Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Rumors of a cracked version of Acunetix being used by attackers surfaced in June 2023 on Twitter/X , when researchers first posited a connection between observed scanning activity and Araneida. According to an August 2023 report (PDF) from the U.S. co — first came online in February 2023. 2023 on the forum Cracked.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2024

22, 2022, in which they offered the email address and password for 659 members of the Brazilian Federal Police. Additional reporting revealed National Public Data had inadvertently published its own passwords on the Internet. The company is now the target of multiple class-action lawsuits, and recently declared bankruptcy.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. The bot allowed the attackers to use the phished username, password and one-time code to log in as that employee at the real employer website. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Tip 2: Implementing Strong Password Policies Weak passwords can be easily compromised, giving attackers access to sensitive systems and data. LastPass reports that 80% of all hacking-related breaches leveraged either stolen and/or weak passwords.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2025

“tylerb”) fled the United Kingdom in February 2023, after a rival cybercrime gang hired thugs to invade his home, assault his mother, and threaten to burn him with a blowtorch unless he gave up the keys to his cryptocurrency wallet. Tyler Buchanan, being escorted by Spanish police at the airport in Palma de Mallorca in June 2024.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2025

In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court filing…

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 31, 2023

Best practices for securing your Mac against potential hacks and security vulnerabilities include enabling the firewall, using strong passwords and encryption, and enabling Lockdown Mode. The post 8 best practices for securing your Mac from hackers in 2023 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2025

The FBI has released a technical writeup (PDF) of the infrastructure used to manage the malicious Funnull domains between October 2023 and April 2025. vulnerability scanning and password brute force attacks) was being bounced through U.S.-based -based cloud providers before redirecting to malicious or phishous websites.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has begun notifying individuals affected by a December 2023 attack carried out by Russia-linked threat actors. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has started notifying individuals whose personal information was exposed in a December 2023 cyber attack. reads a Form 8-K filing with the SEC.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2025

In January 2023 a witness confirmed there had been a data breach, which prompted the Indiana OIG to initiate a wider investigation to assess compliance with the HIPAA rules and state laws. The company provided no HIPAA training for employees prior to November 2023. This investigation revealed extensive HIPAA violations.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

This is where a bot takes a password and email address that has been stolen and leaked online, and then tries those credentials across a myriad of services in the hope that its owner will have reused the password elsewhere. December 2024 saw around 330,000 such incidents, up from around 190,000 in December 2023. Protect your PC.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

11, 2023, USDoD resurfaced after a lengthy absence to leak sensitive employee data stolen from the aerospace giant Airbus , while promising to visit the same treatment on top U.S. USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 16, 2025

Those who fall for the scam are asked to provide payment card data, and eventually will be asked to supply a one-time password sent via SMS or a mobile authentication app. In October 2023, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a massive uptick in SMS phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service customers.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 29, 2024

Microsoft is reporting that a Russian intelligence agency—the same one responsible for SolarWinds—accessed the email system of the company’s executives.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

.” In a SIM-swapping attack, crooks transfer the target’s phone number to a device they control and intercept any text messages or phone calls sent to the victim — including one-time passcodes for authentication, or password reset links sent via SMS. In January 2024, U.S.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 21, 2024

According to Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence, almost 10 million devices, both personal and corporate, were attacked by information stealers in 2023. Kral In mid-2023, we discovered the Kral downloader which, back then, downloaded the notorious Aurora stealer. You will find a few excerpts from these below.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

The theme of RSA Conference 2023 — ‘stronger together’ — was certainly well chosen. Here are four evolving themes reverberating from RSAC 2023 that struck me: Password enabled access will endure for the foreseeable future. Related: Demystifying ‘DSPM’ This was my nineteenth RSAC.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In March 2023, Lumen Black Lotus Labs researchers uncovered a sophisticated campaign called HiatusRAT that infected over 100 edge networking devices globally. Starting in mid-June through August 2023, Black Lotus Labs observed multiple newly compiled versions of the HiatusRAT malware discovered in the wild.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. Mr. Shefel did not respond to requests for comment in advance of that December 2023 profile.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2024

The encrypted file, however, was protected by a four-character password, a decision that made it trivial for Binarly, and anyone else with even a passing curiosity, to crack the passcode and retrieve the corresponding plain text.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2023

“Stronger together” was the theme of RSA Conference 2023 , which returned to its pre-Covid grandeur under the California sunshine last week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Here are three evolving themes reverberating from RSAC 2023 that struck me: Getting a grip on identities Password enabled access will endure for the foreseeable future.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Apple says the iOS flaw ( CVE-2023-41064 ) does not seem to work against devices that have its ultra-paranoid “ Lockdown Mode ” enabled. Tracked as CVE-2023-36761 , it is flagged as an “information disclosure” vulnerability. ” The other Windows zero-day fixed this month is CVE-2023-36802.

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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. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories.

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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. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These flaws range from password exposure to... The post CVE-2023-34990 (CVSS 9.8): Critical Security Flaw Found in Fortinet FortiWLM appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It surfaced for the first time in late April 2023 and has since been publicly attributed to the APT actor Charming Kitten. <username>:<password>:systemupdate[.]info:<port>:<IP_address>:<port>:<IP_address>:<port> info Call the CheckDNSRecords function.

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SecureList

MAY 14, 2024

Incident response analyst report 2023 As an information security company, our services include incident response and investigation, and malware analysis. Our annual Incident Response Report presents anonymized statistics on the cyberattacks we investigated in 2023. This attack vector was among the three most frequently seen in 2023.

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The Hacker News

MAY 1, 2024

Tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score: 10.0), the maximum severity vulnerability could facilitate account takeover by sending password reset emails to an unverified email

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

Researchers published a proof-of-concept (PoC) code for the recently disclosed critical flaw CVE-2023-51467 in the Apache OfBiz. Researchers from cybersecurity firm VulnCheck have created a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the recently disclosed critical flaw CVE-2023-51467 (CVSS score: 9.8) in the Apache OfBiz.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

A flaw in Microsoft Outlook can be exploited to access NTLM v2 hashed passwords by tricking users into opening a specially crafted file. The vulnerability CVE-2023-35636 impacting Microsoft Outlook is a Microsoft Outlook information disclosure issue that could be exploited by threat actors to access NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hashed passwords.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Attackers inserted rogue JavaScript to capture usernames and passwords in real-time, enhancing lateral movement within networks. Since late 2021, the subgroup has targeted networks by modifying Outlook Web Access (OWA) sign-in pages and DNS configurations. This infrastructure technique is versatile, supporting operations globally.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

The attacker then moved via RDP to a server and attempted to deploy ransomware as a password-protected zip file, but the victims EDR tool blocked it. Ensure default passwords of IoT devices are changed to unique and complex ones.” Realizing EDR was active, they pivoted by scanning the network for vulnerable devices.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Methodology In this report, we present an analysis of financial cyberthreats in 2023, focusing on banking Trojans and phishing pages that target online banking, shopping accounts, cryptocurrency wallets and other financial assets. Cryptocurrency phishing saw a 16% year-on-year increase in 2023, with 5.84 million in 2022.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2022

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused. Image: KrebsOnSecurity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2024

Threat actors behind the ransomware attacks that hit Stanford University in 2023 gained access to 27,000 people. Stanford University confirmed that threat actors behind the September 2023 ransomware attack had access to 27,000 people. 27, 2023. . Stanford was breached last year by Clop Ransomware.

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