SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about Ghost (Cring) ransomware, a sophisticated cyber threat that has been compromising critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities worldwide. Require 16+ character unique passwords stored in an enterprise password manager.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 1, 2021

As cybersecurity researchers continue to piece together the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain attack, top executives of the Texas-based software services firm blamed an intern for a critical password lapse that went unnoticed for several years.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

“Identifying IT and OT assets is a critical first step in improving cybersecurity,” the report concluded. The hacker in that case also had the username and password for a former employee’s TeamViewer account. “Others do not have access to a cybersecurity workforce,” the report explains.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however. Such programs overlook the burden that passwords can cause to users as well as to IT and security teams. Passwords: An unsustainable business cost. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own.

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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. NordLocker report says that the malware whose name is yet to be identified was super-active between 2018-2020 and became dormant from February this year. .

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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. Image: KrebsOnSecurity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260. Attackers also attempted to exploit weak vendor-supplied passwords. Targeted TCP ports included 23, 26, 554, 2323, 567, 5523, 8080, 9530, and 56575.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The network security vendor said the credentials were stolen from systems that remain unpatched against a two-year-old vulnerability – CVE-2018-13379 – or from users who patched that vulnerability but failed to change passwords. The post Hackers Leak 87,000 Fortinet VPN Passwords appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. With the right cybersecurity practices, everyday Mac users can stay safe from these emerging threats.

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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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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

JUNE 15, 2021

nl — circa October 2018. Alex Holden , founder of the cybersecurity intelligence firm Hold Security, said Witte’s greatest lapse in judgment came around Christmas time in 2019, when she infected one of her own computers with the Trickbot malware — allowing it to steal and log her data within the botnet interface.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

House Oversight and Homeland Security committees last week, SolarWinds’s former and current CEOs blamed an intern for creating a weak FTP server password and leaking it on GitHub – an act which may or may not have contributed to a supply chain hack that impacted users of the tech firm’s Orion IT performance monitoring platform.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 12, 2019

While not confirmed, the FBI has advised that the hackers likely used a tactic known as password spraying, a technique that exploits weak passwords. Resecurity previously alerted Citrix that their systems had been targeted by Iridium in late December 2018, according to president Charles Yoo.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trojan horse-based malware attacks and spyware rose sharply in 2018 as ransomware-based attacks declined, according to a new report published by Malwarebytes. Kaspersky and McAfee Labs both reported a 30% decline in ransomware attacks in 2018. “[T]he

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In 2018, MyHeritage suffered a security incident which exposed the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92 million users. We don’t just report on threats—we remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. In 2020, Ancestry was acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Not long after Facebook deleted most of the 120 cybercrime groups I reported to it back in April 2018, many of the groups began reemerging elsewhere on the social network under similar names with the same members. This is precisely what I experienced a year ago.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2019

Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Dunkin' Donuts (2015-2018): The company faced multiple credential stuffing attacks that led to unauthorized access to customer accounts. Earl Enterprises (2018-2019): The parent company of restaurant chains like Planet Hollywood and Buca di Beppo suffered a 10-month-long data breach affecting millions of customers. Subway U.K.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Grant aid for SME cybersecurity as the Ireland’s industry expands A new grant aims to help SMEs to review and update their cybersecurity and mitigate against the risk of incidents.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In a recent SecureWorld Remote Sessions webcast, cybersecurity expert Roger Grimes of KnowBe4 shed light on a pervasive and insidious cyber threat: North Korea's "IT Army." A complex and widespread scheme According to recent reports by Recorded Future and Mandiant , Google's cybersecurity unit, this incident is part of a larger pattern.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” Weiss was just one of a half-dozen experts steeped in the cybersecurity aspects of industrial control systems that KrebsOnSecurity spoke with this week. ” There is nothing in the law that requires such facilities to report cybersecurity incidents, such as the one that happened in Oldsmar this past weekend.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

cyber #cybersecurity @BleepinComputer #malware pic.twitter.com/CtnppIyhxn — Cyble (@AuCyble) May 14, 2020. million phone numbers that are part of Dubsmash data breach that occurred in 2018. million April 2018 Netlog.com (Twoo.com) 57 million November 2012 Dubsmash.com Phone numbers 47.1 million December 2018 OMGPop.com 21.4

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Our most recent cybersecurity research is now available in the “ Cybersecurity Trends in 2019: Protecting Websites in the Age of Stealth Attacks ” report. To compile this cybersecurity industry report, we analyzed 6 million individual websites using an algorithm our team developed to evaluate website vulnerability.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

A recent study by cybersecurity company Sophos Labs found that roughly 2.7 In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co Examples of typosquatting are easy to come by. co is the domain name suffix for Colombia).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

Wondering about the state of global cybersecurity in 2019? Wonder no more with these nine cybersecurity predictions for where the new year will take us — and what it means for our digital properties, online lives and livelihoods. It’s not a surprise that 2019 is estimated to see more than $124 billion spent on cybersecurity — 8.7

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

If you’re participating in a political campaign, the best publicly available starting point is the Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook from the Defending Digital Democracy project. The short-lived nature of most political campaigns typically precludes them from building formal cybersecurity security programs. government.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Good guys in cybersecurity are like Superman, while an ATP hacker might be more like Lex Luther. Weak passwords are the primary way a cybercriminal can do this. While superheroes might offer superior physical strength, using your favorite hero's name in your password configuration might be doing more harm than good.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018. Also included were email archives spanning 17 years, thousands of social security numbers, and passwords for remote access to agency computers.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

pic.twitter.com/hPvvbFODyZ — Random Robbie (@Random_Robbie) March 7, 2018. link] pic.twitter.com/rIBh5Y7dbj — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 10, 2018. Maybe you can hit them up for a free account or your own movie. :-) — DevastationInc (@DevastationInc) February 6, 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

Last month’s passage of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 means all IoT devices used by government agencies will soon have to comply with strict NIST standards. Lastly, we touch on the political rationale of how the landmark IoT cybersecurity legislation came to be. Implications for IoT devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Late last summer, T-Mobile, a major cellphone service carrier, once again made negative headlines on the cybersecurity front. 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. By Robert Ackerman Jr. Eradication.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. ” In at least some of those recruitment ads — like one in 2018 on the forum sysadmins[.]ru ru account and posted as him.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

The event not only showcases athletic prowess but also presents a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. Public safety: Coordinating between cybersecurity teams and physical security personnel will be crucial to address potential hybrid threats. Human error is often a significant factor in cybersecurity incidents.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

First, a Quick Overview on Retail and Cybersecurity Retail has two main types of workers — people with boots on the ground in a store who have to connect to a device that may be managed, unmanaged or shared, and people who work for the corporate or online side of the business. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million to $4.24

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

The cybersecurity needs of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) differ from those of large enterprises, but few solutions cater to them. A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 Productivity is also a concern, with multiple tools requiring passwords.

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