Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ information, including passwords. Foxit Software, the PDF software provider behind the Foxit PDF reader app disclosed a security breach that took place recently exposing customers’ information.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The healthcare industry has poured vast resources into cybersecurity since 2015, when a surge of major breaches began. While the nature of these breaches has evolved over the last four years, the growth in total healthcare incidents has unfortunately continued unabated. In early 2015, health insurer A nthem Inc.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Oregon Department of Human Services announced it was a victim of a data breach in January, roughly 645,000 potentially impacted. Oregon Department of Human Services officials confirmed that the organization has suffered a data breach that has exposed personal details and health information of 645,000 clients.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site launched in 2009. And with good reason — sex sells (the second most-read piece here was my 2015 scoop about the Ashley Madison hack ).

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Phishing Scams Passwords Password Management 148

Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

Last week, hackers published a list of Discord credentials (email addresses/passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform. Last week, a group of hackers published a list of Discord login credentials (email addresses and passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. SEC insisted Cetera was responsible for exposing the personal data of more than 4,300 clients and customers between 2017 November and 2020 June. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed online via an exploit. . ” reported Slashgear.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

The SANS Institute suffered a data breach, 28,000 user records containing personally identifiable information (PII) were exposed. On August 6, during a review of email configuration and rules, the staff at the SANS Institute discovered a security breach. The rule was active only for a single email account.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Phishing scams can take many forms, and ransomware is one of the most dangerous. Addresses can easily lead to phone numbers, making people easy targets for phishing scams. Our researchers felt that downloading it would be an ethical breach , as they would then illegally own personally identifiable data sets without peoples’ consent.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

The archive included credentials for Zoom accounts belonging to organizations in various industries, including banking, consultancy, healthcare software companies. While some of the accounts “only” included an email and password, others included meeting IDs, names and host keys.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

What type of data was leaked? The leaked data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, location, past location, date of birth, account creation data, relationship status, bio and some email addresses. “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. However, users shouldn’t bet on it.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

Dixons Carphone announced on Monday that the security breach discovered in June affected around 10 million customers, much more than the initial estimate. The situation was worse than initially thought, the company announced on Monday that the security breach affected around 10 million customers, much more than the initial estimate.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Another widely used tactic for information gathering is phishing or the engagement and manipulation of another user’s trust. Hackers can publish their findings under an anonymous account on a popular social media platform or another public-facing channel. Publishing Documents. Hopefully, no pwnage is found!

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

On New Year’s Eve, Seif Elsallamy ( @0x21SAFE on Twitter), a bug bounty hunter and security researcher, pointed out a phish-worthy security flaw he found on Uber’s email system. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. Source: @0x21SAFE on Twitter). The post Careful!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization was hacked during the Christmas holiday and the attackers later used its email server to launch a phishing campaign against its donors. ” The phishing email utilized a Constant Contact tracking URL that redirected the victims to a page designed to steal donors’ credit card details.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

US fitness chain Town Sports has suffered a data breach, a database belonging to the company containing the personal information of over 600,000 people was exposed on the Internet. Data breach hunter Bob Diachenko discovered a database belonging to the company exposed online. The post Data for 600K customers of U.S.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved. As the world we live in has become much more digital in nature, information and data volumes are increasing exponentially.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Accessing an online account, users could make several actions, such as manage insurance claims and pay bills. Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

The cost of ransomware attacks accounts for 21 percent of the overall expenses, while the cost of malicious insider accounts for 15 percent. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. What about data breaches? Source Accenture.

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Cybercrime Small Business Data breaches Mobile 118

Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

Microsoft announced several new features for its Edge browser, including a new alerting service to warn users if the credentials they have saved to autofill have been compromised in a third-party data breach. “Today, we’re announcing Password Monitor in Microsoft Edge to help keep your online accounts safe from hackers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

The group is also responsible for the 2015 Health Insurer Anthem data breach. The US Department of Justice indicted Fujie Wang (32), a member of sophisticated Chinese hacking group that breached at several US companies, including the health insurer Anthem Inc. back in 2015. based organizations. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . On December 30th, 2019, users began receiving a message from the Poloniex exchange notifying them of the data leak.

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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. Nikulin used data stolen from Linkedin to launch spear-phishing attacks against employees at other companies, including Dropbox. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hacking Cybercrime Data breaches Advertising 73

Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

The University of Utah Health disclosed a security breach, it has discovered malware on its systems and revealed unauthorized access to some employee email accounts. Attackers breached the organization with a phishing attack, the intrusion took place between January 7 and February 21, 2020. ” continues the alert.

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SecureList

MAY 25, 2022

The Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report is out. We are proud to collaborate as a supporting contributor to this year’s data efforts once again and to have contributed for the past 8 years. The report provides interesting analysis of a full amount of global incident data.

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Social Engineering Cybercrime Ransomware IoT 89

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In this article we will take a look at major cybersecurity risks and best practices how to reduce or avoid corporate data leakage. Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

According to research from Chainalysis , SSNDOB received “$22 million worth of Bitcoin across over 100,000 transactions” since 2015. Once your data is out there, you can’t get it back. You run the risk of being targeted for spear phishing, or having your personal information used for fraudulent applications.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Human identities are being phished…. Indeed, Verizon Enterprise wrote in its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2021 that credentials—both for human and machine identities—constituted the top variety type in 60% of analyzed breaches for the year. This explains the rise in phishing attacks targeting users.

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