Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Cybernews research team discovered public access to the web directories that exposed thousands of credentials. Leaked credentials could have been used for credential stuffing attacks, which try to log into companies’ internet-connected tools such as VPN portals, HR management platforms, or corporate emails.

Backups 136

Backups Manufacturing Passwords Internet 136

Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2024

From Marco Polo to Modern Mayhem: Why Identity Management Matters madhav Tue, 04/09/2024 - 05:20 Imagine yourself as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant traversing dangerous trade routes. This is why we have Identity Management Day – a stark reminder in our digital world that protecting our virtual passports is vital. The key takeaway?

Identity Theft 64

Identity Theft Passwords Banking Password Management 64

Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Cybernews research team believes that the sensitive data was accessible for 15 months. file was indexed by IoT search engines was in March 2022, meaning that the data was exposed for at least 15 months. The file has since been closed and is no longer accessible to the public. An environment (env.)

Government 123

Government Identity Theft Social Engineering Encryption 123

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. These temporary employees will require immediate access to mobile catalogues, ordering systems, loyalty programs, and even point-of-sales (POS) systems. Access management risks of seasonal workers. The importance of effective access management.

Retail 71

Retail Authentication Data breaches Risk 71

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another. As documented by Group-IB, the group pivoted from its access to Twilio to attack at least 163 of its customers. 7, several employees at email delivery firm Mailchimp provided their remote access credentials to this phishing group.

Social Engineering 318

Social Engineering Mobile Cybercrime Passwords 318

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity recently contacted Sprint to let the company know that an internal customer support forum called “Social Care” was being indexed by search engines, and that several months worth of postings about customer complaints and other issues were viewable without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

Social Engineering 255

Social Engineering Telecommunications Data privacy Engineering 255

Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

Passwords 294

Passwords Accountability Hacking Data breaches 294

CSO Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

Endpoint security vendor Malwarebytes has announced the release of Mobile Security for OneView to enable managed service providers (MSPs) to protect Chromebooks, Android, and iOS devices against mobile threats such as ransomware and malicious apps.

Mobile 71

Mobile Social Engineering Engineering Technology 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The 2022 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index data , based on an Opinium survey conducted in 11 countries with more than 21K participants, attempts to answer these questions. Read the full 2022 Thales Consumer Trust Index and find out more about events around Cybersecurity Awareness Month. How do people perceive cybersecurity?

Authentication 127

Authentication Passwords Cybersecurity Data breaches 127

Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2022

The Python package ctx, which averages over 20,000 downloads per week, was compromised on the Python Package Index (PyPI), according to both forum and social media posts and a bevy of news reports. . The ctx package, now removed from PyPI, is a Python library for accessing Python dictionaries using dot notation. brooke.crothers.

Software 131

Software Media Accountability Risk 131

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The importance of identities is reflected in the recent strategy for a Zero Trust cybersecurity , published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In accordance with the memorandum, the strategy “places significant emphasis on stronger enterprise identity and access controls.”. The challenges of managing machine identities.

IoT 111

IoT Authentication Encryption Architecture 111

Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

owns and manages electricity networks and natural gas pipelines in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In this capacity, the company plans, constructs and maintains high, medium and low-voltage electricity networks and high, medium and low-pressure natural gas pipelines, which it owns or which it is responsible for managing.

Ransomware 121

Ransomware Passwords Cyber Attacks Hacking 121

Daniel Miessler

JANUARY 25, 2021

This is super useful for finding stuff that might no longer be indexed, or that might not even exist anymore but could show you something about how the creator/admin thinks. Somebody find me a manager. —. If you just run meg it’ll request all paths in file./paths paths on hosts in file./hosts hosts , and results are stored in./out/index.

Internet 364

Internet Internet Information Security 364

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Uninstall it immediately Microsoft Exchange flaw CVE-2024-21410 could impact up to 97,000 servers ConnectWise fixed critical flaws in ScreenConnect remote access tool More details about Operation Cronos that disrupted Lockbit operation Cactus ransomware gang claims the theft of 1.5TB of data from Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider (..)

Spyware 94

Spyware Cyber Insurance Hacking Advertising 94

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 15, 2021

A distant second to ransomware, the report says, was data theft (13%), followed by server access (10%). All three types of attack increased in comparison to 2019 numbers: +3% for ransomware, +8% for data theft, and +7% for server access. Double Extortion. Ransomware is undeniably the top attack type,” according to the report.

Ransomware 140

Ransomware Manufacturing Phishing Insurance 140

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

The Thales 2024 Trust Index report indicates that 87% of consumers expect vendors to respect their digital rights, which leads to trusted relationships. The finalized version might be accessible by late 2024. It fuels innovation, drives customer loyalty, and underpins successful digital transformation. Like DORA, PCI DSS 4.0

Risk 71

Risk Manufacturing Digital transformation Cybersecurity 71

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attackers will seek to gain SYSTEM or domain-level access in order to disable security tools, grab credentials with tools like Mimkatz and move laterally across the network. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are a common occurrence in almost every security compromise. Adobe said it is not aware of active attacks against any of these flaws.

DNS 273

DNS Internet Internet Cyber threats 273

Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2022

Why Are We Still Separating Credential Management and Machine Identity Management? A fragmented identity management landscape. In a widely distributed business and computing environment, where identities are now the new perimeter to defend, controlling the access to data is crucial. A holistic identity management program.

Cloud Migration 97

Cloud Migration Digital transformation Data breaches Authentication 97

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The leak consisted of publicly accessible environment files hosted on the flyflair.com website. Environment files are commonly used in software development to manage environment-specific settings or sensitive information such as API keys and database credentials. According to SimilarWeb, the website attracts 3.2

Identity Theft 123

Identity Theft Phishing Internet Internet 123

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

“A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. “Luckily, we fought them off well and they did not gain access to any important service.

