Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. ” continues the notice.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 SecurityAffairs – hacking, GoDaddy). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While the FBI’s InfraGard system requires multi-factor authentication by default, users can choose between receiving a one-time code via SMS or email. Prior to its infiltration by the FBI, RaidForums sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ah, the Internet: a treasure trove of memes, cat videos, and—let’s be honest—some stuff you’d rather keep under wraps. Enter Two-Factor Authentication, or 2FA for short. Different Flavors of 2FA Ah, variety is the spice of life, and when it comes to Two-Factor Authentication, the flavors abound. No code, no entry.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As technology has evolved, fingers (and palms and irises and faces) have increasingly been used as a means of biometric authentication. What happens if someone obtains, say, my fingerprint just like they may obtain my password in a data breach or a phishing attack? But doesn't this all make biometrics like passwords?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Do not trust everything you see online.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Everything connected to the internet is vulnerable to cyber attacks. Use Strong Passwords & Two-Factor Authentication. If your password is exposed in a data breach, you must change it immediately. Websites might inform you via e-mail when such breaches occur, but with a considerable delay.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A recent hack discovered by one of the world's largest telecommunications companies has the potential to impact millions of cell phone users worldwide. The company also says it discovered the breach in May 2021, but the hack began five years earlier in 2016. 2FA concerns from Syniverse hack.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Compromised logins continue to facilitate cyber attacks at all levels, from phishing ruses to credential stuffing to enabling hackers to probe deep inside of a breached network. That said, we may very well be in the early adopter phase of weaving leading-edge “password-less authentication” solutions into pliant areas of legacy networks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

The BBC and British Airways were both impacted by the data breach suffered by the payroll provider Zellis. As a result of the cyber attack on the payroll provider Zellis, the personal data of employees at the BBC and British Airways has been compromised and exposed. reads the advisory published by the company.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

Researchers at vx-underground first noticed that more than 70,000,000 records from AT&T were leaked on the Breached hacking forum. More than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached, vx-underground researchers reported. reads the RestorePrivacy website.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. The collection totalled over 12,000 separate files and more than 87GB of data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Comcast’s Xfinity discloses a data breach after a cyber attack hit the company by exploiting the CitrixBleed vulnerability. Comcast’s Xfinity is notifying its customers about the compromise of their data in a cyberattack that involved the exploitation of the CitrixBleed flaw.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2024

Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Cybercrime BlackCat Ransomware Affiliate TTPs American Express credit cards EXPOSED in third-party vendor data breach – account numbers and names among details accessed in hack LockBit 3.0’S

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

million Pluto TV user accounts on a hacking forum for free, he claims they were stolen by ShinyHunters threat actor. million Pluto TV user records, he also added that the service was hacked by ShinyHunters. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ShinyHunters). The post ShinyHunters hacked Pluto TV service, 3.2M A hacker has shared 3.2

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

But it's exactly what it sounds like and on Thursday next week, I'll be up in front of US congress on the other side of the world testifying about the impact of data breaches. For a bit more context, I've been chatting with folks from the House Energy and Commerce Committee for a while now about the mechanics of data breaches.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

If this data breach case was made for TV, it would probably be streaming on Netflix. And we know, now, there was something much more significant happening at Gab: a hacktivist attack stole millions of posts and messages and about 70 gigabytes of data. First signs of the Gab data breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The threat actor compromised network administrator credentials through the account of a former employee that was used to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point. The government organization also hosts its sensitive data on an Azure environment which was not accessed by the attackers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. It includes information from 467,361 complaints of suspected Internet crime with reported losses in excess of $3.5 With the high amount of cybercriminal activity including hacking attempts and phishing scams, the information in this report is quite timely.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Work from Home (WfH) culture might do well to the employees, but some companies are disclosing openly that they are witnessing a surge in cyber attacks( mainly data breaches) on their IT infrastructure as their employees are not following basic cyber hygiene of using strong passwords and authenticating their Identity whole accessing networks.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. A Prime Target for Hackers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database. TARGETED PHISHING. Urgency should be a giant red flag.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Experts warn that hackers are actively scanning the Internet for Microsoft Exchange Servers vulnerable in the attempt to exploit the CVE-2020-0688 RCE. Hackers are actively scanning the Internet for Microsoft Exchange Servers affected by the CVE-2020-0688 remote code execution flaw. ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

If this data breach case was made for TV, it would probably be streaming on Netflix. And we now know there was something much more significant happening at Gab: a hacktivist attack stole millions of posts and private messages among about 70 gigabytes of data. First signs of the Gab data breach.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2023

LAS VEGAS — One fundamental reason some 7,000 or so IT pros are making the trek here this week is that no one ever wants to get caught in the crossfire of a devastating data breach. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries. Redline infections steal gobs of data from the victim machine, including a list of recent downloads, stored passwords and authentication cookies, as well as browser bookmarks and auto-fill data.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

And thankfully, none of them involve “just getting off the internet,” a suggestion that, according to Leigh Honeywell, is both ineffective and unwanted. Lock down your accounts If an adversary can’t find your information through an online search, they may try to steal that information by hacking into your accounts, Honeywell said. “If

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Akira ransomware targets Finnish organizations GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467 Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Cyble has analyzed the data and confirmed its authenticity, it also indexed the record in its data breach monitoring and notification service AmiBreached.com. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Indonesian COVID-19 patients). ” reads the post published by Cyble. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 9, 2021

Any prospective buyer can go through the data for a $2 payment in forum credit. Check if your personal info has been stolen or made public on the internet with Bitdefender’s Digital Identity Protection tool. What type of data was leaked? A new breach or data-scraping venture?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

Related: Poll confirms rise of Covid 19-related hacks. Set-up 2-factor authentication. If somehow passwords are leaked, a hacker can cause a data breach. Two-factor authentication or two-step verification involves adding a step to add an extra layer of protection to accounts. Set up firewalls. Secure home router.

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