Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

For many years, Dye was a system administrator for Optinrealbig , a Colorado company that relentlessly pimped all manner of junk email, from mortgage leads and adult-related services to counterfeit products and Viagra. Adconion was acquired in June 2014 by Amobee , a Redwood City, Calif.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security agencies belonging to Five Eyes (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) have released a joint report that details some popular hacking tools. The China Chopper is a tiny shell (4K) widely used in attacks in the wild since 2012, early this year the China-linked APT group Leviathan.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Security researchers from discovered a new malware associated with the Stealth Falcon cyber espionage group that abuses the Windows BITS service to stealthy exfiltrate data. Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 15 more vulnerabilities to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities. ” A newer version of the ransomware encrypts files without communicating with any external IP addresses. A Top Priority for Security Teams. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

As cloud computing evolves, so has cloud security, and buyers in the market for cloud security solutions may find themselves facing a dizzying array of acronyms, like CNAPP, CWPP, CSPM, and CIEM. Securing all those new cloud environments and connections became a job for cybersecurity companies.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. Pin also was active at that same time on the Russian-language security forum Antichat , where they told fellow forum members to contact them at the ICQ instant messenger number 669316.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

In this type of attack, the perpetrator uses existing email communications and information to deceive the recipient into carrying out a seemingly ordinary task, like changing a vendor's bank account details. link] [OUCH] Barracuda Urges Physically Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways Krebs on Security has posted a new item.

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