SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Seems like every few months another blogger or security maven laments the passing of the password, a security tool that has outlived its usefulness and should now be replaced with something more of the times, more effective, more secure. And while the password might be on life-support, it’s not quite gone. That’s right.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

“This seems like a short sentence when taking into account the gravity of his actions and the life-altering consequences to thousands of people, but it’s almost the maximum the law allows for,” Kurittu said. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The tsunami of passwords that exist across every aspect of our digital life means that there’s a thriving underground industry of cyber-criminals trying to get at them. This time passwords were lightly protected by the 1970s-era DES algorithm. Taking a password dump from a server isn’t, of course, the only route to compromise.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” user account — this one on Verified[.]ru Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. ” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell. Image: FBI. Security analysts and U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. “I need the money. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. The most commonly used passwords today are, “password” and “123456,” and it only takes a hacker.29 Peace stole data from over 360 million Myspace accounts. Each stolen record contained an email address and password.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 21, 2019

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Renfro said the company planned to alert Facebook users today, but that no password resets would be required.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The banking trojan is able to record keystrokes, to steal passwords stored on the PC, and take screenshots and videos from the victims’ machine. The Neverquest malware is able to log in to the victim’s online banking account and perform fraudulent transactions. LISOV had administrative-level access to those computer servers.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. million April 2018 Netlog.com (Twoo.com) 57 million November 2012 Dubsmash.com Phone numbers 47.1 million September 2012 Bukalapak.com 13 million February 2018 Bookmate.com 8 million July 2018 ReverbNation.com 7.9

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

The marketplace had been active since 2012, it was allowing sellers to offer stolen login credentials, including usernames and passwords for bank accounts, online payment accounts, mobile phone accounts, retailer accounts, and other online accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google experts are tracking ARCHIPELAGO since 2012 and have observed the group targeting individuals with expertise in North Korea policy issues. The fake browser window displays a URL and a login prompt designed to trick recipients into providing their password to a legitimate login page.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

“Taking account of all of the information available to him, he considered Mr Assange’s risk of suicide to be very high should extradition become imminent. This was a well-informed opinion carefully supported by evidence and explained over two detailed reports.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The news aggregator Flipboard announced that it suffered a breach, unauthorized users had access to some databases storing user account information. Stolen records include names, usernames , password hashes, email addresses, and for some users digital tokens used to access Flipboard through third-party services.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

The banking trojan is able to record keystrokes, to steal passwords stored on the PC, and take screenshots and videos from the victims’ machine. The Neverquest malware is able to log in to the victim’s online banking account and perform fraudulent transactions. Lisov and his co-conspirators attempted to steal at least approximately $4.4

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Modern browsers include synchronization features (like Google Chrome’s Sync ) so that all your browsers, on all your devices, share the same tabs, passwords, plugins, and other features. Browser syncing was introduced in 2012 by Chrome with the goal of letting you continue at home where you left off at work, and vice versa.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., 2333youxi[.]com blazefire[.]com

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky. In 2012, as a senior soon to graduate with a physics degree, he worked on a project with faculty member Robert W.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2021

Note that account credentials and banking details don’t appear to be part of the proof. This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review.” This suggests that the data was scraped rather than breached. Don’t know what HaveIBeenPwned is?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose credit card they’re about to charge at some website, or whose bank account they’re about to empty.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

“ NeverQuest has been responsible for millions of dollars’ worth of attempts by hackers to steal money out of victims’ bank accounts. The banking trojan is able to record keystrokes, to steal passwords stored on the PC, and take screenshots and video from the victims’ machine. Sweeney Jr., ” added the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. Password manager apps can help.

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

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. It takes into account new critical vulnerabilities as they emerge, ensuring your risks are prioritized accordingly in your unique environment.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., 2333youxi[.]com blazefire[.]com

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2018

The arrest is the third known law enforcement action this month targeting “SIM swappers,” individuals who specialize in stealing wireless phone numbers and hijacking online financial and social media accounts tied to those numbers. Tarazi analyzed the AT&T location data pertaining to that account takeover.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

According to a new report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) almost any new weapon systems in the arsenal of the Pentagon is vulnerable to hack. GAO experts found several major security issued in the Pentagon arsenal, including easy-to-guess passwords, or weapon system still using factory settings.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Historical context There was strong anti-American sentiment woven into the Shamoon “wiper” virus that devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco in August of 2012. The report goes on to describe how a group of state-sponsored hackers, referred to as Elfin or APT33 , carried out extensive “password-spraying” attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

We had a model for managing secure access starting in 2012 but we had no way of verifying implementation. Tier 0 includes accounts, groups, and other assets that have direct or indirect administrative control of the Active Directory forest, domains, or domain controllers, and all the assets in it.” Suppose a user is logged onto a host.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

An attacker could synchronize the hashed passwords of the Active Directory users via an ordinary Domain Controller operation, then he can impersonate users and authenticate to any service using NTLM or Kerberos authentication. ” Mollema pointed out that Microsoft Exchange has high privileges by default in the Active Directory domain.

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