Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Here’s me in 2007 on the NSA backdoor. We knew the basics of this story , but it’s good to have more detail. Here’s me in 2015 about this Juniper hack.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

It also was used in 2007 to register xeka[.]ru That same email address was used to register the account “Isis” at several other top Russian-language cybercrime forums, including Damagelab, Zloy, Evilzone and Priv-8. ru , a cybercrime forum in its own right that called itself “ The Antichat Mafia.”

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 2, 2018

User data from 2007 and before was compromised. Yes, Reddit Was Breached; No, Don't Dump Multifactor Authentication Reddit suffered a data breach in June after attackers managed to bypass its SMS-based two-factor authentication system.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. Yesterday, Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007. The DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 19, 2018

But it has also found authentication error logs that recorded incorrect login attempts from before 2007. But Old Error Logs Contained Clear Text of Incorrect Passwords Human resources software developer PageUp says it doesn't appear that personal data exposed in a malware attack was actually removed from its systems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2021

for his key role in the distribution of the Gozi virus that infected more than a million computers from 2007 to 2012. The Gozi banking Trojan is not a new threat, it was first spotted by security researchers in 2007. Colombian officials announced the arrest of the Romanian hacker Mihai Ionut Paunescu who is wanted in the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Estrada said Qakbot has been implicated in 40 different ransomware attacks over the past 18 months, intrusions that collectively cost victims more than $58 million in losses.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Back in 2007, I called this the “ war on the unexpected.” It turns out the would-be “bomber” was just a vintage camera aficionado and the woman who reported him made a mistake, sources said. Why in the world was the passenger in custody for “several hours”? They didn’t do anything wrong.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The path traversal-related vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2007-4559. An unpatched flaw in more than 350,000 unique open source repositories leaves software applications vulnerable to exploit.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

.” Now the popular security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported mass scanning for the CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability). That was quick, since 2 hours ago seeing likely mass scanning for CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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PerezBox

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2007 I joined FaceBook, in 2020 I am leaving Facebook. It’s been a fun run, but the time has come to say goodbye. Why leave Facebook? My reasoning is. The post Thanks FaceBook, Bye appeared first on PerezBox.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In 2008, Cyber Monday hit the big time as Thanksgiving fell five days later than in 2007 so the people were hungry for the online deals. Then, in 2005 the clever people at the National Retail Federation decided that an online frenzy of shopping was needed the Monday after Thanksgiving. We know this Monday as Cyber Monday.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“As reflected in court documents, from 2007 through 2019, Brovko worked closely with other cybercriminals to monetize vast troves of data that had been stolen by “botnets,” or networks of infected computers. Brovko was involved in the illegal practice between 2007 and 2019. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

A couple of weeks ago, the popular security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported mass scanning for the CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability). That was quick, since 2 hours ago seeing likely mass scanning for CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Evil Corp cybercrime group (aka the Dridex gang Indrik Spider , the Dridex gang, and TA505 ) has been active in cybercrime activities since 2007. Evil Corp has recently launched a new ransomware called Macaw Locker to evade US sanctions that prevent victims from making ransom payments.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Bandook has been active since 2007, it has been continuously developed since then and was employed in several campaigns by different threat actors. Reseachers from Fortinet observed a new variant of a remote access trojan dubbed Bandook that has been used in phishing attacks against Windows users.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Vostrom filed papers in 2007 to do business as Packet Forensics, according to Virginia state records. They estimated that those apps were downloaded more than 60 million times, including 10 million downloads of Muslim prayer apps. Measurement Systems’ website was registered by Vostrom Holdings, according to historic domain name records.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Evil Corp cybercrime group (aka the Dridex gang Indrik Spider , the Dridex gang, and TA505 ) has been active in cybercrime activities since 2007. The malware drops ransom notes ( macaw_recover.txt ) in each folder, the ransom note includes the link to a unique victim negotiation page.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2017

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

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

“Hiding with purely technical parameters will not help in a serious matter,” Djamix advised Maza members in September 2007. Djamix told forum members he was a lawyer, and nearly all of his posts included legal analyses of various public cases involving hackers arrested and charged with cybercrimes in Russia and abroad.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2021

From 2007 to 2015 TYURIN also conducted cyberattacks against multiple foreign companies. financial sector hacks, from approximately 2007 to mid-2015 TYURIN also conducted cyberattacks against numerous U.S. “In addition to the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

.” Once the investigation will be completed, CDHE will notify impacted by mail or email. CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months. At the time of this writing, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the security breach.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Since 2007, the Pwnies have celebrated the good, the bad, and the wacky in cybersecurity. Enjoy some of the best moments of this year's ceremony.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) for the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal that exposed data of 87 million users. The announcement was made by the UK’s data protection regulator, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham. ” she said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The APT28 group (aka Forest Blizzard , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Microsoft reports include instructions for detecting, hunting, and responding to GooseEgg.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. One of more fascinating innovators in this space is 11-year-old DataLocker, based in Overland Park, Kansas. Related: How DataLocker got its start h. A chance meeting – in an elevator, no less – led to Kim veering over to the cybersecurity industry.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The flaw tracked as CVE-2018-14634 affects the kernel versions released between July 2007 and July 2017, Linux Kernel versions 2.6.x, The flaw was discovered by researchers at security firm Qualys that shared technical details of the Mutagen Astronomy vulnerabilities, including proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits ( Exploit 1 , Exploit 2 ).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by an unpatched Python vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 (CVSS score: 6.8), that was discovered 15 years ago. As we dug into the issue, we realized this was in fact CVE-2007-4559.” Initially we thought we had found a new zero-day vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In 2004, CIA and Mossad requested help to the the Dutch intelligence to get access to the plant, only in 2007 the mole, who posed as a mechanic working for a front company doing work at Natanz, dropped the virus into the target systems. “[T ” wrote the journalists. The final updates were made on Sept.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Insikt Group speculates the operation is aimed at influencing regional and military dynamics.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Second, we demonstrate how to insert undetectable backdoors in models trained using the Random Fourier Features (RFF) learning paradigm (Rahimi, Recht; NeurIPS 2007). Moreover, even if the distinguisher can request backdoored inputs of its choice, they cannot backdoor a new input­a property we call non-replicability.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

biz, circa 2007. Horohorin, a citizen of Russia, Israel and Ukraine, is now back where he grew up in Ukraine, running a cybersecurity consulting business. Horohorin’s BadB carding store, badb[.]biz, Image: Archive.org.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The software also allow dragnet surveillance, according to the brochures presented at Milipol it is an updated copy of Eagle, the program ceded to Gaddafi in 2007. . .” continues Télérama. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, IKEA).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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