Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 24, 2021

This post is an attempt to create an easy-to-use security model for the average internet user. Basically, how secure is someone’s current behavior with respect to passwords and authentication, and what can they do to improve? Related posts: My RSA 2017 Recap. The Real Internet of Things: Details and Examples.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. Compounding the confusion, on Sept.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: The Internet of Things is just getting started The technology to get rid of passwords is readily available; advances in hardware token and biometric authenticators continue apace. It started isolating passwords as a contributing factor in its 2017 report. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Many companies now require employees to supply a one-time password — such as one sent via SMS or produced by a mobile authenticator app — in addition to their username and password when logging in to company assets online. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. This has been the reality for years, and was so well before Equifax announced its big 2017 breach. Consumers in every U.S. But Equifax has changed a few things since then.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 22, 2021

Since 2017 desktop users have had the opportunity to use physical security keys to log in to their Facebook accounts. Two-factor authentication (2FA). Authentication factors are commonly divided into three groups: Something you know , such as a password. Most of them use an open authentication standard, called FIDO U2F.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

“I was able to answer the credit report questions successfully, which authenticated me to their system,” Turner said. That’s because Experian does not offer any type of multi-factor authentication options on consumer accounts. But now he’s wondering what else he could do to prevent another account compromise.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

“This is the largest release from Microsoft this year and the largest since at least 2017,” said Dustin Childs , from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). ” For links to individual security advisories indexed by severity, check out ZDI’s blog and the Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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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. Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, GoDaddy acknowledged the authentication weakness documented by Guilmette.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When we think of ransomware and brute force password guessing attacks, we normally think of RDP, but recent research from Securonix reminds us that anything secured with a password and exposed to the Internet is of interest to cybercriminals. A simple search on Shodan found almost 90,000 potential targets.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Second, this attack is not exactly new: In 2017, for instance, phishers used a similar technique to plunder accounts at Google’s Gmail service. Also, the resulting compromise is quite persistent and sidesteps two-factor authentication, and thus it seems likely we will see this approach exploited more frequently in the future.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

The list appears to be the result of an Internet scan for devices using default credentials or easy-to-guess passwords. ” The lists leaked online are dated October-November 2019, let’s hope that Internet Service Providers will contact ZDNet to receive them and check if the devices belong to their network and secure them. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3 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 2016, for instance.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Time is of the essence in these attacks because many companies that rely on VPNs for remote employee access also require employees to supply some type of multi-factor authentication in addition to a username and password — such as a one-time numeric code generated by a mobile app or text message.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access. Your best option is to reduce your overall reliance on your phone number for added authentication at any online service.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

In the spring of 2017, the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware worms blasted around the globe, freezing up the Active Directory systems of thousands of companies. One popular strain of exploits revolves around hacking known vulnerabilities in the authentication protocol known as Kerboros , which integrates with AD. I’ll keep watch.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. Sandworm were observed targeting open ports and unprotected RDP or SSH interfaces to gain access to the internet-facing systems. “Note (!) .’ “Note (!) ” reads the advisory.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2021

The master decryption keys work for victims that were infected between July 2017 and early 2021. The keys have been verified as authentic by Michael Gillespie , a malware analyst at security firm Emsisoft and the creator of the ID-Ransomware service.”. “The reads the post published by The Record website. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A ridiculous number of companies are exposing some or all of their proprietary and customer data by putting it in the cloud without any kind of authentication needed to read, alter or destroy it. I quickly informed my contact at All American and asked them to let me know the moment they confirmed the data was removed from the Internet.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

These are the carriers that provide Internet access to rural areas all across America. For example, it is possible to install an update on many instances of firmware without ever having to produce a digital certificate verifying the authenticity of the fix. telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei. This time it happens to be firmware.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. In the classic case of a human user clicking to a website, CAs, like DigiCert, verify the authenticity of the website and encrypt the data at both ends.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. Displaying company's (trademarked) logo next to the authentic URL, defined in a special registry? What's the solution here?

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

These computer-generated "people" will drown out actual human discussions on the Internet. In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission had an online public-commenting period for its plans to repeal net neutrality. Putting all this together, they'll be able to drown out any actual debate on the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. Postal Service , or their wireless phone provider and/or Internet Service Provider (ISP). Maybe this was once sound advice.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Hackers are scanning the Internet for vulnerable network-attached storage (NAS) devices running multiple QNAP firmware versions vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability addressed by the vendor 3 years ago. . on July 21, 2017. ” reads the report published by 360 Netlab. 0,” continues 360 Netlab.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Attackers frequently chain together web shells on multiple compromised systems to route traffic across networks, such as from internet-facing systems to internal networks” reads the document. Web shells can serve as persistent backdoors or as relay nodes to route attacker commands to other systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. Six days later, on December 19, 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. mayors attending the U.S. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

IBM Security X-Force researcher Valentina Palmiotti demonstrated that this vulnerability is a pre-authentication remote code execution issue that impacts a wide range of protocols. Reachable via any Windows application protocol that authenticates. ” reads the post published by IBM. ” Demonstrating CVE-2022-37958 RCE Vuln.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

The malware is being distributed via large-scale COVID-19-themed spam campaigns, the messages use an RTF exploit targeting the CVE-2017-8570 Microsoft Office RCE to deliver the malicious payload. ” Then the Lemon_Duck malware attempts to gain persistence by adding a cron job and collects SSH authentication credentials from the /.ssh/known_hosts

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

The activity of the TheMoon botnet was first spotted in 2014, and since 2017 its operators added to the code of the bot at least 6 IoT device exploits. Once the rules have been created, a thread connects to an NTP server from a roster of authentic NTP servers.

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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.

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