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New Version of Meduza Stealer Released in Dark Web

Security Affairs

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Under Christmas tree you can find great gifts such as significant improvements of user interface (panel), modal windows on loading and expansion of data collection objects.

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Making authentication faster than ever: passkeys vs. passwords

Google Security

Silvia Convento, Senior UX Researcher and Court Jacinic, Senior UX Content Designer In recognition of World Password Day 2023, Google announced its next step toward a passwordless future: passkeys. Passkeys are not just easier to use, but also significantly faster than passwords. On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9

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Zero Trust Speeds Ransomware Response, Illumio-Bishop Fox Test Finds

eSecurity Planet

Zero trust implies that every access and connection made to a point of the network is reevaluated and re-authenticated to ensure the user and connection are authorized, with no more access than the user’s role requires. EDR gains visibility on what’s happening on an organization’s endpoints by capturing activity data.

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Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data

Krebs on Security

.” US JOB SERVICES KrebsOnSecurity was alerted to the data exposure by Patrick Barry , chief information officer at Charlotte, NC based Rebyc Security. Mirza and his colleagues was actively uploading all of the device’s usernames, passwords and authentication cookies to cybercriminals based in Russia.

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TOP 10 unattributed APT mysteries

SecureList

The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts. MagicScroll is a sophisticated malicious framework that was first detected by Palo Alto’s Unit 42 in 2019.

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Financial cyberthreats in 2022

SecureList

Security solutions integrated into operating systems, two-factor authentication and other verification measures have helped reduce the number of vulnerable users. It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing. ” SEPTEMBER.