Graham Cluley

MAY 20, 2025

pleaded guilty to charges related to the January 2024 hack of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Twitter account, which saw a fake announcement about the Bitcoin cryptocurrency posted to its followers. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Eric Council Jr.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

Motherboard obtained and published the technical report on the hack of Jeff Bezos's phone, which is being attributed to Saudi Arabia, specifically to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.investigators set up a secure lab to examine the phone and its artifacts and spent two days poring over the device but were unable to find any malware on it.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 24, 2022

News article. Accordingly, the policy clarifies that hypothetical CFAA violations that have concerned some courts and commentators are not to be charged.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2018

There are lots of articles about there telling people how to better secure their computers and online accounts. While I agree with some of it, this article contains some particularly bad advice: 1. I think twice about accessing my online bank account from a pubic Wi-Fi network, and I do use a VPN regularly.

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Graham Cluley

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Matthew Perry's official Twitter account was hijacked by scammers this week who attempted to solicit donations from well-meaning fans of the much-loved late actor. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. The post asked for cryptocurrency donations "to support our mission in battling addiction."

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Graham Cluley

AUGUST 29, 2024

Hackers who seized control of the official Instagram account of McDonald's claim that they managed to steal US $700,000 from unsuspecting investors by promoting a fake cryptocurrency. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta 251 million ($263M) for a 2018 data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts. “This data breach impacted approximately 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which approximately 3 million were based in the EU/EEA. ” reads the press release published by DPC.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Data breaches and account hacks are a growing concern for users, especially with the personal and professional information shared on the platform. If youre worried about your Instagram account being hacked , it's essential to take proactive steps to protect your data.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 12, 2020

According to Vice, the FBI had tried to hack into Hernandez's computer but failed, as the approach they used "was not tailored for Tails." The only acceptable outcome to us was Buster Hernandez facing accountability for his abuse of young girls," a Facebook spokesperson told Vice. Another article.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 13, 2024

Streaming company Roku has revealed that over 15,000 customers' accounts were hacked using stolen login credentials from unrelated data breaches. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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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. From the same ASD article: Stolen valid user credentials are highly valuable to cybercriminals, because they expedite the initial access to corporate networks and enterprise systems.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 27, 2024

There are many open-source intelligence tools on the Internet for finding information about a person's online presence on different social media accounts like Sherlock and Userrecon. Eyes: Email OSINT Tool It is based on an account search from an email address. Don't forget to bookmark future blogs on hacking and cybersecurity.

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Graham Cluley

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Multi-player online role-playing videogame "Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore" has suffered a ransomware attack which saw the deletion of every player's account and the loss of all characters. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

.” Declassified documents from Romania’s security services revealed that Calin Georgescu, the pro-Russian presidential candidate, was “aggressively” promoted on TikTok through coordinated accounts and paid ads. Calin Georgescu, initially polling in single digits before Romania’s Nov.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2021

Once the hacker is able to reroute a target’s text messages, it can then be trivial to hack into other accounts associated with that phone number. In this case, the hacker sent login requests to Bumble, WhatsApp, and Postmates, and easily accessed the accounts. But Sakari is only one company.

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The State of Security

MAY 17, 2022

The post Your social media account hasn’t been hacked, it’s been cloned! I don’t blame the family member for using it, I’ve seen it used hundreds of times over the past few years and I’ve seen IT and […]… Read More. appeared first on The State of Security.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 9, 2021

Adam Levin spoke with NPR about the recent data archive of over 500 million Facebook accounts found on a hacking forum. Read the article here. “It’s serious when phone numbers are out there. The danger when you have phone numbers in particular is a universal identifier,” said Levin.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2025

Once a device was infected, the perpetrators could use SMS banking services to transfer money from victims’ bank cards to mobile operator accounts and electronic wallets under their control.” ” Russian authorities in Saratov have launched criminal cases under Articles 159.6

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“The FBI and CISA [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ] are aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account,” reads the FBI statement. Until sometime this morning, the LEEP portal allowed anyone to apply for an account. gov or www.cisa.gov.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

Google has for years accepted requests to remove certain sensitive data such as bank account or credit card numbers from search results. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums. In such cases, we won’t make removals.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus firm Bitdefender shows that 8.4 billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. million customers of MGM Resorts was found posted on a hacking forum. MGM Resorts (10.6 Marriott (5.2

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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Graham Cluley

AUGUST 17, 2023

Security researchers have identified that a widespread LinkedIn hacking campaign has seen many users locked out of their accounts worldwide. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape CISA Releases Malware Analysis Report on RESURGE Malware Associated with Ivanti Connect Secure Unboxing Anubis: Exploring the Stealthy Tactics of FIN7’s Latest Backdoor Advancements in delivery: Scripting with (..)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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Graham Cluley

JANUARY 24, 2024

The US Securities & Exchange Comission (SEC) has confirmed that hackers managed to seize control of a phone number associated with its Twitter account, and used it to post an unauthorised message. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. It was also the first major Olympics event where organizers braced for hacking related impact.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Sarcoma Ransomware Unveiled: Anatomy of a Double Extortion Gang RVTools Bumblebee Malware Attack How a Trusted IT Tool Became a Malware Delivery Vector Malicious Checker Packages on PyPI Probe TikTok and Instagram for (..)

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Graham Cluley

MAY 30, 2023

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but scammers have once again succeeded in stealing a lot of money from cryptocurrency investors.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

I wrote an article recently on how to secure your home network in three different tiers of protection. Many people get hacked from having guessable or previously compromised passwords. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

This makes the data more likely to be hacked and stolen. Here's another article that makes basically the same points I did: But the rapid shift to remote working will inevitably create or exacerbate gaps in security. Three, employees are more likely to access their organizational networks insecurely.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 7, 2023

A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. News articles. Congress wants answers.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

New estimates are that 30% of the SolarWinds victims didn’t use SolarWinds: Many of the attacks gained initial footholds by password spraying to compromise individual email accounts at targeted organizations. The New York Times has repeated this attribution — a good article that also discusses the magnitude of the attack.)

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