Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2024

LabRat was designed to capture two-factor authentication codes and credentials, allowing the criminals to bypass enhanced security measures.” A Melbourne man and an Adelaide man, who police will allege were LabHost users, were arrested during the warrants and charged with cybercrime-related offences. ” The U.K.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Microsoft warns of large-scale phishing attacks orchestrated with an open-source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit available in the cybercrime ecosystem Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kits are becoming an essential technology in the cybercrime ecosystem that is used by multiple threat actors to launch phishing attacks.

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Phishing Cybercrime Authentication Mobile 75

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The database included the personally identifiable information of Blink Mobility customers and administrators, including: Phone number Email address Encrypted password Registration date Device info and device token Details on subscription and rented vehicles (license plate, VIN, booking start and end location, etc.)

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Mobile Identity Theft Passwords Phishing 104

Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2024

Credential stuffing is a type of attack in which hackers use automation and lists of compromised usernames and passwords to defeat authentication and authorization mechanisms, with the end goal of account takeover (ATO) and/or data exfiltration.” email addresses and passwords) obtained from an unknown third-party source.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Do not provide your mobile number account information over the phone to representatives that request your account password or pin. Avoid posting personal information online, such as mobile phone number, address, or other personal identifying information. Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2022

“ Credential stuffing is a type of attack in which hackers use automation and lists of compromised usernames and passwords to defeat authentication and authorization mechanisms, with the end goal of account takeover (ATO) and/or data exfiltration.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Passwords Accountability Authentication Hacking 94

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Experts pointed out that attacks abusing the ngrok platform are hard to detect because connections to subdomains of ngrok.com are not filtered by security measures. Experts provided a list of ngrok -based attacks conducted by cybercrime organizations and nation-stated actors such as Fox Kitten and Pioneer Kitten APT groups.

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Phishing Cybercrime Mobile Internet 126

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

“ Credential stuffing is a type of attack in which hackers use automation and lists of compromised usernames and passwords to defeat authentication and authorization mechanisms, with the end goal of account takeover (ATO) and/or data exfiltration.” ” said Gal.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

According to Statista.com, the impact of cybercrime is expected to reach almost $13 trillion this year. If your friend or colleague is suddenly asking you for money or to change your password, call them on the phone and ask if they really sent the message. Use 2FA authentication for better protection.

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Social Engineering Ransomware Engineering Phishing 112

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Europol investigators revealed that the cybercrime organization stole more than $100 million worth of cryptocurrency using SIM Swapping attacks. “This enabled them to steal money, bitcoin and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

“We encourage account holders to please update their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication for their accounts. If you suspect that your account might be impacted, please report it to security@ripe.net.” ” reads the statement published by the RIPE NCC.

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Internet Internet Accountability Passwords 109

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The attackers exploited the vulnerability CVE-2023-20269 in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). At the end of August 2023, Cisco revealed that it was aware of attacks conducted by Akira ransomware threat actors targeting Cisco ASA VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication.

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Ransomware Backups VPN Authentication 110

Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Microsoft observed a large-scale phishing campaign that used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to steal passwords, hijack a user’s sign-in session, and bypass the authentication process even when the victim has enabled the MFA. and certificate-based authentication. ” concludes the report.

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Phishing Authentication Social Engineering Passwords 128

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 85

Spyware Hacking Malware Social Engineering 85

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers. The IT giant urged Windows administrators to install the released security updates as soon as possible.

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Authentication Advertising Architecture Cybercrime 133

Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

ALPHV has been advertising the BlackCat Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) on the cybercrime forums XSS and Exploit since early December. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password-protect backup copies offline. Use multifactor authentication where possible. Implement the shortest acceptable timeframe for password changes.

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Ransomware Antivirus Passwords Malware 105

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

.” The toolkit provides templates for a broad range of targets, including Chinese and Russian organizations, which is quite uncommon in the cybercrime ecosystem. Caffeine is advertised on multiple cybercrime underground forums, its subscription models are more expensive compared with other PhaaS platforms.

Phishing 88

Phishing Cybercrime Accountability Advertising 88

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

. “We have taken precautionary steps to fully revoke network and systems access for the individual user’s credentials and we have also changed all other team usernames and passwords. The incident did not impact customer accounts, which are protected with multi-factor authentication (MFA). ”continues the statement.

