Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A malware campaign designed for Android devices is aiming to steal Facebook accounts users and passwords and has already infected more than 300,000 devices. The malware acts under the appearance of reading and education apps and has been in function since 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 addresses three flaws in Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Photoshop CC. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for November 2018 fixes three flaws in Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Photoshop CC. Successful exploitation could lead to an inadvertent leak of the user’s hashed NTLM password.”

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password. So I wrote a blog post. Shortly after that blog post, three things happened and the first was that it got press. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 18, 2018. The Register wrote about it. Venture Beat wrote about it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2019

Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

. “Snatch threat actors have been observed purchasing previously stolen data from other ransomware variants in an attempt to further exploit victims into paying a ransom to avoid having their data released on Snatch’s extortion blog,” the FBI/CISA alert reads. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network.

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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. For example, if your visitors came to your blog looking for your latest recipe but found a post about prescription drugs instead, they’ll likely leave confused and unsure of whether or not your website is trustworthy.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

Here's my 2018 highlights, starting with travel: Travel "Oh yeah, I'm totally gonna travel less this year" - me every single year In reality, my travel ended up looking like this: That's the same number as last year, 4 more days and another 8,000km. Probably with my 2018 events page which lists everything I did of a public nature.

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Passwords Technology Government InfoSec 203

Troy Hunt

MARCH 22, 2018

Home again which means more time to blog and per the intro to this week's update, time to catch up on how HIBP is tracking. Here's the 2 tweets with some stats I mention at the start of this week's update: It's been almost a month since I launched Pwned Passwords V2. iTunes podcast | Google Play Music podcast | RSS podcast.

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Passwords 117

Troy Hunt

JULY 6, 2018

I only wrote the one short blog post this week, but I spent a heap of time on the Twitters arguing with people instead so. It'll be a fun blog post ??. link] pic.twitter.com/Tgs3gpIIax — The Tor Project (@torproject) July 2, 2018. pic.twitter.com/MJu9FDphWS — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 30, 2018.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

From 2018 to 2023, healthcare data breaches have increased by 93 percent. Now more than 1,750 outside organizations can access encrypted email right from their inbox, with no extra steps or passwords. The post 3 healthcare organizations that are building cyber resilience appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

After identifying a critical Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server, the cyber actors gained credentials to access the underlying Structured Query Language (SQL) database [ T1078 ] and utilized SQL commands to dump the credentials [ T1555 ], which contained both cleartext and hashed passwords for user and administrative accounts.”

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018. Also included were email archives spanning 17 years, thousands of social security numbers, and passwords for remote access to agency computers. “The

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IoT Engineering Passwords Risk 151

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. In a blog post earlier this month, Cloudflare said it detected the account takeovers and that no Cloudflare systems were compromised. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

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Mobile Phishing Authentication Accountability 287

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 2, 2018

pic.twitter.com/yq5hXOGABt — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 3, 2018. GitHub is now using Pwned Passwords (they've taken a local copy of the data and check your password at login). GitHub is now using Pwned Passwords (they've taken a local copy of the data and check your password at login). References.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The credentials provided by the recipient are sent to an attacker-controlled URL, however, after the recipient enters their password, the phishing page redirects to a benign document that contains the interview questions, or an RFI that includes information of interest for the victims.

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Phishing Media Passwords Malware 87

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Wow, didn't the passwords discussions go nuts this week! But seriously, both posts on passwords this week garnered a heap of input from people agreeing with me, disagreeing with me and arguing with each other. I've gotta stop laying around doing nothing with my days. The blame one (it needs no more introduction.)

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

nl — circa October 2018. “On top of the password re-use, the data shows a great insight into her professional and personal Internet usage,” Holden wrote in a blog post on Witte’s arrest. ” According to the DOJ, Witte had access to Trickbot for roughly two years between 2018 and 2020.

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Cybercrime Ransomware Passwords Banking 309

Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. Password re-use becomes orders of magnitude more dangerous when website developers engage in this unsafe practice.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials. LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1 The botnet implements multiple obfuscation techniques to avoid detection and hides C2 on the Tor network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials. .” The botnet implements multiple obfuscation techniques to avoid detection and hides C2 on the Tor network. To nominate, please visit:? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

From there, the hacker was able to steal customer numbers and emails, the Wordpress Admin password, and other sensitive details from clients who had both active and inactive Wordpress sites. active customers: sFTPs, database usernames, and passwords. This is the third data breach GoDaddy has experienced since 2018.

