Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2022

This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools. A spokesperson for the D214 school district tells WIRED they can confirm the events in Duong’s blog post happened. It has a happy ending: no one was prosecuted.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. By all accounts, rooting out these intruders is going to require an unprecedented and urgent nationwide clean-up effort.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2025

The “DoubleClickjacking” exploit bypasses protections on major websites, using a double-click sequence for clickjacking and account takeover attacks. Attackers can exploit the technique to facilitate clickjacking attacks and account takeovers on almost all major websites. ” Paulos Yibelo wrote.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently laid down the hammer charging and fining four prominent cybersecurity vendors for making misleading claims in connection with the SolarWinds hack. Scott Kannry , CEO, Axio Kannry The SEC is serious about companies disclosing the details of an event if it is relevant to investors.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. The Facebook ad blitz was paid for by Hodson Event Entertainment , an account tied to Chris Hodson , a deejay based in Chicago. On the evening of Monday, Nov. Image: Chris Hodson.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The malware allows operators to steal bank users’ sensitive information and money from their bank accounts. Upon detecting specific events (e.g., Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware)

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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. Tianfeng worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co., concludes the report.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Capture the Flag Events (CTFs) and electronic Sports (eSports) are good examples of a relatively new trend. Capture the Flag events, a collective obsession In the hacking communities, CTF events have always been the practitioner's favorite. The more you successfully hack, the more you get flags that gives points.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“[Leonardo Maria del Vecchio] eagerly awaiting the completion of preliminary investigations to be able to prove he has nothing to do with the events in question and that charges laid against him have no basis.” ” reads a statement from a lawyer for Del Vecchio.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. Employees often reuse passwords between other services and accounts. Related: How China challenged Google in Operation Aurora. MFA, however useful, is no silver bullet.

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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. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Trojan has been linked to a China-aligned hacking group tracked as GREF. Both apps were built on open source code available from Signal and Telegram. Interwoven into that code was an espionage tool tracked as BadBazaar. BadBazaar has been used previously to target Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic minorities.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

” Airbus has apparently confirmed the cybercriminal’s account to the threat intelligence firm Hudson Rock , which determined that the Airbus credentials were stolen after a Turkish airline employee infected their computer with a prevalent and powerful info-stealing trojan called RedLine. Microsoft Corp. government inboxes.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

notifies customers of credit card data breach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce providerBigCommerce. ” concludes the notification.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

million records on US consumers (this started a series events which ultimately led to me testifying in front of Congress ), South Africa had data on everyone living in the country (and a bunch of deceased folks as well) leaked by a sloppy real estate agent and data from Australia's Medicare system was being sold to anyone able to come up with $30.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will inevitably result in them facing a host of adverse effects, such as account takeovers (ATO), business email compromises (BEC), identity theft, and financial fraud. This widespread geographical distribution of “Free Leaksmas” event highlights the extensive global reach and severe impact of these cybercriminal activities.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2025

Threat actors potentially accessed and/or acquired some of customers’ information, including names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account numbers and health insurance information. At this time, it is unclear if the exposed information includes any donor data.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. co saying he could be hired to perform fake EDRs on targets at will, provided the account was recently active.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. It was also the first major Olympics event where organizers braced for hacking related impact.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

Google has for years accepted requests to remove certain sensitive data such as bank account or credit card numbers from search results. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums. The login page for perhaps the most bustling cybercrime store for stolen payment card data.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

Unfortunately, brackets create opportunities for a wide array of phishing and hacking campaigns, particularly in workplaces where a lot of brackets are distributed. The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. Keep employee email accounts up to date.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. In early January, the Cactus ransomware group claimed to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Threat actors gained unauthorized access to network devices, created accounts, and modified configurations. In the reconnaissance phase, experts observed automated login/logout events without changes until November 22, 2024, when unauthorized configuration edits began. ” reads the post published by Artic Wolf.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2025

Resecurity has been covertly acquiring critical and previously undisclosed artifacts related to threat actors’ network infrastructure, logs, ISPs and hosting providers involved, timestamps of logins, associated file-sharing accounts at MEGA, the group created to store stolen data from the victims (which later got published via DLS in TOR).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ransomware group’s note warns that any changes to account permissions or files will end negotiations. In the event a customer suspects they may have exposed their credentials, they can start by following the steps listed in this post. Halcyon continues.

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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. ” Indeed, the NSA’s Dec. ” Also on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Randall said she didn’t notice at the time because she was in the middle of switching careers, didn’t have any active photography clients, and had gotten out of the habit of checking that email account. “I still don’t have access to it because I don’t have access to the email account tied to my old domain. .

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 20, 2024

Hackers hijacked the official contact email for the Belgian Grand Prix event and used it to lure fans to a fake website promising a €50 gift voucher. [.]

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee account on Telegram, who said there was some kind of technology issue with the video platform, and that their IT people suggested using a different meeting link. ” Image: SlowMist.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

I'm talking a little about those events ( all listed on my events page ), this week's changes to EV, more data breaches and a somewhat semantic argument about the definition of "theft". Secure users in mins with a free dev account. extended) The Void.to

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder for banks to trace the source of payment card data stolen from smaller, hacked online merchants. On the plus side, months of quarantine have massively decreased demand for account information that thieves buy and use to create physical counterfeit credit cards.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2019

As first disclosed by KrebsOnSecurity last summer , Google maintains it has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes. a one-time token, key fob or mobile device).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The advisory published by the vendor states that the exploitation of the vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an account on an affected system with privilege level 15 access.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

During a forensic investigation, Sygnia researchers observed multiple alerts that revealed a re-enabled threat actor account by a service account from an unidentified server. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, China)

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. ” Islam and Woody were both core members of UGNazi, a hacker collective that sprang up in 2012 and claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile websites. he was unhappy with the event and demanded half of his money back.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

Secure networks : Avoid using untrusted public Wi-Fi to access social media accounts, instead, use mobile data. This avoids one of the easiest ways attackers get access to your account – you reusing passwords across multiple websites. The idea is that you need to have this physical item with you to access your account.

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