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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io , a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. also is a favored marketplace for people involved in selling phony social media accounts.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” ru in 2008.

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Microsoft provides more mitigation instructions for the PetitPotam attack

Malwarebytes

The attack could force remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that could then be easily cracked. The PetitPotam PoC takes the form of a manipulator-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against Microsoft’s NTLM authentication system. As we saw when discussing the HiveNightmare zero-day, hashed passwords are useful to attackers.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Top Trending CVEs of May 2023

NopSec

A secondary mitigating factor is that many privileged accounts are members of the protected users security group, which has the benefit of disabling NTLM authentication for all member accounts. The ADManager Plus platform was found to be vulnerable to trivial remote command injection attacks, but only if you’re authenticated.

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What To Know About Privacy Data

Identity IQ

Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. When you add this type of data to cloud storage, ensure your account is protected with more than just a password. Credit card details. Your address and phone numbers.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.