Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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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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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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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

These computer-generated "people" will drown out actual human discussions on the Internet. 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. It's writing news stories, particularly in sports and finance.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” Take authentication, for example. Threat actors are taking great advantage of the lag in upgrading authentication. There are also compliance drivers to account for.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2023

The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Athens. The researchers ensure that credential stuffing attacks, when perpetrators use stolen account credentials to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on other systems, are unlikely. Original post at [link]. About the author: Paulina Okunytė .

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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 Domain names are a sizable part of a company’s attackable surface, and companies or individuals who ignore their own presence on the internet, as well as how it’s represented, do so at their peril. and Citibank.om (.om

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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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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It involves the use of software automation to insert stolen usernames and passwords into web page forms, at scale, until the attacker gains access to a targeted account. It’s totally understandable that government officials skewed toward lax authentication in getting Covid-19 relief payments out very quickly and very broadly.

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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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Adult FriendFinder Networks data breach (2016).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Let’s not forget how Russia targeted elections in 39 states back in 2016. “We

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

When either on-premise or cloud-based Active Directory domain controllers process Kerberos authentication requests, the leak causes the LSASS process to stop responding and the domain controller will unexpectedly restart. Current ShadowServer statistics show over 300,000 potentially vulnerable servers with open connections to the internet.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 31, 2021

For example, an attacker could use the vulnerability to forward your mail to their account, and read all of your email. And not just your account. Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 automatically configure multiple Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual directories during installation.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Oracle launched OCI in October 2016. So it was a natural progression for traditional PKI solution providers to extend digital certificates and PKI — the tried-and-true form of authenticating and securing digital connections – into this realm of hyperconnectivity. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om Domain names are a sizable part of a company’s attackable surface, and companies or individuals who ignore their own presence on the internet, as well as how it’s represented, do so at their peril. and Citibank.om (.om

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. Adult FriendFinder Networks data breach (2016).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between Oct 4 and Oct 14, unknown attackers were able to access their online accounts. HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between October 4 and October 14, unknown attackers were able to access online accounts of the financial institution.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers. Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 automatically configure multiple Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual directories during the server installation.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 27, 2024 Ransomware Gangs Target Unpatched ScreenConnect Servers Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass and path traversal. Azure-Connected IoT Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Type of vulnerability: Internet of things (IoT) RCE vulnerability.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company also says it discovered the breach in May 2021, but the hack began five years earlier in 2016. Several security researchers have expressed concerns over the secondary effects of the breach, including how it could impact 2-factor authentication (2FA). 2FA concerns from Syniverse hack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. com , postaljobscenter[.]com com and usps-jobs[.]com.

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NopSec

APRIL 30, 2023

Researchers determined that authenticated threat actors could leverage the AutoDiscovery or OWA Exchange endpoints to trigger the deserialization sink. Exploitation is only possible if an attacker can reach port eighty (80) and the PowerShell entry point must use Kerberos for authentication. The MSMQ service operates on TCP port 1801.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Simply defined, the internet of things (IoT) is a network of Internet-connected objects able to collect and exchange data. VPNs are the baseline cybersecurity tool to safeguard internet-enabled devices and a home network. The consequences of which are not only born by companies who are the primary targets of cybercrime.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The company revealed that it first noticed the breach in May 2021, but that the access had begun in May 2016—a whole five years before. Hacking Syniverse will ease access to Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and all kinds of other accounts, all at once.”

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

It's not always legit, mind you, and I invest a great deal of effort in establishing the authenticity of an alleged breach before loading it into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). They are the organisation people entrusted with their personal information and they are accountable for what happens to it after that.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

According to the Flash report, this threat is believed to have existed since 2016, with several encounters since the June 2020 incident: In July 2018, an employee of a US pharmaceutical company with business interests in China downloaded the Baiwang Tax Control Invoicing software program from baiwang.com.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI. gov/Home/BEC.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Email has become incredibly important to billions of internet users. Outside the fearsome headlines, the lives of ordinary people are regularly hijacked through scams, account takeovers, and data leaks. You sign into everything with your email address so it’s also the de facto identity layer of the internet. The reason?

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Passwordless is this next paradigm in authentication where we don’t have to rely on human-created passwords and credentials. And start going through different websites, trying to crack those accounts as well. So I went out trying to look at all these projects that were focused on what the next steps in authentication were.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Deployment routes like endpoints , agentless, web, proxy chaining, and unified authentication. A part of the vendor’s Autonomous Security Engine (ASE) solution, Censornet Cloud Access Security Broker comes integrated with adaptive multi-factor authentication and email and web security. . Recognition for Broadcom. Censornet. Microsoft

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SecureList

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The first one, later identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to remotely trigger the next vulnerability – CVE-2022-41082. According to the company, the vulnerabilities affect MS Exchange Server 2013, MS Exchange Server 2016 and MS Exchange Server 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2022

Originally built for Windows, Microsoft open sourced it in 2016. Besides, recent versions have enhanced built-in security features for prevention, detection, and authentication capabilities, such as PowerShell’s credential protection features. Behavioral analysis might help spot such unusual activities in user accounts.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. 1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

This particular scheme had been rumbling along since “at least” 2016, and the accused individual worked in the publishing industry. According to the FBI, multiple fake email accounts were created, impersonating real people in the publishing space. Alongside this were “more than 160 internet domains”.

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