Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. ” continues the analysis.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The advisory came less than 24 hours after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at a crime group offering a service that people can hire to steal VPN credentials and other sensitive data from employees working remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Use a password manager. It’s clear that we will continue to be reliant on usernames and passwords to access online services for some time to come. Targeting one device. Everyone should be using one.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

18 Central European Time (CET), cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disccovered that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft did not set out Storm-0324’s aim in this campaign, but the group is known to have worked with numerous malware groups to distribute malicious payloads including the Trickbot malware, Gootkit and Dridex banking Trojans, and Sage and GandCrab ransomware. The group responsible for the attacks is not known.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Glupteba is a rootkit that steals passwords and other access credentials, disables security software, and tries to compromise other devices on the victim network — such as Internet routers and media storage servers — for use in relaying spam or other malicious traffic. attorney to pay Google’s legal fees.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

Upon executing the code, it will ask the user the path for the payload to be encrypted and the password to be used for AES encryption to hide the malware within the loader. In case, the password is not provided, the tool generates one. Experts noticed that the group also used the Ezuri loader that is similar to the original one. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Microsoft warns that threat actors are using OAuth applications cryptocurrency mining campaigns and phishing attacks. Threat actors are using OAuth applications such as an automation tool in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and other financially motivated attacks. ” states Microsoft. . ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019 , detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Of the six age groups listed (under 20, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69), the three oldest age groups reported $4.13 since Q3 of 2007.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. A GREY MARKET The Impact Team , the hacker group that claimed responsibility for stealing and leaking the AshleyMadison user data, also leaked several years worth of email from then-CEO Noel Biderman. The marketing firm Apollo.io

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

The DOUBLEPULSAR and ETERNALBLUE are now available for anyone after the archive of NSA tools was leaked online by ShadowBrokers hacker group. Experts reported that the Beapy malware also uses the popular post-exploitation tool Mimikatz to steal passwords from Windows systems.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Before it was taken offline sometime in the past 12 hours, the database contained millions of records, including the username, password and private encryption key of each mSpy customer who logged in to the mSpy site or purchased an mSpy license over the past six months. ” Some of those “points of access” were mine.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

That means hackers will increasingly mimic nation-state threat groups by establishing a long-term presence inside networks to mine highly sensitive data. The Bishop Fox team based their attack techniques on real-world attacks, creating playbooks from active known ransomware threats groups such as Conti.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. The Linux malware is the well-known “ Shellbot ”, it is a crimetool belonging to the arsenal of a threat actor tracked as the “Outlaw Hacking Group. ”. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

” The malicious code was attributed to a popular crime gang tracked as the Iron Group. We discovered that this backdoor was developed by the Iron cybercrime group, the same group behind the Iron ransomware (rip-off Maktub ransomware recently discovered by Bart Parys ), which we believe has been active for the past 18 months.”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. They also learned the attackers frequently grouped together victims by sending their cryptocurrencies to the same destination crypto wallet.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). Aite Group estimates U.S. I invite you to read Juan’s blog to learn more about the challenges and approaches to protecting the big data behind the analytics. This is a growing problem for credit card companies.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

The 33-year-old Amazon Web Services (AWS) software engineer was also accused of stealing cloud computer power on Capital One’s account to “mine” cryptocurrency for her own benefit, a practice known as “cryptojacking.”. Password and token harvesting is one of the most common techniques in hacking.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Yesterday, we looked back at cases related to passwords and Fifth Amendment protection, non-party discovery and mobile and messaging. We grouped those cases into common subject themes and will review them over the next few posts. GEO Group, Inc. Washington District Judge Robert J.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

And it took us a month to collect that data, like a month like meanwhile, there's an ABD group running around the network causing havoc. And so you know, this is definitely one of those challenges people are facing and you know, one of the groups that we track at the moment for hacking group, they compromise.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. The integration is maturing fast and next release will be really ??

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Data breaches. million).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 20, 2020

This brings us to the core question – why does any employee or a group of employees have so much control over users’ accounts? Twitter was caught storing plaintext passwords in logfiles two years ago. A major portion of password attacks over the last few years have involved attacks against APIs. Work from home — #wfh.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

For example, from that talk of mine: That's stripe.ian.sh Remember when web security was all about looking for padlocks? Phishing sites have certs, revocation is broken and EV is useless not only due to the points mentioned above, but because even the commercial CAs aren't sure who should have EV certs!

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

The unflattering profile was laid out in a series of documents tied to a lawsuit lodged by Michael Terpin , a cryptocurrency investor who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. However, many online services let customers reset their password merely by using their mobile phones.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

” Just the other day, a friend of mine begins to complain of the spam mails that she receives everyday. Chunking People perceive information more easily when related parts are grouped. Headers Ensure that you break the form into logical content groups and provide relevant headers for each information chunk.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

According to The Times , Kirk first reached out to the group through a hacker who used the screen name “ lol ” on OGusers , a forum dedicated to helping users hijack and resell OG accounts from Twitter and other social media platforms. .” “just dont want my irl getting sus[pended].”

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Turla APT group adds Topinambour Trojan to its arsenal. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Slack resetting passwords for roughly 1% of its users. Sprint revealed that hackers compromised some customer accounts via Samsung site.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In particular, I think if technology, one Office group, not one of this group is, I believe survivors and I think that's a responsibility to totally understand the impact of our technology. Who else has access to something that's, that's not uncommon, interviewed that, for example, someone still had someone share Facebook passwords.

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