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Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014

Schneier on Security

Here’s the timeline : The timeline basically seems to be, according to Check Point: 2013: NSA’s Equation Group developed a set of exploits including one called EpMe that elevates one’s privileges on a vulnerable Windows system to system-administrator level, granting full control.

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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Krebs on Security

The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive. Adconion was acquired in June 2014 by Amobee , a Redwood City, Calif.

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Cisco fixed a critical issue in the Unified Contact Center Express

Security Affairs

The issue could be exploited by supplying a malformed Java object to a specific listener on an vulnerable system. Administrators should update their Unified CCE installs as soon as possible. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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A member of the FIN7 group was sentenced to 10 years in prison

Security Affairs

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. Between 2014 and 2016 the group used a new custom malware dubbed Carbanak that is considered a newer version of Anunak.

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Cisco fixes a static default credential issue in Smart Software Manager tool

Security Affairs

“The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.” ” An attacker could exploit the flaw by using this default account to connect to a vulnerable system and obtain read and write access to system data.

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Ransomware Gangs and the Name Game Distraction

Krebs on Security

REvil’s last big victim was Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. Throughout 2013 and 2014, PCs infected with Gameover were seeded with Cryptolocker , an early, much-copied ransomware strain allegedly authored by Bogachev himself.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer.

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