Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. .

Mobile 90

Mobile Telecommunications Data breaches Identity Theft 90

Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2018

Hundreds of Instagram accounts were hijacked in what appears to be the result of a coordinated attack, all the accounts share common signs of compromise. Alleged attackers have hijacked Instagram accounts and modified personal information making impossible to restore the accounts. Russian domain. Russian domain.

Accountability 49

Accountability Hacking Authentication Passwords 49

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

27 — Thanksgiving Day weekend — Jim got a series of rapid-fire emails from MSF saying they’ve received his loan application, that they’d approved it, and that the funds requested were now available at the bank account specified in his MSF profile. Then on Nov. Take a look at that 546.56 A portion of the Jan.

Financial Services 217

Financial Services Banking Accountability Identity Theft 217

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. You might think that this kind of information would be useless for an attack on a company because this personal info is not actually related to the company and contains no data that could actually compromise the company or the account owner.

Identity Theft 87

Identity Theft Phishing Accountability Banking 87

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

I later received an email from the seller, who said his Amazon account had been hacked and abused by scammers to create fake sales. But this assurance may ring hollow if you wake up one morning to find your checking accounts emptied by card thieves after shopping at a breached merchant with a debit card.

Scams 273

Scams Wireless Phishing Banking 273

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In July 2017, Aloba and his co-conspirators compromised the email account of a court employee and used it to send the phishing emails to coworkers. The malicious messages included links to a phishing website set up to request LASC users their email addresses and passwords. .” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

Hacking 49

Hacking Phishing Identity Theft Advertising 49

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. You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password.

Backups 98

Backups Passwords Identity Theft Malware 98

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. So once again I sought to re-register as myself at Experian.

Accountability 295

Accountability Authentication Passwords Identity Theft 295

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Lack of access to security features, such as passwords for admins, may result in a data breach where unauthorized persons within the organization may access sensitive data and leak it to malicious insiders. A lack of security features to upgrade or downgrade a user may result in mismanagement of user accounts.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. Others offered the coveted Green Pass without vaccination.

Phishing 90

Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 90

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

com , a marketplace for people who wish to sell highly prized social media account names — including short usernames at Twitter, Instagram and other sites that can fetch thousands of dollars apiece. Winblo’s account on ogusers[.]com Winblo’s account on ogusers[.]com Soon after that, his phone went dead.

Cryptocurrency 202

Cryptocurrency Identity Theft Mobile Accountability 202

SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

For instance, furing Congressional testimony following the supply chain attack on SolarWinds’ IT management platform Orion, the company’s CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna blamed an intern for creating a weak FTP server password and leaking it on GitHub. What does ‘going through the motions’ look like when it comes to a data breach response?

Data breaches 101

Data breaches Media Identity Theft CSO 101

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. Identity theft has become the third certainty in life after death and taxes, and consumer-friendly solutions to protecting against it will profit nicely in 2019.

Cybersecurity 157

Cybersecurity Identity Theft Passwords Password Management 157

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

A report last week by the New York Attorney General’s Office put a spotlight on the ongoing threat of credential stuffing, a common technique used by cybercriminals that continues to spread and is helping to fuel the push for security practices that don’t involve usernames and passwords. Password Reuse.

Password Management 114

Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 114

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Hackers can publish their findings under an anonymous account on a popular social media platform or another public-facing channel. Personal details about users – whether inadvertently available on social media or through a data breach on a long inactive account – are everywhere, giving persistent threat actors plenty to utilize.

Data breaches 125

Data breaches Media Accountability Passwords 125

Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

Predators, disturbing content, identity theft attempts, and other things you wouldn’t let them experience in real life are all waiting for them. Netflix supports kid-focused user accounts to block adult-only shows. Prevent them from doing so by giving them access to non-administrator user accounts on your operating system.

Internet 83

Internet Internet Media Accountability 83

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

Data breaches 279

Data breaches Passwords InfoSec Accountability 279

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. When applied to a set of 43 million compromised LinkedIn passwords, it was able to crack them with 27 percent accuracy.

IoT 130

IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135