Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2024

A cybercriminal called Menelik posted the following message on the “Breach Forums” site: “The data includes 49 million customer and other information of systems purchased from Dell between 2017-2024. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

. “While the group’s key infiltration vector to the exchange is usually through spear-phishing against the corporate network, the executives’ personal email accounts are the first to be targeted.” North Korea-linked APT Lazarus stole around $571 million from cryptocurrency exchanges in Asia between January 2017 and September 2018.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Get a password manager (8 years on and I still use 1Password every day), create strong and unique passwords on every account and enable 2-factor authentication where available. Or they entered it into a phishing site somewhere. pic.twitter.com/d3sSR8PCu1 — Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme) December 9, 2017.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

Successful attackers can then use the credentials to leverage stored credit card data to make fraudulent purchases, steal gift cards saved on the customer’s account, use the information in phishing attempts against victims or sell the login information and personal data to other bad actors. Removing the Guesswork for Cybercriminals.

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Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 120

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

customers were targeted by a phishing campaign after a suspected data breach. Sonic Drive-In (2017): The fast-food chain experienced a breach that potentially impacted millions of credit and debit card accounts. Subway U.K. 2020): The sandwich chain's U.K.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The group made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. In this attack, spear phishing was used as the initial infection vector. The phishing emails claimed to have urgent updates on today’s hottest topic – COVID-19 infections.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. Shamoon motivated the Saudis to seriously ramp up the work of its National Cyber Security Center.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. It started isolating passwords as a contributing factor in its 2017 report.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Customize training materials to address these specific concerns, including data handling protocols, password management , and phishing attempt identification. GitLab’s 300 GB Data Loss Incident: In 2017, GitLab experienced an 18-hour outage caused by a database sync failure.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

These services are often used to host malware, command and control servers, phishing campaigns, and other illicit digital operations. 171:15555 Size ~234 KB Compiler: EP:Microsoft Visual C/C++ (2017 v.15.5-6) 20:13219 Size ~211 KB Compiler: EP:Microsoft Visual C/C++ (2017 v.15.5-6) Trojan.Mystic.KV 123:13219 185.252.179[.]18:13219

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Elie

MARCH 31, 2019

Designing Password Checkup Drawing inspiration from the widely successful Safe Browsing malware and phishing API, we started researching how to develop a somewhat similar API to check for compromised passwords back in 2017. Talking to the Safe Browsing team and doing. user research.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. If you're new to ARM, this tutorial is for you: [link] pic.twitter.com/nmilxbBYpK — Azeria (@Fox0x01) May 27, 2017. Samy Kamkar | @samykamkar.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

We have designated it as a new threat actor and named it “HotCousin” The attacks began with a spear-phishing email which led to an ISO file container being stored on disk and mounted. Previous activity also connected with this group relied heavily on spear-phishing and Cobalt Strike throughout 2020.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

The 2017 NotPetya supply-chain wiper attack hit $26.6 This global initiative will expose employees to short but, impactful video-based lessons produced by security awareness firm AwareGO on topics such as phishing, data leaks, Microsoft Office security and Zoom bombing. But we’re not there yet. We did a bit more difficult one.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

The 2017 NotPetya supply-chain wiper attack hit $26.6 This global initiative will expose employees to short but, impactful video-based lessons produced by security awareness firm AwareGO on topics such as phishing, data leaks, Microsoft Office security and Zoom bombing. But we’re not there yet. We did a bit more difficult one.

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