Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

On October 17, 2024, Rahman stole and leaked Top-Secret documents on a U.S. The CIA analyst photographed the classified documents and transmitted them to individuals he knew were not authorized to view them. Rahman has access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). “After Oct.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service organizations, and a number of airline reservation systems.".

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Demchak and Yuval Shavitt about China's repeated hacking of the Internet Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): " China's Maxim ­ Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom's BGP Hijacking.". BGP hacking is how large intelligence agencies manipulate Internet routing to make certain traffic easier to intercept.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2025

The MotW is an attribute added to files by Windows when they have been sourced from an untrusted location, like the internet or a restricted zone. Always be careful when opening archived files that you downloaded from the internet. 7-Zip added support for MotW in June 2022.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 23, 2019

Some G7 countries highlight the importance of not prohibiting, limiting, or weakening encryption; There is a weird belief amongst policy makers that hacking an encryption system's key management system is fundamentally different than hacking the system's encryption algorithm.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Golubov later earned immunity from prosecution by becoming an elected politician and founding the Internet Party of Ukraine , which called for free internet for all, the creation of country-wide “hacker schools” and the “computerization of the entire economy.”

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

This is the interesting part: Investigators identified Greenwood and Crahan almost immediately after the attacks took place by using cell phone data that allegedly showed both men in the vicinity of all four substations, according to court documents. He either uses a burner phone or a pay phone, so he can’t be identified that way.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

warns that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions to seize control over PCs when users open a malicious document or visit a booby-trapped website. “The attacker would then have to convince the user to open the malicious document. Microsoft Corp.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

We demonstrate our attack on GPT-2, a language model trained on scrapes of the public Internet, and are able to extract hundreds of verbatim text sequences from the model’s training data. Our attack is possible even though each of the above sequences are included in just one document in the training data.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The company’s Panamanian registration records show that it has the identical slate of officers, agents and partners as a spyware maker identified this year as an affiliate of Arizona-based Packet Forensics, which public contracting records and company documents show has sold communication interception services to U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

National Security Agency (NSA) admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to monitor Americans’ activity online without a court order. released documents that confirmed the National Security Agency (NSA) buys Americans’ internet browsing records without a court order. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

“Gaining access to sensitive and privileged documents, stealing and deleting documents as part of a ransomware attack or replacing real documents with malicious copies to further infect users in the organization.” ” There are at least three other vulnerabilities fixed this month that earned a collective 9.8

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

On a lighter note, Microsoft is officially retiring its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, which turns 27 years old this year. Dubbed “ Follina ,” the flaw became public knowledge on May 27, when a security researcher tweeted about a malicious Word document that had surprisingly low detection rates by antivirus products.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2022

The software giant also has made a controversial decision to put the brakes on a plan to block macros in Office documents downloaded from the Internet. In February, security experts hailed Microsoft’s decision to block VBA macros in all documents downloaded from the Internet.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

van Oorschot: Abstract: Best practices for Internet of Things (IoT) security have recently attracted considerable attention worldwide from industry and governments, while academic research has highlighted the failure of many IoT product manufacturers to follow accepted practices. by Christopher Bellman and Paul C.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2025

telecommunication and internet service providers. The threat actors gained access to the workstations of government employees and unclassified documents. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Chinese firm Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co., and the intelligence community. The U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

” For links to individual security advisories indexed by severity, check out ZDI’s blog and the Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center. Adobe has since clarified that its apps won’t use AI to auto-scan your documents, as the original language in its FAQ suggested.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

This latest MSDT bug — CVE-2022-34713 — is a remote code execution flaw that requires convincing a target to open a booby-trapped file, such as an Office document. Please consider backing up your system or at least your important documents and data before applying system updates. More details here.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

MY2022 is fairly straightforward about the types of data it collects from users in its public-facing documents. Server responses can also be spoofed, allowing an attacker to display fake instructions to users. MY2022 includes features that allow users to report “politically sensitive” content.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 22, 2019

Hope -- a project to investigate the topology of the Russian internet and how it connects to other countries' network. Tax-3 -- a project for the creation of a closed intranet to store the information of highly-sensitive state figures, judges, and local administration officials, separate from the rest of the state's IT networks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2022

In order to extract value from the Internet, data sprawl first must get reined in. He was very fearful that he couldn’t pass an audit and would get fined because his company’s data had sprawled all over the Internet and he just didn’t know where all of the information was,” Krishnan recalls. “It This has always been the case.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2024

” Another zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38178 , a remote code execution flaw that exists when the built-in Windows Edge browser is operating in “Internet Explorer Mode.” For a more detailed breakdown of the individual flaws addressed by Microsoft today, check out the SANS Internet Storm Center’s list.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums. “Finndev.” ” Image: Ke-la.com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

.” “We consider this to be a wormable vulnerability, meaning that it has the potential to spread via malware between vulnerable computers without user interaction,” Microsoft wrote in its documentation of CVE-2020-1350. Not to say flaws rated “important” as opposed to critical aren’t also a concern.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 13, 2022

While this won’t stop exploitation from attackers inside the local network, it will prevent new attacks originating from the Internet.” As always, please consider backing up your system or at least your important documents and data before applying system updates.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

.” Microsoft fixed another Office vulnerability in CVE-2023-21716 , which is a Microsoft Word bug that can lead to remote code execution — even if a booby-trapped Word document is merely viewed in the preview pane of Microsoft Outlook. This security hole has a CVSS (severity) score of 9.8 out of a possible 10. Apple on Feb.

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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. Four of these weaknesses can be exploited by malware and malcontents to seize complete, remote control over vulnerable systems without any help from users.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Crimenetwork facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services, including drugs, forged documents, hacking tools, and stolen data. German authorities announced the takedown of Crimenetwork, the largest German-speaking underground marketplace. Source Computerworld.ch

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Some documents detail the use of web content monitoring services to enforce censorship for public and private sector customers. ” The leaked documents show that TopSec worked on projects for China’s Ministry of Public Security in Dandong, Songjiang, and Pudong, including a Cloud Monitoring Service Project in Shanghai. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2020

“Also, it needs to be printed on ‘official letterhead,’ which of course can be easily forged just by Googling a document from said municipality. Then you either mail or fax it in. After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.”. “I never said it was legal, just that it was easy,” the source told KrebsOnSecurity.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China. A marketing slide deck promoting i-SOON’s Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) capabilities.

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Javvad Malik

MARCH 9, 2021

The dangers of downloading untrusted code from the internet is well documented. Unfortunately, the developer who downloaded the code did not read all the documentation and comments which came with it. It was fully documented and the author said in the comments for the email address to be changed to whoever was running it.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

VCPI) provides IT consulting, Internet access, data storage and security services to some 110 nursing homes and acute-care facilities in 45 states. “But we’re still under attack, and as soon as we can open, we’re going to document everything.” Milwaukee, Wisc. based Virtual Care Provider Inc. ” .

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