Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Let’s face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. CVE-2022-41073 is a zero-day flaw in the Windows Print Spooler , a Windows component that Microsoft has patched mightily over the past year. Today’s patch batch addresses both issues.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. But by the time we got to claims made in the middle of May 2022, completing the rest of the year’s timeline seemed unnecessary.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

The government alleges that on May 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log into a U.S. On May 12, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that hackers had gained access to a DEA portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. .” federal government portal without authorization. ” Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2022

Those include remote code execution bugs CVE-2022-24512 , affecting.NET and Visual Studio , and CVE-2022-21990 , affecting Remote Desktop Client. CVE-2022-24459 is a vulnerability in the Windows Fax and Scan service. All three publicly disclosed vulnerabilities are rated “ Important ” by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The bug already seeing exploitation is CVE-2022-44698 , which allows attackers to bypass the Windows SmartScreen security feature.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user. ” Kevin Breen at Immersive Labs called attention to CVE-2022-21996 , an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the core Windows component “ Win32k.”

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

IoT tech will help reduce emissions, satellite internet will challenge 5G, the chip shortage will continue and more will happen in 2022 as pandemic recovery continues to move slowly forward.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Internet Archive was breached again, attackers hacked its Zendesk email support platform through stolen GitLab authentication tokens. The Internet Archive was breached via Zendesk, with users receiving warnings about stolen GitLab tokens due to improper token rotation after repeated alerts.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The figure marks a 22% surge in reported losses compared to 2022.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various “free VPN” products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime. The prices page for 911 S5, circa July 2022. $28

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Schneier on Security

MAY 17, 2024

The seizure messages include ways to contact the FBI about the seizure, including an email, a Telegram account, a TOX account, and a dedicated page hosted on the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). co and run by pompompurin) operated a similar hacking forum from March 2022 until March 2023. .”

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SecureList

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The first one, later identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to remotely trigger the next vulnerability – CVE-2022-41082. After CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 were revealed, Microsoft provided mitigation guidance followed by a few updates.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2023

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting , a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The German authorities did not name the suspects or the Internet service in question. In mid-December 2022, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later. The 911 S5 botnet-powered proxy service, circa July 2022. At the time, Spur found Cloud Router had more than 140,000 Internet addresses for rent.

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Google Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Working with security researchers throughout 2022, we have been able to identify and fix over 2,900 security issues and continue to make our products more secure for our users around the world. In 2022 we awarded over $12 million in bounty rewards – with researchers donating over $230,000 to a charity of their choice. Thank you, Rory!

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s sentencing is scheduled for January 27, 2022. A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel , a St.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2023

4, 2022 story here about the emergence of “violence-as-a-service” offerings, where random people from the Internet hire themselves out to perform a variety of local, physical attacks, including firebombing a home, “bricking” windows, slashing tires, or performing a drive-by shooting at someone’s residence.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2023

The forum’s administrator “ Pompompurin ” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums is widely considered a reincarnation of RaidForums , a remarkably similar crime forum that the FBI infiltrated and dismantled in 2022. In April 2022, U.S. Image: News 12 Westchester.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The government says that in March 2022, three men showed up at E.Z.’s The FBI later obtained a copy of a search warrant executed by LASD deputies in January 2022 for GPS location information on a phone belonging to E.Z., In December 2022, Troy Woody Jr. cryptocurrency holdings online. We know what E.Z. and refers to T.W.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sophos backports the patch for CVE-2022-3236 for end-of-life (EOL) firewall firmware versions due to ongoing attacks exploiting the issue. In December 2022, Sophos released security patches to address seven vulnerabilities in Sophos Firewall version 19.5 , including some arbitrary code execution bugs. reads the advisory.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 16, 2023

The post Scams Lost US $10 BILLION in 2022 — Crypto Fraud Grows Fast appeared first on Security Boulevard. Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Top of the heap on this Fat Patch Tuesday is CVE-2024-21412 , a “security feature bypass” in the way Windows handles Internet Shortcut Files that Microsoft says is being targeted in active exploits. Microsoft Corp. It’s also smart to back up your data and/or image your Windows drive before applying new updates.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2023

More alarmingly, the company said it appears attackers first started exploiting the flaw in October 2022. ” Rapid7 ‘s Caitlin Condon called this remarkable turn of events “fairly stunning,” and said there appear to be roughly 11,000 vulnerable ESG devices still connected to the Internet worldwide.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key Findings: MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet. government has previously attributed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the GRU).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to first prepare the target so that it uses Edge in Internet Explorer Mode.” Microsoft ended its support for IE in June 2022.

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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

APRIL 11, 2023

Satnam Narang at Tenable notes that CVE-2023-28252 is also the second CLFS zero-day disclosed to Microsoft by researchers from Mandiant and DBAPPSecurity ( CVE-2022-37969 ), though it is unclear if both of these discoveries are related to the same attacker.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 2, 2024

The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security standards for manufacturers, and demands that these companies are open with consumers about how long their products will receive security updates for. Unique passwords installed by default are still permitted.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022. re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.” A U2F device made by Yubikey.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2024

The first Microsoft zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38080 , a bug in the Windows Hyper-V component that affects Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 systems. The other zero-day is CVE-2024-38112 , which is a weakness in MSHTML , the proprietary engine of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser.

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