Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Based on court documents, between December 2019 and March 2022, Junk participated in a fraud scheme to steal funds from the cryptocurrency exchange accounts of his victims. ” On March 3, 2022, the FBI executed a federal search warrant on Junk’s apartment and seized his electronic equipment.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

The DoJ announced this week that Till Kottmann was indicted for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities spanning 2019 to the present. . Last Friday, Swiss authorities raided Kottmann’s home and seized electronic devices. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. ” continues the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

it was considered one of the most prominent and active ransomware crew since it began operating in May 2019. The gang was the first to introduce a double-extortion model in the cybercrime landscape at the end of 2019. The cybercrime gang announced that it will no longer leak data of new companies infected with their ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. which was renamed to NortonLifeLock in 2019 (LifeLock is now included in the Norton 360 service). “The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

“A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for an intrusion on the stored data of Capital One Financial Corporation, announced U.S. District Court in Seattle today and was ordered detained pending a hearing on August 1, 2019.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

This time is the APT34 Jason – Exchange Mail BF project to be leaked by Lab Dookhtegan on June 3 2019. Although there was information about APT34 prior to 2019, a series of leaks on the website Telegram by an individual named “ Lab Dookhtegan ”, including Jason project, exposed many names and activities of the organization.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of victims of the group also includes Norwegian giant Norsk Hydr that was hit in 2019. The police seized over USD 52 000 in cash, 5 luxury vehicles and number of electronic devices that are currently being examined by the authorities. ” reads the press release published by the Europol.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2019

In March 2019, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) — Canada’s equivalent of the U.S. Section 8 involves the surreptitious installation of computer programs on computers or networks including malware and spyware. In this regard, CASL offers a welcome alternative. ”

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

SOC report 10 12 2019.doc doc ( 6125489453c1824da3e28a54708e7c77875e500dd82a59c96c1d1e5ee88dcad7 ) is the delivered file sent on Oct 11, 2019, 11:06:09 PM from grecia@ambientehomedecor.com. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. MITRE ATT&CK.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. RCE flaw in Electronic Arts Origin client exposes gamers to hack. Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook down worldwide.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_d : from March 2019 to August 2019 The evaluation process would take care of the following Techniques: Delivery , Exploit , Install and Command. 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.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan between 2015 and 2016, most of the victims were in the United States and Europe. We will continue to relentlessly pursue these cyber criminals who think they can conduct illicit activity from behind the perceived anonymity of a computer.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to the many analyses made by Unit42 (available HERE ), FireEye ( HERE , HERE ) and TALOS ( HERE , HERE ) we might agree that APT28 has been very active (or at least very “spotted”) during the time frame between 2012 to 2019. However most of the new attacks, qualitative speaking, happened during the time frame between 2018 to 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

According to the indictment, in late 2019, the man launched and operated a darknet marketplace to sell illicit narcotics, including opioids, stimulants, psychedelics, and prescription medications, among other drugs. Desnica was personally involved in the review and approval of the sale of narcotics through his marketplace.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. Marrapese documented his findings in more detail here.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 5, 2019

Preparing for Data Security in the Quantum Computing Era. Each passing day brings the world closer to the exciting reality of powerful quantum computing. Quantum computing is a threat to public key infrastructure and security systems that rely on it. Waiting until quantum computing is widely available ?

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Everteam

APRIL 4, 2019

While everyone is digging deep into the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain and many other new digital transformation phenomena, Quantum Computing has been transformed from theory to reality. Let’s move to how it’s related to computers. What is Quantum Computing? A Quick Quantum look. Too much physics?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. su between 2016 and 2019.

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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 He is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

On April 19 2019 researchers at Chronicle, a security company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have examined the leaked tools, exfiltrated the past week on a Telegram channel, and confirmed that they are indeed the same ones used by the OilRig attackers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

On April 19 2019 researchers at Chronicle, a security company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have examined the leaked tools , exfiltrated the past week on a Telegram channel, and confirmed that they are indeed the same ones used by the OilRig attackers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering — puts us one step closer to a working iO prototype. Sahai recently gave this presentation outlining the technical aspects.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

raid of his house, agents seized documents and digital information stored on electronic devices.” Bennett has scheduled sentencing for July 17, 2019.” Martin was arrested on August 27, in Maryland and the FBI searched for the secret material at his home, in the garage, and in his vehicle. During an F.B.I.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2020

A portion of the Doxbin, as it existed in late 2019. 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.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Microsoft analyzed details of the SolarWinds attack: Microsoft and FireEye only detected the Sunburst or Solorigate malware in December, but Crowdstrike reported this month that another related piece of malware, Sunspot , was deployed in September 2019, at the time hackers breached SolarWinds’ internal network.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

The new app, now being used by agencies in several states, is the brainchild of computer scientists from the University of California San Diego and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , who say they developed the software in tandem with technical input from the U.S. A copy of their paper is available here (PDF).

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ARMA International

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Another common name for the IoB is embodied computing , where the human body is used as a technology platform. Wearable technology began as any kind of electronic device designed to be worn on the user’s body. In the ingestibles category are Bluetooth electronic pills that monitor the inner workings of the human body.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. 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.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

In 2019, Dun & Bradstreet saw more than a 100 percent increase in business identity theft. ” The crates and boxes being delivered to his erstwhile office space were mostly computers and other high-priced items ordered from 10 different Office Depot credit cards that also were not in his name. ” RECYCLING VICTIMS.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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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. 19, 2019: The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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