Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2025

Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. They’ve used control of user identity as a key to market dominance and monetization.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

Ease of Monetization: Stolen VPN credentials are highly marketable on dark-web forums, often selling for as little as $100 and bundled with additional access points like Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) software or Citrix-based solutions. This threat hunt identifies accounts at risk of this attack vector. Rated CVSS 9.8,

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). A segment of a lawsuit Binns filed in 2020 against the CIA, in which he alleges U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Sophos) an information technology company that develops and markets cybersecurity products.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

The cybersecurity market is booming, offering many options but not all solutions are created equal. This also helps Fortinet make inroads into small business markets. Thoma Bravo took the company private in 2020, with services being a major focus area under the new ownership. IBM: Best for Advanced Encryption 13 $233.91

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2025

This can be done across multiple disciplines within cyberengineering, product management, marketing, and sales. We asked women and men from cybersecurity vendors their thoughts on women in cybersecurity. Also, college clubs (business, engineering, etc.)

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2025

According to a new analysis from Malwarebytes, when compared to iPhone users, Android users share less of their personal information for promotional deals, more frequently use security tools, and more regularly create and manage unique passwords for their many online accounts. They also, it turns out, fall victim to fewer scams.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For at least the third time in its existence, OGUsers — a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts — has been hacked. An offer by the apparent hackers of OGUsers, offering to remove account information from the eventual database leak in exchange for payment.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. Image: Wikipedia.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

involving computers not directly connected to ICS/SCADA equipment) of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (Wolf Creek) in Burlington, Kansas, which operates a nuclear power plant,” the DOJ’s account continues. billion euros in 2020 alone. ” HYDRA. In a statement on the Hydra takedown , the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 18, 2021

Joker’s Stash , by some accounts the largest underground shop for selling stolen credit card and identity data, says it’s closing up shop effective mid-February 2021. But 2020 turned out to be a tough year for Joker’s Stash. and European authorities seized a number of its servers. Image: Gemini Advisory. Then on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook, Instagram , TikTok , and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. Facebook said it targeted a number of accounts tied to key sellers on OGUsers, as well as those who advertise the ability to broker stolen account sales. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 24, he reportedly maintained his innocence and told agents someone else must have used his Paypal account to purchase the Surfshark VPN subscription. In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc.

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Zero Day

JULY 15, 2025

The Apple Beta Software Program is free and open to anyone with an Apple Account who accepts the Apple Beta Software Program Agreement when signing on.  X Trending Every iPhone model getting iOS 26 and which ones won't How to download the iOS 26 beta on your iPhone Is ChatGPT Plus really worth $20?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Federal authorities charged two individuals with operating the dark web marketplace Empire Market that facilitated over $430 million in illegal transactions. currency on AlphaBay before starting Empire Market. currency on AlphaBay before starting Empire Market. “They began operating Empire Market on Feb.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC (application delivery controller) devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS interface. Overall, Q4 remained within the parameters of 2020 trends. Extortionists’ activity regularly made the news throughout 2020. This trend continued in the last months of 2020.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Since its inception in 2018, Data Viper has billed itself as a “threat intelligence platform designed to provide organizations, investigators and law enforcement with access to the largest collection of private hacker channels, pastes, forums and breached databases on the market.” But on Aug.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 Edition has arrived. Click here to check out or media kit and market with us, today. email: marketing@cyberdefensemagazine.com. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 ). The post Cyber Defense Magazine – November 2020 has arrived. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

The company has over 4200 employees and accounts for over 90 million active users every month. The hacker claims to have hacked the company in March 2020, it has stolen just a small part of the company database. This is the adv published by the hacker on the Empire Darkweb Market. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Prosecutors say the men then laundered the stolen funds through an array of intermediary cryptocurrency accounts — including compromised and fictitiously created accounts — on the targeted cryptocurrency exchange platforms. million from 158 Poloniex users, and $1.17 million from 42 Gemini customers.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family. Key findings. to 13.21%.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Treasury Department sanctioned the Hydra Market, the world’s largest and longest-running dark web marketplace. Treasury Department sanctioned the darkweb marketplace Hydra Market, the same day Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), announced they have shut down the illegal platform. The post U.S.

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Marketing Cybercrime Advertising Hacking 135

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Subway UK confirmed the hack of a marketing system that was used to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Hackers have compromised a marketing system in Subway UK and used it to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. The system does not hold any bank or credit card details.”

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The service, marketed in the underground under the name “ SMS Bandits ,” has been responsible for blasting out huge volumes of phishing lures spoofing everything from COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts to PayPal, telecommunications providers and tax revenue agencies. .” ” SMS Bandits offered an SMS phishing (a.k.a.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

In 2020, it saw 193 billion credential stuffing attacks globally, with 3.4 Meanwhile, threat actors’ siege on web applications surged 62 percent in 2020 vs. 2019: Akamai observed nearly 6.3 Q: The scale of ‘attacks’ in 2020 is astronomical: 6.3 I’ve known Ragan for a long time and greatly respect his work. It is astronomical.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the user BHProxies also used the handle “ hassan_isabad_subar ” and marketed various software tools, including “Subar’s free email creator” and “Subar’s free proxy scraper.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. .

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

The video game industry saw massive growth in 2020; nothing like a global pandemic to drive people to spend more time than ever gaming. The video game industry withstood nearly 11 billion credential stuffing attacks in 2020, a 224 percent spike over 2019. Usually the path looks like this: •Someone compromises the account (ATO).

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7 Most of the statistics presented in the report were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This includes pivoting from or converting a single compromised Microsoft Windows user account to an administrator account with greater privileges on the target network; the ability to sidestep and/or disable any security software; and gaining the access needed to disrupt or corrupt any data backup systems the victim firm may have. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Although the letter includes the words “marketing services” in the upper right corner, the rest of the missive is deceptively designed to look like a bill for services already rendered. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. UBSagency’s website is hosted at the same Ann Arbor, Mich.

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SC Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

According to research from technology consulting firm Forrester evaluating 120 cybersecurity acquisitions in 2020, many executives viewed the pandemic as an opportunity to strategically buy low and add new cybersecurity capabilities or highly qualified staff to their business.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Shutterstock Telecommunications giant AT&T disclosed this month that a breach at a marketing vendor exposed certain account information for nine million customers. ” And, ‘If it’s so ‘customer proprietary,’ why is AT&T sharing it with marketers?” This should bother you.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

who put a freeze on his credit files last year at Experian, Equifax and TransUnion after thieves tried to open multiple new payment accounts in his name using an address in Washington state that was tied to a vacant home for sale. Dune Thomas is a software engineer from Sacramento, Calif. and $24.99 and $24.99

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office shut down Hydra Market, the Russian-language darknet marketplace specialized in drug dealing. The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international investigation conducted by the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) in partnership with U.S. billion euros in 2020 alone.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings. The group of teenagers who hacked Twitter hailed from a community that traded in hacked social media accounts.

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