Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Have you ever wondered why your email address and other information appeared in a data breach impacting a platform you never signed up for? You probably don’t recall creating an account on the Verifications.io and River City Media data breaches. platform or River City Media. That’s because you didn’t.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 7, 2021

The increasing number of third-party data breaches and the sensitive information they expose have negatively impacted consumer trust. Third-party breaches occur when sensitive data is stolen from a third-party vendor or when their systems are used to access and steal sensitive information stored on your systems. .

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

Indeed, wake up calls brought about by data breaches have stirred others out of their comfort zones into finally adopting 2FA and making it part of their online lives. Illustration of what a MiTM phishing would look like. Such sessions tokens can be used to abuse the account on a long term basis without the user knowing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

million patients have been impacted by a health care data breach so far in 2021, a whopping 185% increase from the same time period last year where just 7.9 Malicious cyberattacks caused the majority of these security incidents, accounting for 73% of all breaches. More than 22.8 Another 20.7%

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

Booking.com, an online travel agency has been fined €475,000 for not reporting the data breach within the stipulated time frame crafted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The post Dutch company booking.com fined €558,000 for serious data breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Oregon Department of Human Services announced it was a victim of a data breach in January, roughly 645,000 potentially impacted. Oregon Department of Human Services officials confirmed that the organization has suffered a data breach that has exposed personal details and health information of 645,000 clients.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

Cerebral has agreed to an order that will restrict how the company can use or disclose sensitive consumer data, as well as require it to provide consumers with a simple way to cancel services. Protecting yourself from a data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach.

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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. SEC insisted Cetera was responsible for exposing the personal data of more than 4,300 clients and customers between 2017 November and 2020 June. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that threat actors had "obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles." However, the damage seems to go far beyond the accounts with reused passwords. less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. The data indicates that attackers are going after larger data sets, rather than relying on getting their data from a larger number of smaller attacks. Cross-Site Scripting & SQL Injection.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

Twilio hackers also compromised the food delivery firm DoorDash, the attackers had access to company data, including customer and employee info. On-demand food delivery service DoorDash disclosed a data breach, the threat actors behind the Twilio hack gained access to the company’s data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Fact: Zynga, the California-based social game developer, suffered a major data breach in 2019 when a malicious actor stole 218 million records belonging to “Words With Friends” players. If you were a victim of the Zynga data breach, you’ve probably changed the password for your account already.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

First is the news related to Russian hackers infiltrating an email account of a British Member of Parliament to steal intelligence. According to the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, threat actors, probably funded by Kremlin, hacked the email account of Stewart McDonald via a spear-phishing act.

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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. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

On New Year’s Eve, Seif Elsallamy ( @0x21SAFE on Twitter), a bug bounty hunter and security researcher, pointed out a phish-worthy security flaw he found on Uber’s email system. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. Source: @0x21SAFE on Twitter). The post Careful!

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion lost to fraud in 2019. Identity theft happens when someone uses your personal or financial information — like your Social Security or financial account number — to commit fraud. Data breaches often make headlines, so this is one method you’ve likely heard about before. Their total losses exceeded $3.3 Elder Fraud.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

The information varied from person to person, but may have included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers (SSNs), health insurance information, medical record numbers, patient account numbers, dates of service and/or limited treatment information used by TGH for its business operations. Change your password.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization was hacked during the Christmas holiday and the attackers later used its email server to launch a phishing campaign against its donors. link] — Casey Vattimo (@CVattimo) December 27, 2019. “Friends, Boo! As you may have noticed, our email server was temporarily hacked.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s safe to say that the volume and magnitude of high-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks that punctuated 2019 really kept the cybersecurity industry on its toes. Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . On December 30th, 2019, users began receiving a message from the Poloniex exchange notifying them of the data leak. charlysatoshi.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Organizations with weak cybersecurity have been severely punished with cyber-attacks, data breaches, and huge losses in the past. According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Anti-malware/ phishing.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, 97% of us can’t tell a phishing email from a legitimate one. Cybercriminals know this, which is why phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents and why 54% of companies say their data breaches were caused by “negligent employees. ”.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

A review of the exposed support forum by this author suggests that while none of the posts exposed customer information such as payment card data, a number of them did include customer account information, such customer names, device identifiers and in some cases location information.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

Microsoft announced several new features for its Edge browser, including a new alerting service to warn users if the credentials they have saved to autofill have been compromised in a third-party data breach. “Today, we’re announcing Password Monitor in Microsoft Edge to help keep your online accounts safe from hackers.

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Adam Levin

JULY 28, 2020

If you find your personal email account bombarded with unwanted marketing emails, there’s a good chance your account was compromised in a breach. A recent report found that email was the delivery method for 94% of malware attacks in 2019; a more recent study in 2020 indicated that email-based phishing may be hitting a new high.

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Vipre

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We’ve all heard about big companies getting hit by data breaches — Yahoo , Facebook , Marriott International , and more have notoriously fallen victim to large-scale attacks that rocked news headlines. There are a number of reasons that SMBs find themselves at risk for security breaches. Let’s break them down. Endpoints .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Even though many consider spam and phishing outdated techniques, they are still employed by cybercriminals today. In August 2021, a Revere Health employee was hacked through a phishing email attack which exposed approximately 12,000 patient medical records. The data of over 1.2 Recent email-based attacks.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 24, 2021

A credit report monitoring service can allow you to receive alerts for activity such as new account applications, the opening of new accounts and changes in personally identifiable information (PII). With more than a billion records exposed by data breaches so far, millions of people are falling victim to identity theft every year.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

million MobiFriends users are available for download since April 2020, it seems that they have been stolen in January 2019. “The credentials of nearly 4 million MobiFriends users have recently been discovered by our Data Breach Research team on a prominent deep web hacking forum. The personal details of 3.68

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about, this one eventually triggering an email to me just last week: Let's imagine you're the first person on the list; you get a notification from HIBP, you check out the paste and see your Hotmail account listed there alongside your Spotify password and the plan you're subscribed to.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

. “We became aware of a data security incident involving unauthorized access to our systems in February 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. ” As usual.

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