Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. The malicious code employed in the attacks is the Hupigon RAT , a RAT previously spotted in campaigns carried out by China-linked APTs such as APT3 (aka TG-0100 , Buckeye , Gothic Panda , and UPS).

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2024

The flaw was introduced with the fix for another vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2006-5051. Notably, over 0.14% of these vulnerable instances are running an End-Of-Life/End-Of-Support version of OpenSSH.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 27, 2025

NAB's Anthony Hope on How Banks Are Preparing for the March 2026 Deadline Australia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing legislation is undergoing its first major revision since 2006. Anthony Hope, group head of AML, CTF and fraud risk at NAB, explains what this "generational change" means for financial institutions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

The hack is the result of poor cyber security since its launch in 2006, administrator OSS said. Administrators of the website agreed to pay the ransom due to the low amount, but after receiving the ransom, the attackers never helped them to secure the website and on 11 January 2022 they leaked the data online.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Space Agency confirmed that the breach may impact NASA Civil Service employees on-boarded, separated from the agency, or transferred between centers from July 2006 to October 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2021

The flaws were present in the component since it was being developed in 2006. The Small Computer Systems Interface defined both a parallel I/O bus and a data protocol to connect a wide variety of peripherals (disk drives, tape drives, modems, printers, scanners, optical drives, test equipment, and medical devices) to a host computer.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

CVE Number CVE Title Required Action Due Date CVE-2021-32648 October CMS Improper Authentication 2/1/2022 CVE-2021-21315 System Information Library for node.js

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. The malicious code employed in the attacks is the Hupigon RAT , a RAT previously spotted in campaigns carried out by China-linked APTs such as APT3 (aka TG-0100 , Buckeye , Gothic Panda , and UPS).

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Phishing Education Access Cybersecurity 262

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

Founded in 2006, Avira Operations GmbH & Co. Avira Crypto. KG is a German multinational software company best known for their Avira Free Security (a.k.a. Avira Free Antivirus). In January 2021, Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Johri Replaces Emmanuel Benzaquen, Who Has Led the App Security Company Since 2006 For the first time in its 17-year history, application security vendor Checkmarx will have a new leader.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2025

2006 AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has died.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In 2006, the researchers conducted a sabotage test with centrifuges, and President George Bush authorized the operation. Symantec researchers discovered that the Stuxnet code was updated over time, in May 2006 and in February 2007, when the Iran’s government began installing the centrifuges at Natanz.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

” The government says from 2006 until the service’s takedown, Liberty Reserve processed an estimated 55 million financial transactions worth more than $6 billion, with more than 600,000 accounts associated with users in the United States alone.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

According to iDefense, in 2006 the group was responsible for crafting a rootkit that took advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word, and was used in attacks on “a large DoD entity” within the USA.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

According to the indictment , the alleged hackers targeted more than 45 companies and government agencies from 2006 to 2018 and stole “hundreds of gigabytes” of sensitive data and personal information from its targets.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 24, 2024

Roblox is an online virtual world/metaverse that has been around since 2006 that allows people to play with others and is super popular with young people. If you haven’t heard of Roblox, you probably don’t have kids like me.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

In 2018, Emissary Panda was observed using an updated version of the ZxShell RAT first developed in 2006 and whom code was released in 2007. The malware includes the well-known HTran packet redirection tool and was signed with digital certificates that were signed by Hangzhou Shunwang Technology.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service organizations, and a number of airline reservation systems.".

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

An external OLEobject (compatibility 2006) was available on that value: Target=”%73%63%72%49%50%54:%68%74%74%70%73%3A%2F%2F%61%2E%64oko%2Emo%65%2Fwr%61%65o%70%2E%73%63%74″ . Analyzing the Microsoft Powerpoint structure it rises on my eyes the following slide structure. Stage 1: Microsoft PowerPoint Dropping Website.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2020

In 2006, Stroganov and an associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a. The post claimed that among those apprehended was the infamous cybercriminal Alexey Stroganov, who goes by the hacker names “Flint” and “Flint24.”

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

From origins as a forums and instant messenger vendor, Jive launched ‘Clearspace‘, a single application with wikis, blog, discussions, instant messaging, rss, email integration and files into spaces organized by topic in 2006. This in turn [.]

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In 2006, I wrote an essay titled " Refuse to be Terrorized." (I A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing because someone named his wireless network (presumably from his smartphone) "bomb on board.". I am also reminded of my 2007 essay, " The War on the Unexpected."

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

This timespan might be even longer, as according to Wind River, three of the vulnerabilities were already existent in IPnet when it acquired the stack from Interpeak in 2006.” ” Researchers explained that the VxWorks OS implements some optional mitigations that could make it hard the exploitation of the above vulnerabilities.

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DXC Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

You can argue over when cloud computing really began, but one good starting point is 2006 when then Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at a conference: “I don’t think people have really understood how big this opportunity really is. It starts with the premise that the data services and architecture should be on servers. We call […].

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

In 2006, The Washington Post reported that a group of five men used stolen or illegally created accounts at LexisNexis subsidiaries to lookup SSNs and other personal information more than 310,000 individuals. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms Dun & Bradstreet , and Kroll Background America Inc.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

“The Army Reserve started using CAC logon in May 2006,” Danberry wrote on his “About” page. His site has even been officially recommended by the Army (PDF). Mark shared emails showing Saicoo itself recommends militarycac.com. Image: Militarycac.com. I thought Why stop there?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

From 2006 to 2012, Kislitsin was editor-in-chief of “ Hacker ,” a popular Russian-language monthly magazine that includes articles on information and network security, programming, and frequently features interviews with and articles penned by notable or wanted Russian hackers. “The company is monitoring developments.”

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Here’s a six-month old essay about online media that resonated with me for a couple of reasons.

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The Guardian Data Protection

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Back in 2006, with half a million others aged between 40 and 69, I signed up to this magnificent project, the world’s most advanced genetic database. They took blood, saliva and urine, measured bone density and made notes on exercise, alcohol and family history, with social class, ethnicity, education, employment and income included.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 9, 2012

2006 Predictions. 2006 How I Did. Related: Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did. 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007. Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru ru in 2008. account on Carder[.]su su from 2008.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 found that Internet address also was used to register the account “Nordex” on the Russian hacking forum Exploit back in 2006. That Bankir account was registered from the Internet address 193.27.237.66 Constella tracked another Bankir[.]com

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Launched in 2006, 23andMe sells tests to determine consumers’ genetic ancestry and risk of developing certain illnesses, using saliva samples sent in by mail. Related: Your DNA is a valuable asset, so why give it to ancestry websites for free?

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Adapture

MARCH 6, 2025

About AWS Founded in 2006, AWS is the leading cloud provider globally with clients that range across all sizes and industries. The term elastic comes from the way users can create, launch and terminate instances as needed, paying by the second. An AWS EC2 Partner helps clients maximize security, agility and cost efficiency.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The NSW Attorney General reports that the use of videoconferencing in the NSW justice system is increasing and saved an estimated $6.5 million in remote witness and prisoner transportation costs during the last financial year.

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Communications 40

Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

One of the domains registered in 2006 to the address unforgiven57@mail.ru According to DomainTools, the Unforgiven email address was used to register roughly a dozen domains, including three that were originally registered to Keren’s email address — pepyak@gmail.com (e.g., antivirusxp09[.]com). was thelib[.]ru

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010. This ultimately resulted in the 2020 roll out of DigiCert ONE, a new platform of tools and services aimed at “embedding digital trust across the board within the enterprise and between all parts of the cloud ecosystem,” Chauhan says.

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