Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers, Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server, Microsoft Windows Win32k, and Progress WhatsUp Gold flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Exploiting it requires admin credentials and grants root access. ” reads the advisory.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 14, 2021

Intuit has informed TurboTax clients that some of their private and financial information was accessed by threat actors following what seems to be a sequence of account takeover attacks. The post Intuit Clients Warned of Hacked TurboTax Accounts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Intuit Inc.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2021

A researcher discovered multiple vulnerabilities in smart switches of Cisco’s Small Business 220 series, including some issues rated as high severity. Security researcher Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse has discovered multiple vulnerabilities Cisco’s Small Business 220 series smart switches. ” continues the advisory.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. This was an internal referral.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the key takeaways: Lower-tier hacks. No organization wants to find itself having to recover from a devastating ransomware hack – or dealing with an unauthorized intruder who has usurped control of its operational systems. The ongoing waves of Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon hacks are a good example of these lower-tier attacks.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Ptitsyn and his co-conspirators hacked not only large corporations but also schools, hospitals, nonprofits, and a federally recognized tribe, and they extorted more than $16 million in ransom payments.” Ransomware is the single most devastating cyberthreat to businesses today.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

However, the truth is that businesses of all sizes hold valuable data in their hands, and cybercriminals work to create new sophisticated attack methods to acquire this information. An unfortunate reality for SMBs is that 43% of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Noisy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As a small business, you’re likely concerned with drawing traffic and visitors to your site – but you may be attracting the wrong kind of attention. No matter how small your business is, you’re not too small to be hacked. In fact, 50% of small businesses in the US have been breached.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2024

Related: How weak service accounts factored into SolarWinds hack By comparison, almost nothing has been done to strengthen service accounts – the user IDs and passwords set up to authenticate all the backend, machine-to-machine connections of our digital world. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

If you’re a small business owner, it’s crucial to understand the significance of cybersecurity and the steps needed to safeguard your data, customers, and company reputation. The Financial Impact of Cyberattacks For small businesses, the financial consequences of a cyberattack can be devastating.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

And a lot of these were small businesses that were just holding on by their fingernails during COVID.” There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. ” A DARK CLOUD.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now fresh reports are in that a Chinese sponsored hacking group aka APT has stolen $20 million from US Covid relief funds, and the figure might vary as the probe in still underway on this note. The post Chinese hacking stories trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Hello again, FakeBat: popular loader returns after months-long hiatus TikTok ordered to close Canada offices following “national security review” Air fryers are the latest surveillance threat you didn’t consider Malwarebytes acquires AzireVPN to fuel additional VPN features and functionalities Large eBay (..)

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Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next. Breach victims can be individuals, small businesses, non-profits, or Fortune 500 companies.    Recycled credentials leaked online from company A could be used to access your account from company B, for example.

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next. Breach victims can be individuals, small businesses, non-profits, or Fortune 500 companies.    Recycled credentials leaked online from company A could be used to access your account from company B, for example.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Overview Scammers are creating ads impersonating PayPal from various advertiser accounts that may have been hacked. The ad displays the official website for PayPal, yet is completely fraudulent.

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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 the passkey won't be limited to your actual Facebook account. Because that passcode is tied to you, you're able to use it to sign into the same account everywhere.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Your IP address represents your digital identity online, hacking it not only allows attackers to access your device or your accounts, but it may cause even bigger damage. It does not allow a hacker to access your device or your accounts but it may cause even bigger damage. SecurityAffairs – Internet, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. “ Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Securitynumbers were not compromised.”. Thompson for the security breach.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2023

The post DOJ Cybercrime Watchdog’s First Settlement Signals Crackdown on Small Businesses appeared first on Security Boulevard. For more on the CMMC and the st eps that must be taken to comply with it, watch Apptega’s recent presentation with Valiant-X Enterprise , a CMMC 2.0 certified RPO.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

For example, we detected a Remcos campaign going after small businesses looking to get disaster loans. An email pretending to be from the US Small Business Administration carries a malicious IMG (disk image) attachment that leads to the notorious Remcos RAT. The ISO file contains a malicious SCR file, which is Remcos.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

That data included approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers on U.S. “Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” Capital One said in a statement posted to its site.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2020

But the Secret Service discovered his various accounts at these data brokers and had them shut down one by one. Ngo became obsessed with restarting his business and maintaining his previous income. “But I firmly believe the people doing fraudulent small business loans and unemployment claims cut their teeth on his website.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

The cost of ransomware attacks accounts for 21 percent of the overall expenses, while the cost of malicious insider accounts for 15 percent. Which is the impact of cybercrime on small business? According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For most small businesses, the chances of falling prey to a long-term covert surveillance operation by well-resourced, likely state-backed actors are slim. This shows that stealthily surveilling a network is not a tactic exclusive to highly sophisticated threat actors targeting enterprise businesses.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

Many of Kaseya’s customers are managed service providers, using Kaseya’s technology to manage IT infrastructure for local and small businesses with less than 30 employees, such as dentists’ offices, small accounting offices and local restaurants. SecurityAffairs – hacking, REVIL). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords. bank accounts. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. .

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

Over 50 countries sign the “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” Watch out for these 3 small business cybersecurity mistakes. The post A week in security (May 2 – 8) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

Microsoft reported that at least one China linked APT group, tracked as HAFNIUM , chained these vulnerabilities to access on-premises Exchange servers to access email accounts, and install backdoors to maintain access to victim environments. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Defender). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

Many of Kaseya’s customers are managed service providers, using Kaseya’s technology to manage IT infrastructure for local and small businesses with less than 30 employees, such as dentists’ offices, small accounting offices and local restaurants. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Kaseya). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Cisco addressed tens of high-severity flaws, including some flaws in the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and in its small business routers. This week Cisco released security updates to address 67 high-severity vulnerabilities, including issues affecting Cisco’s AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and small business routers (i.e.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

Cisco revealed that security patches released in January to address flaws in Small Business RV320 and RV325 routers were incomplete. Cisco revealed that security updates released in January to address vulnerabilities in Small Business RV320 and RV325 routers were not complete. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The ransomware attacks that make headlines and steer conversations among cybersecurity professionals usually involve major ransoms, huge corporations and notorious hacking groups. These were mainly hit with well-known variants, sometimes unleashed by state-backed hacking groups. Securing small businesses in the crosshairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

Let’s see how your data can be hacked easily. Wi-Fi are now installed in each and every place regardless of the size of the place; from international airports to small kiosks, you can find an internet connection everywhere. To stay safe, log in to your accounts only if needed and sign out as soon as your task is done.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2023

Popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp was hacked and the data of dozens of customers were exposed. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp was hacked twice in the past six months. “Based on our investigation to date, this targeted incident has been limited to 133 Mailchimp accounts.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

July 18, 2022 – Around 30,000 websites get hacked every day , with the majority of those cyberattacks due to human error. A new study by HostingAdvice, the premier authority on web hosting, found that 32% of Americans say they’ve gotten hacked from visiting a sketchy website and of those, 53% got a computer virus. Gainesville, Fla.,

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