Malwarebytes

AUGUST 28, 2023

An unknown party has released the scraped data of 2.6 While they offered the data set for sale in January for $1,500, it's now been released on a new version of the Breached hacking forum for 8 site credits, worth only $2.13. When you learn on Duolingo, you earn experience points, or XP for short. million monthly active users.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Due to this importance and the fact that web scraping comes with its many challenges, several tools have been developed to make the process easier and less cumbersome. Proxies are also critical for preventing breaches that are commonly associated with connections on the internet. Related: Kaseya hack highlight supply-chain risks.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

That's 201k people that have searched for a domain, left their email address for future notifications when the domain appears in a new breach and successfully verified that they control the domain. emails to those monitoring domains after a breach has occurred. That's massive! Like, possibly almost a decade ag.

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Hot for Security

MAY 5, 2021

Web scraping, or data scraping, is the process of extracting and collecting data from websites. On a much smaller scale, regular internet users often participate in data scraping. The dark side of web scraping. Threat actors quickly exploit reckless social media behavior, scraping personal data from user profiles.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 9, 2021

Fact: Half a billion LinkedIn users are in for an unpleasant surprise, as scraped datasets of their profile information are up for sale right now on an underground forum. A new breach or data-scraping venture? The archive contains allegedly scraped user profile information from LinkedIn and is not part of a new data breach.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 3, 2020

Less than 3 weeks ago I wrote about The Unattributable "db8151dd" Data Breach which, after posting that blog post and a sample of my own data, the community quickly attributed to Covve. The physical address is one I haven't lived at in almost 5 years and the WHOIS record was kept pretty accurate so I'm assuming this was scraped 4+ years ago.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2021

LinkedIn has formally denied that the recently disclosed data leak was caused by a security breach, data were obtained via web scraping. LinkedIn has issued a formal statement to deny that the recent leak that exposed the account details of more than 500 million of its registered users was caused by a security breach.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. billion active monthly users. According to a Jan. Image: @UnderTheBreach.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

A hacker who recently offered 700 million LinkedIn records for sale alarmed LinkedIn users and security specialists, but the company insists the data is linked to previously reported scraped data and wasn’t hacked. As reports have stated, this is likely scraped instead of a breach.”

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

Taobao devotes substantial resources to combat unauthorized scraping on our platform, as data privacy and security is of utmost importance. Taobao devotes substantial resources to combat unauthorized scraping on our platform, as data privacy and security is of utmost importance. Web scraping. The court ruling. Alibaba statement.

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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. The apparent breach at St.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

Picture an angry diner posting a chef’s address on Yelp alongside a poor review, or a complete stranger sending in a fake bomb threat to a school address, or a real-life bully scraping the internet for embarrassing photos of someone they want to harass. This is because, as Honeywell said, much of that information can be weaponized for abuse.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While some are harmless API keys, others could lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, or identity theft, the latest Cybernews research reveals. Cybernews Researchers pulled a staggering number of 191,529 secrets by scraping and analyzing 5,493 publicly shared container images. What were the web apps leaking?

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Identity IQ

MARCH 17, 2021

With so many data breaches exposing the information of millions of Americans every year , dark web monitoring is a helpful tool that can alert you when your information is put at risk, so you can take the necessary steps to protect your identity. Credit card fraud occurs when someone uses your card without your consent.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The answer became clear fairly quickly: data breaches. We immediately knew that if we could create a solution that would disrupt data breach culture it would make a major impact on CISOs and data protection teams – and ultimately companies’ success overall. Diving into Data Breach Culture. Not a product to sell.”.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

These phone numbers have been in the hands of some cybercriminals since 2019 due to a vulnerability in Facebook that allowed personal data to be scraped from the social media platform, until it was patched it in 2019. When did this happen? Some reports say the data was scraped in 2019, others talk about early 2020.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 9, 2021

This magnitude reminds of us of the 500 million people that were impacted in the data breach at Marriott. What is a data breach?” A data breach is when information is exposed to someone who should not be able to see it. What is data scraping?” These are all things that shouldn't fall into the wrong hands.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2021

This week saw the breach of the popular social media application Clubhouse when 1.3 million user records were scraped from an SQL database and leaked online via a popular hacker forum. This is the latest in a series of successful social media breaches in 2021, happening just days after Facebook and LinkedIn saw more than […].

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4, said LinkedIn has become one of the most impersonated brands when it comes to phishing, and having access to such a treasure trove of information can help facilitate convincing phishing and social engineering attacks. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When cybercriminals are the first to discover these missteps, usually the outcome is a demand for money in return for the stolen data. when I received a phone call from Vinny Troia , a security researcher who runs a startup in Missouri called NightLion Security. Last week, I was on a train from New York to Washington, D.C.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2022

Twitter has confirmed that it was breached last month via a now-patched 0-day vulnerability in Twitter’s systems, allowing an attacker to link email addresses and phone numbers to user accounts. million Twitter users with scraped publicly available details of the accounts, including whether the account was verified.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects. KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Facebook got some criticism of response when personal information of some 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries were exposed. There are important considerations when taking such an action. And the clock starts running right from the moment you become aware of a breach.”. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The archive included 650 million unique email addresses, the data belonging the three different PDL indexes were respectively scraped from LinkedIN (i.e. ” “When I checked my account on PeopleDataLabs.com, the returned results were identical – including that phone number. ” reads the post published by the experts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent, but data exposed in the breach shows the service has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to distribute the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other titles.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

27, 2023 — Citing organized crime statutes, attorneys with Wisner Baum have filed the first RICO class action alleging that H&R Block, Meta, and Google jointly schemed to install spyware on the H&R Block site, scraping customers’ private tax return information for profit. Los Angeles, Calif.,

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Hot for Security

JUNE 28, 2021

Facebook cloning happens when scammers scrape your publicly available social media information (such as your profile picture and info) to create a copy of your profile. Have you ever received a friend request from a person already on your list of friends on Facebook? If so, you were most likely targeted by a cloned Facebook account.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 24, 2023

In a breach you can point at the company that was supposed to keep your data safe, but when it comes to social media you are expected to read hundreds of pages of legalese and understand that the platforms will share your data with third parties. Spying Scraping data by and for advertisers is not the only concern about social media.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 30, 2021

In all three cases, threat actors used the same method — web scraping. Now more than ever, it’s crucial to KNOW when that happens. Our service lets you take control and minimize your digital footprint by continuously monitoring for data breaches, publicly exposed information and social media impersonators.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

With growing concerns around security, ransomware and retail breaches, there are a few key considerations that retailers should keep in mind when it comes to protecting their organizations. Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. Data breach costs rose from $3.86

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

However, when you download or click on the attachment, your device becomes infected. What Happens If You Open a Spam Email on Your Phone IdentityIQ Spam emails only become dangerous depending on how you handle them. So, while opening a spam email won’t necessarily cause harm, what you do next is crucial. This is a trap.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

When creating and deploying apps, DevOps teams use internal APIs to connect data sources and business processes, and external APIs to communicate with partners and customers. Here are some API security predictions for 2023: Prediction #1: There will be a major API security breach that forces faster regulatory action.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 30, 2021

In all three cases, threat actors used the same method — web scraping. Now more than ever, it’s crucial to KNOW when that happens. Our service lets you take control and minimize your digital footprint by continuously monitoring for data breaches, publicly exposed information and social media impersonators.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 28, 2021

Facebook cloning happens when scammers scrape your publicly available social media information (such as your profile picture and info) to create a copy of your profile. Have you ever received a friend request from a person already on your list of friends on Facebook? If so, you were most likely targeted by a cloned Facebook account.

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