Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number. million stealing cryptocurrencies and extorting people for restoring access to social media accounts that were hijacked after a successful SIM-swap.

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Mobile Identity Theft Accountability Cryptocurrency 267

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2018

as part of a settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority following the 2016 security breach. fine to Tesco Bank for the vulnerabilities in its systems that were exploited by hackers to steal millions of pounds from customers’ online accounts in 2016. Configure specific authentication and fraud detection rules.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 23, 2019

The quiz uses real-world phishing campaigns, including the Russian hack that gained access to the email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager. “We The best protection against phishing is two-factor authentication. Take the quiz here.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Election security best practices suggest 2-Factor authentication for sensitive email accounts. This simple protocol requires a second account (usually a mobile phone) to receive a security code that must be entered to gain access to an email account.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Just attack and destroy.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

The patches released today fix security problems in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 , 2016 and 2019. The attackers used CVE-2021-26857 to run code of their choice under the “system” account on a targeted Exchange server. Microsoft credited researchers at Reston, Va. based Volexity for reporting the attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 18, 2021

Joker’s Stash , by some accounts the largest underground shop for selling stolen credit card and identity data, says it’s closing up shop effective mid-February 2021. Those “partner” customers will be given the opportunity to cash out their accounts. and European authorities seized a number of its servers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency’s offensive cyber operations division. ” -CIA’s Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key section of a report the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). SPAMMY BEAR.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“Universal Admin,” is crimeware platform that first surfaced in 2016. Those plug-ins include a phishing page generator, a victim tracker, and even a component to help manage money mules (for automatic transfers from victim accounts to people who were hired in advance to receive and launder stolen funds).

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Phishing Scams Banking Mobile 341

Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. 2016 sales thread on Exploit. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.”

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om In this instance, the hackers had even acquired an SSL certificate for the domain, meaning that the majority of web browsers displayed a green lock symbol indicating the spoofed site was legit and secure. and Citibank.om (.om

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2018

The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with a Web browser to index email addresses associated with millions of customer accounts, or to unsubscribe users from all communications from the company. Security firm Symantec , which acquired LifeLock in November 2016 for $2.3 million customer accounts.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account. Save your receipts.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Here we have this absolute cornerstone of security - a paradigm that every single person with an online account understands - yet we see fundamentally different approaches to how services handle them. Last year, I wrote about authentication guidance for the modern era and I talked about many of the aforementioned requirements.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

Take authentication, for example. Threat actors are taking great advantage of the lag in upgrading authentication. Tel Aviv-based security vendor Silverfort is playing in this space, and has found good success pioneering a new approach for securing authentication in the perimeterless world.

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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. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. banks are stiffing account takeover victims.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

About a fifth of all tweets about the 2016 presidential election were published by bots, according to one estimate, as were about a third of all tweets about that year's Brexit vote. The best analyses indicate that they did not affect the 2016 US presidential election. The next group to try this won't be so honorable.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

Security researcher Gilles Lionel (aka Topotam ) has discovered a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that allows an attacker to force remote Windows machines to authenticate and share their password hashes with him. “PoC tool to coerce Windows hosts to authenticate to other machines via MS-EFSRPC EfsRpcOpenFileRaw function.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

The PetitPotam PoC takes the form of a manipulator-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against Microsoft’s NTLM authentication system. The targeted computer is forced to initiate an authentication procedure and share its authentication details via NTLM. The authentication process does not require the plaintext password.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Marketplace was introduced by Facebook in 2016 and quickly became a popular platform to sell items to local buyers. Should you get a request for your account or personal information, contact the company asking for it by using a phone number or website that you know is real. Set up a PIN or password on your cellular account.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

“Recently I came across a blog from the ZDI, in which they detail a way to let Exchange authenticate to attackers using NTLM over HTTP. Mollema demonstrated that it’s possible to transfer automatic Windows authentication by connecting a machine on the network to a machine under the control of the attacker.

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Authentication Advertising Passwords Hacking 112

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Facebook shared details about a long-running ad-fraud campaign that’s been ongoing since 2016 targeting Facebook users with SilentFade malware. The social network giant revealed that malware has a Chinese origin and allowed hackers to siphon $4 million from users’ advertising accounts.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

Security researchers from Microsoft have uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign that uses HTTPS proxying techniques to hijack Office 365 accounts. The attack is capable of bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) and has targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021. To read this article in full, please click here

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Phishing Accountability Authentication Internet 98

Elie

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Over the course of March, 2016–March, 2017, we identify 788,000 potential victims of off-theshelf keyloggers; 12.4 Drawing upon Google as a case study, we find 7–25% of exposed passwords match a victim’s Google account. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit the CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on a server and take full control.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2019

Phishing attacks carried out by injecting malicious content in legitimate traffic are difficult to detect when attackers use an embedded browser framework or any other automated tool for authentication. Chromium Embedded Framework – CEF) or another automation platform is being used for authentication. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S., South Korea, and Europe.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S., South Korean, and Europe. .” ” Microsoft concludes.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. How prevalent is 2FA authentication? reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2024

Microsoft revealed that the Russia-linked APT Midnight Blizzard has compromised some of its corporate email accounts. Microsoft warned that some of its corporate email accounts were compromised by a Russia-linked cyberespionage group known as Midnight Blizzard. Microsoft notified law enforcement and relevant regulatory authorities.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Hacking eCommerce Authentication Social Engineering 157

eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

Your business can use LastPass to maintain unique passwords for each employee’s online accounts—a critical practice for modern cybersecurity health. Two unique features that LastPass offers are support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO). Notable LastPass features: MFA, SSO, and more. LastPass pricing.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

According to court documents, Igwilo was charged in 2016 in the US District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston, Texas for “one count of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of aggravated identity theft.” This only makes the entire scheme appear all the more authentic.

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