Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

This spy, likely connected to the infamous SparkCat data stealer that emerged earlier this year, focuses on sensitive data, such as seed phrases for crypto wallets. Also: How Avast's free AI-powered Scam Guardian protects you from online con artists According to Kaspersky, the malware targets iOS and Android devices.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2025

The stolen data supply chain and ecosystem Illicit data moves through a supply chain that mirrors any legal commodity business: The producers are hackers who breach cloud buckets, payroll portals, or point-of-sale systems and exfiltrate raw records. How stolen data is acquired Every underground listing begins with a breach.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The more accounts you have, the bigger your attack surface and potential exposure to data breaches. The research also shows that reCAPTCHA relies on fingerprinting (collecting "user agent data and other identifying information") and shares this data with advertisers. Tips for finding old accounts.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2025

At the gym, the flyer advertising a free class also has a QR code. The aftermath of this new type of cyber scam is becoming harder to ignore, and the impacts of this new cyberattack trend called quishing are increasingly visible. You're at a café, waiting for your coffee. Instead of a physical menu, there's a QR code on the table.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

Of course, personalized in this context means leveraging extensive amounts of data collected on people. The CEO claims that thanks to their "CoreAI" product/service/feature, they can leverage extreme personalized (and prediction) advertising for 91 percent of adults around the world. and 71% of apps leak at least one secret."

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Zero Day

JULY 9, 2025

PT Reviewed by David Grober Adam Smigielski/Getty Images Over the last few decades, compromised usernames and passwords have typically been at the root of some of the most sensational, damaging, and costly data breaches. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

High-privileged accounts enhance attackers’ ability to access unauthorized data, potentially causing data breaches and operational disruptions. Organizations should also implement the priniciple of least privielge (PoLP) to restrict user access to only necessary data, resources, and applications.

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Zero Day

JULY 1, 2025

Also:  You could get $10K from 23andMe's data breach - how to file a claim today While payments have already been issued, eligible consumers who have not yet submitted a claim have a new window until July 9. Don't reply - it might be a scam. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Giant office retail company Staples disclosed a data breach, threat actors accessed some of its customers’ order data. Staples, the office retail giant, disclosed a data breach, it notified its customers that their order data have been accessed by threat actors without authorization.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2020

The world’s largest travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses a data breach that took place last year and which exposed the personal information of its customers. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Here are 50 ways to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday — and beyond. Popular browsers, like Safari or Firefox, frequently issue updates to protect against scams. Never use duplicate usernames or passwords across any of your online accounts to limit your exposure in case of a data breach. Choose credit over debit.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 31, 2024

TL;DR — Tens of millions of credentials obtained from info stealer logs populated by malware were posted to Telegram channels last month and used to shake down companies for bug bounties under the misrepresentation the data originated from their service. How many attempted scams do you get each day? Of the total count, 89.7%

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The staff promptly locked out the intruders once discovered the data breach. The company notified the security breach to the holders of the Radisson Rewards cards only yesterday. ” reads the data breach notification. ” At the time of writing, there are no technical details about the data breach.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For example, when several high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked in July 2020 and used to promote bitcoin scams, the profile and private message data from previous OGUser forum compromises proved invaluable in piecing together the “who” behind that scam. Disco, a.k.a “ Discoli ” a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2020

To cash out the payment card data obtained, the scammers attempted to make purchases at the catalogue retailer Argos. Clearly, the scammers were aware of the clients’ reservations, for this reason, the Ritz is investigating a “potential data breach” and notified the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They shall also understand the significance of data loss, the unauthorised or accidental destruction, alteration, or exposure of sensitive information through various means, malicious or erroneous, and the impact on their business. Email filtering to detect and quarantine suspicious emails can be an essential ally in this cause.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

