Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

A judge in Israel handed down the sentences plus fines and probation against Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri , both Israeli citizens arrested in 2016 at age 18 in connection with an FBI investigation into vDOS. ” This likely refers to 23-year-old Jesse Wu , who KrebsOnSecurity noted in October 2016 pseudonymously registered the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Facebook Takes Down Accounts Associated with Russia's 'Internet Research Agency' Troll Farm Facebook says the Russian troll group that interfered in the 2016 U.S. election is at it again, using sham accounts and a fake news site to spread disinformation in advance of the November election. Facebooks says it took down the accounts involved.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Avast Says OnionCrypter Has Been in Use Since 2016 Security researchers at Avast have discovered that more than 30 hacker groups have been using a malware crypter dubbed OnionCrypter.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Preston was featured in the 2016 KrebsOnSecurity story DDoS Mitigation Firm Has History of Hijacks , which detailed how the company he co-founded — BackConnect Security LLC — had developed the unusual habit of hijacking Internet address space it didn’t own in a bid to protect clients from attacks.

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MAY 18, 2020

” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in For roughly one year beginning in 2016, Lebron was a top moderator on Exploit. For roughly one year beginning in 2016, Lebron was a top moderator on Exploit. in in late 2016, complaining that RedBear was refusing to pay a debt owed to him.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Secret Service has published a Most Wanted Fugitives list featuring 10 suspects wanted in connection with financial cybercrimes The agency is offering rewards of up to $1 million for information on two Ukrainian suspects who allegedly targeted the SEC in 2016.

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JULY 26, 2021

million of its customers as a result of a 2016 global data breach. Uber Must Tighten Data Handling, Regulator Says Australia's data regulator has found that Uber interfered with the privacy of 1.2 Uber says it's made improvements to its systems and its internal security policies.

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MAY 13, 2020

Top 10 Vulnerabilities Exploited by Sophisticated Foreign Hackers Detailed by CISA From 2016 to 2019, sophisticated nation-state attackers preferred to target 10 vulnerabilities more than all others, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI warn in a new alert.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

A married couple from New York pleaded guilty this week to laundering billions of dollars stolen from Bitfinex in 2016. The couple pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the hack of the cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex that took place in 2016. Law enforcement also seized over $3.6

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

million HIPAA settlement with a Georgia orthopedic clinic stemming from a 2016 breach involving The Dark Overlord hacking group. Regulator: Georgia Clinic Showed 'Systemic Noncompliance' Federal regulators have announced a $1.5

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2019

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who’d just purchased a copy of Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus from a seller on eBay for less than $4. Let’s call this Red Flag #1, as a legitimately purchased license of Microsoft Office 2016 is still going to cost between $70 and $100.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Company Acquired RSA as One Component of Its Purchase of EMC in 2016 Dell Technologies is considering the possible sale of its RSA security division, hoping such a deal could be worth $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which cites "people familiar with the matter."

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APRIL 11, 2022

After releasing patches for vulnerabilities in its software every second Tuesday of every month since 2016, Microsoft says it is now set to roll out automatic updates. Some security experts weigh in.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

The user “RSOCKS” on the Russian crime forum Verified changed his name to RSOCKS from a previous handle: “ Stanx ,” whose very first sales thread on Verified in 2016 quickly ran afoul of the forum’s rules and prompted a public chastisement by the forum’s administrator. ” the post enthuses.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Federal Law Enforcement Agents Offer Tips on Improving Detection, Rapid Response Ransomware gets the headlines, and phishing sets off the most alerts, but business email compromise costs enterprises the most - more than $43 billion since 2016.

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Collaboration 2.0

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Our latest deep dive crunches the numbers from 2016 to 2024, revealing fascinating insights into the popularity of programming languages and how emerging trends and industry shifts have influenced developer preferences.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017. The 2016 unlimited operation against National Bank began Saturday, May 28, 2016 and continued through the following Monday. All told, the attackers managed to siphon almost $570,000 in the 2016 attack.

