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MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent annual report filed with the SEC, Yahoo confirmed that forged cookies were used to hack 32 million accounts. Here's what it means and why your company should be aware of such attacks.

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APRIL 14, 2020

The details of around four million users are now being shared for free on underground hacking forums, according to ZDNet that has obtained samples from different sources, exposed records include usernames, email addresses, and hashed account passwords (bcrypt hashing algorithm). ” reads the post published Risk Based Security.

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

The official Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil has been hacked and attackers have sent offensive messages to the rival Apple. The official Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil has been hacked, attackers have sent offensive messages to provoke the rival Apple. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Twitter account).

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. During that timeframe, unapproved third parties gained unauthorized access into over 60 email accounts hosted in the cloud belonging to Cetera Employees. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers for 2015 Bundestag hack. A significant amount of data was stolen and the email accounts of several members of parliament, including that of Chancellor Angela Merkel , were affected.” continues the Der Spiegel.

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MAY 6, 2020

Hackers have breached the online learning platform Unacademy and are selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MAY 3, 2020

The company has over 4200 employees and accounts for over 90 million active users every month. The hacker claims to have hacked the company in March 2020, it has stolen just a small part of the company database. Tokopedia is currently investigating the security breach, it notified the users asking them to reset their account passwords.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The popular hacker group OurMine has hacked the official Twitter account of the FC Barcelona, along with the accounts of Olympics and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The hackers hijacked the official Barcelona and Olympic Twitter accounts and posted some tweets to claim responsibility for the hack.

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MAY 8, 2020

Microsoft confirmed that it is investigating claims that its GitHub account has been hacked after some of its files were leaked online. Microsoft launched an investigation into the claims that its GitHub account has been hacked. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale account databases containing an aggregate total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. A data breach broker is selling account databases containing a total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The Instagram account of Robert Downey Jr. has been hacked, he is the last celebrity in order of time that had the social media accounts compromised. Robert Downey Jr’s Instagram account has 43.2 million, hacking it is possible to target millions of unaware fans. SecurityAffairs – Robert Downey Jr, hacking).

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JULY 27, 2022

It’s been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. 18, 2015, the Impact Team posted a “Time’s up!” “Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft revealed that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking. Microsoft discovered that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking because of using of compromised passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 14, 2019

Bad news for users of the Microsoft Outlook email service, hackers have compromised the Microsoft Support Agent to access their email accounts. Earlier this year, hackers breached Microsoft’s customer support portal and gained access to some email accounts registered with the Microsoft’s Outlook service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A researcher was awarded $10,000 by Facebook for the discovery of a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to hack Instagram accounts. The white-hat hacker Laxman Muthiyah has discovered a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to hack Instagram accounts. ” wrote the expert.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Zoom accounts are flooding the dark web, over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are being sold on hacker forums. Over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are available for sale on the dark web and hacker forums. Cyble confirmed that the accounts’ credentials belonging to some of its clients were valid.

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AUGUST 31, 2019

Hackers compromised the Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, CEO at Twitter, and published and retweeted offensive and racist messages. No one is secure online, news of the day is that hackers compromised the Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, CEO at Twitter and co-founder, and published and retweeted offensive and racist tweets.

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JUNE 20, 2022

German investigators believe that Kozachek is a member of the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear), which is the same group that hacked the German Bundestag in 2015. Kozachek hacked the computed of the NATO think tank in 2017 and installed a keylogger to spy on the organization. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20. More than 500,000 Activision accounts may have compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by the gaming firm on September 20, reported the eSports site Dexerto. ” concludes Dexerto.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. “I need the money.

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JULY 6, 2020

employee who hacked into the accounts of thousands of users was sentenced to five years of probation. In September the former Yahoo software engineer Reyes Daniel Ruiz has admitted in court to hacking into 6,000 Yahoo! accounts back in 2018. systems for access to the accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Yahoo!).

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 Nixon said the data suggests that between 2015 and August 2019, BriansClub sold roughly 9.1 million card records for sale. BRIANS CHAT.

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JULY 28, 2019

Over the weekend, Jessica Alba’s Twitter account was hacked, the miscreants posted homophobic, racist and Nazi-sympathizing messages. On Saturday evening, miscreants hacked the Twitter account of the actress Jessica Alba and posted hateful, homophobic, and racist messages that remained live for hours. Daniel Newma?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” 9], username “aktv.”).

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

In September Zynga, the American social game developer running social video game services suffered a data breach that 173 Million accounts. Zynga confirmed that the account login information for certain players of Draw Something and Words With Friends that may have been exposed in the data breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

A former Cisco employee has pleaded guilty to hacking charges and intentionally causing damage to the systems of his company. ” The Ramesh’s sabotage caused the shut down of over 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts for up to two weeks. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MARCH 14, 2020

Slack addressed a critical flaw within 24 hours from its disclosure, the issue allowed attackers to carry out automate account takeover. The researcher Evan Custodio discovered a critical vulnerability in Slack that could have allowed attackers to launch automate account takeover. SecurityAffairs – hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

“These vulnerabilities may allow locally managed accounts within Device Manager to be susceptible to dictionary attacks due to weak cipher implementation (CVE-2020-6925) and allow a malicious actor to remotely gain unauthorized access to resources (CVE-2020-6926), and/or allow a malicious actor to gain SYSTEM privileges (CVE-2020-6927).”

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JUNE 10, 2020

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has confirmed that hackers have breached 300,000 accounts since early April, financial data were not exposed. The Japanese video game giant Nintendo has admitted that threat actors have breached 300,000 accounts since early April. ” reads a post published by the CNN. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 has been hacked by a hacking group identifying themselves as “Korean Hackers” and “Team Johnwick”that asked for a “donation” to provide information on the vulnerabilities they have exploited in the attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, E27). Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 7, 2019

Yesterday, July 6, 2019, hackers breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., On July 6, 2019, hackers have breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., Hackers at least created 11 new GitHub repositories in compromised Canonical account. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. ” states the BBC.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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APRIL 5, 2020

OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums, was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year. The popular hacking forum OGUsers was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year, the news was first reported by ZDNet. SecurityAffairs – OGUsers forum, hacking).

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APRIL 24, 2020

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. ” reported ZDNet.

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