Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. Coelho landed on the radar of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

Launched in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor , Mozilla Monitor also checks data from the website Have I Been Pwned? to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Stevenson earned bug bounty rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security holes in their websites, all the while secretly peddling those same vulnerabilities to cybercriminals.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found. According to a report this year from Okta, 47 percent of workforce customers deploy SMS and voice factors for multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

.” LastPass declined to answer questions about the research highlighted in this story, citing an ongoing law enforcement investigation and pending litigation against the company in response to its 2022 data breach. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million cards added; 2018 brought in 9.2 million card records for sale. But business would pick up in each of the years that followed: In 2016, BriansClub uploaded 2.89 million stolen cards; 2017 saw some 4.9 million more. million cards.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass officially instituted this change back in 2018, but some undisclosed number of the company’s earlier customers were never required to increase the length of their master passwords. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. LastPass sent this notification to users earlier this week.

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