Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts. .”

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The August 2022 security breach of LastPass may have been more severe than previously disclosed by the company.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. Protect your company computers, laptops and mobile devices with security products all managed via a cloud-based management console. Better compliance management.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below. ” SEPTEMBER. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The data breach suffered by LastPass in August 2022 may have been more severe than previously thought. The company engaged a leading cybersecurity and forensics firm to investigate the incident, at the time of disclosure it confirmed that the data breach did not compromise users’ Master Passwords.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 12, 2024

On July 12, 2024, AT&T disclosed a data security incident that occurred in 2022. A password manager can generate strong and unique passwords for every account. Today, identity applications require both authentication and end-to-end encryption to provide robust cybersecurity protection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

xyz pic.twitter.com/VLhISark8Y — Goldwave (@OGoldwave) March 13, 2023 The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly rotation of the C2 server. #ViperSoftX is back, doesn't look like much has changed. c2 arrowlchat[.]com ” concludes the report.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

On November 30, 2022, password manager LastPass informed customers of a cybersecurity incident following unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service. While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

The attack was largely reminiscent of a 2022 YouTube account hack that repurposed a 2018 interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook to fool viewers into following a separate cryptocurrency scam. When people and businesses reuse passwords across accounts, hackers find an easy way in. Prevent intrusions and stop malicious encryption.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2023

The password management company LastPasss notified customers in late December about a recent security incident. The notice was posted as an update of the security incident previously reported in August of 2022, which also was updated and covered on November 30, 2022. It also generates strong passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2022

LastPass, a password management service offering company, has disclosed that it has suffered a data breach in an attack that might be linked to the August data leak where hackers stole vital information from the servers of the said company.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The third-party cloud storage service is currently shared by both GoTo and its affiliate, the password manager service LastPass. ” However, LastPass maintains that its “customer passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2023

Royal Ransomware gang has been active since September 2022 and demands a sum ranging between $1m to $11 million that needs to be paid in Bitcoins. To avoid these attacks, it is best to use protective security measures and keep data secure with encryption. Third is the news related to cybercrime and might interest the male folks!

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SecureWorld News

MAY 23, 2023

A nasty security flaw is leaving users of the KeePass password manager vulnerable to exploitation—namely, the ability to recover the master password in cleartext from those affected. However, it's crucial to note that this particular vulnerability does not reflect the inherent weaknesses of all password managers.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 12, 2025

It offers basic VPN functionality along with advanced features like data breach scanning and password manager integrations. Its hefty features include ad blocking, anti-malware, data breach scanning, and password manager functionality. Like IPVanish, NordVPN uses 256-bit AES encryption and has a strict no-logs policy.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

The Password management solution LastPass revealed that the threat actors had access to its systems for four days during the August hack. Password management solution LastPass shared more details about the security breach that the company suffered in August 2022. ” ?? . ” states the notice. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

LastPass disclosed a new security breach, threat actors had access to its cloud storage using information stolen in the August 2022 breach. Password management solution LastPass disclosed a new security breach, the attackers had access to a third-party cloud storage service using information stolen in the August 2022 breach.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

Data encryption. In the cloud era, data encryption is more important than ever. Hackers are constantly finding new ways to access data, and encrypting your data makes it much more difficult for them to do so. There are many different ways to encrypt your data, so you should choose the method that best suits your needs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

Slack announced that it is resetting passwords for about 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces. This issue was reported by an independent security researcher and disclosed to Slack on 17 July 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Password management software firm LastPass disclosed a “second attack,” a threat actor used data stolen from the August security breach and combined it with information available from a third-party data breach. Website URLs) and 256-bit AES-encrypted sensitive (i.e. ” reads the update published by the company.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Apple's passkey works like a password in that it is built into entry boxes where you put your password. A video demonstrating passkey's use in Apple's WWDC 2022 event shows a prompt on the user's device before sign-in or during account creation, asking if they would like to "save a passkey" for the account in use.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2024

Keeper and Bitwarden are password manager products that help your business manage its application credentials across all platforms. Bitwarden is great for mid-sized businesses and teams that want to self-host a password manager. Keeper is a strong solution for both small businesses and large enterprises.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in November 2022 you may have heard that the password manager company LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers had stolen password vaults containing data for more than 25 million users. That being said, it’s not that far fetched that passwords are being broken - even randomly generated ones created in LastPass.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalytic attacks target operating systems that purposely avoid storing passwords in plaintext – and, instead, store a cryptographic hash of the password.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2022

” (Friday in this demand is March 4, 2022). The group claimed Nvidia had hacked back to encrypt the group’s virtual machine with the data, although later toned that down to “Nvidia tried but failed, we have all the data”. Passwords managers help you because: You don’t have to memorize all your passwords anymore.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 14, 2022

Second is the news related to a SOVA software that has added ransomware capabilities to itself to evolve into a malicious software that encrypts files on mobile devices. On August 14th, 2022 OneTouchPoint, fondly known as OTP, issued a public statement confirming a ransomware attack that took place on its servers on April 28th, 2022.

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SecureList

AUGUST 27, 2024

First detected by DCSO researchers in November 2022, HZ Rat initially targeted Windows systems and received commands in the form of PowerShell scripts. Technical details Despite not knowing the malware’s original distribution point, we managed to find an installation package for one of the backdoor samples.

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SecureList

APRIL 21, 2025

Among these threats, Lumma Stealer has emerged as a particularly sophisticated player since its introduction in 2022 by the threat actor known as Lumma. The encrypted payload To decrypt the payload independently, we wrote a custom Python script that you can see in the screenshot below. shop stogeneratmns[.]shop shop fragnantbui[.]shop

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Apple Apple introduced support for passkeys at its 2021 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) as a tech preview, introduced broader support at WWDC 2022 and announced additional features at WWDC 2023. Google Password Manager On Android, the Google Password Manager provides backup and syncs passkeys.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

GHS confirmed the incident took place on June 28th,2022 and concluded that an unauthorized access took place on its servers leaking patient data to hackers and locking down the systems with encryption- meaning it was a ransomware attack. And the affected companies are mostly from IT and software development sector.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On September 20, 2022, the official Twitter account for 2K Support tweeted an important message from the Customer Support team. Depending on how your browser stores the passwords, you may have to do the same for every password that the browser remembers for you. Extra precautions. Enable 2FA wherever possible.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

Google addressed 3 actively exploited flaws in Android Iran-linked APT TA453 targets Windows and macOS systems Bangladesh government website leaked data of millions of citizens A man has been charged with a cyber attack on the Discovery Bay water treatment facility Progress warns customers of a new critical flaw in MOVEit Transfer software CISA and (..)

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 26, 2021

The online gaming industry has exploded in recent years and is expected to generate close to $200 billion in revenue by 2022. When using a mobile phone to conduct personal tasks like accessing a bank account, avoid using public Wi-Fi and use your phone provider’s network to connect to the internet as the cellular network is encrypted.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

While Royal ransomware is a relatively new strain, discovered by security researchers in September 2022, cyberattacks on healthcare organizations have become the norm for malicious threat actors. They deploy Cobalt Strike for persistence, harvest credentials, and move laterally through the network until encrypting the files.

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