SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

In its 17th edition, Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) continues to deliver one of the most comprehensive analyses of cyber incidents worldwide. Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. And it's not slowing down." The median time to click was just 21 minutes. Your response must be equally fast."

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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. 10, 2025 by a China-based SMS phishing service called “Lighthouse.” Reports of similar SMS phishing attacks against customers of other U.S.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In 2024, Malwarebytes detected more than 22,800 phishing apps on Android, according to the recent 2025 State of Malware report. They dont crack into password managers or spy on passwords entered for separate apps. There are plenty of phish in the sea, and the latest ones have little interest in your email inbox.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2025

Monitor your accounts. Check your accounts periodically for unexpected changes and notifications of suspicious login attempts. Use a different password for every online account. Choose a strong password that you dont use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

But in its 2025 Bad Bot Report , application security company Imperva claimed this is the first time traffic from bots became more prevalent than human traffic. Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. An increasing number try to hijack peoples’ online accounts, which they often do by credential stuffing.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

This is a news item roundup of privacy or privacy-related news items for 16 MAR 2025 - 22 MAR 2025. While MFA is primarily a security feature, its primary privacy benefit is adding another layer of security to prevent unauthorized access to information contained in particular important or sensitive accounts.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. Lured in by similar color schemes, company logos, and familiar layouts, victims log in to their account by entering their username and password.

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Webroot

APRIL 30, 2025

In todays digital world, passwords have become a necessary part of life. May 1, 2025, is World Password Day , a reminder that passwords are the unsung heroes of cybersecurity, the first line of defense for all your sensitive personal data. World Password Day is more relevant than ever in todays evolving threat landscape.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

This aligns with prior findings that cybercriminals cracked master passwords from LastPass to carry out major heists. of stolen crypto between June 2024 and February 2025 to multiple exchanges, including OKX, Kraken, WhiteBIT, AscendEX, FixedFloat, SwapSpace, and CoinRabbit. ” reads the complaint. ” reads the complaint.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2025

Tax Services Department Important Tax Review and Update Required by 2025-03-16! This update must be completed by 2025-03-16 to avoid any potential penalties or disruptions to your account. Entering your password will send your credentials to a Russian receiver, who will decide what the most profitable way to use them is.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2025

Original Image: pic.twitter.com/ppK8pj0qGW — Rey (@ReyXBF) May 7, 2025 BleepingComputer analyzed the leaked database and reported that it has 20 tables, including BTC addresses, builds with target names, build configurations, 4,442 victim chat logs, and user data with plaintext passwords. ” states BleepingComputer. .

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2025

19, 2025, CyberNewswire — The average corporate user now has 146 stolen records linked to their identity, an average 12x increase from previous estimates, reflecting a surge in holistic identity exposures. billion passwords were recaptured in 2024, marking a 125% increase from the previous year. Austin, TX, Ma.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2025

The compromised database contains approximately 6 million lines of data, including critical assets such as JKS files, encrypted SSO passwords, key files, and enterprise manager JPS keys. Immediate mitigation measures include: Resetting passwords, particularly for privileged LDAP accounts. (region-name).oraclecloud.com),

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2025

On May 11, 2025, the company received a ransom demand from a threat actor claiming to have customer and internal data. After a ransom email in May 2025, the company confirmed the breach was part of a single coordinated campaign that successfully exfiltrated internal data. “Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. These findings come from the 2025 State of Malware report. By 2018, TrickBot was the largest threat to businesses.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2025

Threat actors are exploiting a recently discovered vulnerability, tracked asCVE-2025-3102(CVSS score of 8.1) “This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create administrator accounts on the target website when the plugin is installed and activated but not configured with an API key.” on April 3, 2025.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential madhav Thu, 05/08/2025 - 04:47 Phishing attacks are one of the most pervasive and insidious threats, with businesses facing increasingly sophisticated and convincing attacks that exploit human error.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This is a news item roundup of privacy or privacy-related news items for 9 FEB 2025 - 15 FEB 2025. The more accounts you have, the bigger your attack surface and potential exposure to data breaches. Tips for finding old accounts. CVE-2025-21418. The Cupid Vault Configuration follows a similar approach.

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SecureList

APRIL 29, 2025

We identified an odd authorized SSH key for a user called suporte (in a Portuguese-speaking environment, this is an account typically used for administrative tasks in the operating system). Such accounts are often configured to have the same username as the password, which is a bad practice, making it easy for the attackers to exploit them.