Data breaches 93

Data breaches Telecommunications Banking Mobile 93

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The attackers exploited the vulnerability CVE-2023-20269 in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). At the end of August 2023, Cisco revealed that it was aware of attacks conducted by Akira ransomware threat actors targeting Cisco ASA VPNs that are not configured for multi-factor authentication.

Ransomware 85

Ransomware Backups VPN Authentication 85

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

From March 18, 2024, to April 16, 2024, Duo Security and Cisco Talos observed large-scale brute-force attacks against a variety of targets, including VPN services, web application authentication interfaces and SSH services.

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VPN Accountability Firewall Data breaches 109

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The page was crafted to request the victims to enter their user ID and password. The phishing campaign bypassed native Google Workspace email security controls because it passed both DKIM and SPF email authentication. The post A new phishing scam targets American Express cardholders appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Phishing Scams Social Engineering Password Management 97

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

The report also includes a list of mitigation measures to increase the resilience of company networks: Implement a recovery plan to maintain and retain multiple copies of sensitive or proprietary data and servers in a physically separate, segmented, and secure location (i.e., Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline.

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Ransomware DDOS Passwords Backups 97

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 22, 2021

NEW YORK–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Veridium , a leading developer of frictionless, passwordless authentication solutions, is proud to announce that it’s won the 2021 Global InfoSec Award in the category of Next-Gen in Passwordless Authentication. “We For more information, please visit www.veridiumid.com.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The exposed data include email addresses, password hashes, client IDs, IP addresses, and tokens for business API users, authentication tokens for connected accounts, and non-personal and internal data was compromised. The good news is that passwords are hashed using the BCrypt, a hashing algorithm that is considered robust.

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Data breaches Passwords Media Phishing 91

Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. companies for customers’ personal information.” store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, DEER.IO).

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Cybercrime Advertising Hacking Accountability 113

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Other important protections are: 1) rigorous authentication procedures; and 2) a company policy that requires passwords for employee credentials and administrative functions to be l-o-n-g and complex.” ” states the FTC. ” The FTC also shared guidance for businesses that experienced a data breach.

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Small Business Ransomware Backups Authentication 94

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Besides Artificial Intelligence to scale operations, in a novel approach to circumvent two-factor authentication (2FA), the perpetrators crafted malicious Android code that mimics official mobile banking applications. This approach was used to deceive individuals into sharing sensitive information with malicious actors.

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Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 117

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In October, the Cloud identity and access management solutions provider said that threat actors broke into its support case management system and stole authentication data, including cookies and session tokens, that can be abused in future attacks to impersonate valid users. Many users of the customer support system are Okta administrators.

Social Engineering 105

Social Engineering Authentication Engineering Accountability 105

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 76

Malware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 76

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Collecting user credentials, such as passwords, from a range of popular chat and email programs, as well as web browsers. Ability to obtain information from various installed applications. Ability to obtain cryptocurrency wallet information [log-in credentials and stored funds].

Malware 80

Malware Password Management Authentication Passwords 80

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

According to the company, the attackers stole a 2021 database from its infrastructure and also shared a samples online to demonstrate the authenticity of the claims. “Specialists randomly checked random entries from the database through the password recovery function on the online cinema website: all logins turned out to be valid.”

Data breaches 81

Data breaches Passwords Banking Media 81

Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

In order to compromise a target system, the samples require special conditions on it, such as the use of specific arguments and targeted services already being installed (with weak passwords). For MySQL and Postgres services, the malware scans for open ports 3306 and 5432, then pings the host’s database with a certain username and password.

Passwords 97

Passwords Malware Architecture Authentication 97

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

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

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Spyware Manufacturing Small Business Surveillance 122

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S. Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. ” reads the alert.

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Ransomware VPN Cybercrime Accountability 68

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The malware is able to steal sensitive information (a variety of credentials, including FTP credentials, stored email passwords, passwords stored in the browser, as well as a whole host of other credentials) . If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Malware Passwords Advertising Antivirus 65

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The launch of the BlackMatter ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) was first spotted by researchers at Recorded Future who also reported that the gang is setting up a network of affiliates using ads posted on two cybercrime forums, such as Exploit and XSS.

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Ransomware Backups Encryption Cybercrime 112