Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 20, 2024

Hackers hijacked the official contact email for the Belgian Grand Prix event and used it to lure fans to a fake website promising a €50 gift voucher. [.]

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2022

Because of this, maintenance and auditing of user accounts is an integral part of maintaining a good security posture. When an employee leaves a company or organization, it is important that all associated accounts be removed and permissions revoked. Events search. Event deep dive. Expanded investigation.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last week I had the pleasure of returning to Baltimore for their annual WordCamp event. I have fond memories of my first time in the city in 2016 as it was where I met several of my WordPress community colleagues and friends, not to mention the after event fun at Medieval Times. You may be wondering about the title of this post.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Facebook is an important part of a human’s life events. The post Facebook Account After Death | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard. We announce the most important milestones on our timelines by sharing with our Facebook friends the joy of getting married, having babies, or moving abroad.

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Adam Shostack

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Capture the Flag Events (CTFs) and electronic Sports (eSports) are good examples of a relatively new trend. Capture the Flag events, a collective obsession. In the hacking communities, CTF events have always been the practitioner’s favorite. This is true in gaming, and especially true in CTF events.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Using a forum or social media account to send phishing messages or spam.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2022

The email’s subject line, “Microsoft account unusual sign-in activity”, is always guaranteed to attract some attention. Report the user Thanks, The Microsoft account team. Instead, it’s a Mailto: URI which opens a fresh email with a pre-filled message to be sent to a specific email account.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

Major global events attract fans and onlookers, but they also draw in malicious cyber actors who would consider disrupting the event a coup. High-profile events beget high-profile credibility among hacking circles,” said Jerry Ray, chief operating officer of SecureAge.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The threat actors target individuals and employees that may have access to a Facebook Business account, they use an information-stealer malware that steals browser cookies and abuse authenticated Facebook sessions to steal information from the victim’s Facebook account. Like older versions (.NetCore), mediafire[.]com),

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

At a time when most organizations have rushed to take their events virtual, multiple zero-day vulnerabilities found in event platforms frequented by the Fortune 500 offer hackers access to personal and corporate information.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2023

No passcode fallback is available in the event that the user is unable to complete Face ID or Touch ID authentication. For especially sensitive actions, including changing the password of the Apple ID account associated with the iPhone, the feature adds a security delay on top of biometric authentication.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The FBI warns of ransomware attacks on businesses involved in “time-sensitive financial events” such as corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ransomware gangs target these companies because there is a high likelihood that they will pay the ransom to avoid the impact of the disclosure of sensitive data during these events.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. . and email.cz.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2023

The DHS’s CSRB will review cloud security practices following recent hacks of Microsoft Exchange accounts used by US govt agencies. The CSRB’s mission is to review significant cyber events and ecosystem vulnerabilities and make recommendations based on the lessons learned. reads the advisory published by US CISA.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The tool, called Google Calendar RAT (GCR), employs Google Calendar Events for C2 using a Gmail account. The script creates a 'Covert Channel' by exploiting the event It was first published to GitHub in June 2023.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Protection of Your Salesforce Account is Your Responsibility. Starting from February 1, 2022, Salesforce will require all customers to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access their accounts. Detailed audit trail of all access and authentication events. Tue, 02/01/2022 - 04:53. Identity & Access Management.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Steam users are once again under threat from a particularly sneaky tactic used to steal account details. The attack leans into a common threat tactic where Steam is concerned, which is E-sports and other tournament related events. These requests often come from compromised accounts themselves.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2024

Many of these operations work with compromised Facebook accounts and make both the buyer and the owner of the abused account feel bad. These account owners are complaining about the response, or lack thereof, they are getting from Meta (Facebook’s parent company) about their attempts to report the account takeovers.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Campaigns to-date have focused on taking over Facebook Business accounts, both to manipulate pages and to access financial information. NetCore), the latest version (PHP) also aims to exfiltrate sensitive information related to saved browser credentials, Facebook account information, etc. Targets Facebook Business accounts.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

It is a well-known and established point that a password alone is not enough to secure an account. This type of attack is known as Account Manipulation: Device Registration. You can also check out this Duo help article that provides policy recommendations and directions for how to secure your accounts.

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Graham Cluley

APRIL 27, 2023

Wednesday was the official Independence Day of Israel, and the event was "celebrated" in typical style by malicious hackers. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2023

Account takeover attacks (ATOs) have become an increasingly prevalent and costly threat to individuals and organizations alike. Cybercriminals use various methods, such as phishing, credential stuffing, and exploiting leaked data, to gain unauthorized access to user accounts and exploit them for financial gain or other malicious purposes.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. By May 24, 2024 we identified a small number of login attempts using old VPN local-accounts relying on unrecommended password-only authentication method,” the company said.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Google Calendar RAT is a PoC of Command&Control (C2) over Google Calendar Events, it was developed red teaming activities. “To use GRC, only a Gmail account is required.” “The script creates a ‘Covert Channel’ by exploiting the event descriptions in Google Calendar.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 23, 2021

Credential abuse and compromised user accounts are serious concerns for any organization. Once an account is compromised, it can be used for data exfiltration, or to further promote the agenda of a threat actor. Monitoring for events surrounding internal, inbound,… Posted by: Marcus Hogan. Executive Summary.

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Security Affairs

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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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Doing so caused the malicious app to send a host of private information to the attacker, including the device IMEI number, phone number, MAC address, operator details, location data, Wi-Fi information, emails for Google accounts, contact list, and a PIN used to transfer texts in the event one was set up by the user.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 20, 2021

The agency that was devised to protect the information technology infrastructure in India is urging its populace using FB platform to strengthen their account privacy settings that will disallow them from falling prey to any data scrapping future incidents related to Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Over the past few weeks, a good number of readers have written in to say they feared their calendar app or email account was hacked after noticing a spammy event had been added to their calendars. The truth is, all that a spammer needs to add an unwelcome appointment to your calendar is the email address tied to your calendar account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

Credential abuse and compromised user accounts are serious concerns for any organization. Once an account is compromised, it can be used for data exfiltration, or to further promote the agenda of a threat actor. Monitoring for events surrounding internal, inbound,… Posted by: Marcus Hogan. Executive Summary.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 15, 2019

LogonTracer Investigate malicious logon by visualizing and analyzing Windows active directory event logs. LogonTracer uses PageRank and ChangeFinder to detect malicious hosts and accounts from the event log. This tool can visualize the following event id related to... The post LogonTracer v1.6.1

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. The post Hackers hijacked Coincheck ‘s domain registrar account and targeted some users appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NSTIC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We’ll be using our NIST Cybersecurity Awareness Month website to share information about our events, resources, blogs, and how to stay involved. We will be using our NISTcyber X account as a vehicle to What is NIST Up to in October?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Campaigns to-date have focused on taking over Facebook Business accounts, both to manipulate pages and to access financial information. NetCore), the latest version (PHP) also aims to exfiltrate sensitive information related to saved browser credentials, Facebook account information, etc. Targets Facebook Business accounts.

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