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.

Accountability 100

Accountability Hacking Financial Services Data breaches 100

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.

Data breaches 95

Data breaches Authentication Passwords Phishing 95

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.

Passwords 95

Passwords Password Management Accountability Internet 95

SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 Contact us to lose your money or account! The contact phone trick was heavily used both in email messages and on phishing pages. Agentb malware family.

Phishing 136

Phishing Malware Scams Accountability 136

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.

Accountability 112

Accountability Phishing Authentication Passwords 112

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?,

Data breaches 95

Data breaches Retail Passwords Scams 95

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io.

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Phishing VPN Social Engineering Media 356

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. The subject of investments gained significant relevance in 2021, with banks and other organizations actively promoting investment and brokerage accounts. Trends of the year.

Phishing 65

Phishing Scams Accountability Banking 65

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.

Passwords 71

Passwords Retail Accountability Data breaches 71

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files. Phishing Kits. Now imagine if that website was your website, and you had no idea it was harming your visitors.

Malware 52

Malware Engineering Phishing Accountability 52

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The FBI also reported one attack in which the threat actors changed victims’ direct deposit information to a bank account under their control and redirected $3.1 “Cyber criminals are compromising user login credentials of healthcare payment processors and diverting payments to accounts controlled by the cyber criminals.

Healthcare 85

Healthcare Social Engineering Accountability Passwords 85

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Discord, a group text chat/VoiP app of choice for many gaming communities, is having a bit of trouble with phishing links. This week it’ll be a bot promoting a “red hot” offer from 2018. They could stand to lose their gaming accounts, their logins for other services, some money, or perhaps a combination of all 3.

Scams 121

Scams Phishing Accountability Passwords 121

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The attack chain associated with ARCHIPELAGO starts with phishing emails that embed malicious links. Upon clicking the link, the recipient is redirected to a phishing page that masquerades as a login prompt. Upon clicking the link, the recipient is redirected to a phishing page that masquerades as a login prompt.

Phishing 87

Phishing Media Passwords Malware 87

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore group, aks Crypto-gang, “Dangerous Password”, and “Leery Turtle” has been active since 2018. “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.”

Cryptocurrency 105

Cryptocurrency Phishing Accountability Passwords 105

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Over 90 percent of the users identified by Google were targeted via “credential phishing emails” that attempt to trick victims into providing their password or other account credentials to hijack their Google account. It doesn’t mean that hackers successfully compromised their Google accounts.

Phishing 134

Phishing Accountability Advertising Cyber Attacks 134

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

Mobile 227

Mobile Cryptocurrency Accountability Authentication 227

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 14, 2021

Instagram, the subsidiary of Facebook company, has announced that it is going to roll out an additional security feature that allows its users to review their login info, data related to other accounts that share the login info, and recovery contact information.

Accountability 109

Accountability Passwords Phishing Authentication 109

Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture.

Phishing 52

Phishing Accountability Social Engineering Mobile 52

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Highly placed sources confirmed that no password or personal information was accessed or stolen by the hackers in the apparent breach. However, security experts suggest it is better to change the password of an online account, respectively, to avoid any identity theft or phishing attacks in the future.

Hacking 112

Hacking Identity Theft Cyber Attacks Passwords 112

Google Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2018, Google introduced the Titan Security Key as a direct defense against credential phishing. Phishing occurs when an attacker tries to trick you into giving them your username and password, and it remains one of the easiest and most successful ways of breaching accounts online.

Mobile 123

Mobile Phishing Firmware Retail 123

Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Researchers at Cisco Talos discovered the groups using the same sophisticated methods I employed last year — running a search on Facebook.com for terms unambiguously tied to fraud, such as “spam” and “phishing.” I long ago stopped providing personal information via any Facebook account.

Cybercrime 203

Cybercrime Passwords Identity Theft Accountability 203

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The report also stated that the FBI received more than 1,600 SIM swap complaints in 2021, dramatically up from 320 from 2018 to 2020. Here are tips to help prevent these types of phishing attacks and stay safe. A fraudster looking to hack any of your accounts can do so with these details. Minimizing SIM Swapping Attacks.

Identity Theft 133

Identity Theft Authentication Accountability Banking 133

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. In response to the attacks, State Farm reset the passwords for impacted accounts.

Insurance 89

Insurance Data breaches Financial Services Passwords 89

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher , an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering. ” A SIM card is the tiny, removable chip in a mobile device that allows it to connect to the provider’s network. A WORRIED MOM. GRAND PLANS.

Mobile 203

Mobile Cryptocurrency Scams Computers and Electronics 203

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Why we’re in the ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionageThe fact is cyber criminals are expert at refining and carrying out phishing, malvertising and other tried-and-true ruses that gain them access to a targeted victim’s Internet-connected computing device. Use a password manager. Everyone should be using one.

Passwords 196

Passwords Password Management Antivirus Internet 196

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

Hacking 190

Hacking Accountability Data breaches Marketing 190

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. ” This claim was backed up by Grzegorz Milka, a Google software engineer who presented at the Usenix’s Enigma 2018 security conference.

Authentication 74

Authentication Social Engineering Passwords Accountability 74

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Manipulaters’ core brand in the underground is a shared cybercriminal identity named “ Saim Raza ,” who for the past decade across dozens of cybercrime sites and forums has peddled a popular spamming and phishing service variously called “ Fudtools ,” “ Fudpage ,” “ Fudsender ,” etc.

Software 236

Software Phishing Cybercrime Accountability 236

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. If your email happens to be among those leaked, we strongly recommend that you immediately change your email password. Who had access?

Social Engineering 128

Social Engineering Passwords Marketing Phishing 128

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

My inbox and Twitter messages positively lit up today with people forwarding stories from Wired and other publications about a supposedly new trove of nearly 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were posted to a hacking forum. As we can see above, Collection #1 offered by this seller is indeed 87GB in size.

Passwords 53

Passwords Accountability Hacking Password Management 53

SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2% of users were hit by phishing. of all phishing schemes in 2021, compared to the 11.1%

Banking 93

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 93

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.

Accountability 263

Accountability Authentication Identity Theft Advertising 263

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“The British Council takes its responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) very seriously. ” The impacted individuals are exposed to a broad range of malicious activities, including identity theft, phishing attacks, and scams. Pierluigi Paganini.

Identity Theft 89

Identity Theft Education Phishing Scams 89

Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

The ne’er-do-well who set up the account below has been paying $550 a month for a Land Lordz “basic plan” subscription at landlordz[.]site But when the interested party inquires about the listing, they are sent a link to a site that looks like Airbnb.com but which is actually a phishing page. co.uk , airbnb.pt-anuncio[.]com

Scams 242

Scams Advertising Accountability Phishing 242

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

“We can confirm that all payment information, passwords and accounts are safe, but certain users’ name, contact number, email and shipping address may have been exposed. Impacted users may receive spam and phishing emails as a result of this incident.” .” reads the statement published by the company.

Data breaches 103

Data breaches Passwords Advertising Accountability 103

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The cybersecurity team at T-Mobile discovered an unauthorized access to information associated with a limited number of its prepaid wireless account customers. Our Cybersecurity team discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile prepaid wireless account.

Wireless 101

Wireless Data breaches Mobile Telecommunications 101

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Could be phished credentials. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable. Account takeovers can be used to steal money at its very root; and fraudsters can also use this to access loyalty accounts for airlines, hotels, etc.,

Mobile 306

Mobile Data breaches Authentication Accountability 306