CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 20, 2021

The agency that was devised to protect the information technology infrastructure in India is urging its populace using FB platform to strengthen their account privacy settings that will disallow them from falling prey to any data scrapping future incidents related to Facebook.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet. . ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2020

Experts announced the availability online of proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway servers. In December Citrix disclosed the critical CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability and explained that it could be exploited by attackers to access company networks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

Threat actors are probing Citrix servers in the attempt to exploit the CVE-2019-19781 remote code execution vulnerability. Security researchers are warning of ongoing scans for Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway) servers affected by the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerabilities.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2022

Though the tools and technologies have improved enormously in the last couple of decades, enterprises remain under attack. With the acceleration in digital spending, there’s been an increase in related cyberthreats, like account takeover. Bad actors seek to gain unauthorized access to a user’s digital account.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Secure users in mins with a free dev account. And then the tweets I discussed themselves: This is fascinating: an amazing story of technology having a profound effect on someone’s wellbeing. Equally, a technology that’s only possible due to constant monitoring and tracking. cybergibbons) September 24, 2019 Holy s**t!

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Microsoft’s December 2019 Patch Tuesday updates fix a total of 36 flaws, including CVE-2019-1458 Windows zero-day exploited in North Korea-linked attacks. Microsoft’s December 2019 Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 36 flaws, including a Windows zero-day, tracked as CVE-2019-1458 exploited in attacks linked to North Korea.

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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In this article, we’ll take a look at the biggest ransomware attacks of 2019 and the severe impact they have had. Ransomware Trends in 2019 According to Malwarebytes, a sharp increase in ransomware activity was observed in 2019. Notable Ransomware Attacks in 2019 1.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2019 Executive Opinion Survey , it’s cyberattacks. When reflecting on 2019, it’s clear why that is. Below, I’ll recap notable incidents from 2019, expand upon their commonalities, and explore a few lessons to learn as we enter a new year. What keeps executives up at night?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

There are a few random, non-technology businesses tied to the phone number listed for the Hendersonville address, and the New Mexico address was used by several no-name web hosting companies. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. The website Domainnetworks[.]com and another address in Santa Fe, N.M.

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Adam Levin

JULY 15, 2020

The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially reported. It contains the personal information of more than 142 million guests of MGM hotels, according to technology reporting site ZDNet. Unclear is how the 10.6

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Accounting for third-party risks is now mandated by regulations — with teeth. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss that question with Catherine Allen, chairman and CEO of the Santa Fe Group, and Mike Jordan, senior director of Santa Fe’s Shared Assessments program.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss this war of attrition with Will LaSala, director of security services and security evangelist at OneSpan, a Chicago-based provider of anti-fraud, e-signature and digital identity solutions to 2,000 banks worldwide. Key takeaways: Shifting risks. That’s finally advanced.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 28, 2021

A crucial part of the Russians’ success was their ability to move through these organizations by compromising cloud and local network identity systems to then access cloud accounts and pilfer emails and files. Cloud weaknesses were also critical in a 2019 breach at Capital One.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

” The FCC tweet also provided a link to the agency’s awareness page on juice jacking , which was originally published in advance of the Thanksgiving Holiday in 2019 but was updated in 2021 and then again shortly after the FBI’s tweet was picked up by the news media. This scam is referred to as juice jacking.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2019, pending an antitrust review by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In May, Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. link] — Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) October 29, 2019. The attackers created WhatsApp accounts to send bait messages to target devices.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

The ISAC found when it comes to IT systems tied to “operational technology” (OT) — systems responsible for monitoring and controlling the industrial operation of these utilities and their safety features — just 30.5 percent of utilities have identified all IT-networked assets, with an additional 21.7 Image: WaterISAC.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.” On of the researchers credited — EXPMON — said on Twitter that it had reproduced the attack on the latest Office 2019 / Office 365 on Windows 10.

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Google Security

MAY 5, 2023

The technology behind the former (“same device passkey”) is not new: it was originally developed within the FIDO Alliance and first implemented by Google in August 2019 in select flows. Learn more on how passkey works under the hood in our Google Security Blog.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In August 2019 and August 2020, a federal grand jury announced two separate indictments charging the five Chinese nationals with facilitating theft of source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data, and valuable business information. According to the indictment announced in August 2019, Zhang Haoran (???),

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Mr. Bash added that his company has sent a batch of intelligence alerts to all its users since 2019 and the present year has witnessed a 33% spike in the nation backed hacking attempts targeting over 3 million accounts out of which only 1% proved successful.

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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. The back of the napkin math isn’t pretty.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Technology companies in recent times have asked most of their employees to stay home because of the fast-approaching recession or by other factors. And researchers from the institute state that costs per incident are up by two-third account to $15.38 million in the year 2019. million, up from just $5.6

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2019, the company was ordered to pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating consumers’ privacy rights. Take into account the tedious tasks of creating and managing usernames and passwords for different services across all platforms. About the essayist: Chris Were is CEO of Verida.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

An undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology named Bill Demirkapi discovered the most recent security failure. TransUnion, 2019: The credit reporting bureau reported the data compromise of 37,000 Canadians, however the nature and content of that compromise are not clear. . Takeaways .

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” For more on this dynamic, please see The Value of a Hacked Email Account.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 14, 2019

A hacker claimed to have access to 10 million user accounts. “We We became aware of a data security incident involving potential unauthorized access to our systems in April 2019. The investigation potentially traced the incident to malicious activity starting on February 22, 2019.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

” In 2020, GustaveDore advertised on several Russian discussion forums that he was part of a Russian technology firm called Shtazi , which could be hired for computer programming, web development, and “reputation management.” The Instagram account of Mikhail Borisovich Shefel, aka MikeMike aka Rescator.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Technological and societal developments and a pandemic have utterly changed the business landscape as we knew it. In the United States, the FBI report indicates that there was a 69% increase in total complaints in comparison with 2019. In Singapore, cybercrimes accounted for 43% of overall crimes. Thu, 12/16/2021 - 10:36.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. Marrapese documented his findings in more detail here.

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