Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. This and other “nordia@” emails shared a password: “ anna59.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

companies and government entities. ” According to a 2016 story from Forbes.ru , Botnet’s opening scene was to depict the plight of Christina Svechinskaya , a Russian student arrested by FBI agents in September 2010. Christina Svechinskaya, a money mule hired by Bentley who was arrested by the FBI in 2010.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. They found personal documents, collected by over 80 US municipalities, sitting in Amazon Web Services S3 storage buckets left wide open in the public cloud. This is all very helpful intelligence, commendably shared by WizCase.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Other sensitive information such as passwords and financial information weren’t affected. Other sensitive information such as passwords and financial information weren’t affected. However, the organisation later provided an update, adding that encrypted passwords were also exposed. What happened? What should you do?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Schulte was identified a few days after WikiLeaks started leaking the precious dumps. ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted s LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets. “In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

“Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE’s cloud computing service and used it as a launchpad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S. The list of victims is long and includes tech giants like HPE, IBM, DXC, Fujitsu, and Tata.

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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. “I hope that doesn’t happen, but politicians are regular people who use the same tools we use.”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Buried in the Shamoon code was an image of a burning American flag, intended as an admonishment to the Saudi government for supporting American foreign policy in the Middle East. cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010. and Saudi cyber operations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

The Naikon APT group is a China-linked cyber espionage group that has been active at least since 2010 and that remained under the radar since 2015 while targeting entities in Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. . The Naikon APT group mainly focuses on high-profile orgs, including government entities and military orgs.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2020

Glenn Greenwald has been charged with cybercrimes in Brazil, stemming from publishing information and documents that were embarrassing to the government. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications. Good commentary on the Assange case here.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” This is the first time the UK government has imposed such kind of sanctions, its authorities collaborated with the U.S. government and U.S. based financial institutions that occurred in 2009 and 2010, predating his involvement in Dyre or the Trickbot Group. and the U.K.” ” continues the press release.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, aka FIFA, is a governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer. In August 2017, Fancy Bears hackers claimed that around 160 football players failed drug tests in 2015, and 25 2010 World Cup players used doping medicines. ” states The New York Times.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

Edcouch, TX, government hit by ransomware attack (3,000). NY, government systems accessed by unauthorised party (unknown). The Tech Data Corporation exposed 264GB of client servers, invoices, passwords (unknown). Is this the start of the long-awaited ‘GDPR bounce’? We doubt it, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

Exposed data include name, store username and password, payment card number, payment card expiration date, and payment card security code. This incident did not involve unauthorized access to Social Security numbers, driver license numbers, or similar government ID card numbers.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. The hackers attempted to inject malicious JavaScript code into the government websites connected to the data center. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! Opening up The Excel File it gets infected. Let’s go deep into that file and see what is happening there.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 1 June 2018. According to a Department of Justice announcement this week, Baratov hacked into at least 80 webmail accounts of individuals who were of interest to Dokuchaev, and send him the accounts’ passwords in exchange for money. Here are this week’s stories. Acting U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. PowerShell is a command-line shell that Microsoft began installing by default on all Windows machines a few years back.

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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. used the password 225948. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev. Image: treasury.gov.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. The IRS says it will require ID.me for all logins later this summer. McLean, Va.-based

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. “In early October, the Ukrainian surveillance team said they’d lost him,” he wrote.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The vulnerabilities allow hackers, governments, or anyone with malicious intention to read files, add/remove users, add/modify existing data, or execute commands with highest privileges on all of the devices. NAS devices have become the storage device of choice for many small and medium businesses (SMB). for the file XXE_CHECK. Netgear Stora.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

-based supplier of identity access management (IAM) systems, which recently announced a partnership with Omada, a Copenhagen-based provider of identity governance administration (IGA) solutions. Governance and attestation quickly became a very big deal. Compliance became a huge driver for governance and attestation,” Curcio said. “It

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Yakubets , who the government says went by the nicknames “ aqua ,” and “ aquamo ,” among others. As it happens, for several years KrebsOnSecurity closely monitored the day-to-day communications and activities of the accused and his accomplices. Image: FBI. Our client — XYZ Corp.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Court documents and government contracting records show the agencies tasked with monitoring the Mexican border have spent record sums on car hacking tools, while talking up the extraordinary amount of valuable evidence that can be reaped from onboard computers.” ” Forbes reports. ” continues Forbes.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JUNE 17, 2019

Hong Kong’s past reforms to the PDPO have been “event driven”, the best example being the Octopus Rewards case in 2010, which led to extensive reforms to Hong Kong’s direct marketing controls. Background. million Cathay Pacific customers. Key Take-Aways. When did Cathay Pacific commence its investigation?

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2018

This week, we discuss Twitter’s password reset, new Spectre CPU flaws, the implementation of the EU’s NIS Directive, and patch Tuesday’s highlights. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 11 May 2018. It was World Password Day on 3 May. I know I have. Here are this week’s stories.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If the device is equipped with a “means for authentication outside a local area network, it shall be deemed a reasonable security feature” if either of the following security requirements are met: The reprogrammed password is unique to each device manufactured[;] or. ” (Civ. Code § 1798.91.05(e)). Code § 1798.91.06(b)).

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If the device is equipped with a “means for authentication outside a local area network, it shall be deemed a reasonable security feature” if either of the following security requirements are met: The reprogrammed password is unique to each device manufactured[;] or. ” (Civ. Code § 1798.91.05(e)). Code § 1798.91.06(b)).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise? Of course it can!

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? That meant, no one could use any of the digital systems until they had all been pen tested. Bee: Great.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? That meant, no one could use any of the digital systems until they had all been pen tested. Bee: Great.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Available as an on-premises or cloud solution, Cloudera’s platform is secured by an integrated set of security and governance features dubbed Shared Data Experience (SDX). Benefits of SDX include stronger metadata context, full encryption with auto-TLS, and advanced governance features like data profiling , lineage, and modelling.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? That meant, no one could use any of the digital systems until they had all been pen tested. Bee: Great.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

1960s When large corporations and governments first began to adopt computer systems, cybersecurity measures were relatively lax, and hacking was largely viewed as something done ‘for fun’ rather than a serious threat. Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers. The history of computer viruses and malware goes almost as far back as the history of the field of computer science itself. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!”

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