Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2022

LastPass, a password management service offering company, has disclosed that it has suffered a data breach in an attack that might be linked to the August data leak where hackers stole vital information from the servers of the said company.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019. Use 2FA if you can.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. By 2015, Microsoft joined, and in 2020, Apple followed. Apple has also promised that passwords will be a thing of the past, and passkeys will become available for iOS 16. See the Top Password Managers.

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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

References Free speech is not absolute - anywhere - and in the US there are numerous exceptions where free speech is not protected (and nor should it be) The more mainstream tech platforms have a history of banning all sorts of accounts for violating their terms of service, for example Twitter deleted hundreds of thousands of ISIS accounts in 2015/2016 (..)

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

in 2015 when BBB began collecting data. Keep a close eye on your accounts. So, either check your bank and credit card accounts daily or sign up for free transaction monitoring programs which notify you whenever there is activity in your bank, credit union or credit card accounts. Change your passwords.

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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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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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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

— Betfair Help (@BetfairCS) April 23, 2015. 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. See the theme?

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

” Let’s not forget that the FBI released a sextortion page in their official site for kids and teens back in 2015. In this case, an attacker sends a message to a stranger that falsely claims to have control over a device or email account they own. Source: The Federal Bureau of Investigation ).

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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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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

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

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

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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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?

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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. .” The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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

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

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

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

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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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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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

I joined information security in 2015… The area was really exciting and growing – and it grew even faster after that. At the moment, I’m responsible for governance and awareness, and as a side job I do identity and access management, which we transitioned into security. And there were some really interesting observations.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

I joined information security in 2015… The area was really exciting and growing – and it grew even faster after that. At the moment, I’m responsible for governance and awareness, and as a side job I do identity and access management, which we transitioned into security. And there were some really interesting observations.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When TalkTalk was hacked in 2015 , the perpetrator (or a representation thereof), was this bloke: Hoodie - check! Incidentally, the media piece led to a company's website which led to a request for your personal information - no free email accounts allowed - before you could read the content.). that's pretty much it.

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