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Chrome wants to make your passwords stronger

Malwarebytes

Malware, for example, would specifically target password storage in browsers and plunder everything in sight. Password managers weren’t exactly flying off the shelves back in 2007, your only real options were home grown. Browsers taking things one step beyond simply storing, and checking for stolen passwords is great.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

Security Affairs

The attack chain starts with COVID19-themed spear-phishing messages that contain either a malicious Word attachment or a link to one hosted on company servers. . Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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The Life and Death of Passwords: Improving Security With Passwords and People

Duo's Security Blog

They’re grabbing their passwords that way, usually through interactions that an employee has already allowed through a suspicious website, a drive-by attack on a website or a suspicious email link. Most of the attackers that you’ve seen usually start nowadays with a phishing attack. I’ve fallen for a phish.