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. “This guy had access to the notes, and knew the number to call,” to make changes to the account, the CEO of Escrow.com told KrebsOnSecurity.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. SCHOOL OF HACKS. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The two infostealers allowed operators to harvest usernames, passwords, contact info, and crypto-wallets from victims, the threat actors sold this data to criminals for financial theft and hacking. Use a password manager : Simplifies managing strong, unique passwords across accounts. payment info) may have been compromised.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 1, 2025

You may also like to read: Instagram Hacked: Top 5 Ways to Protect Your Account Ways to Secure Your Twitter Account Set a Strong Password - Setting a strong password is the very first step to secure your Twitter account. It enables us to make our accounts more secure. Be cautious with public Wi-Fi.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2018

There are lots of articles about there telling people how to better secure their computers and online accounts. To remain anonymous and secure on the Internet, invest in a Virtual Private Network account, but remember, the bad guys are very smart, so by the time this column runs, they may have figured out a way to hack into a VPN.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Threat actors gained unauthorized access to network devices, created accounts, and modified configurations. The campaign likely began in November 2024, the campaign unfolded in four phases: vulnerability scanning (Nov 1623, 2024), reconnaissance (Nov 2227), SSL VPN setup (Dec 47), and lateral movement (Dec 1627).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

At least one China-linked APT group exploited a new zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors. The statement reveals that one of the two hacking groups was a China-linked cyber espionage group. ” reads the report published by FireEye. ” continues the report.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2020

This makes the data more likely to be hacked and stolen. If the organization is lucky, they will have already set up a VPN for remote access. Handing people VPN software to install and use with zero training is a recipe for security mistakes, but not using a VPN is even worse.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It's those credentials that are then sold in the stealer logs and later used to access the victim's accounts, which is the second exploitation. Another path had "ve", so it was off to Caracas and the Venezuelan victim's account was confirmed. You get the idea.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

Check Point released hotfixes for a VPN zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-24919, which is actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Check Point released hotfixes to address a VPN zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-24919 , which is actively being exploited in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum.

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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. Victims included gaming, telecom, and cryptocurrency firms, with losses reaching millions in stolen cryptocurrency and data from hundreds of thousands of accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. In this scenario, users indeed get to use a free VPN service, but they are often unaware that doing so will turn their computer into a proxy that lets others use their Internet address to transact online. “The 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A joint operation conducted by law European enforcement agencies resulted in the seizure of the infrastructure of three bulletproof VPN services. ” The three VPN bulletproof services were hosted at insorg.org , safe-inet.com , and safe-inet.net, their home page currently displays a law enforcement banner. day to $190/year.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2021

Detailed credentials for more than 21 million mobile VPN app users were swiped and advertised for sale online last week, offered by a cyber thief who allegedly stole user data collected by the VPN apps themselves. So this is a mess, and a timely reminder of why trust in a VPN provider is so crucial. Past VPN errors.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A former employee of Ubiquiti Networks, Nickolas Sharp, has been arrested and charged for allegedly hacking company servers, stealing gigabytes of information, and then rounding it all off with a splash of extortion. Cleverly, he used a VPN to hide his details while doing this. He probably thought he’d gotten away with it.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. “Firmware version 4.60 patch 0).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

Cisco Talos warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against a variety of targets, including VPN services, web application authentication interfaces and SSH services. Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, brute-force )

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

Networking equipment giant Zyxel warns customers of a series of attacks that have been targeting some of its enterprise firewall and VPN devices. Networking equipment vendor Zyxel warned its customers of a series of attacks that have been targeting some of its enterprise firewall and VPN server solutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Akira ransomware gang targets Cisco VPN products to gain initial access to corporate networks and steal their data. The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

Researchers from FireEye warn that China-linked APT groups continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices to compromise networks. Cybersecurity researchers from FireEye warn once again that Chinese APT groups continue to target Pulse Secure VPN devices to penetrate target networks and deliver malicious web shells to steal sensitive information.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 5, 2021

Not just data breaches, but noteworthy data breaches; the VPN ones for being pretty shady, Oxfam because it included my data which was posted to a hacking forum, Ticketcounter because of the interactions I had with them during the disclosure process and Gab because, well, everything about Gab is always weird.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

This makes the data more likely to be hacked and stolen. If the organization is lucky, they will have already set up a VPN for remote access. Handing people VPN software to install and use with zero training is a recipe for security mistakes, but not using a VPN is even worse.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. Upon compromising the domain administrator account, threat actors could distributee malware to other systems on the same network. ” reads the post published by Kaspersky.

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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. 911 built its proxy network mainly by offering “free” virtual private networking (VPN) services. based startup that tracks proxy and VPN services.

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Threatpost

JUNE 9, 2021

Attackers accessed a VPN account that was no longer in use to freeze the company’s network in a ransomware attack whose repercussions are still vibrating.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Orange Cyberdefense CERT investigated four attackers with a similar initial access vector consisting of thecompromise of a Check Point VPN appliance. The experts believe threat actors exploited the zero-dayCVE-2024-24919 in Check Point Security Gateways with Remote Access VPN or Mobile Access features.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers, who spotted the campaign, the attacks were launched by multiple hack-for-hire actors recruited on Russian-speaking forums. a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games) to hijack the channel of YouTube creators. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online, with many countries impacted, including Portugal. A compilation of one-line exploit tracked as CVE-2018-13379 and that could be used to steal VPN credentials from nearly 50.000 Fortinet VPN devices has posted online. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“A command injection vulnerability in the IPSec VPN feature of some firewall versions could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute some OS commands on an affected device by sending a crafted username to the vulnerable device.” for ATP, USG FLEX, and USG FLEX 50(W)/USG20(W)-VPN series. .”

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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. Why go after hotel or airline rewards?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

CISA warned that nation-state actors are exploiting flaws in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN and Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that nation-state actors are exploiting security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN and Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

The investigation conducted by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos revealed that threat actors compromised a Cisco employee’s credentials after they gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Yanluowang ransomware).

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