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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. BHProxies initially was fairly active on Black Hat World between May and November 2012, after which it suddenly ceased all activity. The website BHProxies[.]com

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. ” The government alleges the group monetized its illicit access by deploying ransomware and “ cryptojacking ” tools (using compromised systems to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin). Image: FBI.

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Vulnerability Recap 6/10/24 – RCE Attacks in Major Platforms

eSecurity Planet

This lets threat actors change setups and access sensitive personal information of millions of Cox customers, such as MAC addresses and Wi-Fi passwords. The 8220 Gang, a China-based cryptojacking group, leveraged this vulnerability to take over unpatched servers for crypto-mining operations. With a CVSS score of 7.4,

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. com from Archive.org in 2012 redirects to the domain qksnap.com , which DomainTools.com says was registered to a Jordan Bloom from Thornhill, ON that same year. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. Technical Analysis. The first folder to analyze is “a”.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties

Troy Hunt

When the LinkedIn data breach from 2012 finally surfaced in May 2016, it appeared for sale on a (now defunct) dark web marketplace called The Real Deal. If their motivation wasn't at all altruistic and all they wanted to do was cash in, they could have done so legally without spreading 167 million records (including mine!)

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2019 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 2

eDiscovery Daily

Yesterday, we looked back at cases related to passwords and Fifth Amendment protection, non-party discovery and mobile and messaging. 2012: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. As we noted yesterday , eDiscovery Daily published 66 posts related to eDiscovery case decisions and activities over the past year, covering 56 unique cases !