Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

PopeyeTools was a dark web marketplace specializing in selling stolen credit cards and cybercrime tools, facilitating fraud and illicit online activities since 2016. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud, trafficking access devices, and solicitation of another person to offer access devices.

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MAY 25, 2022

Some of the flaws added to the catalog in this turn are dated back to 2016, such as the issues affecting Apple ( CVE-2016-4655 , CVE-2016-4656 , CVE-2016-4657 ), Microsoft ( CVE-2016-0162 , CVE-2016-3351 , CVE-2016-3298 ) and Cisco Devices ( CVE-2016-6366 , CVE-2016-6367 ).

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JANUARY 20, 2025

The Donot Team (aka APT-C-35 and Origami Elephant) has been active since 2016, it focuses ongovernment and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries.

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JUNE 20, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620 , was fixed for the first time in 2013, but in 2016 experts discovered a way to bypass the fix. CVE-2022-22620 was initially fixed in 2013, reintroduced in 2016, and then disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022.” Its fix was just regressed in 2016 during refactoring.

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JUNE 7, 2020

A judge in Israel handed down the sentences plus fines and probation against Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri , both Israeli citizens arrested in 2016 at age 18 in connection with an FBI investigation into vDOS. ” This likely refers to 23-year-old Jesse Wu , who KrebsOnSecurity noted in October 2016 pseudonymously registered the U.K.

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JUNE 30, 2024

” In May 2019, the German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the German software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. According to the company, it was targeted by the hackers in autumn 2016, when its experts detected suspicious activities were quickly blocked them to prevent major damages.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Avast Says OnionCrypter Has Been in Use Since 2016 Security researchers at Avast have discovered that more than 30 hacker groups have been using a malware crypter dubbed OnionCrypter.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

The breach ran from 2014 to 2018 - Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 - and exposed personal information for an estimated 7 million customers in the U.K.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on your Exchange (2013/2016/2019) server.” ” reads an advisory published by the Microsoft Tech Community.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Facebook Takes Down Accounts Associated with Russia's 'Internet Research Agency' Troll Farm Facebook says the Russian troll group that interfered in the 2016 U.S. election is at it again, using sham accounts and a fake news site to spread disinformation in advance of the November election. Facebooks says it took down the accounts involved.

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MAY 18, 2020

” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in For roughly one year beginning in 2016, Lebron was a top moderator on Exploit. For roughly one year beginning in 2016, Lebron was a top moderator on Exploit. in in late 2016, complaining that RedBear was refusing to pay a debt owed to him.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These issues impacts Windows Server 2019 and lower versions, including Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and Windows Server 2008 SP2.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Secret Service has published a Most Wanted Fugitives list featuring 10 suspects wanted in connection with financial cybercrimes The agency is offering rewards of up to $1 million for information on two Ukrainian suspects who allegedly targeted the SEC in 2016.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. According to the cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , a user named Finndev registered on multiple cybercrime forums, including Raidforums [ seized by the FBI in 2022 ], Void[.]to The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com.

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APRIL 22, 2024

In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online. This is sensitive information that could lead to discrimination, persecution, or otherwise cause harm to individuals by violating their privacy and exposing them to various types of cyberattacks.

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MARCH 12, 2025

but also affects Windows 10 (build 1809 and earlier) and Server 2016. The exploit, linked to the PipeMagic backdoor , has targeted unsupported Windows versions like Server 2012 R2 and 8.1

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JULY 22, 2020

In the second half of 2017, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed it was the victim of a cyber-attack in 2016. At the time, hackers were focused on non-public information stored in its EDGAR filing system. ” reads an advisory published by the US State Department.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits. At the end of October 2016, the hackers leaked a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group.

