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Weekly Update 369

Troy Hunt

Protect your identity now. here's a blog post about how stupid class actions like this are!

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YouTube Accounts Hijacked by Cookie Theft Malware

Hacker Combat

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. . and email.cz.

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USENIX Security ’23 – Account Security Interfaces: Important, Unintuitive, and Untrustworth – Distinguished Paper Award Winner

Security Boulevard

Authors/Presenters: Alaa Daffalla Marina Bohuk, Nicola Dell, Rosanna Bellini, Thomas Ristenpart Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths

Krebs on Security

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. Soon after, the attackers were able to use their control over his mobile number to reset his Gmail account password. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES.

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Bitwarden vs 1Password: Compare Top Password Managers

eSecurity Planet

The average internet user has somewhere around 100 accounts, according to NordPass research, meaning they have to track 100 different passwords or risk using the same one over and over. Vault health reports Directory sync Secure password sharing. Event logs 24/7 support Security audit and compliance. 1Password Overview.

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Verizon's 2025 DBIR: Threats Are Faster, Smarter, and More Personal

SecureWorld News

Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. James Scobey , CISO at Keeper Security: "Humans are always the weakest link in 'abuse of trust' attacks. According to our own research, 93% of cyber events involve targeting of backup repositories, and 80% of data thought to be immutable does not survive.

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Password Hygiene: LastPass Edition!

Approachable Cyber Threats

While LastPass may not have suffered a breach, it should be a wake up call to many who still use single-factor password-based authentication to their LastPass accounts and password vaults to do a little housekeeping. Credential stuffing is a tactic hackers commonly use to compromise internet accounts. What is LastPass?”

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