Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They allege that in late December 2020, Sharp applied for a job at another technology company, and then abused his privileged access to Ubiquiti’s systems at Amazon’s AWS cloud service and the company’s GitHub accounts to download large amounts of proprietary data. When FBI agents raided Sharp’s residence on Mar.

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Webroot

MAY 31, 2024

What is Internet Safety Month? Each June, the online safety community observes Internet Safety Month as a time to reflect on our digital habits and ensure we’re taking the best precautions to stay safe online. Regularly scan your devices for malware and avoid clicking on suspicious links or downloading unknown files.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2025

Mark of the Web (MotW) is a security feature in Microsoft Windows that identifies files downloaded from untrusted sources, such as the internet. Attackers can exploit a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0411 , in the free, open-source file archiver software 7-Zip to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. 19, 2024) of more than 200 domains at the Internet address 93.190.143[.]252 How do we know freecad-us[.]org org is malicious? com , filezillasoft[.]com

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The group’s victims according to its DLS as a percentage of all groups’ published victims during the period under review ( download ) Number of new modifications In Q3 2024, we detected three new ransomware families and 2109 new variants, or half of what we discovered in the previous reporting period. 2 China 0.95 3 Libya 0.68

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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

MARCH 20, 2020

This week, security researchers said they spotted that same vulnerability being exploited by a new variant of Mirai , a malware strain that targets vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale attacks and as proxies for other cybercrime activity. which boasts some 100 million devices deployed worldwide.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

From calendar years 2020 to 2022, there was a 27% increase in victim reports to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of BECs with a real estate nexus. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today. Last year, the FBI warned BEC focused on the real estate sector was on the rise.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. On these websites, cybercriminals advertise a piece of high-demand software and trick users into a download.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 3, 2020

The extension in question was Page Ruler , a Chrome addition with some 400,000 downloads. The malicious link that set off antivirus alarm bells when people tried to visit Blue Shield California downloaded javascript content from a domain called linkojager[.]org. You can disable these ads now or later in the settings page.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

Kaspersky researchers discovered a mass malware campaign spreading SilentCryptoMiner by disguising it as a tool to bypass internet restrictions. com to distribute an infected archive, which had over 40,000 downloads. Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency miner campaign targeting Russian users with SilentCryptoMiner.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The page listed the correct time and date of the funeral service, which it claimed could be streamed over the Internet by following a link that led to a page requesting credit card information. The Internet address of livestreamnow[.]xyz DomainTools shows this same Internet address is home to nearly 6,000 other domains (.CSV),

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

. “Using a Mirai malware variant that incorporates ChaCha20 and XOR decryption algorithms, it has been seen compromising vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the wild, such as the DigiEver DVR, and TP-Link devices through CVE-2023-1389.” dyn” for C2 communication.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

China is mandating that athletes download and use a health and travel app when they attend the Winter Olympics next month. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 6, 2020

Before this, the threat actors used the stolen credentials to deliver phishing emails to other Fabrikam employees, as well as to their external contacts, with more and more systems getting infected and downloading additional malware payloads. The infection mechanism was one employee opening a malicious attachment to a phishing email.

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Javvad Malik

MARCH 9, 2021

The dangers of downloading untrusted code from the internet is well documented. A couple of years ago, I did exactly that by downloading a small bit of code from GitHub and modified it to build my own Chrome browser plugin. If it is a snippet of code that you can easily read, it can be relatively risk free.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The crooks running the Trickbot botnet typically use these config files to pass new instructions to their fleet of infected PCs, such as the Internet address where hacked systems should download new updates to the malware. But the new configuration file pushed on Sept.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

By doing dumb stuff like this: “Around October I downloaded a pirated version of Adobe AE and after that a trojan got into my pc” pic.twitter.com/igEzOayCu6 — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 5, 2024 So now this guy has malware running on his PC which is siphoning up all his credentials as they're entered into websites.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

Recipients who call the supplied toll-free number to contest the transaction are soon asked to download software that lets the scammers assume remote control over their computer. com to download a remote administration tool. ” The message continues: “$600.00 It was clear then where the rest of this call was going.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2025

The FBI says it is notifying those who had the malware deleted from their computers via their internet service providers (ISPs). Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today. We dont just report on threatswe remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The file that Doug ran is a simple Apple Script (file extension “ scpt”) that downloads and executes a malicious trojan made to run on macOS systems. But Doug does still have a copy of the malicious script that was downloaded from clicking the meeting link (the online host serving that link is now offline).

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

was used by tens of millions of websites approximately 4% of all sites on the internet which highlights the severity of the incident, whose full impact is yet to be determined. The breach allowed the threat actor to download SMS message logs. A potentially more impactful threat lies in the satellite internet access supply chain.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. Shadowserver found more than 21,000 Exchange Server systems that had the Babydraco backdoor installed.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While hard to measure precisely, tech support scams accounted for $924M, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report. Keep threats off by downloading Malwarebytes Browser Guard today. Tech support scammers are leveraging Google ads to lure victims in, getting them on the phone and finally fleecing them.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 9, 2019

Their goal, the researchers believe, is to obtain and download rolling records on the target from the cell provider's database without having to deploy malware on each target's device. [.].

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. This disables peer-to-peer access, enabling internet-only access.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

A new wave of cyberattacks is sweeping through Russia as cybercriminals deploy the so-called SilentCryptoMiner a cryptocurrency miner masquerading as a legitimate internet bypass tool. This attack highlights the critical need for robust cybersecurity hygiene, especially in monitoring and filtering downloads from untrusted sources.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2025

POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) are two protocols used to retrieve and manage emails from mail servers. With POP3, the e-mails are downloaded to the local device and often deleted from the server. ShadowServer researchers reported that around 3.3

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The crooks running the Trickbot botnet typically use these config files to pass new instructions to their fleet of infected PCs, such as the Internet address where hacked systems should download new updates to the malware. But the new configuration file pushed on Sept.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

GreyNoise also observed an instance of an attack using wget to download a shell script for reverse shell access. Additionally, attackers could misconfigure or disable cameras entirely, disrupting operations in industrial and other sensitive settings. “Organizations using VHD PTZ camera firmware < 6.3.40

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Internet of Things is the now-accepted term to describe countless home products that connect to the internet so that they can be controlled and monitored from a mobile app or from a web browser on your computer. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today. The benefits are obvious for shoppers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. SSL/TLS certs). Trouble is, any organization that chose a.ad Image: Defcon.org.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

According to a report published by The Washington Post , downloads by Russians of the 10 most popular VPN applications jumped from fewer than 15,000 per day just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine to a current figure of over 300,000 a day – even reaching as high as 475,000 per day at one point during the current military campaign.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2023

For a couple of decades now, the web browser has endured in workplace settings as the primary employee-to-Internet interface. Island’s solution prevents sensitive data from slipping out from a web browser into services like ChatGPT, or through downloads, screen shots, printing or copy/paste. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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