Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2023

There’s some bad things lurking in search engine results waiting to compromise your Facebook account. However, the real aim of the game here is to compromise Facebook accounts. Before sending the stolen cookies, they are encrypted as a way to try and discreetly get them off the target system.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Hiring Data Recycling Security Engineers Smart? Organizations today still have a massive problem with phishing attacks, ransomware, account takeaways, and social engineering. Enabling DLP and encryption on every outbound email would be a fantastic place to help stop data exfiltration. Being secure is everything!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

The MultiLogin endpoint endpoint is an internal mechanism that allows the synchronization of Google accounts across services. This endpoint receives a vector containing account IDs and auth-login tokens for efficiently handling concurrent sessions or seamlessly transitioning between user profiles. ” continues the report.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. . and email.cz.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Don’t be afraid of social engineering attacks this Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In the spirit of this year’s theme, we created a parody of the Monster Mash to share social engineering prevention tips far and wide. MFA is a multi-step process that requires users to enter more information than simply a password to log into an account.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks. The PMI portion forms part of each new meeting URL created by that account, such as: zoom.us/j/5551112222

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. Malware in Encrypted Traffic. A surprising 91.5

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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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. file was indexed by IoT search engines was in March 2022, meaning that the data was exposed for at least 15 months. The exposed env.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier. Stop malicious encryption.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt. Barrie said the hacker was able to read messages and notes left on escrow.com’s account at GoDaddy that only GoDaddy employees should have been able to see. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Use a secure (encrypted) email provider Which secure email provider should you use? Use private search engines Which search engines should you use? Avoid search engines like Google Search and Bing I’ve mastered this guide. Avoid using Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome Understanding “Incognito Mode” 2.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

WebAuthn-based authenticators use private keys that are not shared publicly and that can be stored securely on tamper-resistant hardware protected with strong encryption. Platform credentials (passkeys) that are synced using services like iCloud Keychain are encrypted in transit.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Ransomware attacks are strategically designed to either encrypt or delete critical data and system files, compelling organisations to meet the attackers’ financial demands. By keeping the encryption key on the infected device, ransomware may gradually encrypt files. How are victims of Ransomware exploited?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

The dashboard is designed for the biomedical engineering departments within the hospital environment. One flaw, which CISA warned has a high likelihood of exploit, is the dashboard’s use of hard-coded cryptographic keys that “significantly increases the possibility that encrypted data could be recovered” by an attacker. “If

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

. “The actors customized previous ransomware binaries for the intended victim through the use of confidential information such as leaked accounts and unique company IDs as the appended file extension. Upon further analysis, we have learned that these flags are used for intermittent encryption.” ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and the muPDF/Subliminal Recording software installer have been backdoored to perform a wide range of social engineering campaigns that started in April 2022. Then they moved the conversation away from the platform to encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 14, 2024

Tuta Mail introduced TutaCrypt, a protocol engineered to bring email encryption into the post-quantum era. Our users can now communicate with unprecedented levels of encryption strength, resilient against the most sophisticated cyber adversaries, including quantum computing.”

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Anton on Security

APRIL 13, 2023

this makes shared fate such a HUGE need, to be sure; and, yes, this means that we have work to do in this area ] Specifically, “ Weak passwords accounted for nearly half of observed incidents in the fourth quarter of 2022” Also, “ the rise in API compromise in Q3 maintained course, being a factor in nearly 1/5th of incidents” [A.C.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

ThyssenKrupp AG is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. The confidential information accessed by the attackers included the SSN and bank account information of employees. In August 2020, ThyssenKrupp System Engineering was hit by the Mount Locker ransomware group.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. That explains why over 80 percent of data breaches start with weak, reused, and stolen passwords through password phishing, social engineering, brute force attacks and credential stuffing. Related: The coming of passwordless access. O’Toole.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2023

CircleCI revealed an engineer's laptop was successfully infected with a yet-to-be-named information-stealing Trojan, which was used to steal an engineer's session cookie. In this case, the account wasn't just protected by a password, it was also protected by some form of two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. In H2 2020, 39.3% In H2 2020, 39.3%

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

com , which says it belongs to a Las Vegas-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing concern generically named both United Business Service and United Business Services. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. UBSagency’s website is hosted at the same Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. For example, the Lockbit 2.0 “Would you like to earn millions of dollars?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

An estimated 60% of research and development in scientific and technical fields is carried out by private industry, with academic institutions and government accounting for 20% and 10%, respectively, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. NTT Group, for instance, typically spends more than $3.6

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Data Level: Encrypting sensitive data at rest and in transit is crucial to securing information. A prime example is the healthcare sector, where the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates encryption to protect patient health information.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To help stay protected and ensure their information remains safe, military members should consider using lockable filing cabinets, shredding documents, and using encrypted digital storage. Strong Password Practices It is crucial to use complex and unique passwords for all accounts, military and personal.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2023

A user can then connect this decentralized identity to encrypted decentralized storage to store their personal data. For instance, to hack decentralized end-to-end encrypted data, a hacker must compromise multiple nodes on the storage network to gain access to the data. This often tempts users to reuse their old credentials.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

German multinational industrial engineering and steel production company ThyssenKrupp AG was the target of a cyberattack. German multinational industrial engineering and steel production giant ThyssenKrupp AG announced that the Materials Services division and corporate headquarters were hit by a cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Its metadata was then indexed by search engines and discovered by Cybernews researchers on October 17th. The exposed information could enable malicious actors to carry out identity theft, phishing attacks, unauthorized access to users’ accounts, and other nefarious actions. “In

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