Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Of those malicious apps, 5,200 could subvert one of the strongest security practices available today, called multifactor authentication, by prying into basic text messages sent to a device. The lure that convinces people to download these apps varies. This does not make multifactor authentication useless.

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Phishing Passwords Mobile Authentication 127

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Internet Archive was breached again, attackers hacked its Zendesk email support platform through stolen GitLab authentication tokens. Hunt also verified the authenticity of the information included in the stolen archive. Hunt will add the information of the impacted users to HIBP very soon.

Internet 125

Internet Internet Data breaches Authentication 125

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

CrowdStrike warns of a phishing campaign that uses its recruitment branding to trick recipients into downloading a fake application, which finally installs the XMRig cryptominer. “Victims are prompted to download and run a fake application, which serves as a downloader for the cryptominerXMRig.”

Phishing 111

Phishing Scams Malware Authentication 111

Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2025

Indicators of SRG activity include unauthorized downloads of tools like Zoho Assist or AnyDesk, external WinSCP/Rclone connections, ransom emails or calls from unnamed groups, and phishing emails about subscriptions urging recipients to call a number to cancel charges. ” concludes the report.

Social Engineering 110

Social Engineering Antivirus Phishing Engineering 110

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Credentials stolen by info-stealers often end up for sale on cybercrime shops that peddle purloined passwords and authentication cookies (these logs also often show up in the malware scanning service VirusTotal ). Also, unless you really know what you’re doing, please don’t download and install pirated software.

Cybercrime 343

Cybercrime Passwords Authentication Malware 343

Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

But in the background, their system has hidden malware in the file the victim has downloaded, which is capable of gathering information from the affected device such as: Personal identifying information (PII) including Social Security Numbers (SSN). Financial information, like your banking credentials and crypto wallets.

Malware 137

Malware Adware Education Phishing 137

Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2025

Always confirm authenticity before responding, and contact security officials or the FBI if uncertain. Avoid clicking links or downloading files from unverified sources. Avoid clicking links or downloading files from unverified sources. Enable and protect two-factor authentication and never share OTP codes.

Government 120

Government Social Engineering Authentication Accountability 120

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning that cybercriminals are taking over email accounts via stolen session cookies, allowing them to bypass the multi-factor authentication (MFA) a user has set up. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today. Here’s how it works.

Accountability 145

Accountability Authentication Malware Banking 145

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2025

Ransomware attacks typically involve tricking victims into downloading and installing the ransomware, which copies, encrypts, and/or deletes critical data on the device, only to be restored upon the ransom payment. Traditionally, the primary target of ransomware has been the victims device. .

Antivirus 147

Antivirus Ransomware Social Engineering Engineering 147

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, password managers, and email client information. To extract cookies from Chromium-based browsers, it downloads a module from the C&C to bypass App-Bound encryption.

Encryption 114

Encryption Password Management Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 114

Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2025

A local authenticated attacker can trigger the vulnerability to escalate privileges. CVE-2025-0283 could allow a local authenticated attacker to escalate privileges. Ivanti addressed a high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0283 (CVSS score: 7.0), that allows a local authenticated attacker to escalate privileges.

Malware 118

Malware Authentication Encryption Cybersecurity 118

Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2024

More and more websites and services are making multi-factor-authentication (MFA) mandatory, which makes it much harder for cybercriminals to access your accounts. A type of phishing we’re calling authentication-in-the-middle is showing up in online media. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

Authentication 145

Authentication Phishing Password Management Scams 145

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Researchers have found several weaknesses in Windows Hello fingerprint authentication on Dell Inspiron 15, Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and Microsoft Surface Pro X laptops. They found vulnerabilities that allowed them to completely bypass Windows Hello authentication on all three. The input has to be authenticated.

Authentication 137

Authentication Manufacturing Engineering Hacking 137

Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2025

Below is the description of the flaws: CVE-2025-4427 (CVSS score: 5.3) An authentication bypass in Endpoint Manager Mobileallowingattackers to access protected resources without proper credentials. Ivanti confirmed that threat actors could chain the two vulnerabilities to achieve remote code execution without authentication.

Mobile 87

Mobile Telecommunications Authentication Internet 87

SecureList

APRIL 29, 2025

Suspicious authorized key After the initial SSH compromise, the threat actor downloads the first-stage script, tddwrt7s. This artifact is responsible for downloading the dota. Chain of commands used by the attackers to download and decompress dota.tar.gz sh , using utilities like wget or curl.

Passwords 98

Passwords Authentication System Administration Malware 98

SecureList

APRIL 2, 2025

Subsequent telemetry analysis indicated that the TookPS downloader , a malware strain detailed in the article, was not limited to mimicking neural networks. We identified fraudulent websites mimic official sources for remote desktop and 3D modeling software, alongside pages offering these applications as free downloads. com as the C2.