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APRIL 29, 2020

million settlement of a class action lawsuit against Banner Health stemming from a 2016 data breach. Court Grants Final Approval of $8.9 Million Banner Health Class Action Lawsuit Settlement A federal court recently granted final approval for an $8.9

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. In 2016, financial reality once again would catch up with the company’s leadership when Norse abruptly ceased operations and was forced to lay off most of its staff. Remember Norse Corp. ,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Mathew Marulla began leasing a Ford Focus electric vehicle in 2013, but turned the car back in to Ford at the end of his lease in 2016. Out of curiosity, Marulla decided to check if his old MyFordMobile.com credentials from 2016 still worked.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While last night’s Meris attack on this site was far smaller than the recent Cloudflare DDoS, it was far larger than the Mirai DDoS attack in 2016 that held KrebsOnSecurity offline for nearly four days. By comparison, the 2016 Mirai DDoS generated approximately 450,000 requests-per-second.

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JULY 22, 2023

billion in cryptocurrency from the Bitfinex virtual currency exchange in 2016. Russian Entrepreneur, Would-Be Rapper to Seal Plea Deal in NY Federal Court A U.S. couple is set to file a plea deal for their role in laundering $4.5

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MARCH 10, 2020

Firsov also tweeted about competing in and winning several “capture the flag” hacking competitions, including the 2016 and 2017 CTF challenges at Positive Hack Days (PHDays), an annual security conference in Moscow. Isis’ profile on antichat. ” A Google Translate version of that advertisement is here (PDF).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 7, 2021

” In a blog post , Microsoft’s Security Response Center said it was delayed in developing fixes for the vulnerability in Windows Server 2016 , Windows 10 version 1607 , and Windows Server 2012. “After installing such updates, delegated admin groups like printer operators can only install signed printer drivers.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Dmitri Alperovitch, Former CrowdStrike CTO, Offers an Analysis The SolarWinds supply chain attack demonstrates that Russian intelligence services have learned from previous operations and adjusted their tactics, says Dmitri Alperovitch, the former CTO of security firm CrowdStrike, which investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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MAY 25, 2022

Some of the flaws added to the catalog in this turn are dated back to 2016, such as the issues affecting Apple ( CVE-2016-4655 , CVE-2016-4656 , CVE-2016-4657 ), Microsoft ( CVE-2016-0162 , CVE-2016-3351 , CVE-2016-3298 ) and Cisco Devices ( CVE-2016-6366 , CVE-2016-6367 ).

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Zscaler President Sinha Replaces John Merrill, Who Led DigiCert From 2016 to 2022 Certificate heavyweight DigiCert has landed Zscaler second-in-command Amit Sinha as its new leader and tasked him with boosting trust around connected device and user authentication.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Threat Actor Uses Admin Panel to Track Multiple Campaigns A likely Pakistani cyberespionage operation has expanded its tool set since it first targeted Indian officials, likely in 2016. That's probable evidence the threat actor has "seen a high degree of success," say researchers from Cisco Talos.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com — were seen as early as 2016 as distribution points for the Hummer Trojan , a potent strain of Android malware often bundled with games that completely compromises the infected device. com 2016-02-18 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., At least another five of the domains registered to tosaka1027@gmail.com — 99youx[.]com

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Satnam Narang , senior research engineer at Tenable , said the vulnerability affects the following installations of IE: Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as well as Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019; IE 9 on Windows Server 2008; and IE 10 on Windows Server 2012.

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APRIL 18, 2019

based company in 2016 and 2017. “This was the same tool that was used to effectuate the cyber-attack in Spring 2016. Intersec [the forensic investigator] also determined that the attackers had run searches on the Maritz system for certain words and phrases connected to the Spring 2016 attack.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The indictments unsealed in a Pennsylvania court this week stem from a slew of cyber heists carried out between October 2015 and December 2016. 2016 by a similar international law enforcement action. 2016, Kapkanov fired an assault rifle at Ukrainian police who were trying to raid his apartment. Source: DOJ.

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JULY 21, 2020

Parliament Panel's Report Slams Government for Not Investigating Russian Activities The British government was underprepared for Russia's alleged attempts to influence the outcomes of the Brexit referendum in 2016 and the 2017 general election and failed to conduct adequate investigations, according to a report by the U.K.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

The agency solicited proposals in December 2016 and selected the algorithms in 2022.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Defense has hosted white hat hacking sessions since 2016. Department of Defense is looking for a few good hackers to penetrate a facilities network underpinning the Pentagon's basement, mezzanine, and the command and communications center used by the president and the secretary of defense.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2022

However, in November 2016—mere days after testifying before the FTC in its ongoing investigation of the 2014 breach—hackers contacted Sullivan to inform him of a vulnerability they had discovered that permitted the extraction of a large volume of Uber’s data. In response, Uber disclosed the breach publicly, and to the FTC, in November 2017.

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