Malwarebytes

MARCH 25, 2025

That has worried some experts who have pointed out that a new owner could, for instance, hand over customer data to insurance companies to hike up monthly premiums, or to data brokers to power increasingly invasive, targeted advertising. SCAN NOW If your data was exposed in the 23andMe breach, here is what you can do: Change your password.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

TL;DR Strong passwords : Use a password manager. This makes it harder for unauthorised users to gain access even if they have your password. Secure networks : Avoid using untrusted public Wi-Fi to access social media accounts, instead, use mobile data.

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

One of the cases with probable Chinese origins, for example, found ChatGPT accounts generating social media posts in English, Chinese, and Urdu. What the report found In each of the 10 cases outlined in the new report, OpenAI outlined how it detected and addressed the problem.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With stolen passwords, the impact is even broader; hackers could wire funds from a breached online banking account into their own, or masquerade as someone on social media to ask friends and family for money. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2023

Atomic macOS Stealer is a new information stealer targeting macOS that is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month. Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) recently discovered a Telegram channel advertising a new information-stealing malware, named Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS).

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Zero Day

JUNE 19, 2025

PT NurPhoto / Contributor/Getty For all of us who hate passwords, passkeys represent a simpler and safer way of authenticating online accounts. But adoption has been slow, with many companies and websites still relying on passwords. But the passkey won't be limited to your actual Facebook account.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

The social media platform Reddit has notified users that some of them have been locked out of their accounts after detecting suspicious activity. Reddit locked down a large number of user accounts after due to a security concern after detecting suspicious activity on them. . ” reads a post published by one of the Reddit admins.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

Here’s a screenshot of a subset of that seller’s current offerings, which total almost 1 Terabyte of stolen and hacked passwords: The 87GB “Collection1” archive is one of but many similar tranches of stolen passwords being sold by a particularly prolific ne’er-do-well in the underground.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2018

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. A YubiKey Security Key made by Yubico. a mobile device). a mobile device).

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Zero Day

JUNE 17, 2025

Enhanced protection Designed for people whose accounts contain particularly valuable files or sensitive information -- journalists, activists, executives, and people involved in elections -- Advanced Protection is Google's strongest mobile device protection program. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault. Notable Dashlane features: admin controls and extras. Dashlane pricing.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

While Google searches are probably one of the most common tasks for any vacation planning, the results that people see can be manipulated through a type of cybercrime called malvertising , short for “malicious advertising. Use a password manager and 2FA. Your most sensitive accounts shouldnt just have a unique password.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Adopting a shopping strategy of simply buying from the online merchant with the lowest advertised prices can be a bit like playing Russian Roulette with your wallet, for the simple reason that there are tons of completely fake e-commerce sites out there looking to separate the unwary from their credit card details. CHCEK THE SHIPPING.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Marriott is offering affected consumers a year’s worth of service from a company owned by security firm Kroll that advertises the ability to scour cybercrime underground markets for your data. Should you take them up on this offer? It probably can’t hurt as long as you’re not expecting it to prevent some kind of bad outcome.

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Zero Day

JUNE 19, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. All I needed was a stable network connection and a Microsoft account. I had my old Skype (RIP) account and logged in with that. Neither ZDNET nor the author are compensated for these independent reviews.

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SecureList

JUNE 25, 2025

This accounted for nearly 41% of all unique files detected, a 14-percentage point increase compared to 2024. Microsoft Office applications remained frequent targets for impersonation: Outlook and PowerPoint each accounted for 16%, Excel for nearly 12%, while Word and Teams made up 9% and 5%, respectively.

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Zero Day

JUNE 23, 2025

  The company added that the research exposes current gaps in safety infrastructure and the need for future AI safety and alignment research to account for this kind of dangerous misbehavior. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

. “While the group’s key infiltration vector to the exchange is usually through spear-phishing against the corporate network, the executives’ personal email accounts are the first to be targeted.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A few simple changes to your devices and accounts can help discourage cyber criminals from trying to access your data. Giants like Facebook and Target have suffered breaches and password leaks, so it’s safe to say data from at least one of your online accounts could have been leaked. Be Wary of Targeted Advertising.

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Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

If you accidentally install the software, it searches your gallery and sends your data to nefarious parties who can wipe out your wallet or target your other accounts.  Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

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Zero Day

JUNE 13, 2025

Enhanced protection Designed for people whose accounts contain particularly valuable files or sensitive information -- journalists, activists, executives, and people involved in elections -- Advanced Protection is Google's strongest mobile device protection program. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2019

BleepingComputer reported that one user received from Atlassian, the company behind Bitbucket and SourceTree, the following statement : “Within the past few hours, we detected and blocked an attempt — from a suspicious IP address — to log in with your Atlassian account. ” reads the note. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers. Once shared, advertisers have used this information to target ads at users for complimentary products (based on health data); this has happened multiple times in the past few years, including at GoodRx.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Henze has published a video PoC for the flaw that shows how to use malware to extract passwords from the local Keychain password management system. The attack is sneaky because it doesn’t require admin privileges for both the malicious app and the user account. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A video demonstrating passkey's use in Apple's WWDC 2022 event shows a prompt on the user's device before sign-in or during account creation, asking if they would like to "save a passkey" for the account in use. It also acts as a digital key that users create to access their apps or websites.

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Zero Day

JUNE 14, 2025

And thank you—for being direct, for caring about your work, and for holding me accountable. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use You were right to confront it. I take full responsibility for that choice. I'm genuinely sorry. You were 100% right to." " I mean, that's just creepy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

According to the popular investigator Brian Krebs that is investigating the incident, hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. Avoid reusing passwords across different services. Password manager apps can help.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The report also analyzed a PowerShell shell script that is part of the KeeThief open-source project, which allows the adversary to access encrypted password credentials stored by the Microsoft “KeePass” password management software. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Zero Day

JUNE 11, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. You truly choose your apps and services, down to deciding whether you use an account with your tablet or not.  This helps support our work, but does not affect what we cover or how, and it does not affect the price you pay.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2024

The third party it refers to is likely Snowflake, a cloud company used by thousands of companies to store, manage, and analyze large volumes of data. Yesterday, May 31st, Snowflake said it had “recently observed and are investigating an increase in cyber threat activity” targeting some of its customers’ accounts. Take your time.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

Blur is a popular password manager developed by the online privacy firm Abine, it also implements private browsing features and masked email. According to Abine, the exposed bucket was containing data related to users who had registered an account prior to January 6, 2018. According to SecurityWeek , roughly 2.4

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Before anyone views a camera or downloads or shares that camera's content, Wyze runs an instant check verification process to make sure the user ID on the content matches the one on the account trying to see it. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

Experts suggest to monitor for sequential login attempts from the same IP against different accounts, use a password manager and set strong, unique passwords … and of course adopt multi-factor authentication. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Limit access to the administrative portal and accounts to those who need them. Require strong administrative passwords(use a password manager for best results) and enable two-factor authentication. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The attackers were likely planning to run them automatically against multiple online services and compromise user accounts. Don’t reuse passwords! Always use a two-factor authentication mechanism when implemented by the service we access to, and use strong password that can be generated by password manager applications.

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