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. The August 2020 indictment charges charged Jiang Lizhi (???),

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Researchers uncovered a possible credential stuffing campaign that is targeting Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million login credentials. Security experts from vpnMentor have uncovered a possible credential stuffing operation that affected some Spotify accounts. ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and more than $5 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Raoult and two other co-conspirators were charged with having hacked into protected computers of corporate entities and for the theft of stolen proprietary information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The popular security expert Troy Hunt , who runs the data breach notification service HaveIBeenPwned published on Twitter the incident notice sent out by the company to its customers. Data breach at @Staples pic.twitter.com/gvLndAJV2P — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 14, 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company attempted to downplay the security breach, according to a notice of data incident sent to the Montana Attorney General’s office, EWA bacame aware of a recent phishing incident that had some limited impact on EWA email accounts on August 2, 2021. ” concludes the notice. ” concludes the notice.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The leaked records include Clubhouse user IDs, names, usernames, Twitter handles, Instagram handles, number of followers, number of people followed by the users, accounts’ creation date, and invited by user profile names. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all your online accounts. Source CyberNews. photo URLs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

On 2 November 2020 vpnMentor experts discovered that the 21 Buttons app was using a misconfigured AWS bucket that has exposed the data of hundreds of influencers. bank account numbers, PayPal email addresses), photos, and videos. 2020 Dates vendors contacted: 5th Nov., 2020 Dates Amazon Contacted: 10th Nov.,

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The company confirmed the security breach over the weekend, it revealed that unknown threat actors accessed a partner’s systems in June stealing user information. In response to the incident, the bidding portal has forced a password reset for all users’ accounts, both bidder and auctioneer ones. The poster is selling 3.4

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ivan Yermakov worked for the Russian Military Unit 26165 and was indicted by the US DoJ in October 2018, along six other defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate ( GRU ), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).” based filing agents.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The leak comes more than four months after Humana, the third-largest health insurance company in the US, notified 65,000 of its health plan members about a security breach where “a subcontractor’s employee disclosed medical records to unauthorized individuals” between October 12, 2020, and December 16, 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

“During the 2020 holiday shopping season, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 17,000 complaints regarding the non-delivery of goods, resulting in losses over $53 million,” reads a public service announcement published by the FBI. Online surveys designed to steal personal information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Kvashuk used email accounts associated with other Microsoft employees for his fraudulent activity. The man was involved in the testing of Microsoft’s online retail sales platform and abused testing access to steal “currency stored value” (CSV) such as digital gift cards. “A former Microsoft software engineer was sentenced today in U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of accounts registered between February and April 2020, as well as logs of accesses in the same period. billion records.” ” reads the post published by the researchers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Attackers have stolen personal identifiable information (PII), including names and/or Social Security numbers (and/or other tax identification numbers), financial account information, driver’s license information, and/or passport information. .

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

The Internet can provide doxers with all kinds of helpful information, such as the names and positions of employees, including those who occupy key positions in the company. Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. The unsuspecting accountant asks the employee to send his new bank details.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

“He is charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and multiple counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft. and could be sentenced to up to 60 years in prison.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Compromised data include names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, bank account numbers, credit cards, passwords, license plates, citizen service numbers or passport data. The group demanded a Bitcoin payment from the affected companies and threatened to publish the stolen information online or destroy their infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

This is a huge leak even by today’s standards, with an average of 7 million records being exposed daily in 2020. . As cyberattacks become ever more frequent and sophisticated across the board, both organizations and individuals are still struggling to catch up with cybercriminals when it comes to data security. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

You can reach him via email or find him on Twitter giggling at jokes posted by parody accounts. All of this data is conveniently stored in spreadsheet format that can be easily opened, read, and downloaded by anyone who knows what to look for. Who had access? Original post available on Cybernews: [link]. About the author Edvardas Mikalauskas.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Police report containing accident details, as well as involved parties phone numbers, driver’s license information, name-surname, and national identifier. Leaked data contained information about more than 15,000 clients of Inova, people who had accidents and hired Inova between the start of 2018 and end of summer 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

. “This cyber-attack targeted the parliament’s information system and affected its ability to operate for several days. A significant amount of data was stolen and the email accounts of several members of parliament, including that of Chancellor Angela Merkel , were affected.” continues the Der Spiegel.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place. Unsecured databases exposed for years.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. . You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

The carrier states that personal financial account information and call records were not affected by the security breach. In January, T-Mobile suffered the first data breach in 2023, threat actors stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

By 2015, Microsoft joined, and in 2020, Apple followed. The account recovery element of passkey is another double-edged sword. While a consumer application will almost certainly be pleased to outsource account recovery to Apple, Google, or Microsoft, many administrators may not be. Security, Legal and Ethical Implications.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Minichillo, Keyavi’s chief information security officer and VP of cyber threat & intelligence. More than a third of Americans admit to sharing their password with others, while a majority use the same login for more than one account, according to Security.org. Both practices can seriously compromise online security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2024

The operations coordinated by the North Korean government took place between October 2020 and October 2023. years in prison, including a mandatory minimum of two years in prison on the aggravated identity theft count. Didenko allegedly ran a multi-year scheme creating accounts on U.S. She faces a maximum penalty of 97.5

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

2020 is a case in point. A person’s credit card details and account balance are sold for 150 USD if the account balance is under 1000 USD, but 240 if it is under 5000 USD. Stolen Paypal account details, Neteller, PerfectMoney, TransferGo, and other payment services are also on the list. What about services?

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