Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

If you use a Google account, it may soon be mandatory to sign up to Google’s two-step verification program. As recently as 2017, a tiny amount of GMail users made use of its two-step options. With so much valuable data stuffed inside Google accounts, it’s beyond time to ensure they’re locked down properly.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io Email verifiers are online services that allow marketers and salespeople to verify that the email address you used to create an account, sign up for a newsletter or make an order on their website is real and valid. platform or River City Media.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2024

Or to be paid for taking care of patients, which has left them with piles of unpaid claims and almost no money in their bank accounts. They added that most attacks are carried out via third-party technology or other vendors, and because of that fact, it would be unfair to hold cash-strapped hospitals accountable. Talk about tone deaf.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. How did the contagion stop?

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: October 2017 Ransomware note: readme.txt Ransomware extension: dihlxbl Kill Chain: Being Distributed via Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome (Korean users) Sample hash: 06ea8f2b8b70b665cbecab797125733f75014052d710515c5ca2d908f3852349. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

Enforce multifactor authentication for all remote access to ICS networks and devices whenever possible. Maintain known-good offline backups for faster recovery upon a disruptive attack, and conduct hashing and integrity checks on firmware and controller configuration files to ensure validity of those backups.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017. Government Accountability Office (GAO) data, 13 of the 16 agencies involved in the study reported a total cost savings of $291 million from using cloud services. It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

If you account for the unknown attacks that were never reported, the true number is likely 10 to 20 times greater, Levin estimated. Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The site then redirects to a fake streaming site hosted on Blogspot and users are prompted to create an account for free access to watch the live streaming event. As the user enters their email address and password credentials to create a new account, they undergo multiple redirects which finally land them on a YouTube video.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way.

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Errata Security

AUGUST 4, 2019

These are the things I worry about: backup before you go update before you go correctly locking your devices with full disk encryption correctly configuring WiFi Bluetooth devices Mobile phone vs. Stingrays USB Backup Traveling means a higher chance of losing your device. I deal with this on my MacBook by having two accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. account and share the experience here. account). prompts users to choose a multi-factor authentication (MFA) option. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. After confirmation, ID.me

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. The module’s configuration includes OAuth tokens required for cloud storage authentication. The module that looked most interesting to us is the one that performs email exfiltration from Gmail accounts.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. But this is easier said than done.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

2017 was another year of continuous progress and achievement for Spinbackup. Google Team Drives Backup Spinbackup was the world’s first vendor to introduce backup and recovery features for Google Team Drives.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

SIM-jacking or SIM swap fraud will increase: This sophisticated attack allows a hacker to steal your cell phone number and with that, any account associated with it. With 2-Factor Authentication continuing to give a false sense of security, we should expect to see more of the same.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

or face the risk of authenticated users (think of standard e-commerce customers) achieving total control of websites by exploiting Broken Access Control — the most severe of OWASP’s Top 10 risks. Cybersecurity firm Sucuri has been tracking Balada Injector activity since 2017 but has only recently given this long-running campaign its name.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. These protocols need to be accounted for. Your recent white paper shows it’s still at as high a level as in 2017? This is true of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The statement also highlights the risks related to account compromise that could represent the entry point in a targeted network. The attacks are targeting U.S. ” continues the statement.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7). CVE-2021-33882 – Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CVSS 8.2). Braun Infusomat system were released in 2017. This is even more important since we are working on a software released in 2017. Braun on January 11, 2021.

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

An extremely important compliance regulation today is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? While it has stopped doing this circa 2017, there is nothing to prevent Google from doing this again in the future with a free G Suite plan.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. National Security Agency tool that was leaked by the hacker group “Shadow Brokers” in 2017. Backups aren’t working. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

Look for social media accounts that accept private communications. It all started with this tweet: Just hijacked some big MySQL database server containing 53K credit card details with complete CVV2 happy new years to the 4 million users pic.twitter.com/pXda5DbNCz — Taylor (@0x55Taylor) December 31, 2017.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This might be your boss, or somebody from HR, IT, or accounting departments. Keep in mind that locally synchronized files such as Microsoft’s OneDrive or Google Drive/Backup and Sync files will generally be encrypted as well. Enabling multi-factor authentication. Renewability. This is the safest and easiest way.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. Bots and Botnets. How to Defend Against a Keylogger.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information. Encryption protocols can also verify the authenticity of sources and prevent a sender from denying they were the origin of a transmission.

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Spinone

MARCH 5, 2019

As posted by Forbes, in 2017, a very sophisticated phishing attack was carried out on Gmail users. Pubic cloud authentication mechanisms for third-party integrations are designed to be user friendly, easy, and painless to grant access to resources by end users.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. For control access, authorization grants users least privilege while the Azure Active Directory manages authentication at the database level.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Bee: Great.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Bee: Great.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: Bowen’s public inquiry revealed findings of multiple buffer overflows, software updates without authentication, and inadequate randomization of the ballots so that valid secrecy can be compromised -- among other vulnerabilities. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Bee: Great.

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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). A couple of days later and without response, I sought the support of Tefo Mohapi , a journalist in South Africa I worked with on the massive Master Deeds breach in 2017.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In 2017, yet another new version was detected in the wild with a number of major modifications compared to the previous main variant: Rebranded RM loader (called RM3 ) Used exotic PE file format exclusively designed for this banking malware Modular architecture Network communication reworked New modules. Backup controllers.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Lateral movement is the specialization of this malware, taking over machine after machine using the credentials of a single successfully compromised account. BitPaymer, first seen in 2017 targeting UK hospitals, is somewhat unique in that it uses a unique encryption key, ransom note, and contact information for each operation.

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