Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. SEC insisted Cetera was responsible for exposing the personal data of more than 4,300 clients and customers between 2017 November and 2020 June. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2023

The site confirms that there has been a data breach The stolen information could include your discord.io username and your Discord ID, your email-address, your billing address, and a salted and hashed password if you signed up in 2018 or earlier. (In In 2018 discord.io Check the vendor's advice. Change your password.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. How Did the Data Breach Happen? How and Why We Discovered the Breach. What’s Going On? Sketch of the accident from the police report.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Image: Cloudflare.com. 2, and Aug.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Enterprises and big brands may receive unwanted publicity for cyberattacks and data breaches, but smaller doesn’t mean safer. In fact, website attacks increased 14 percent in Q1 2018 compared to Q4 2017 as cybercriminals set their sights on independent websites and small businesses. The cure for the common cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Accessing an online account, users could make several actions, such as manage insurance claims and pay bills. Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

billion in 2018. billion in 2018. The cost of ransomware attacks accounts for 21 percent of the overall expenses, while the cost of malicious insider accounts for 15 percent. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. 15, 2018, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged then 27-year-old Bloom, of Thornhill, Ontario, with selling stolen personal identities online through the website LeakedSource[.]com. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 26, 2018

It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards: Should I respond? ?? pic.twitter.com/lifCZRcICF — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. I couldn’t help myself pic.twitter.com/zvx3myyItn — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 20, 2018. Ooh, he’s good!

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If having a skilled technical staff isn’t critical, then what arrangements should a company have in place to mitigate the occurrence of a data breach and to avoid the fines and penalties that can follow? The technologies existing in 2018 will undoubtedly differ from those that exist in 2020.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. The costs that follow a data breach are trending upward year over year. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2023

First publicly reported in 2018, DarkGate is a Windows-based malware with a wide-range of capabilities including credential stealing and remote access to victim endpoints. The Initial Incident The threat began as a phishing attempt via Microsoft Teams. Phishing message sent to targets via Microsoft Teams in the same DarkGate campaign.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

T-Mobile announced on Thursday that a hacker accessed varying amounts of personal data from 37 million customers from late November 2022 until the malicious activity was detected on January 5th of this year. According to the mobile phone giant, the attacker accessed account information from postpaid and prepaid customers via one of its APIs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. Image: USPS.com. A USPS brochure advertising the features and benefits of Informed Visibility.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Taking into account unknowables, we’re talking about a ballpark cost of roughly $75,000 per BEC-related complaint. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing? But it takes other forms.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2018

12, KrebsOnSecurity carried an exclusive : The FBI was warning banks about an imminent “ATM cashout” scheme about to unfold across the globe, thanks to a data breach at an unknown financial institution. On Sunday, Aug. million unauthorized ATM withdrawals from more than two dozen cash machines across multiple countries.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. ” The company hired a security firm to investigate the incident, it discovered that the attack begun with a phishing email received in July 2018.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At this time it is unclear for how long the data remained exposed online without protection. “The British Council takes its responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) very seriously. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

While you may disagree, data breach studies show that employees and negligence are the most typical causes of security breaches, yet these prevalent issues are least discussed. According to another study by CybSafe, human errors have been responsible for over 90% of data breaches in 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Such breaches, unfortunately, have become common. This attack marked its fifth breach since 2018 and, in fact, the company suffered yet another breach – albeit apparently a small one — late in December. In the big picture in security, improvement of IRPs is hardly all companies must do to mitigate cyber breaches.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. ” There are also two different Skype accounts registered to the ing.equipepro.com email address, one for Yassine Majidi and another for Yassine Algangaf. 001” Skype account.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In this case, though, while the news that 10 million JD Sports customers may have been impacted by a cyber attack has only just arrived, the data potentially accessed in that attack is already several years old. JD Sports claims that the affected data was "limited" and did not include credit card details. The affected data is limited.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

million) in just in 2 days. · CVE-2018-14023 – Recovering expired messages from Signal. · Linux Kernel Project rolled out security updates to fix two DoS vulnerabilities. · 2.6 billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1. · Marap modular downloader opens the doors to further attacks.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. Many of these faux-Zoom sites were used to distribute malware under the guise of links to online meetings.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. Attackers can also combine the leaked email addresses with data from other breaches and build more detailed pictures of their potential targets.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

The crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro , India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant , new evidence suggests. Image: urlscan.io.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

By some accounts, ransomware attacks increased nearly 150% in the past year, and insurance claims and costs of payments skyrocketed after having already jumped approximately 230% between 2018-19. Insurance claims from cyber/ransomware events have consumed up to 40% of the claims of some insurers’ cyber books.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Today, if you examine any high-profile data breach, you’re likely to find memory-hacking techniques utilized at multiple key stages of the attack. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb From early 2014 until December 2018, ns0.idm.net.lb

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. Billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June, an overall number of 30 billion malicious logins were observed between November 2017 and June 2018, an average of 3.75

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

That’s how they’re going to transfer data in, hopefully, a secure channel to pass information back and forth with each other.”. However, APIs are also more frequently the source of data breaches and other cyber incidents. No one really knows exactly how many APIs are out there. This dynamic came into play at the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. In the U.S.,

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BH Consulting

JUNE 8, 2021

Sum of a breach: Verizon DBIR sheds light on the human factor. More than eight out of ten data breaches involve human interaction, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2021. Web application attacks, phishing, and ransomware all increased during 2020.

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