Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

This vulnerability grants attackers... The post CrossBarking Vulnerability in Opera Browser Allows Malicious Extensions to Hijack User Accounts appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2024

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder at third-party services that allow logins through Google’s “Sign in with Google” feature.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A study on phishing data released by Interisle Consulting finds that new gTLDs introduced in the last few years command just 11 percent of the market for new domains, but accounted for roughly 37 percent of cybercrime domains reported between September 2023 and August 2024. ”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Turns out the same thing is true for non-technical backdoors: The advisory said that the cybercriminals were successful in masquerading as law enforcement by using compromised police accounts to send emails to companies requesting user data.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Meta provided insight this week into the company’s efforts in taking down more than 2 million accounts that were connected to pig butchering scams on their owned platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Never give money to anyone you’ve met online Get a second opinion from someone you trust If in doubt, back away and report the account.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 8, 2025

More from TrendMicro While we wont be going into model poisoning or AI jailbreaks in this post, we will cover a method to abuse excessive Storage Account permissions to get code execution in notebooks that run in the AML service. The supporting Storage Account is named after the AML workspace name (netspitest) and a 9-digit number.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“This scale, combined with quick operational turnover of compromised credentials between CovertNetwork-1658 and Chinese threat actors, allows for the potential of account compromises across multiple sectors and geographic regions.” The average uptime for a CovertNetwork-1658 node is approximately 90 days.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

.” “That said, the phishing attacks stem from partners’ machines being compromised with malware, which has enabled them to also gain access to the partners’ accounts and to send the messages that your reader has flagged,” they continued. SecureWorks said these attacks had been going on since at least March 2023.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

.” But in June 2024 testimony to the Senate Finance Committee, it emerged that the intruders had stolen or purchased credentials for a Citrix portal used for remote access, and that no multi-factor authentication was required for that account. Last month, Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Authentication through device code flow is designed for logging printers, smart TVs, and similar devices into accounts. Rather than authenticating the user directly, the input-constrained device displays an alphabetic or alphanumeric device code along with a link associated with the user account.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Now, a cybercriminal using the monicker Jurak, leaked sensitive information related to roughly 12 million accounts, which allegedly stems from a breach that happened last year. Protecting yourself after a data breach Losing data related to a financial account can have severe consequences. Check the vendors advice. Take your time.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina. Click to enlarge.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2025

The Docusign Application Programming Interface (API) allows customers to send emails that come from genuine Docusign accounts, and they can use templates to impersonate reputable companies. Weve identified an unauthorized transaction made from your PayPal account to Coinbase: Amount: $755.38

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many companies had uploaded sensitive customer records to accounts at the cloud data storage service Snowflake that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2025

Caturegli said while he does have an account on Bugcrowd, he has never submitted anything through the Bugcrowd program, and that he reported this issue directly to MasterCard. The Russian search giant Yandex reports this user account belongs to an “Ivan I.” MasterCard’s request to Caturegli, a.k.a.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It's those credentials that are then sold in the stealer logs and later used to access the victim's accounts, which is the second exploitation. Another path had "ve", so it was off to Caracas and the Venezuelan victim's account was confirmed. You get the idea.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2025

They then compromised the legitimate accounts of paying customers. They combined those two things to create a fee-based platform people could use. It was a sophisticated scheme: The service contained a proxy server that relayed traffic between its customers and the servers providing Microsoft’s AI services, the suit alleged.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The email address used for those accounts was f.grimpe@gmail.com. Constella says that email address is tied to a Twitter/X account for Shoppy Ecommerce in Israel. Indeed, both StarkRDP and FloraiN have posted to their accounts on Telegram that there were no charges levied against the proprietors of 1337 Services GmbH.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Employees of these companies were tricked into clicking malicious attachments and links and filling in their email account login information on fake sites. With our law enforcement partners, we will continue to aggressively investigate, pursue, and hold accountable the crooks who perpetrate frauds online, wherever they are.”

