Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. ” Reached for comment, Microsoft said it is working closely with the U.S.

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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. cryptocurrency holdings online. Troy Woody Jr.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States. Kislitsin also was indicted in Nevada in 2013, but the Nevada indictment does not name his alleged victim(s) in that case.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

And, it was just before the holidays in 2013 that Target announced the infamous breach impacting more than a hundred million people. Practicing good data governance is easier than you think. Related podcast: The need to lock down unstructured data. By knowing your risk exposure, you are half way there.

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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 FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015. inch diskettes. None of these early threats went pro.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. Sometime around 2013, Taleon launched a partnership with a money transfer business called pm2btc[.]me.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The United States government sued Edward Snowden , the former CIA employee and NSA contractor, to block payment for his book, Permanent Record. The government of the United States has just announced a lawsuit over my memoir, which was just released today worldwide. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. Pushwoosh says it is a U.S. But Reuters found that while Pushwoosh’s social media and U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In February 2020, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about being contacted by an Internal Revenue Service investigator seeking to return funds seized seven years earlier as part of the governments 2013 seizure of Liberty Reserve , a virtual currency service that acted as a $6 billion hub for the cybercrime world.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group attempted to compromise an unnamed Western government entity in Ukraine. In Mid January the Ukrainian government was hit with destructive malware, tracked as WhisperGate , and several Ukrainian government websites were defaced by exploiting a separate vulnerability in OctoberCMS.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Security experts from FireEye found evidence that links the development of the Triton malware (aka Trisis and HatMan) to a Russian government research institute. a Russian government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow. The following factors supporting this assessment are further detailed in this post.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. now has 687 records assembled from publicly disclosed incidents between November 2013 and August 2020.” ” reads the project description.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

“In fact, large aggregations of stolen credentials have been around since 2013-2014. For example, as recently as earlier this month, Intel 471 spotted Sanix selling access to nearly four dozen universities worldwide, and to a compromised VPN account for the government of San Bernadino, Calif.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. The government seized four-dozen booter domains, and criminally charged Dobbs and five other U.S. But the government’s core claim — that operating a booter site is a violation of U.S. Charles, Ill.

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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. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

based researcher whose findings shed light on a murky area of Internet governance that is all too often exploited by spammers and scammers alike. ” For example, documents obtained from the government of Uganda by Guilmette and others show Byaruhanga registered a private company called ipv4leasing after joining AFRINIC.

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ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. A Documentary Approach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. Cisco is going to pay $8.6 ” reported The New York Times.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Malaysia’s MyCERT issued a security alert to warn of a hacking campaign targeting government officials that was carried out by the China-linked APT40 group. Malaysia’s Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) warns of a cyber espionage campaign carried out by the China-linked APT40 group aimed at Malaysian government officials.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2021

Inglis retired from NSA in 2014 where he served the US government for 28 years, since 2013 as the agency’s deputy director. Easterly has worked in the cybersecurity division at Morgan Stanley for the past four years, she has served 14 years in government and military service. I’m proud of what we are building across the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against four entities and one individual for their role in malicious cyber operations conducted to support the government of North Korea. ” reads the announcement.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

A 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks — including a 2013 swatting incident at my home — was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping his best friend dump the body of a housemate into a local river. Suspects Troy Woody Jr.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 14, 2022

"Aoqin Dragon" has been operating since at least 2013, with targets including government and telecommunications companies in multiple countries.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in England Lauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the Federal Reserve, U.S. Army and NASA - has won his legal bid to quash a U.S. extradition request.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in England Lauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the Federal Reserve, U.S. Army and NASA - has won his legal bid to quash a U.S. extradition request.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The list includes devices belonging to big enterprises, financial institutions, and government organizations across the world. After a nslookup on all IPs, I found that among the victims there are some Banks, many.gov domains and thousands of companies around the world. link] — Bank Security (@Bank_Security) November 20, 2020.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. “Helkern was my friend, I [set up a] meeting with Golubov and him in 2013,” Shefel said.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

By the time the Secret Service caught up with him in 2013, he’d made over $3 million selling fullz data to identity thieves and organized crime rings operating throughout the United States. prison system and deported back to Vietnam, Ngo is currently finishing up a mandatory three-week COVID-19 quarantine at a government-run facility.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2019

And we’ve seen the American government — the Customs and Border Protection — compiling lists of reporters and activists who’ve been singled out for questioning.” su , a site erected briefly in 2013 by a gang of online hoodlums that doxed and swatted celebrities and public figures.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2024

UAC-0006 has been active since at least 2013. The government experts reported that the group carried out at least two massive campaigns since May 20, threat actors aimed at distributing SmokeLoader malware via email.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. The cyberattack hit the servers of the National Agency for Information Society (AKSHI), which handles many government services. The relations between Albania and Iran have deteriorated since the government of Tirana offered asylum to thousands of Iranian dissidents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

The activities of the APT group were first uncovered by Kaspersky Lab in September 2013, at the time the researchers defined the crew as an emerging group of cyber-mercenaries that was able to carry out surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets.

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