Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram says its testing new ways to use facial recognition—both to combat scams and to help restore access to compromised accounts. The social media giant is testing the use of video selfies and facial recognition to help users get their hijacked accounts back. What do you think?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2022

After a gloomy start with its first three breach intensive quarters, 2021 has finally ended, and on a positive note. Related: Cybersecurity experts reflect on 2021. Our analysis looked into data breaches that occurred from October to December 2021 (Q4) and compared them with the numbers from July through August 2021 (Q3).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

In November 2021, the USPTO accused Abtach of perpetrating “an egregious scheme to deceive and defraud applicants for federal trademark registrations by improperly altering official USPTO correspondence, overcharging application filing fees, misappropriating the USPTOs trademarks, and impersonating the USPTO.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

” According to Intel 471, this same Discord account was advertised in 2019 by a person on the cybercrime forum Cracked who used the monikers “ ORN ” and “ ori0n.” codes in 2021 using the password “ ceza2003 ” [full disclosure: Constella is currently an advertiser on KrebsOnSecurity].

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Google took over the top spot for malicious downloads from Microsoft OneDrive as attackers created free accounts, uploaded malware and shared documents with unsuspecting users, says Netskope.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2024

. “Don’t s**t where you live, travel local, and don’t go abroad,” Wazawaka wrote in January 2021 on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit. At several points throughout his career, Wazawaka claimed he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on darknet narcotics bazaars.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2025

Arctic Wolf researchers warn that threat actors actively exploit a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20035 (CVSS score of 7.1), in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) since at least January 2025. The vulnerability impacts SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v devices, the vendor addressed the vulnerability in September 2021.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many companies had uploaded sensitive customer records to accounts at the cloud data storage service Snowflake that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed). million customers.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2022

Crowdstrike is reporting that malware targeting Linux has increased considerably in 2021: Malware targeting Linux systems increased by 35% in 2021 compared to 2020. XorDDoS, Mirai and Mozi malware families accounted for over 22% of Linux-targeted threats observed by CrowdStrike in 2021. Lots of details in the report.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

“Those payments would instead be redirected to a financial account the perpetrators controlled, resulting in significant losses to victims,” the DOJ wrote. “These tools were also used to acquire victim user credentials and utilize those credentials to further these fraudulent schemes.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The most common targets of ransomware in the second quarter of 2021 were governmental, medical and industrial companies along with scientific and educational institutions, says Positive Technologies.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2021, law enforcement continued making a tremendous effort to track down, capture and arrest ransomware operators, to take down ransomware infrastructure, and to claw back ransomware payments. Related: The targeting of supply chains. In 2022 we expect to see more aggressive and complex ransomware efforts. Central importance of identity.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 22, 2021

If exploited, cyberattackers could bypass security products; install programs; view, change, encrypt or delete data; or create new accounts with more extensive user rights. The bug (CVE-2021-3438) has lurked in systems for 16 years, researchers at SentinelOne said, but was only uncovered this year. It carries an 8.8

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Prioritize fixing vulnerabilities exploited by Ghost, such as ProxyShell (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

CVE-2021-26855 is a “server-side request forgery” (SSRF) flaw, in which a server (in this case, an on-premises Exchange Server) can be tricked into running commands that it should never have been permitted to run, such as authenticating as the Exchange server itself. Microsoft credited researchers at Reston, Va.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 Dumpster fire? But hey, there was some positive stuff too, not least the bits about some of the wonderful organisations I've worked with this year, bought products from or otherwise just been a big part of my digital life in 2021. So many times throughout this week's video I came back to that theme.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Scammers who had already stolen someone’s bank account credentials could enter the target’s phone number and name, and the service would initiate an automated phone call to the target that warned them about unauthorized activity on their account. More on SMSRanger in an upcoming post. Just hang up, full stop.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to a security advisory from Redmond, the security hole CVE-2021-40444 affects the “MSHTML” component of Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions. Virtually every month in 2021 so far, Microsoft has been forced to respond to zero-day threats targeting huge swaths of its user base.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The operators maintain the botnet to launch distributed brute-force attacks on VPNs, Telnet, SSH, and Microsoft 365 accounts. These routers are used to relay brute-force attacks on Microsoft 365 accounts. In the majority of the campaigns, about 80 percent, CovertNetwork-1658 makes only one sign-in attempt per account per day.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible. The HaveIBeenPwned project, which collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps containing information about billions of leaked accounts, has incorporated the data into his service. According to a Jan.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The LockBit ransomware claims to have hacked accountancy firm Xeinadin threatens to leak the alleged stolen data. The LockBit ransomware claims responsibility for hacking the Xeinadin accountancy firm and threatens to disclose the alleged stolen data. Account balances. Xeinadin has over 60,000 clients across the UK and Ireland.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wazawaka has since “lost his mind” according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. Wazawaka, a.k.a. .”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 13, 2021

Interesting attack : Masquerading as UK scholars with the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the threat actor TA453 has been covertly approaching individuals since at least January 2021 to solicit sensitive information. The compromised site was configured to capture a variety of credentials.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

In January 2021, Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based NortonLifeLock announced Avira Crypto in late October 2021 , but multiple other antivirus products have flagged Avira’s installer as malicious or unsafe for including a cryptominer as far back as Sept. Founded in 2006, Avira Operations GmbH & Co. Avira Free Antivirus).

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Profile of participants and applications We collected the data from a sample of the application security assessment projects our team completed in 2021–2023. SQL Injection Most high-risk vulnerabilities in 2021–2023 were associated with SQL Injection. More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2022

In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. uk, where this user claimed ownership over the Telegram account @CookieDays , and said they could be hired to do software and bot development “of any level of complexity.” I AM DUCKERMAN. Sergey DuckerMan’s GitHub profile.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2024

A partial selfie posted by Puchmade Dev to his Twitter account. That story showed how Punchmade’s social media profiles promoted Punchmade-themed online stores selling bank account and payment card data. Incredibly, Turner acknowledges that PNC told him his account was flagged for attention from law enforcement officials.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2021

This is notable because ICQ numbers tied to specific accounts often are a reliable data point that security researchers can use to connect multiple accounts to the same user across many forums and different nicknames over time. Everyone’s account passwords were forcibly reset. Pass this information to people you know.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Google removed it from Play in 2021. It was also available in the Samsung app store and on signalplus[.]org, org, a dedicated website mimicking the official Signal.org. An app calling itself FlyGram, meanwhile, was created by the same threat actor and was available through the same three channels. This kind of thing is really scary.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Let's start with a poll: At your place of work, does your employer have the right to access the contents of your corporate email account if necessary? — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 19, 2021 The result of the poll is crystal clear but what's much less clear is the answers to the other questions above. Have an affair."

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

His alleged exploits include: The 2021 attack on Washington, D.C.'s In the past, Russia took similar steps against members of the REvil ransomware group, which was responsible for the Colonial Pipeline attack in 2021. indictments and sanctions, Matveev has operated openly in Russia, even mocking attempts to hold him accountable.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

9, 2021, using an unpatched critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-40539). That FBI warrant came on the heels of an investigation published by security firm FireEye , which examined an Iranian-based network of inauthentic news sites and social media accounts aimed at the United States., ” Update, 2:00 p.m., com, sachtimes[.]com,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

We don’t know much about the source of the November 2021 incident, other than GoDaddy’s statement that it involved a compromised password, and that it took about two months for the company to detect the intrusion. What else do we know about the cause of these incidents?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

" "The defendants allegedly preyed on unsuspecting victims in this phishing scheme and used their personal information as a gateway to steal millions in their cryptocurrency accounts," said Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.

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