Heimadal Security

MARCH 24, 2021

As stated by prosecutors, an information technology consulting firm hired Deepanshu Kher from 2017 through May 2018. The post IT contractor sent to jail after deleting 1,200 Microsoft Office 365 accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A report released by Meta’s security team describes the company’s shutdown of a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts participating in what it calls coordinated inauthentic behavior, and linking some of those accounts to the US military. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie. At this time, the vendor has yet to release security patches to address the flaw.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The attackers may have gained access to the members’ credentials for a legacy member system that was decommissioned in 2018. The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA has 166,000 members as of 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. My colleague Vikram Ramesh blogs more about Australia’s privacy amendment act here. Thales’ Jim DeLorenzo explains more about POPI in this blog post.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

What it boiled down to was the account arguing with a journalist (pro tip: avoid arguing being a dick to those in a position to write publicly about you!) that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password. So I wrote a blog post. The Register wrote about it. Venture Beat wrote about it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, with just days left of this year, it’s time to turn our attention from reflection to preparation, looking at what 2018 has in store for the payments industry. In 2018, we’ll see these smaller markets able to innovate further, without being held back by infrastructure and processes that come with being a big industry player.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A report released by Meta’s security team describes the company’s shutdown of a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts participating in what it calls coordinated inauthentic behavior, and linking some of those accounts to the US military. To read this article in full, please click here. Leer más CSO Online.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

Threat actors are targeting Ukrainian government organizations with exploits for XSS vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (CVE-2018-6882). Ukraine’s CERT (CERT-UA) warns of threat actors that are targeting government organizations with exploits for XSS vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite ( CVE-2018-6882 ).

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 26, 2018

It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards: Should I respond? ?? pic.twitter.com/lifCZRcICF — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. I couldn’t help myself pic.twitter.com/zvx3myyItn — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. Ooh, he’s good!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. Patterns of access by privileged users and other accounts that show anomalous usage patterns can be another clear indication that someone is after your data. And, we found that people know that’s what’s needed.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files. These attacks account for 8 percent of malware files. How are cybercriminals taking advantage of website visitors?

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

There are constantly new headlines, blog posts, statistics, and other information pointing to the fact that security breaches, malware, ransomware, data leak events, phishing and other security concerns are not going away. The past year in 2018, ransomware remained an ever-growing threat.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

troyhunt pic.twitter.com/9FMSdvVRiL — Hagen (@hagendittmer) June 3, 2018. link] @troyhunt — Daniel Parker (@CodyMcCodeFace) June 21, 2018. This is also the advice of the @NCSC [link] — Brian Gentles (@phuzi_) June 21, 2018. However, after 3 attempts of entering an Access Code your account will be blocked.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address over 60 vulnerabilities, including the recently disclosed zero-day flaw. The Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 includes the zero-day flaw recently disclosed by a researcher via Twitter. Of the 62 CVEs. That’s all the user interaction needed.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

In a blog post earlier this month, Cloudflare said it detected the account takeovers and that no Cloudflare systems were compromised. 4 it became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Since its inception in 2018, Data Viper has billed itself as a “threat intelligence platform designed to provide organizations, investigators and law enforcement with access to the largest collection of private hacker channels, pastes, forums and breached databases on the market.” But on Aug.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting. To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Lucky225 showed how anyone could do the same after creating an account at a service called Sakari , a company that helps celebrities and businesses do SMS marketing and mass messaging. From there, the attacker can reset the password of any account which uses that phone number for password reset links.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

According to the indictment, between at least August 2018 and August 2021, Dubnikov and his co-conspirators are alleged to have knowingly and intentionally laundered the proceeds of ransomware attacks on individuals and organizations throughout the United States and abroad.” On February 7, 2023, Dubnikov pleaded guilty in the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

But most of the coverage seems to have overlooked the far more sinister criminal charges in the indictment, which involve an underground scene wherein young men turn to extortion, sextortion, SIM swapping, death threats and physical attacks — all in a frenzied effort to seize control over social media accounts. FEMALE TARGETS.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number. million stealing cryptocurrencies and extorting people for restoring access to social media accounts that were hijacked after a successful SIM-swap.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 8, 2021

I was pretty excited when I saw PRs coming in right after launching that last blog post. a conference series I've had a very long, close affinity with: Want to protect your accounts like @EveOnline does? Code enhancements. Framework updates. New features. It was all there! So I asked him, and he said yes.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

Over a nine-month period in 2018, the site performed at least 16 million checks, and over a 13-month period beginning in September 2021, the site performed at least 17 million checks.” ” reads the press release published by the DoJ. ” The indictment is the result of a law enforcement operation conducted by the U.S.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 5, 2018

In other news, I talk about all the NDC events I have coming up: Just been planning my @NDC_Conferences events for 2018, talks and workshops at: London, 15 Jan: [link] Oslo, 22 Jan: [link] Gold Coast, 25 Apr: [link] Oslo, 11 Jun: [link] Sydney, 17 Sep: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 4, 2018. References.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2019

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. based iNSYNQ specializes in providing cloud-based QuickBooks accounting software and services. A message from iNSYNQ to customers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

ARCHIPELAGO “browser-in-the-browser” phishing page The ARCHIPELAGO group has shifted its phishing tactics over time to avoid detection, the attackers use phishing messages posing as Google account security alerts. The threat actor employed malware like BabyShark that were hosted on Google Drive in the form of blank files or ISO image files.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

nl — circa October 2018. While it is generally a bad idea for cybercriminals to mix their personal life with work, Witte’s social media accounts mention a close family member (perhaps her son or husband) had the first name “Max,” which allegedly was her hacker handle. 6 in Miami, Fla. law enforcement agencies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In April 2018, the UK GCHQ intelligence agency warned UK telcos firms of the risks of using ZTE equipment and services for their infrastructure. In December 2018, a Czech cyber-security agency warned against using Huawei and ZTE technologies because they pose a threat to state security.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In a statement released on its blog, NordVPN informed users that one of its servers had been compromised in March 2018. Evidence suggests that when the datacenter became aware of the intrusion, they deleted the accounts that had caused the vulnerabilities rather than notify us of their mistake.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Whoever compromised the shop siphoned data on millions of card accounts that were acquired over four years through various illicit means from legitimate, hacked businesses around the globe — but mostly from U.S. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1 Source: NYU.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2023

Earlier this year, a New York man pled guilty to managing a credit card theft scheme responsible for stealing $1,500,000 from 4,000 account holders between 2015 and 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

The market has also grown by 1,600% since 2018 , displaying an interest that shows no signs of slowing. Amos In addition to providing essential knowledge, cybersecurity training encourages individual and team accountability. These industries are growing in popularity and demand. Research suggests there will be over 1.7

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

In 2018, it had 888 employees, revenue of 280 million Euro and sales activities in approximately 70 countries. According to the blog BornCity , multiple users have been reporting malware infections, their devices were infected with adware designed to display unwanted and invasive ads. Gigaset manufactures DECT telephones.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

107 million records include personal data and basic account information such as the user ID, number of Weibo tweets, number of followers and accounts users are following, account gender, geographic location and more. The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. 5.38??????????????

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

link] — Nodestack (@NodestackUK) April 12, 2018. Having watched this pattern play out over the years, the offending Twitter accounts do seem to eventually realise that the strategy is either ineffective or simply pisses too many people off and cease the spam after a little while. — Nodestack (@NodestackUK) April 12, 2018.

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