Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I've been giving a bunch of thought to passwords lately. Some won't let you paste a password. Last year, I wrote about authentication guidance for the modern era and I talked about many of the aforementioned requirements. pic.twitter.com/vjN3wJZUoi — passwordistoostrong (@PWTooStrong) July 18, 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

On May 8, KrebsOnSecurity received a tip that hackers obtained a username and password for an authorized user of esp.usdoj.gov , which is the Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) system managed by the DEA. “Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) allows for a federated search of 16 Federal law enforcement databases.”

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Strangely, not all VMs shared the same authentication, but all were destroyed. This was more than a multi-password via ssh exploit, and there was no ransom.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A highly respected source revealed that the threat actor spammed an employee with MFA push requests, an established tactic that can defeat some kinds of multi-factor authentication by simply annoying a victim into submission. This type of MFA sends a notification to a user whenever their username and password are used.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations. An example seller’s panel at deer.io. Click image to enlarge.

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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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT33) South Korea, and Europe.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. ” These web-based backdoors offer attackers an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

In January 2016, Ferizi pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist group and to unauthorized access. He admitted to hacking a U.S.-based based e-commerce company, stealing personal and financial data on 1,300 government employees, and providing the data to an Islamic State hacking group.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A cybercriminal was allegedly able to steal a partial database after hacking the systems of a Meta contractor. Marketplace was introduced by Facebook in 2016 and quickly became a popular platform to sell items to local buyers. Set up a PIN or password on your cellular account. Limit the personal information you share online.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. On Friday, Starwood Properties, which merged with Marriott in 2016, disclosed as many as 500 million people who made reservations at their hotels may have had their personal information accessed in a breach that lasted as long as four years. Bimal Gandhi, Chief Executive Officer, Uniken : .

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Email systems used by some county election officials lack rudimentary security settings and are vulnerable to hacking, according to a recent survey conducted by the nonprofit investigative newsroom, ProPublica. Propublica’s findings include eleven offices protected by only a login and password.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2020

Some of the databases are dated as 2016, but data starts from March 28, 2020. ” The seller is offering 31 databases and gives a sample for the buyers to check the authenticity of the data. Most of the listed databases are from online stores in Germany, others e-store hacked by threat actors are from Brazil, the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2020

Russia-linked cyber-espionage group hacked the Ukrainian energy company Burisma at the center of the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump. valid usernames and passwords) in order to observe or to take further action. Russian military cyberspies were gathering information by hacking the Ukrainian gas company.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. Now a hacking group says they accessed thousands of live feeds from Verkada's cameras around the world. The Verkada camera hack: what happened?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The exposed data include email addresses, password hashes, client IDs, IP addresses, and tokens for business API users, authentication tokens for connected accounts, and non-personal and internal data was compromised. The good news is that passwords are hashed using the BCrypt, a hashing algorithm that is considered robust.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

” Organized cybercrime gangs that coordinate unlimited attacks typically do so by hacking or phishing their way into a bank or payment card processor. million from accounts at the National Bank of Blacksburg in two separate ATM cashouts between May 2016 and January 2017.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2021

Microsoft published mitigations for the recently discovered PetitPotam attack that allows attackers to force remote Windows machines to share their password hashes. The NTLM authentication hash can be used to carry out a relay attack or can be lately cracked to obtain the victim’s password.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

After the discovery of hacking attempts, the French firm logged users out and forced a password reset procedure by including in the notification a link to change the password and re-gain access to the account. In 2016, Dailymotion suffered a massive data breach that exposed 87 million accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. RELATED: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Summary: Marriott purchased Starwood in 2016, but did not integrate the Starwood platform to the Marriott reservation system.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

However, massive surges of credential stuffing have persisted, fueled by a seemingly endless supply of already stolen, or easy-to-steal, personal information along with the wide availability of sophisticated hacking tools. Election meddling scales up Credential stuffing is a type of advanced brute force hacking.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. immediately Reset passwords Enable MFA. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SonicWall).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. huawei) for the initial compromise.

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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. “Why do I need a certificate?” ” Megatraffer asked rhetorically in their Jan.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Midnight Blizzard group (aka APT29 , SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , BlueBravo , and The Dukes ) along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. ” continues the report.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the German Federal Chancellery in 2016 in Berlin, Germany. warns that Fancy Bear, a hacking group tied to Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), has been conducting a stealthy two-year espionage campaign that targets global enterprise and cloud environments with brute-force attacks.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Adult FriendFinder Networks data breach (2016). How could someone do that , the world asked?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The vulnerability is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28)

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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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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. “@forzathegod had the audacity to even tweet me to say I was about to be hacked.” “@forzathegod had the audacity to even tweet me to say I was about to be hacked.”

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. In 2016, I bought a new smartphone that, as part of a promotion, came with an additional smart watch.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Finally, we cover a Microsoft Exchange privilege escalation vulnerability that could enable motivated threat actors to steal your NTLM password hash. The attack chain is pretty interesting, but does require authenticated access. Fill up your coffee and drop to a command line as we cover the trending CVEs of February. So, patch now!

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