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APRIL 27, 2020

In March 2016, the Verizon breach digest reported a number of cyber attacks including one against an unnamed water utility, described in the document as the Kemuri Water Company (KWC). In 2016, BWL Electric and Water Utility shut down following a ransomware attack.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. The man was recruited by the criminal organization in 2016. Operators continue to offer the botnet through a multi-purpose malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model. ” Mr.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

Year Total Money Lost ($) Year Increase In Money Lost (%) 2021 4,250,000,000 2020 – 2021 185% 2020 1,490,000,000 2019 – 2020 -57% 2019 3,500,156,000 2018 – 2019 259% 2018 974,000,000 2017 – 2018 51% 2017 645,901,000 2016 – 2017 341% 2016 146,509,000 2015 – 2016 -64%. The top 5 breaches in history are: 1. Gox, $615M.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since 2016 , Microsoft has been alerting users of nation-state activity, now the IT giant added the same service to the Defender for Office 365 dashboard. Microsoft implements alerts for ‘nation-state activity’ in the Defender for Office 365 dashboard, to allow organizations to quickly respond.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Microsoft addressed the flaw with the release of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2021 , the vulnerability impacts on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. “We Our recommendation is to install these updates immediately to protect your environment.” read the announcement published by Microsoft.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SonicWall SonicOS, ImageMagick and Linux Kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. ” Attackers can exploit the flaw to take over websites running the widely used image-enhancing app.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Between July 2016 and May 2021, Kavzharadze listed over 626,100 stolen login credentials on Slilpp and sold more than 297,300 of them. The Russian man was sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,233,521.47 in restitution. These credentials were linked to $1.2 million in fraudulent transactions.

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MARCH 29, 2020

The Dharma ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in February 2016, at the time experts dubbed it Crysis. In November 2016, the master decryption keys for Crysis were released online, victims of CrySis versions 2 and 3 were able to recover their files.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2016-6277 NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, build 001 CVE-2020-9377 D-Link DIR-610 CVE-2016-11021 D-Link DCS-930L devices before 2.12 Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta,

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JUNE 17, 2020

According to an internal report drown up after the 2016 data breach that led to the ‘ Vault 7 ‘ data leak, a specialized CIA unit involved in the development of hacking tools and cyber weapons failed in protecting its operations and was able to respond after the leak of its secrets. ” reported The Washington Post.

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APRIL 11, 2020

The messages link the legitimate advisory for the CVE-2016-9223 vulnerability: hxxps://cve[.]mitre[.]org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9223. name=CVE-2016-9223. org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9223.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

“During our research, we were able to identify strong links between a Crutch dropper from 2016 and Gazer. The latter, also known as WhiteBear, was a second-stage backdoor used by Turla in 2016-2017.” ” reads the report published by ESET.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 20 (Chief Judge Jeong Seon-jae Baek Suk-jong Lee Jun-hyun) charged Mr. A for being a developer for the TrickBot gang since 2016. A, this is the pseudonym used to identify the individual, was forced to live in Seoul waiting for the replacement of his passport from the local Russian embassy.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Marriott International has bought Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide in 2016 for $13 billion. According to the British watchdog, Marriott failed to perform sufficient due diligence when it bought Starwood in 2016 and did not implement necessary measures to secure its systems. The brand includes St.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

Experts pointed out that it is the first critical vulnerability patched in toolkit since September 2016. The OpenSSL Project announced that it is going to release updates to address a critical vulnerability in the open-source toolkit. “The OpenSSL project team would like to announce the forthcoming release of OpenSSL version 3.0.7.

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JUNE 22, 2022

The user “RSOCKS” on the Russian crime forum Verified changed his name to RSOCKS from a previous handle: “ Stanx ,” whose very first sales thread on Verified in 2016 quickly ran afoul of the forum’s rules and prompted a public chastisement by the forum’s administrator. ” the post enthuses.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The researchers believe that attackers have tampered with the creation date of most of the files employed in the attacks and backdated them to 2016. The new malware appears to have been developed recently, but threat actors might have used Backdating, or timestomping to thwart analysis attempts (anti-forensics).

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APRIL 18, 2020

. “The leaked information, which ZDNet obtained a copy with the help of data breach monitoring service Under the Breach, contains information on users who registered or used the Aptoide app store app between July 21, 2016, and January 28, 2018.” ” reported ZDNet.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

“We have addressed the issue causing messages to be stuck in transport queues of on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. Whether you perform the steps automatically or manually, they must be performed on every on-premises Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 server in your organization. ” states the post.

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