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Its automated identity threat protection solutions leverage advanced analytics to proactively prevent ransomware and account takeover, safeguard employee and consumer accounts, and accelerate cybercrime investigations. About SpyCloud — SpyCloud transforms recaptured darknet data to disrupt cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 15, 2024

Squarespace bought all assets of Google Domains a year ago, but many customers still haven’t set up their new accounts. Experts say malicious hackers learned they could commandeer any migrated Squarespace accounts that hadn’t yet been registered, merely by supplying an email address tied to an existing domain.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

for phishing scams that stole millions by hacking email accounts. A Nigerian national was sentenced to 26 years in prison in the US for stealing millions by compromising the email accounts of real estate businesses. for phishing scams that resulted in the compromise of millions of email accounts. million in restitution.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Telegram account that abyss0 listed in their sales thread appears to have been suspended or deleted. Likewise, abyss0’s account on BreachForums no longer exists, and all of their sales threads have since disappeared. Maybe abyss0 found a buyer who paid for their early retirement.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Typically, I create the public and private keypair on my laptop and upload the public key to Amazon, which bakes my public key into the server’s administrator account. My laptop and that remove server are thus entangled, in that the only way to log into the server is using the key on my laptop.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

A senior government official at the finance ministry confirmed that attackers compromised some central bank accounts. “It is true our accounts were hacked into but not to the extent of what is being reported. billion shillings and that the stolen funds were transferred into accounts in Japan and the UK.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Merrill has been studying the evolution of several China-based smishing gangs, and found that most of them feature helpful and informative video tutorials in their sales accounts on Telegram. Another important innovation is the use of mass-created Apple and Google user accounts through which these phishers send their spam messages.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While hard to measure precisely, tech support scams accounted for $924M, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report. We’ve identified specific advertiser accounts that make up the bulk of fraudulent ads we have reported to Google this past year.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2025

The archives are offered for download on various locations like Dropbox, Catbox, and often on the Discord content delivery network (CDN), by using compromised accounts which add extra credibility. One of the main interests for the stealers seem to be Discord credentials which can be used to expand the network of compromised accounts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The 8Base ransomware group attacked Croatia’s Port of Rijeka, stealing sensitive data, including contracts and accounting info. The ransomware gang claims to have stolen sensitive data including accounting info and contracts. The Port of Rijeka (Luka Rijeka d.d.),

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Assuming the user manages not to fat-finger the wrong button on the umpteenth password reset request, the scammers will then call the victim while spoofing Apple support in the caller ID, saying the user’s account is under attack and that Apple support needs to “verify” a one-time code. ” Ken said.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2025

The “DoubleClickjacking” exploit bypasses protections on major websites, using a double-click sequence for clickjacking and account takeover attacks. Attackers can exploit the technique to facilitate clickjacking attacks and account takeovers on almost all major websites. ” Paulos Yibelo wrote.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

” According to Intel 471, this same Discord account was advertised in 2019 by a person on the cybercrime forum Cracked who used the monikers “ ORN ” and “ ori0n.” In 2022, Araneida told fellow Breached members they could be reached on Discord at the username “ Ornie#9811.” 2023 on the forum Cracked.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

“Those payments would instead be redirected to a financial account the perpetrators controlled, resulting in significant losses to victims,” the DOJ wrote. “These tools were also used to acquire victim user credentials and utilize those credentials to further these fraudulent schemes.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Stolen information offered for sale on the carding website included bank account, credit card, and debit card numbers and associated information for conducting transactions. seized $283,000 in cryptocurrency from an account linked to Sami as part of actions against the illicit activities of PopeyeTools. million in revenue.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Gen AI threats and quantum computing exposures must be accounted for. Attacks targeting identities rose 71% last year, with valid accounts as the top entry point. Transparent, traceable, and accountable AI practices are crucial to mitigate biases and align actions with ethical standards. The drivers are intensifying.

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