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Data breaches Passwords CISO Media 87

Troy Hunt

MAY 25, 2018

I've been in Sydney this week talking at one of our big banks and as I say in this week's update, getting out there amongst companies dealing with their unique cyber challenges is always interesting: #cyber pic.twitter.com/CIMDhPfKIP — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 23, 2018. References. Want to get your company to run a bug bounty?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Pappachen said Sizmek forced a password reset on all internal employees (“a few hundred”), and that the company is scrubbing its SAS user database for departed employees, partners and vendors whose accounts may have been hijacked. ” PASSWORD SPRAYING. BRUTE-FORCE LIGHT.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

From there, the attacker can reset the password of any account which uses that phone number for password reset links. Surprisingly, despite the fact that I publicly disclosed this in 2018 , nothing has been done to stop this relatively unsophisticated attack.”

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2018

Not only has this been a super busy blogging week, it's also the week my coffee machine decided to die ?? Check out Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson's poll on how to handle a customer with a pwned password (wow, you people are ruthless!).

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 29, 2018

pic.twitter.com/soi3J7ygox — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 29, 2018. I also cover off a few other bits this week including my 5-year old daughter coding and a complete breakdown of the costs that going into running the Pwned Passwords component of HIBP. I'm serving 54M requests from Pwned Passwords each week and it's costing me $7!

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Passwords IoT 114

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a flaw in Orange LiveBox ADSL modems to retrieve their SSID and WiFi password in plaintext. The flaw tracked as CVE-2018-20377 is known at least since 2012 when Rick Murray described it in a blog post. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts. admin/admin).

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Passwords Wireless Firmware Advertising 88

Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. Weibo is a popular Chinese micro-blogging ( weibo ) website, it was launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it claimed over 445 million monthly active users as of Q3 2018. . The huge amount of data is available for 0.177 Bitcoin, approximately USD 1032.

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Accountability Passwords Advertising Internet 116

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API. It looks like this: There are all sorts of amazing Pwned Passwords use cases out there. Fast forward to now and that ingestion pipeline is finally live.

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Passwords Cybercrime Accountability Risk 363

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-7900, resides in the router administration panel and allows credentials information to leak. An attacker could use IoT search engines such as ZoomEye or Shodan to scan the internet for devices having default passwords. “CVE-2018–7900 makes the process of attacking a router even more simplified.

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IoT Internet Internet Passwords 93

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2019

This week Citrix submitted a notice of data breach to the California Office of the Attorney General explaining that attackers had intermittent access to its network between October 13, 2018, and March 8, 2019. ” reads a blog post published by Citrix. Exposed data includes names, social security numbers, and financial information.

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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Software 87

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

during the talk “Bug Hunting in RouterOS” at Derbycon , it leverages a known directory traversal flaw tracked as CVE-2018-14847. The Chimay Red hacking tool leverages 2 exploits, the Winbox Any Directory File Read (CVE-2018-14847) and Webfig Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. release date: 05-25-2018) using the x86 ISO.”

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Authentication Advertising Hacking Passwords 90

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

” read a blog post published by Bleeping Computer. The issue could be easily addressed by requiring users to set a password that would be used to encrypt the key the database encryption key. . “To illustrate this problem, BleepingComputer installed the Signal Desktop application and sent a few test messages.

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Encryption Passwords Advertising Engineering 94

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2019

Researchers have uncovered a new side-channel attack that could be exploited by attackers to extract sensitive data from Qualcomm secure keystore, including private keys, and passwords. ” reads a blog post published by NCC Group. Agree to April 2019 disclosure date.

Advertising 92

Advertising Technology Mobile Passwords 92

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

on a Tumblr blog, targeting a password that was autofilled into Tumblr’s login page by Chrome’s built-in credential manager. They published a video PoC of the attack that shows that our blog can be rendered by the same Chrome process as the login page allowing the Spook.js to recover the password.

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Passwords Hacking Technology Information Security 90

Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

From there, the attackers can reset the password for any online account that allows password resets via SMS. ” Speaking with KrebsOnSecurity via Instagram instant message just days after the Twitter hack, O’Connor demanded that his name be kept out of future blog posts here. I haven’t done anything.”

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