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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Compromised logins continue to facilitate cyber attacks at all levels, from phishing ruses to credential stuffing to enabling hackers to probe deep inside of a breached network. Verizon has been doing this very substantive report, in which it culls hard evidence collected in actual data breach investigations, for 12 years.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. With the high amount of cybercriminal activity including hacking attempts and phishing scams, the information in this report is quite timely. In comparison, phishing/smishing/vishing cases accounted for $500 in losses per complaint.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

So, your business has just suffered a data breach and it’s time to dig deep in your pockets to pay all the resulting expenses. Indeed, with liability limits ranging from $1 million to $5 million or more, cyber insurance policies can cover a good chunk of the damage caused by a data breach. How is cyber insurance priced?

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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. All it takes is one weak password, one click on a phishing email, or one re-used password that has already been compromised, for an attacker to gain unauthorized access to your site. The Principle of Least Privilege.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9%

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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.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Every breach is different, so check with the vendor to find out what's happened, and follow any specific advice they offer. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Check the vendor's advice. Change your password.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors. To secure sensitive data, cybersecurity specialists, software vendors, and end users should encourage collaborative efforts against malicious activities.

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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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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion lost to fraud in 2019. These are seven of the ways the FTC says your personal data can land in the wrong hands, possibly leading to identity theft, and the best steps you can take to help protect your information: Data breaches. But it doesn’t take a data breach to lose your SSN. Review your bills.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

“There are primarily three ways you can authenticate someone: with their username and password, with two-factor authentication, and with a company-supplied device that you can trace. For critical applications and environments with sensitive data (e.g., For most stuff, you should have two of those things.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity recently contacted Sprint to let the company know that an internal customer support forum called “Social Care” was being indexed by search engines, and that several months worth of postings about customer complaints and other issues were viewable without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. Methodology.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Human error still causes the overwhelming majority of cybersecurity breaches. Researchers from Stanford University found that approximately 88% of all data breaches are caused by an employee mistake. On 14th August 2019, the auto parts supplier was tricked into making a large fund transfer into the hackers’ bank account.

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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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

From 2019 to 2021, the healthcare industry saw an increase in breaches and leaks of more than 50% , according to the Healthcare Cybersecurity Report by the Herjavec Group. Though an important takeaway in the HHS-H3C note is that they still consider phishing, credential theft, and abuse of known exploits the highest threats.".

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

The video game industry withstood nearly 11 billion credential stuffing attacks in 2020, a 224 percent spike over 2019. Data enrichment is a thing that happens in the criminal economy. Some of the credential stuffing attacks can be traced back to existing data breaches or phishing. SQLi for example.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Let’s look specifically at how this applies to the ‘Secure IT’ sub-theme for NCSAM 2019. Organizations cannot secure their information technology (IT) simply by training everyone in the organization to identify and avoid falling victim to a phishing attack. There is much more to security than just phishing attacks.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

From direct assaults on passwords via brute force attacks and password spraying to email phishing, ransomware and social engineering campaigns that act as precursors to credential stuffing attacks, adversaries are well aware that the path of least resistance almost always involves the compromising of a password.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Easier Data Recovery Cloud storage makes data recovery easier in the event of an accident, deletion, or overwrite. According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. Provide ongoing training for individuals involved in setup and maintenance.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 With more than 15 billion login credentials available on the dark web because of data breaches, millions of online accounts remain at risk of unauthorized access. Selling Stolen Data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

“We have discovered a large scale security breach today, May 7, 2019 at 17:15:24 (UTC). The hackers used a variety of techniques, including phishing, viruses and other attacks. ” reads a data breach notification published by Binance. ” reads a data breach notification published by Binance.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

During just the past few years, the number of breaches, phishing attacks, fraud, and ransomware has reached new heights. Since 2019, attacks involving usernames and passwords have increased 450% 5. And 61% of all data breaches are the result of schemes, such as phishing, that steal login credentials 6.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

While these interconnected experiences might seem great at the outset, retailers are opening themselves up to new security risks, especially as we head beyond the holiday season and into 2019. Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1. retail respondents for not deploying data security was “lack of perceived need” (52%).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. No authentication was required to read the documents. Image: Linkedin.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In a blog post today, Avast said it detected and addressed a breach lasting between May and October 2019 that appeared to target users of its CCleaner application, a popular Microsoft Windows cleanup and repair utility. For a breakdown on what you should keep in mind when considering a VPN service, see this post.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

On January 9, 2019, security vendor FireEye released its report , “Global DNS Hijacking Campaign: DNS Record Manipulation at Scale,” which went into far greater technical detail about the “how” of the espionage campaign, but contained few additional details about its victims. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Recently, Colonial Pipeline, a major US fuel company made headlines after falling victim to such an attack and in 2020, it is estimated that ransomware cost businesses worldwide almost £15 billion – a figure that is nearly 75% higher than in 2019. We recommend running a full compromise assessment any time there are signs of intrusion.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Researchers warn that such data leaks are hazardous as they might help threat actors craft targeted phishing campaigns, assist in forgery and identity theft, and trick companies into making payments. Treasure trove of data. The discovered database was not protected by authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Meanwhile, threat actors’ siege on web applications surged 62 percent in 2020 vs. 2019: Akamai observed nearly 6.3 From there, you have identity-based attacks, or attacks that target authentication systems, which is where credential stuffing comes in. The other driver is older data breaches that are sorted and dropped into scanners.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill. 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.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Regular readers will appreciate the mechanics of this already but all those who I point here for whom this is new, this attack simply takes exposed credentials from a data breach and tries them on another site. Spotify "breaches" like this are enormously common. Or they entered it into a phishing site somewhere.

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