Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

As well as over 180,000 unencrypted Social Security Numbers (SSNs), along with tens of thousands of partial payment card numbers (last 4 digits) and expiration dates. A treasure trove for social engineers. Informing customers. CafePress has already settled with seven US states as a result of this data breach.

Data breaches 121

Data breaches Passwords Authentication Social Engineering 121

Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Social Engineering Malware Hacking 105

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

MongoDB on Saturday announced it is investigating a cyberattack that exposed customer account metadata and contact information. The cyber attack was discovered on December 13, 2023, and led to the exposure of customer account metadata and contact information. We detected suspicious activity on Wednesday (Dec.

Social Engineering 118

Social Engineering Data breaches Cyber Attacks Accountability 118

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The portal allows law enforcement agencies to request data relating to users (IP, phones, DMs, device info) or request the removal of posts and the ban of accounts. The threat actor is offering access for $700, and it appears it can have more than one existing account for the portal. ” Gal told Security Affairs.

Social Engineering 133

Social Engineering Identity Theft Accountability Engineering 133

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The attackers gained access to Okta’s customer support system by leveraging a service account stored in the system itself. The service account was granted permissions to view and update customer support cases. “The username and password of the service account had been saved into the employee’s personal Google account. .

Data breaches 121

Data breaches Social Engineering Accountability Authentication 121

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Police report containing accident details, as well as involved parties phone numbers, driver’s license information, name-surname, and national identifier.

Data breaches 97

Data breaches Insurance Identity Theft Education 97

Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported. A threat actor gained access to a tool used by the company’s customer support and account administration teams. You may want to warn everyone.

Phishing 116

Phishing Data breaches Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 116

Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

file exposed information that attackers could employ for lateral movement within the ministry’s systems, potentially escalating to anything from account takeover to a ransomware attack. With access to government SMTP credentials, attackers can impersonate government officials or employees to conduct social engineering attacks.

Government 124

Government Identity Theft Social Engineering Encryption 124

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

This means companies have to be proactive and instill the right habits, which often means resisting the bad habits that lead to millions of successful cyberattacks every year – from the use of generic and easy-to-crack account credentials to the willingness to click on suspicious links and attachments in emails from untrusted sources.

Social Engineering 145

Social Engineering Password Management Passwords Phishing 145

Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2024

Episode 324 features discussions on a significant AT&T data breach affecting 73 million customers and a sophisticated thread jacking attack targeting a journalist.

Data breaches 69

Data breaches Accountability Social Engineering Data privacy 69

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

Mobile 92

Mobile Telecommunications Data breaches Identity Theft 92

Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2023

Threat actors targeted the company’s employees and contractors to gain access to an internal support and account admin tool. “On January 11, the Mailchimp Security team identified an unauthorized actor accessing one of our tools used by Mailchimp customer-facing teams for customer support and account administration.

Social Engineering 84

Social Engineering Small Business Marketing Accountability 84

Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an adaptive phishing campaign, attackers gather specific information about victims through various sources, such as social media, public websites, and previous data breaches. This data is then used to tailor attacks, making them more convincing and harder to detect. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

Phishing 108

Phishing Education Social Engineering Media 108

SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

The global average data breach cost is $4.24 Human error accounts for 95% of all data breaches. According to PurpleSec, 98% of cybercrime relies on social engineering to accomplish it. Ransomware is malware that encrypts the victim's data and demands a ransom for its decryption.

Cybercrime 87

Cybercrime Social Engineering Data breaches Cyber threats 87

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The attackers gained access to Okta’s customer support system by leveraging a service account stored in the system itself. The service account was granted permissions to view and update customer support cases. Cloud identity and access management firm has no evidence that this information is being actively exploited.

Social Engineering 107

Social Engineering Authentication Engineering Accountability 107

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a world dominated by a countless number of malicious and fraudulent cyber threat actor adversaries including the rise of the "penetration testing" crowd whose ultimately goal is to actually lower down the entry barriers into the World of Information Security potentially resulting in thousands of ethical and unethical penetration testing aware users (..)

Penetration Testing 72

Penetration Testing Cybercrime Data breaches Social Engineering 72

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Since passports contain a significant amount of personal information, including full names, date of birth, and a unique passport number, cyber criminals could use them to impersonate victims and steal their identities,” the team said. Cybercrooks can also use stolen IDs to create counterfeit passports for traveling purposes.

Identity Theft 117

Identity Theft Social Engineering Banking Risk 117

Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

The exposed records include email addresses full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, LinkedIn username and profile URL, personal and professional experience/background, genders, and other social media accounts and usernames. Passwords are not included in the archive. ” reported RestorePrivacy.

