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The Mask APT is back after 10 years of silence

Security Affairs

The Mask APT has been active since at least 2007, it demonstrated the capability to use complex implants, often delivered through zero-day exploits. Kaspersky first identified the APT group in 2014, but experts believe the cyber espionage campaign had already been active for over five years.

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How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator

WIRED Threat Level

A secret experiment in 2007 proved that hackers could devastate power grid equipment beyond repair—with a file no bigger than a gif.

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Microsoft Exchange: 355,000 Servers Lack Critical Patch

Data Breach Today

It also found a "concerning number" of Exchange 2007 servers, which Microsoft stopped supporting in 2017.

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Meta Delays Data Harvesting for AI Plans in Europe

Data Breach Today

Company Says It Will Still Attempt to Use Public Posts Dating to 2007 to Train AI Social media giant Meta will delay plans to train artificial intelligence with data harvested from European Instagram and Facebook users weeks after a rights group lodged a complaint against the company with 11 European data regulators.

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Estonia blocked cyberattacks claimed by Pro-Russia Killnet group

Security Affairs

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. Yesterday, Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007. The DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector.

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Colombian authorities arrested hacker behind the Gozi Virus

Security Affairs

for his key role in the distribution of the Gozi virus that infected more than a million computers from 2007 to 2012. The Gozi banking Trojan is not a new threat, it was first spotted by security researchers in 2007. Colombian officials announced the arrest of the Romanian hacker Mihai Ionut Paunescu who is wanted in the U.S.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

Since at least 2007, Web Listings Inc. The mailer references the domain name web-listings.net , one of several similarly-named domains registered sometime in 2007 or later to a “ James Madison ,” who lists his address variously as a university in New Britain, Connecticut or a UPS Store mailbox in Niagara Falls, New York.

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