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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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by the Israeli surveillance NSO Group that could infect both iPhones and Android devices, it is sold exclusively to the governments and law enforcement agencies. The evidence demonstrates that governments used Pegasus to intimidate journalists and critical media. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Taiwan ‘s government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes every day, most of them from China. Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan Government).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Not long after Mirai first surfaced online in August 2016, White and Jha were questioned by the FBI about their suspected role in developing the malware. In September 2016, KrebsOnSecurity was hit with a record-breaking denial-of-service attack from tens of thousands of Mirai-infected devices, forcing this site offline for several days.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

TrickGate is a shellcode-based packer offered as a service, which is used at least since July 2016, to hide malware from defense programs. The TrickGate packer was primarily used in attacks aimed at the manufacturing sector, and other attacks aimed at the education, healthcare, government, and finance industries.

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Data Breach Today

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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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

government released a “White Paper” addressing how U.S. law and practice relating to government access to data for national security purposes,” especially as that information bears on “issues that appear to have concerned the ECJ in Schrems II ” and as it “may bear on many companies’ analyses” of how their reliance on SCCs conforms to EU law.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Prompted by assurances that the government would one day afford Liberty Reserve users a chance to reclaim any funds seized as part of the takedown, KrebsOnSecurity filed a claim shortly thereafter to see if and when this process might take place. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — went unanswered.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

Also last week, a 30-year-old in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 32 months in jail for using an army of hacked devices to crash large portions of Liberia’s Internet access in 2016. The Boston Globe reports that Gottesfeld and his wife in 2016 tried to flee to Cuba in a rented boat, but the trip didn’t go as planned.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh’s software also was found in apps for “a wide array of international companies, influential nonprofits and government agencies from global consumer goods company Unilever and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to the politically powerful U.S. Pushwoosh was incorporated in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2016.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. energy facilities.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 7, 2020

million Australians being re-identifiable online due to a government bungle. In 2016, Vanessa Teague, a cryptographer from the University of Melbourne, and two of her colleagues reported on a dataset , published on an open government data website by the federal government, of 2.5m

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You might remember that several months and a handful of prime ministers ago, the government proposed an overhaul of data protection law. Under Johnson’s premiership, the government looked to replace the GDPR with a new set of requirements that were published in the official briefing notes for the 2022 Queen’s Speech.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his freshman and sophomore years at Rutgers Jha used a collection of hacked devices to launch at least four distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the university’s networks. 2016 attack that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The government accused Islam of being a founding member of carders[dot]org — a credit card fraud forum — trafficking in stolen credit card information, and possessing information for more than 50,000 credit cards. On June 25, 2012, Islam and nearly two-dozen others were caught up in an FBI dragnet dubbed Operation Card Shop.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016.

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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. government said was used to infect more than a half million computers worldwide. In 2014, the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

Cyber Command's campaign to hack ISIS and disrupt its media operations faced some challenges, including a lack of data storage, but ultimately proved successful, according to government documents from 2016 that were made public Tuesday.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

All told, the government said this gang — allegedly known to its members as “ The Community ” — made more than $2.4 From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

According to the government, that database contained a large number of credit card numbers and stolen credentials from the Trickbot botnet, as well as information about infected machines available as bots. They refer to Alla almost like they would address their mothers.” Image: DOJ.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. -based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The access was first blocked via national provider Turk Telecom (AS9121), but later other service providers applied the government restrictions. In December 2016 , the Turkish blocked social media in the country to prevent the sharing of a video of the executions of Turkish soldiers by the IS group. local time (8:30 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges. The government says Iza kept R.C.’s

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Here are a few unexpected examples of supposedly anonymous data reversal: •In 2016, the Australian government released what they called the “anonymous” (i. As a result, the development of de-anonymization tools is becoming increasingly more advanced. names and other identifying features were removed) medical data of 2.9

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency’s offensive cyber operations division. ” -CIA’s Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key section of a report the U.S.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 1, 2020

Mayhem emerged from a 2016 government-sponsored contest at a Las Vegas casino hotel. Now it's used by the military—and Netflix.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. After all, government mandates combined with industry standards are the twin towers of public safety. Related: The need for supply chain security This is to be expected.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

California has a civil grand jury system designed to serve as an independent oversight of local government functions, and each county impanels jurors to perform this service annually.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Bvp47 backdoor was first discovered in 2013 while conducting a forensic investigation into a security breach suffered by a Chinese government organization. In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

In September 2016, MrMurza sent a message to all iSocks users saying the service would soon be phased out in favor of Faceless, and that existing iSocks users could register at Faceless for free if they did so quickly — before Faceless began charging new users registration fees between $50 and $100. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

Jauniskis explained that the Russian government is using military and economic means to carry out its operation, including disinformation campaigns. In December 2016, Lithuania blamed Russia for cyber attacks that hit government networks over the previous two years. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Roskomnadzor is attempting to oblige the IT giants, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google to move data related to Russian citizens to servers in Russia allowing the Government to monitor them., The Russian government could also ban IT companies that will not comply with the same law. .” reported the Associated Press.

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