Identity Theft 144

Identity Theft Social Engineering Media Hacking 144

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate has started an investigation into the security breach, according to preliminary data, threat actors had access to the Revolut database through the use of social engineering techniques. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

Social Engineering 93

Social Engineering Data breaches Scams Engineering 93

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

Data breaches 88

Data breaches Social Engineering Ransomware Malware 88

Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

Samples from the archive shared by the author include full names, email addresses, links to the users’ social media accounts, and other data points that users had publicly listed on their LinkedIn profiles. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online.

Social Engineering 138

Social Engineering Data collection Media Passwords 138

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

Xplain hack impacted the Swiss cantonal police and Fedpol Zyxel published guidance for protecting devices from ongoing attacks Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware CISA adds Progress MOVEit Transfer zero-day to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

Spyware 88

Spyware Hacking Malware Social Engineering 88

Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The news of the availability on a hacking forum of the personal information for 533,313,128 Facebook users made the headlines. I’ve had a heap of queries about this.

Data breaches 104

Data breaches Social Engineering Hacking Accountability 104

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The subject of the emails reads “Important Notification About Your Account” in an attempt to urge recipients to open it. Once opened, the email appears as a legitimate email communication from American Express, while the content instructs the cardholder on how to view the secure, encrypted message attached. Pierluigi Paganini.

Phishing 98

Phishing Scams Social Engineering Password Management 98

Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information. At this point, the bad actor has access to the information they were after.

Phishing 90

Phishing Social Engineering Small Business B2B 90

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

Data breaches 106

Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Phishing 106

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

The exposure of emails and passwords is dangerous, as malicious actors could use them for credential stuffing to try to access other accounts the victim might be using. Fraudsters may exploit the exposed personal information to impersonate the affected individuals and gain access to their financial accounts or other sensitive information.

Passwords 91

Passwords Identity Theft Scams Social Engineering 91

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Cybernews Usernames Names Government ID numbers (CURP) Phone numbers Email addresses Home addresses Dates of Birth Gender KYC status IP addresses used to register for an account IP addresses used to log in Deposit amounts Withdrawal amounts Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents.

Passwords 104

Passwords Identity Theft Social Engineering Spyware 104

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to the post created on September 4, the database also contains profiles of users who don’t have Clubhouse accounts, whose phone numbers might have been acquired by threat actors due to the company’s past insistence that users share their full contact lists with Clubhouse to use the social media platform. Spamming 3.8

Passwords 103

Passwords Media Scams Accountability 103

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. These findings imply that security teams should prepare for them in 2023. Overall, insider threats are becoming a more significant threat.

Social Engineering 84

Social Engineering Risk Technology Cybersecurity 84

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2022

. “Our investigation also led us to conclude that the same malicious actors likely were responsible for a brief security incident that occurred on June 29, 2022. The campaign, codenamed 0ktapus, resulted in the compromise of 9,931 accounts, 3120 compromised user credentials with email.

Social Engineering 104

Social Engineering Phishing Authentication Hacking 104

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Particularly determined attackers can combine information found in the leaked files with other data breaches in order to create detailed profiles of their potential victims. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts. Consider using a password manager to create strong passwords and store them securely.

Identity Theft 113

Identity Theft Passwords Social Engineering Phishing 113

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.

Social Engineering 123

Social Engineering Passwords Marketing Phishing 123

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

Malware 79

Malware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 79

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The VPN credentials for initial access are said to have been obtained from illicit websites like Russian Market with the goal of gaining control of T-Mobile employee accounts, ultimately allowing the threat actor to carry out SIM swapping attacks at will. ” wrote Krebs. – Source KrebsOnSecurity. ” wrote Krebs.

Mobile 97

Mobile VPN Social Engineering Telecommunications 97

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

According to Bloomberg News, the exposed data includes email addresses, mobile phone numbers, invoices, copies of identity documents and personal chat transcripts. The data were leaked online via the Twitter account “G0d” (@_0rbit) that has been suspended. It’s a lot of data that’s been dumped.”.

Social Engineering 93

Social Engineering Advertising Government Accountability 93

NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

The CIS Critical Security Controls can be seen as a roadmap for implementing a successful cybersecurity program. SANS is an organization dedicated to information security training and security certification, and the Critical Security Controls effort focuses on prioritizing security controls that have demonstrated real-world effectiveness.

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing Social Engineering Firewall Software 52