Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The data leak was first reported by experts from the security firm Under the Breach , the full SQL backup contains , emails, hashed passwords, and other information. – Usernames, E-mails, Passwords and more. – Full SQL backup. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2019

The total size is uncertain, but the researcher downloaded a sample of about a terabyte in size, including 750 gigabytes of compressed email backups.” Some of the files are dated back September 2014, while other documents were uploaded a few days prior to the expert at UpGuard’s discovery the AWS buckers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Aerial Direct’s data breach notification sent to the customers revealed that an unauthorized third party had been able to access customer data on 26 February through an external backup database. To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc.,

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

Semperis is a security company, launched in 2014, that is entirely focused on AD – or, to put it more precisely, on delivering state-of-art AD cyber resilience, threat mitigation and rapid recovery from cyber breaches. This, in fact, was the service Semperis set out to provide when it launched in 2014.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection. Require strong and complex passwords for all accounts that can be logged into via RDP. Use an additional layer of authentication ( MFA/2FA ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

The data for any specific firewall depends upon the specific configuration and may include usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access.” Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected. ” continues the report. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

The administrator first forced a password reset for the users, then he asked them to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for their accounts before putting the forum offline into maintenance mode. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2014 its global sales reached $55.91 A few days ago the group released a press release in which they warned the companies to not try to recover their files from their backup, it also announced the forthcoming LG Electronics data leak. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The backup of a limited number of systems was also affected.” ” N ow all critical systems at the University are online and offline backups were secured by the company. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

US DHS CISA agency warns of increased cyber-activity from Iran aimed at spreading data-wiping malware through password spraying , credential stuffing , and spear-phishing. Want to know more about password spraying and how to stop it? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2020

Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Recently the FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Specifically, Trickbot has a backup control mechanism: A domain name registered on EmerDNS, a decentralized domain name system. Holden said at the end of September Trickbot held passwords and financial data stolen from more than 2.7 In 2014, for example, U.S. million Windows PCs. Such an effort would hardly be unprecedented.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A series of messages published on Barnes & Noble’s Nook social media accounts state that it had suffered a system failure and is working to restore operations by restoring their server backups. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 1/2 — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. (2/2)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2020

. “ we found that the InfiniteWP Client and WP Time Capsule plugins also contain logical issues in the code that allows you to login into an administrator account without a password.” The plugins are affected by logical issues that could allow attackers to log in as administrators without providing any password.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Reddit seems to exclude a security breach of its systems, it pointed out that the root cause of the accounts lockdown is caused by the use of simple passwords on its website and from the reuse of those passwords on multiple services. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

On Thursday, Matrix.org warned users of the security breach, a hacker gained unauthorized access to the production databases, including unencrypted message data, access tokens, and also password hashes. As a precaution, if you’re a matrix.org user you should change your password now.” ” continues Matrix.org.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The company reset passwords of the affected customers and reported the intrusion to law enforcement. MaxLinear restored some of the systems using its backups, despite Maze Ransomware threatened to leak over 1TB of data allegedly stolen before encrypting the infected systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

These efforts are often enabled through common tactics like spear phishing, password spraying, and credential stuffing. ” In June 2019, US DHS CISA agency already warned of increased cyber-activity from Iran aimed at spreading data-wiping malware through password spraying , credential stuffing , and spear-phishing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to provide the passwords to their email accounts to confirm their identity … this is absurd. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes the company.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Before it was taken offline sometime in the past 12 hours, the database contained millions of records, including the username, password and private encryption key of each mSpy customer who logged in to the mSpy site or purchased an mSpy license over the past six months. In September 2014, U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

and Facebook accounts, and thereby obtained complete iCloud backups, photographs, and other private information belonging to more than 200 victims, including both celebrities and noncelebrities.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported the DoJ. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Password Checkup Chrome extension warns users about compromised logins. Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Malicious PDF Analysis.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Web hosting giant DigitalOcean discloses it was one of the victims, and that the intruders used their access to send password reset emails to a number of DigitalOcean customers involved in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. ” SEPTEMBER. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

“It also steals saved passwords in Chrome. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It’s distributed by a cybercrime group called Indrik Spider, which has been in operation since 2014. Emotet kickstarts other malicious software that encrypts files or drives on the network and changes passwords to lock users out of the system. If possible, store at least one backup in a different physical location than your device.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It is quite easy to find online AWS buckets containing backups of email archives, the same data could be found on publicly-accessible rsync, FTP, SMB, and NAS drives. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.” The experts estimated that some 12.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

The list of flaws includes OS Command Injection, Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, Cross-site Request Forgery, Small Space of Random Values, Cross-site Scripting, Exposure of Backup file to Unauthorized Control Sphere, Improper Authentication, and Use of Hard-coded Credentials. and prior. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift. Time will tell.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. Poor credentials. What does this mean? Vicious insider.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password. In 2014 eBay announced that over 145 million users’ information had been stolen, including names, addresses, date of birth, and passwords. How do databases get compromised? Cross-Site Scripting & SQL Injection.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

The INTERPOL recommends hospitals and healthcare organizations keep their systems and software up to date, and to implement an efficient backup policy. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Android Pie implements support for encrypting Android backups with the user’s screen lock secret (that is, PIN, pattern, or password). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concluded Google.

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