Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A malware campaign designed for Android devices is aiming to steal Facebook accounts users and passwords and has already infected more than 300,000 devices. The malware acts under the appearance of reading and education apps and has been in function since 2018.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

A cyber survey conducted by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that ‘123456’ is still the most hacked password. Security experts at the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) analyzed the 100,000 most-commonly re-occurring breached passwords using data from Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 2, 2022

ZIMPERIUM is the firm that conducted the study and discovered the infection in the wild in 2018. But is discovered stealing FB credentials such as email and passwords, device names, device RAM, Device API, usernames, and account IDs from connected devices operating in over 71 countries.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

Norway police secret service states said that China-linked APT31 group was behind the 2018 cyberattack on the government’s IT network. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) said that the China-linked APT31 cyberespionage group was behind the attack that breached the government’s IT network in 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 10, 2021

According to research carried out by a Cybersecurity firm named NordLocker, a hacking group devised malware and distributed it onto millions of PCs in 2018. And then started to use that malware to harvest millions of user credentials that accounted for a 1.2 terabyte database. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

million Pluto TV user accounts on a hacking forum for free, he claims they were stolen by ShinyHunters threat actor. The dump includes PLUTO TV’s display name, email address, bcrypt hashed password, birthday, device platform, and IP address. accounts exposed appeared first on Security Affairs. A hacker has shared 3.2

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2019

Unpatched critical flaw CVE-2018-15439 could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over the device. Cisco Small Business Switch software is affected by a critical and unpatched vulnerability (CVE-2018-15439) that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain full control over the device.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I have an embarrassing confession to make: I reuse passwords. I am not a heavy re-user, nothing crazy, I use a password manager to handle most of my credentials but I still reuse the odd password from time to time. It seems obvious and important therefore to tell users not to reuse passwords.

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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. During that timeframe, unapproved third parties gained unauthorized access into over 60 email accounts hosted in the cloud belonging to Cetera Employees. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

name, mailing address, email address, and phone number) Loyalty Account Information (e.g., account number and points balance, but not passwords) Additional Personal Details (e.g., This isn't nearly as bad as the 2014 Marriott breach -- made public in 2018 -- which was the work of the Chinese government.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. Earlier in August, Poshmark , a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach that took place in May 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

have been hijacked, threat actors replaced them with versions laced with password-stealing malware. have been hijacked, threat actors replaced them versions laced with password-stealing malware. was released in December 2018, but developers noticed that several suspicious versions (2.0.3, Two popular npm libraries, coa and rc.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused. 21, 2023. .”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. 13, 2018 and Mar. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

Top executives of the software firm SolarWinds blamed an intern for having used a weak password for several years, exposing the company to hack. Top executives of the SolarWinds firm believe that the root cause of the recently disclosed supply chain attack is an intern that has used a weak password for several years. Confronted by Rep.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the first six months of 2018, the experts observed a number of malware samples that was up three times as many samples targeting IoT devices as in the whole of 2017. Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan. In 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

employee who hacked into the accounts of thousands of users was sentenced to five years of probation. accounts back in 2018. The man accessed the users’ victim accounts, using cracked passwords, but in some cases, he also used internal Yahoo! systems for access to the accounts. A former Yahoo!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

The social media platform Reddit has notified users that some of them have been locked out of their accounts after detecting suspicious activity. Reddit locked down a large number of user accounts after due to a security concern after detecting suspicious activity on them. . ” reads a post published by one of the Reddit admins.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Dell data breach – IT giant Dell disclosed a data breach, the company confirmed it has detected an intrusion in its systems on November 9th 2018. names, email addresses, and hashed passwords) from the company portal Dell.com, from support.dell.com websites. Attackers were trying to exfiltrate customer data (i.e.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. ” In short, although you may not be required to create online accounts to manage your affairs at your ISP, the U.S. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The attackers may have gained access to the members’ credentials for a legacy member system that was decommissioned in 2018. It it important to highlight that even with the passwords being hashed and salted, threat actors can obtain the plain text the passwords, especially for weak passwords.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 6, 2020

This is the second major data breach that Marriott has experienced in recent years; in 2018, the company announced that the information of 327 million customers of subsidiary Starwoodhad been compromised in a similar incident. . When resetting a password, pick one that’s easy for you to remember, but impossible for others to guess.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 31, 2018

Air Canada is advising customers to reset their passwords on their mobile application after detecting a potential data breach of customer records. million users to reset their passwords. “We 22-24, 2018. “We 22-24, 2018. Million Customers to Reset App Passwords appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2023

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 Affected Discord users should change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication (MFA). Change your password. Watch out for fake vendors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2019

Threat actors targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the past months, threat actors have targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). ” reads the study published by Proofpoint.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Lucky225 showed how anyone could do the same after creating an account at a service called Sakari , a company that helps celebrities and businesses do SMS marketing and mass messaging. From there, the attacker can reset the password of any account which uses that phone number for password reset links.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

What it boiled down to was the account arguing with a journalist (pro tip: avoid arguing being a dick to those in a position to write publicly about you!) that no, you didn't just need a username and birth date to reset the account password. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 18, 2018. AjaxStudy) April 18, 2018.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 8, 2021

Ever notice how there was a massive gap of almost 9 months between announcing the intention to start open sourcing Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) in August last year and then finally a couple of weeks ago, actually taking the first step with Pwned Passwords ? I was pretty excited when I saw PRs coming in right after launching that last blog post.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?,

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2023

The password management company LastPasss notified customers in late December about a recent security incident. LastPass states that users that followed their best password practices have nothing to worry about. You can check the current number of PBKDF2 iterations for your LastPass account here.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. ” In at least some of those recruitment ads — like one in 2018 on the forum sysadmins[.]ru

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Going by the details, Xfinity email users started receiving email alerts that their account info was changed. And when they tried to access the account, their attempts failed as their passwords were changed. Comcast is yet to officiate the attack, as it is waiting for the preliminary investigation to conclude.

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