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Passwords Authentication System Administration Malware 101

Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2025

SonicWall patches three SMA 100 vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-32819, CVE-2025-32820, and CVE-2025-32821), including a potential zero-day, that could be chained by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Rapid7 researchers discoveredthe vulnerabilities in April of 2025. ” reads the advisory. .”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Level Up Your Security: Embrace Passkeys and Phishing-Resistant 2FA andrew.gertz@t Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:17 Celebrate Change Your Password Day and 2FA Day by embracing passkeys and phishing-resistant 2FA. Redefining Change Your Password Day Well start with Change Your Password Day because, frankly, its a little complicated.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 2, 2025

Although Hudson Rock flagged the credentials years ago, Samsung reportedly failed to rotate or secure them, allowing the hacker to access the system years later, in 2025, and release the data. Identity theft and account takeover: By impersonating customers using leaked support tickets, hackers can gain unauthorized access to accounts.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This letter will also include details about free access to 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian for which you must enrol by June 30, 2025. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 15, 2025

Hertz acknowledged that it was one of the victims: On February 10, 2025, we confirmed that Hertz data was acquired by an unauthorized third party that we understand exploited zeroday vulnerabilities within Cleos platform in October 2024 and December 2024. Change your password. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Password manager: Norton generates strong passwords and syncs logins across all your protected devices. I recommend McAfee if you’re looking for features like social media privacy, personal data monitoring, and scans of old internet accounts. Like Norton, the Total Protection plans include a VPN and password manager.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2025

This includes sensitive data like the serverconfig.xml file, which contains hashed admin and technician passwords, LDAP credentials, and other secrets, all encrypted with a hardcoded key. 6, 2025: Horizon3.I This grants access to customer machines and makes the server vulnerable to further exploits.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2025

At this stage we do not have any information to suggest that customers accounts and wallets have been directly compromised.” MTN urges customers to stay vigilant by placing fraud alerts, updating apps, using strong passwords, avoiding suspicious links, and enabling multifactor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2025

11, 2025, CyberNewswire — GitGuardian , the security leader behind GitHub’s most installed application, today released its comprehensive “2025 State of Secrets Sprawl Report,” revealing a widespread and persistent security crisis that threatens organizations of all sizes. Boston, Mass.,

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 8, 2025

By purchasing prominent Google Ads, they are creating highly convincing fake login pages designed to pilfer sensitive information, including usernames, passwords, and even one-time passcodes (OTPs) the keys to someone’s financial data needed for tax compliance. Malicious QuickBooks domains quicckboocks-accounting[.]com

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SecureList

MARCH 11, 2025

Attackers create fake accounts or use stolen ones, then upload videos advertising cheats, cracks, gaming bots and similar software. The link points to a legitimate file-sharing service where a password-protected archive awaits, the password for which is also in the video description.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These new features will be available to the Windows Insider Program community sometime in early 2025. Users will be given standard user accounts by default. Improving Identity Protection According to Microsoft’s Entra ID data, more than 600 million identity attacks occur daily, and 99% of them are password based.

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Financial services industry: Banks, insurance companies and other financial organizations offer a wealth of opportunity for hackers who can use stolen bank account and credit card information for their own financial gain. They can open accounts in your name, apply for loans, and even file false tax returns.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

4, 2025, CyberNewswire — SpyClouds Identity Threat Protection solutions spearhead a holistic identity approach to security, illuminating correlated hidden identity exposures and facilitating fast, automated remediation. Austin, TX, Feb.

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Cybercrime Accountability Phishing Malware 124

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This includes sensitive data like the serverconfig.xml file, which contains hashed admin and technician passwords, LDAP credentials, and other secrets, all encrypted with a hardcoded key. 6, 2025: Horizon3.I CISA orders federal agencies to fix this vulnerability byMarch 6, 2025. reads the report published by Artic Wolf.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2025

The threat actor exploited CVE-2024-55591 and CVE-2025-24472 in FortiOS and FortiProxy to gain super-admin access on vulnerable Fortinet appliances. “CVE-2024-55591 and CVE-2025-24472 allow unauthenticated attackers to gain super_admin privileges on vulnerable FortiOS devices (<7.0.16) with exposed management interfaces.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2025

Mar 28, 2025, CyberNewswire — From WannaCry to the MGM Resorts Hack, ransomware remains one of the most damaging cyberthreats to plague enterprises. It can then systematically reset the password of these apps with AI agents, logging the users out on their own and holding enterprise data stored on these applications hostage.

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Antivirus Ransomware Social Engineering Engineering 147

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

and Dutch authorities participated in the operation, the police seized the domains on January 29, 2025. Those payments would instead be redirected to a financial account the perpetrators controlled, resulting in significant losses to victims.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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