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. Further reading: A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack. At Least 30,000 U.S.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 10, 2021

Nick Weaver has an excellent post on the Microsoft Exchange hack: The investigative journalist Brian Krebs has produced a handy timeline of events and a few things stand out from the chronology. 2, at which point the attacker simply sought to compromise almost every vulnerable Exchange server on the Internet. 5 and another on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

But this also means when a Sendgrid customer account gets hacked and used to send malware or phishing scams, the threat is particularly acute because a large number of organizations allow email from Sendgrid’s systems to sail through their spam-filtering systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Internet Archive disclosed a data breach, the security incident impacted more than 31 million users of its “The Wayback Machine.” As of September 5, 2024, the Internet Archive held more than 42.1 Starting from Wednesday, the website archive.org was displaying a message informing visitors that it was hacked.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2024

Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2021

It feels like the very early days of the web where everything was a bit of a kludge we hacked together but we made things work and it turned into something amazing. Lastly, this might seem painful right now (and frankly, it is), but it's also a very exciting time in IoT.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2024

So, Martin taught herself ethical hacking skills and then founded Black Girls Hack to guide others down the trail she blazed. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. As Black Hat USA 2024 rolls into high gear next week, BGH is thriving.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2023

Working with law enforcement partners in France, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Romania and the United Kingdom, the DOJ said it was able to seize more than 50 Internet servers tied to the malware network, and nearly $9 million in ill-gotten cryptocurrency from QakBot’s cybercriminal overlords.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In November 2021, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Pompompurin abused a vulnerability in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities, and how that access was used to blast out thousands of hoax email messages — all sent from an FBI email and Internet address.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. The complaint doesn’t specify which agency portal was hacked, but it does state that the portal included access to law enforcement databases that track narcotics seizures in the United States. federal government portal without authorization.

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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. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group. co — first came online in February 2023.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Those who hacked the Internet Archive haven’t gone away. Users of the Internet Archive who have submitted helpdesk tickets are reporting replies to the tickets from the hackers themselves. Earlier in October, the Internet Archive suffered from a data breach and DDoS attack. We’ll keep you posted.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 30, 2023

Now this is interesting: Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet.

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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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

One was hacked by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The other was hacked both by Pegasus and by the spyware from another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: Cytrox. Citizen Lab published another report on the spyware used against two Egyptian nationals. We haven’t heard a lot about Cytrox and its Predator spyware.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. The domain Vip72[.]org Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

US CFPB warns employees to avoid work-related mobile calls and texts following China-linked Salt Typhoon hack over security concerns. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. and its allies for hacking activities in July. Wall Street Journal reported.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Top of the heap this month (apart from the ongoing, global Exchange Server mass-compromise ) is a patch for an Internet Explorer bug that is seeing active exploitation. “We strongly encourage all organizations that rely on Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-Based) to apply these patches as soon as possible.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Experts suspect the state-sponsored hackers have gathered extensive internet traffic and potentially compromised sensitive data. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” and its allies for hacking activities in July. and around the globe.”

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Specifically, the hack used the same token as both the tokenIn and tokenOut, which are methods for exchanging the value of one token for another. Human-based adjudication systems are not useless pre-Internet human baggage, they’re vital. MonoX updates prices after each swap by calculating new prices for both tokens.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug. victims and one non-U.S.

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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. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Kentik’s view of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage. Update, 6:16 p.m.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

Shadowserver researchers reported that over 20,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are affected by the actively exploited flaw CVE-2024-37085. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, VMware ESXi) ” states Shadowserver.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The assault came from “ Meris ,” the same new “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet behind record-shattering attacks against Russian search giant Yandex this week and internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare earlier this summer. Cloudflare recently wrote about its attack , which clocked in at 17.2 Image: Qrator.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. ” A review of the email’s message headers indicated it had indeed been sent by the FBI, and from the agency’s own Internet address.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s pretty devastating : Today, Ian Carroll, Lennert Wouters, and a team of other security researchers are revealing a hotel keycard hacking technique they call Unsaflok. Wouters and Carroll say they were nonetheless told by Dormakaba that, as of this month, only 36 percent of installed Safloks have been updated.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Article pays particular attention to EO 12333’s designation of the National Security Agency as primarily responsible for conducting signals intelligence, which includes the installation of malware, the analysis of internet traffic traversing the telecommunications backbone, the hacking of U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

“We are reaching out to known LockBit victims and encouraging anyone who suspects they were a victim to visit our Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov.” Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware)

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 8, 2022

Thank you for not listening to your own cybersecurity experts when they told you to “ Stop hacking Russian websites – you are helping the Russians, not the Ukrainians.” You have probably done more than anyone other than myself to help Russia prepare for cyberwar. Thank you for putting your own governments in such a bind.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

have reported that their devices have been hacked. The flaw has exposed the widely distributed smart vacuums to manipulation by bad actors, raising concerns about the cybersecurity of internet-connected home devices. Later, he realized that despite the vile language, the hack could've been much worse. The video is unnerving.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

The long-running Breadcrumbs series here tracks how cybercriminals get caught, and it’s mostly through odd connections between their online and offline selves scattered across the Internet. And unbeknownst to him at the time, that forum was hacked, with all email addresses and hashed passwords exposed. SOME ADVICE FOR EVERYONE.

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