Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill. in , quezstresser[.]com

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

GravityRAT is a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to avoid being executed in sandboxes and virtual machines. ” reads an analysis published by Cisco Talos that spotted the malware back in 2017 when it was used by an APT group targeting India. . ” concludes Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The two people are the former employee of the IT security management of Leonardo SpA, Arturo D’Elia, who is currently in jail, and Antonio Rossi, head of the CERT (Cyber ??Emergency The prosecutors state that Leonardo’s security systems did not detect the malware that was allegedly used by the unfaithful employee.

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MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The errors affecting the VR Systems electronic poll books forced officials to switch to paper registration records, the duration of the overall voting operations was extend ed due to the problems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The defendant made hundreds of thousands of dollars by launching millions of DDoS attacks with the platforms he was operating with a co-conspirator from August 2015 to November 2017. The man was sentenced on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for launching millions of DDoS attacks. The Chief U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018. pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

In March 2017, crooks claimed to have over 627 millions of iCloud credentials and threatened to wipe date from iPhones, iPads and Macs if Apple did not pay $150,000 within two weeks. Albayrak was arrested in late March 2017 by the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit. reported the NCA. reported the NCA. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The feds say the ringleader of the group was Alexander Konovolov , 35, of Tbilisi, Georgia, who controlled more than 41,000 victim computers infected with GozNym and recruited various other members of the cybercrime team. Vladimir Gorin , a.k.a One of those alleged mule managers — Farkhad Rauf Ogly Manokhim (a.k.a.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

GCIS was a Davos-level conference with no vendors and no selling, where scores of chief security information officers (CISOs), top CEO’s, industry and government thought leaders and leading innovators discussed the myriad challenges in and around cybersecurity and possible solutions in today’s environment.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. According to the company, attackers did not obtain sensitive information about defense contracts.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. Related: Companies must bear a broad security burden. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware. Warning signs. All of these could be typical signs of malware.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Naturally, database vendors are leading providers of database security tools, and a growing number of cloud-based database providers are moving deeper into the data security space. Security is paramount. Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. What should we learn from this?

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Stage2: extracted Payload.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Security researcher Marco Ramilli presents a comparative analysis of attacks techniques adopted by the Iran-Linked OilRig APT group. group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. Many techniques have been used since August 2017 such as: Command Line Interface (rif.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

According to the EC3, the joint operation was conducted in September 2017, it involved more than a dozen law enforcement agencies from Europe, the US, and Australia. to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide. Our modern society is dependent on computers, mobile devices, and the use of the internet.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The group is charges of violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act; federal trademark infringement, dilution, and false designation of origin; cyber squatting; com mon law trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment; conversion; intentional interference with contracts. 27 in the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. In the case of Mozilla’s Virtualfirefox.com domain, historic DNS records archived by Farsight Security show that indeed on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2020

Investigators say Kelley admitted to participating in swatting calls previously, and consented to a search of his dorm room, wherein they found two phones, a laptop and various electronic storage devices. since 2017.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. In June, the US Air Force has replaced the floppy disks in the SACCS nuclear weapons management system with a “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. Weaponization Timeline.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2018

Security researchers from Italian security firm TG Soft have uncovered an ongoing malware campaigns targeting Samsung service centers in Italy. The documents trigger the CVE-2017-11882 Office Equation Editor vulnerability to infect users. “TG Soft’s Research Centre (C.R.A.M.) ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. All messages sent via email contain FinCERT’s electronic signature.”. In December 2017, Group-IB published its first report on the group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2018

A group of security researchers has published a proof-of-concept exploit code for a vulnerability in the Intel Management Engine JTAG. A team of security researchers has published a proof-of-concept exploit code for a vulnerability in the Intel Management Engine JTAG. Pierluigi Paganini. Securi ty Affairs – JTAG, hacking).

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IT Governance

MAY 9, 2019

Originally published 1 December 2017. Malware is designed to disrupt and gain unauthorised access to a computer system. Ransomware one of the fastest-growing forms of cyber attacks and has been behind a number of high-profile breaches, including the massive NHS data breach in 2017. There are the main forms: Ransomware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters. Device Security is Hard. Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39. They're attractive targets.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. It made sense. Probably not.

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The Texas Record

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This is the seventh post of a multi-part recap of the 2017 e-Records Conference. Presentation materials from the conference are available on the e-Records 2017 website. TSLAC Wants Your Electronic Records. Big Data vs. Information Security: Bringing Peace to Conflict. Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed.

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ARMA International

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A company in Wisconsin had a “chipping party” in 2017 to implant microchips in some of its employees to make it easier for them to access the buildings and systems and to buy food in the company break room. [1]. Another common name for the IoB is embodied computing , where the human body is used as a technology platform.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 27, 2019

An article in Naked Security ( Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers , written by Lisa Vaas) reports that the UK’s Thames Valley Police announced on Monday that 36-year-old Steffan Needham, of Bury, Greater Manchester, was jailed for two years at Reading Crown Court following a nine-day trial.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". 1 November 2017. Mister Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning the security of credit data. My name is Bruce Schneier, and I am a security technologist. Before the. Washington, DC 20515.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Actually I did see this code few times related to manual attacks back in 2017. Actually I did see this code few times related to manual attacks back in 2017. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. The post Frequent VBA Macros used in Office Malware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 9, 2018

But first, it’s also worth noting that Tom O’Connor and I will be discussing some of these cases – and what the legal profession can learn from those rulings – on Thursday’s webcast Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions of 2017 and Their Impact on 2018 at noon CT (1pm ET, 10am PT). Los Alamos National Security, LLC et. Wilkinson, Jr.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 18, 2018

On January 10, 2018, the Law of 3 December 2017 creating the Data Protection Authority (the “Law”) was published in the Belgian Official Gazette (available in French and Dutch ). The Law was submitted in the Chamber of Representatives on August 23, 2017, and was approved by the Parliament in plenary meeting on November 16, 2017.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2018

FERC also used the rule to direct NERC to expand scope of the Reliability Standards so that they covered Electronic Access Control and Monitoring Systems (“EACMS”) associated with medium and high impact bulk electric system (“BES”) Cyber Systems. Procedural History.

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