchers observed the group using the Bobik botnet to launch DDoS attacks. NoName057(16) uses multiple tools to carry out their attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 9, 2024, U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ) is a Remote Code Execution flaw in Microsoft Outlook. CISA orders federal agencies to fix this vulnerability by February 27, 2025.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The group NoName57 has been active since March 2022 and has targeted government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide. In September 2022, Avast researchers observed the group using the Bobik botnet to launch DDoS attacks. NoName057(16) uses multiple tools to carry out their attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

Black Basta ransomware affiliates have breached over 500 organizations between April 2022 and May 2024, FBI and CISA reported. Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has been active since April 2022, it impacted several businesses and critical infrastructure entities across North America, Europe, and Australia.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

On October 14, 2022, Tata Power, Indias largest power generationcompany, announced a cyber attack hit its infrastructure. The gang claims to have breached the corporate network on October 3rd, 2022. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, ransomware attack)

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Penetration Testing

JULY 26, 2024

On the popular pirate e-book site Z-Library, or rather its phishing clone Z-lib, created in late 2022, there was a recent data breach affecting nearly 10 million users. On June 27, 2024, the Cybernews... The post 10 Million Users Compromised in Z-Library Phishing Site Hack appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In 2022, the Russian APT used multiple wipers in attacks aimed at Ukraine, including AwfulShred , CaddyWiper , HermeticWiper , Industroyer2 , IsaacWiper , WhisperGate , Prestige , RansomBoggs , and ZeroWipe. On September 2022, the Sandworm group was observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2024

Semafor first reported that CNN’s TikTok account had been hacked, forcing the broadcaster to take down its account for several days. In August 2022, Microsoft researchers discovered a high-severity flaw ( CVE-2022-28799 ) in the TikTok Android app, which could have allowed attackers to hijack users’ accounts with a single click.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. This is according to Verizon’s latest 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ( DBIR ). In 2022, 69 percent of personal data and 67 percent of credentials became compromised in a web breach. 2009 DBIR page 17) .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Russian authorities arrested ransomware affiliate Mikhail Matveev, aka Wazawaka, for developing malware and ties to hacking groups. On or about May 27, 2022, the man and his Hive coconspirators allegedly hit a nonprofit behavioral healthcare organization in New Jersey. The attacks hit law enforcement agencies in Washington, D.C.

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