Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Within this timeframe, Snatch threat actors exploited the victim’s network moving laterally across the victim’s network with RDP for the largest possible deployment of ransomware and searching for files and folders for data exfiltration followed by file encryption.” Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Pluto TV is an American internet television service, it is an advertiser-supported video on demand (AVOD) service that primarily offers a selection of programming content through digital linear channels designed to emulate the experience of traditional broadcast programming. The service has over 28 million members.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

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.” This can be compounded by certain enterprises using the Internet of Things (IoT) that don’t have good security.

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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. Do not provide your mobile number account information over the phone to representatives that request your account password or pin.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. That changed on Jan.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 6, 2018

For now though, here's this week's update which talks through many of the issues covered in those tweets not just as it relates to HTTPS, but also beer, MD5 password hashes, giving another party access to your Gmail (hint: it actually gives them access to your Gmail!) Egypt didn't just censor the internet. References.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

In March 2018, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian threat actors. The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

terabyte of stolen data. Threat actors used custom malware to steal data from 3.2 million Windows systems between 2018 and 2020. The software includes illegal Adobe Photoshop 2018, a Windows cracking tool, and several cracked games.” “The data was collected from 3.25 The database includes 6.6

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 2, 2019

Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. The post Podcast Episode 140: passwords are. Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. Half a century later, the password has long since outlived its usefulness. Read the whole entry. »

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. In 2018, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Pappachen said Sizmek forced a password reset on all internal employees (“a few hundred”), and that the company is scrubbing its SAS user database for departed employees, partners and vendors whose accounts may have been hijacked. ” PASSWORD SPRAYING. BRUTE-FORCE LIGHT.

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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. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 — less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users — and launched LeakedSource three months later.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Data of 538 million Weibo users are available for sale on the dark web the news was reported by several Chinese media and users on social networks. The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. The huge amount of data is available for 0.177 Bitcoin, approximately USD 1032. ” “Don’t be credulous.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report on credential stuffing, credential stuffing continues to be growing threat. According to Akamai report titled “[state of the internet] / security CREDENTIAL STUFFING ATTACKS “ the credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat and often underestimated.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

SEC penalized Cambridge Investment Research because more than 121 of their email accounts were hacked between 2018 January and 2021 July. SEC reiterated that Cambridge Investment Research discovered the first breach in 2018 January but took no action to boost email account security until 2021. .

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. DigitalOcean said the MailChimp incident resulted in a “very small number” of DigitalOcean customers experiencing attempted compromises of their accounts through password resets.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. Do use strong passwords.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. A Prime Target for Hackers.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ransomware attacks like the ones carried out by OnePercent Group have been crippling businesses across the country since the FBI first reported a 37% uptick in cybercrime in 2018. It’s also important that companies ensure that their vendors are encrypting their company data as well. Enforce regular employee phishing training.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Inevitably, "because data breaches", and it's nuts just how much exposure this project has had because of them. 🤣", the internet quipped.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This type of attack is relatively common (in the second quarter of 2018 alone, defacements made up 14 percent of all malware attacks) and very easy to spot. Malicious redirects are common on the internet and behave as their name suggests. Defacements. That’s probably why it has grown in popularity over the past several years.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Malicious hackers are increasingly mobbing the video game industry, with major companies suffering data breaches, having their source code sold or leaked online and games serving as playgrounds to push malware or mine cryptocurrencies. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images). The post Attacks against game companies are up.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Many SMBs lack the wherewithal to recover from the long-run consequences of a serious breach. High to very high threat Index contributors expressed a widely held belief that a data breach can put a company out of business. Years of stealing user names and passwords, and poor password practices add to this mix.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware. Other than different antivirus and not allowing RDP connections to the internet they don’t seem to have put any additional safeguards in place. More than a week later on Jan.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

And as stated by a Harris Poll conducted in 2018 , more than 60 million Americans are affected by identity theft every year. According to security industry professionals, cyber criminals will access 33 billion records per year by 2023, a dramatic increase from the reported 12 billion or so breaches in 2018. Learn from the past.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet. Improved versions of the original WannaCry soon followed — and then the floodgates opened.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

New threat actor SandCat exploited recently patched CVE-2018-8611 0day. Which are the worst passwords for 2018? A new variant of Shamoon was uploaded to Virus Total while Saipem was under attack. Cyber attack hit the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem. Novidade, a new Exploit Kit is targeting SOHO Routers.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found that K–12 cyberattacks more than tripled over the pandemic, from 400 reported incidents in 2018 to over 1,300 in 2021. Secure data storage is also a requirement of FERPA. When students turn 18, those rights are transferred to them.

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