AT&T said the data exposed on 9 million customers was several years old, and mostly related to device upgrade eligibility. AT&T’s CPNI opt-out page says it shares CPNI data with several of its affiliates, including WarnerMedia , DirecTV and Cricket Wireless. ” Is your mobile Internet usage covered by CPNI laws?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Phishing scams can take many forms, and ransomware is one of the most dangerous. Addresses can easily lead to phone numbers, making people easy targets for phishing scams. Our researchers felt that downloading it would be an ethical breach , as they would then illegally own personally identifiable data sets without peoples’ consent.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

.” ProtonMail confirmed to be aware of a limited number of hacked accounts that have been compromised likely through credential stuffing of phishing attacks, but excluded that its systems have been breached. This is a very strange and anomalous scam attempt, the hackers used a mix of appealing info and political data.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The ICRC said the hacked servers contained data relating to the organization’s Restoring Family Links services, which works to reconnect people separated by war, violence, migration and other causes. Sheriff’s sales thread suggests the ICRC was asked to pay a ransom to guarantee the data wouldn’t be leaked or sold online.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Stories here have exposed countless scams, data breaches, cybercrooks and corporate stumbles. One housekeeping note: A good chunk of the loyal readers here are understandably security- and privacy-conscious, and many block advertisements by default — including the ads displayed here. And what a decade it has been.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

“Cyble has indexed this information on their data breach monitoring and notification platform, Amibreached.com. Cyble researchers have identified a sensitive data breach on the darkweb where an actor has leaked personal details of ~29 Million Indian Job Seekers from the various states. ” state the experts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

Scams, Phishing, and Malware: It is common for unethical hackers and criminals on the Internet to use personal data to create trustworthy phishing emails. Corporate Espionage: With these emails, competing games could attempt to migrate or target users with advertising and email campaigns. Original post at: [link].

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

.” According to ID.me, a major driver of phony jobless claims comes from social engineering, where people have given away personal data in response to romance or sweepstakes scams, or after applying for what they thought was a legitimate work-from-home job. “A lot of this is targeting the elderly,” Hall said.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ALWAYS IN DISCORD. ” Mark Rasch , Unit 221B’s general counsel and a former U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit disclosed a security breach, the company told its customers that hackers have stolen $48.5 According to the data breach notification published by the company, hackers stole 342,000 in Ethereum (ETH), approximately $48.5 million in crypto-currency from its hot wallet. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

Most financially devastating threats involved investment scams, business email compromises (BEC) , and romance fraud. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. What about data breaches? Financial losses reached $2.7 billion in 2018.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

US fitness chain Town Sports has suffered a data breach, a database belonging to the company containing the personal information of over 600,000 people was exposed on the Internet. Data breach hunter Bob Diachenko discovered a database belonging to the company exposed online. The post Data for 600K customers of U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. SecurityAffairs – hacking, bitcoin scam). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The leaked Blacklist customer database points to various companies you might expect to see using automated calling systems to generate business, including real estate and life insurance providers, credit repair companies and a long list of online advertising firms and individual digital marketing specialists.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

“The irony of that discovery is that it was a ‘data breach database’, an enormously huge collection of previously reported (and, perhaps, non-reported) security incidents spanning 2012-2019 era.” Most of the data come from previously known source s, it could expose affected people to scams and phishing campaigns.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

million customers Your partner “is cheating on you” scam asks you to pay to see proof What the arrest of Telegram’s CEO means, with Eva Galperin (Lock and Code S05E19) Last week on ThreatDown: Ransomware review: September 2024 ThreatDown wins every MRG Effitas award 3 years in a row Update now!

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Fortnite Scams: What Parents Need to Know IdentityIQ Since the summer of 2017, Fortnite Battle Royale has been one of the most popular games in the world. Unfortunately, offering financial information exposes players to scams, potentially resulting in identity theft. What is a Fortnite Scam? What is a Poison PDF?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The OLB bank confirmed that the incident is not the result of a data breach, it also speculates the involvement of an “organized cybercrime involving counterfeit cards and terminals.” “Nor has any account or card data been hacked either at Mastercard, OLB or at a third party. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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