Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

The social media platform Reddit has notified users that some of them have been locked out of their accounts after detecting suspicious activity. Reddit locked down a large number of user accounts after due to a security concern after detecting suspicious activity on them. . ” reads a post published by one of the Reddit admins.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore group, aks Crypto-gang, “Dangerous Password”, and “Leery Turtle” has been active since 2018. “While the group’s key infiltration vector to the exchange is usually through spear-phishing against the corporate network, the executives’ personal email accounts are the first to be targeted.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain. The security expert Linus Henze has disclosed the existence of a zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave that can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The vulnerability that the hackers took advantage of had been in place and used for “unauthorized access,” according to the company statement, since 2014. Monitor your accounts. Check your credit report every day, keep track of your credit score, review major accounts daily if possible.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2021

After bringing down Emotet, the FBI asked Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) if there was a way to alert individuals and organizations that their accounts were affected. Change your email account password. It was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan, and quickly evolved to become a perfect solution for cybercriminals anywhere.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

Blur is a popular password manager developed by the online privacy firm Abine, it also implements private browsing features and masked email. Leaked data included email addresses, password hashes ( bcrypt hashes with a unique salt for each user), IP addresses and, in some cases, first and last names and password hints.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Thanks ^Steve — British Gas Help (@BritishGasHelp) May 6, 2014. What it boiled down to was the account arguing with a journalist (pro tip: avoid arguing being a dick to those in a position to write publicly about you!) that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

Experts suggest to monitor for sequential login attempts from the same IP against different accounts, use a password manager and set strong, unique passwords … and of course adopt multi-factor authentication. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The report also analyzed a PowerShell shell script that is part of the KeeThief open-source project, which allows the adversary to access encrypted password credentials stored by the Microsoft “KeePass” password management software. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Limit access to the administrative portal and accounts to those who need them. Require strong administrative passwords(use a password manager for best results) and enable two-factor authentication. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The Home Depot recently reached a multi-state agreement which settles an investigation into a 2014 data breach. In 2014, hackers accessed the company's network and installed malware to the self-checkout point-of-sale system. The data breach compromised payment card information of roughly 40 million customers. million to 46 U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fortunately, the files stored in the exposed Snewpit bucket don’t contain any deeply sensitive information like personal document scans, passwords, or social security numbers. If you have a Snewpit account, there is a high chance that your records may have been exposed in this breach. What’s the impact of the leak? Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. “They use lists of usernames and passwords gathered from the breaches you hear about nearly every day on the news. .” Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2019

Watch out, your StockX account details may be available in crime forums. Mozilla addresses master password security bypass flaw in Firefox. Trend Micro addressed two DLL Hijacking flaws in Trend Micro Password Manager. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Once again thank you!

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. It’s unknown how the attackers were able to obtain the credentials for that account, but it’s possible the credentials were saved in one of the infected system’s browser password managers.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you submit a payment, log in to an account, or subscribe to a newsletter, an SSL certificate will prevent cybercriminals from stealing that information in transit. As a way to encourage websites to use SSL certificates, Google has used HTTPS as a ranking signal since 2014. Use strong, unique passwords.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In order to move laterally within the target networks, hackers used well-known techniques, such as dumping credentials from memory and accessing password managers on compromised systems. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – APT20, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. The first domain was “ ns0.idm.net.lb

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 26, 2021

This strain of malware dates back as far as 2014 and it became a gateway into infected machines for other strains of malware ranging from banking trojans to credential stealers to ransomware. Change your email account password. Turn on 2 factor authentication wherever available. Keep operating systems and software patched.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

This comes as no surprise to regular followers, nor should it come as a surprise that I maintain an Untappd account, logging my beer experiences as I (used to ??) Someone had registered a new Netflix account with my email / password associated with my BeerAdvocate account. Not even a password manager.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. banks are stiffing account takeover victims. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Elie

MARCH 31, 2019

Password Checkup. Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware. Accounts which are exposed via data breach are. How Password Checkup came into being.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Cybercriminals don’t break into websites one by one, using their best guess to figure out your password like they do in the movies. If your computer has malware on it, it doesn’t matter how secure your website is, because criminals can just steal your password or login in to your website from your computer, pretending to be you.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card info. A huge archive containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card data has been found on a free anonymous hosting service, Kayo.moe. Don’t reuse passwords!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In order to improve the security of its users, the popular software code hosting service GitHub is now alerting account holders whenever it detects that a password has been exposed by data breaches on other services. “Common password advice is to use a long and unique password for each website you have an account with.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2019

BleepingComputer reported that one user received from Atlassian, the company behind Bitbucket and SourceTree, the following statement : “Within the past few hours, we detected and blocked an attempt — from a suspicious IP address — to log in with your Atlassian account. ” reads the note. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

While IndieFlix believes that the bucket has been publicly accessible since May 2015, the company has not found any suspicious activity or unauthorized access attempts to any of its accounts during the period. You can reach him via email or find him on Twitter chuckling at jokes posted by parody accounts. Disclosure.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers. Blocking Paste.

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