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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings. The group of teenagers who hacked Twitter hailed from a community that traded in hacked social media accounts.

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The Stealthy Success of Passkeys

IT Security Guru

More complex, generated passwords are better, but this inspires bad actors to turn to social engineering to wheedle the secrets out of the human user rather than spend time and resources trying to crack the code. The weak point of all passwords is that the secret, once revealed, is useless as a defence.

Passwords 101
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NEW TECH: ‘Passwordless authentication’ takes us closer to eliminating passwords as the weak link

The Last Watchdog

The hitch, of course, is that password-enabled account logins are too deeply engrained in legacy network infrastructure. Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services.