Cryptocurrency 363

Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering 363

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2024

In our upcoming 2024 Digital Trust Index report, we reveal which companies are most trusted with data. Take Control Of Your Data The Thales Trust Index report reveals some surprising results, one of which is how privacy influences multiple categories of a person’s choice to engage with and trust a company. Privacy matters to all of us.

Data privacy 64

Data privacy Artificial Intelligence Data breaches Advertising 64

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Greg Wiseman , product manager at Rapid7 , said the Exchange flaw CVE-2022-41040 is a “critical” elevation of privilege vulnerability, and CVE-2022-41082 is considered Important, allowing Remote Code Execution (RCE) when PowerShell is accessible to the attacker. Today’s patch batch addresses both issues.

Internet 204

Internet Internet Cyber threats Engineering 204

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

Both projects are using an advanced set of JS-based obfuscation to protect the page from analysis managed by 3 scripts written in the same way. . The group was the pioneer of search in the indexed stolen data – allowing customers and employees of the affected companies to check exposed data.

Ransomware 83

Ransomware Passwords Data breaches Technology 83

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Researchers discovered 11 malicious Python packages in the PyPI repository that can steal Discord access tokens, passwords, and conduct attacks. This technique tricks the target’s package manager into downloading and installing the malicious module.

DNS 140

DNS Passwords Malware Hacking 140

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. “This means no Protected View for Microsoft Office documents, making it easier to get users to do sketchy things like execute malicious macros, said Greg Wiseman , product manager at security firm Rapid7. “This vulnerability could allow an attacker to appear as a trusted user when they should not be.

Social Engineering 193

Social Engineering Ransomware Software Engineering 193

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 12, 2022

Identity Management Day 2022: Identity Security Is Our Responsibility. Identity Management Day 2022 , sponsored by Identity Defined Security Alliance and National Cybersecurity Alliance, is a reminder to make identity management and digital identity security a priority. Tue, 04/12/2022 - 09:41. Identity, the next frontier.

Authentication 71

Authentication Digital transformation Data breaches Phishing 71

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

“On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” At the time it’s not clear for how long the database remained exposed online and of it was accessed by third-parties.

Data breaches 99

Data breaches DNS Advertising Engineering 99

Security Boulevard

APRIL 29, 2024

The Thales 2024 Trust Index report indicates that 87% of consumers expect vendors to respect their digital rights, which leads to trusted relationships. The finalized version might be accessible by late 2024. It fuels innovation, drives customer loyalty, and underpins successful digital transformation. Like DORA, PCI DSS 4.0

Risk 72

Risk Manufacturing Cybersecurity Digital transformation 72

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Thales Access Management Index 2022 Report: Still Many Steps Toward Zero Trust Security Despite Progress. The 2022 Thales Access Management Study is based on data from a survey of nearly 2,800 security professionals and executive leaders in more than 15 countries across the globe. Thu, 09/22/2022 - 05:32.

Authentication 71

Authentication Ransomware Technology Risk 71

Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2023

And that matters—in its Mobile Security Index 2022 report, Verizon reported that 45 percent of businesses suffered a major mobile-related compromise with lasting repercussions. Use a mobile device management (MDM) platform. IT teams use MDM to provision, deploy, and manage mobile devices.

Small Business 85

Small Business Mobile Phishing Authentication 85

eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

The Attack Surface Management team at Group-IB said it constantly scans the IPv4 landscape for exposed databases, potentially unwanted programs, and other risks. The open source Redis database management system (DBMS) was used by the majority of the exposed databases, followed by MongoDB and Elastic. Redis DBMS Tops the List.

Social Engineering 128

Social Engineering Internet Internet Risk 128

Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2022

“With this level of access, the attackers are able to disable local services such as Endpoint Detection and Security tools. With SYSTEM access they can also deploy tools like Mimikatz which can be used to recover even more admin and domain level accounts, spreading the threat quickly.”

Internet 226

Internet Internet Cyber threats Software 226

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Mobile device usage has become crucial to business agility and productivity for years but the number of compromised devices is growing too, as shown by the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2021 Report: 40% of respondents said that mobile devices are the company’s biggest IT security threat. Identity & Access Management.

Authentication 77

Authentication Risk Mobile Computers and Electronics 77

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 8, 2022

Verizon’s 2022 Mobile Security Index Report – Confirming what we all suspected. On the one hand, you get increased productivity and ease of access. However, most cybersecurity professionals saw this increased accessibility as an increased attack surface, and a prime opportunity for criminals. Identity & Access Management.

Mobile 71

Mobile Social Engineering Risk Threat Reports 71

Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2020

” For example, Satnam Narang from Tenable notes that two remote code execution flaws in Microsoft Color Management ( CVE-2020-1117 ) and Windows Media Foundation ( CVE-2020-1126 ) could be exploited by tricking a user into opening a malicious email attachment or visiting a website that contains code designed to exploit the vulnerabilities. .

Backups 276

Backups Software Risk Media 276

SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To access this embedded MachineGuid value, the malware locates the sequence “43 EB 8C BD 1D 98 3D 14” and reads the DWORD immediately following it. kr/UPLOAD_file/board/free/edit/index[.]php kr:443/admin/management/index[.]php net/skins/PHPMailer-master/index[.]php com/data/editor/index[.]php

Malware 109

Malware Software Cryptocurrency Technology 109

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2023

The 2022 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) notes that “strengthening cybersecurity” has become “even more relevant.” Data Security Identity & Access Management Liz Kelly | Social Program Manager More About This Author > Schema Businesses are in dire need of cybersecurity professionals.

Cybersecurity 115

Cybersecurity Education Technology Marketing 115