Software 92

Software Malware Security Awareness Authentication 92

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 29, 2023

Enable multi-factor authentication where supported, at least for your most important services (email, banking, social, etc.) I personally use Microsoft Defender which is free, built into Windows and updates automatically via Windows Update.

Malware 360

Malware Passwords Password Management Antivirus 360

Malwarebytes

APRIL 15, 2025

A screenshot of some of CL0P’s list of victims (other victims’ names obscured) This leak site is also where the stolen data is available for download. Malwarebytes Labs was unable to figure out how many people were affected, but the number of available archives for download is in the tenfolds.

Data breaches 100

Data breaches Ransomware Passwords B2B 100

Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2025

The vulnerability is an authentication bypass issue that could allow a remote attacker to gain super-admin privileges by making maliciously crafted CSF proxy requests. An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability [CWE-288] affecting FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.16 and FortiProxy 7.2.0 through 7.2.12, 7.0.0

Authentication 113

Authentication Ransomware Firewall Hacking 113

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

The extension then silently authenticates the victim into a Chrome profile managed by the attackers Google Workspace. Once this authentication occurs, the attacker has full control over the newly managed profile in the victims browser, allowing them to push automated policies such as disabling safe browsing and other security features.

Social Engineering 130

Social Engineering Engineering Authentication Media 130

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

is an inadequate authentication mechanisms that could allow an attacker to access sensitive information like usernames, MD5 password hashes, and configuration data. GreyNoise also observed an instance of an attack using wget to download a shell script for reverse shell access. CVE-2024-8957 (CVSS score of CVSS 7.2)

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Firmware Manufacturing IoT Healthcare 119

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Cisco confirmed the authenticity of the 4GB of leaked data, the data was compromised in a recent security breach, marking the second leak in the incident. Cisco confirmed the authenticity of the 4GB of leaked data, which was compromised in a recent security breach, marking it as the second leak in the incident.

Data breaches 121

Data breaches Cybercrime Authentication Technology 121

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2025

” The malicious packages discovered by the experts are posing as Solana tools and have 130+ downloads, using Nodemailer to steal keys via Gmail and automate wallet draining. “It is important to verify a packages authenticity by examining its download counts, publisher history, and any associated GitHub repository links.

Malware 100

Malware Authentication Hacking Accountability 100

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Chinese startup has certainly taken the app stores by storm: In just a week after the launch it topped the charts as the most downloaded free app in the US. For those returning from a short holiday away from the news, DeepSeek is a new player on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field.

Artificial Intelligence 144

Artificial Intelligence Risk Marketing Passwords 144

Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2025

Sansec discovered that threat actors behind the attack breached the download servers of Tigren, Magesolution (MGS) and Meetanshi and injected backdoors in their software that allowed them to take over their customers’ e-stores. In older versions (2019), this required no authentication, but newer versions require a secret key.

eCommerce 89

eCommerce Hacking Authentication Software 89

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2025

Traditional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), while a step up from password-only security, is no longer enough to fight modern phishing schemes. As malefactors hone their methods, entities must adopt phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication to secure their digital identities.

Phishing 71

Phishing Authentication Passwords Social Engineering 71

Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2024

AT&T also acknowledged the customer records were exposed in a cloud database that was protected only by a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed). For its part, Snowflake says it now requires all new customers to use multi-factor authentication. In a regulatory filing with the U.S.

Data breaches 346

Data breaches Passwords Authentication Accountability 346

Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2025

This access enabled Bathula to download the victims’ personal information, including their private photographs and videos, the class action asserts, adding that he also used his access to systems both at home and at work to spy on the victims in real time. Watch where you download from. Use multi-factor authentication.

Accountability 90

Accountability Spyware Passwords Password Management 90

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2025

Interestingly, the malicious ad we found was for Google Authenticator, despite the obvious ads-goo[.]click There is also a distant feel of ‘software download via Google ads’ we have reported on previously (see Threat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator ). click domain name. com/view/fjads sites[.]google[.]com/view/goitkm/google-ads

Advertising 131

Advertising Accountability Phishing Scams 131

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

These solutions empower organizations to manage, authenticate, and analyze privileged access, streamlining the granting of credentials with role-based access controls and automated workflows. With these scalable and reliable PAM solutions , organizations of all sizes can address their complex and ever-evolving cybersecurity challenges.

InfoSec 130

InfoSec Cyber Risk CISO Cybersecurity 130

SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The document or LNK file starts a multi-stage infection chain with various JavaScript and.NET downloaders, which ends with the installation of the StealerBot espionage tool. All the documents use the remote template injection technique to download an RTF file that is stored on a remote server controlled by the attacker.

Malware 142

Malware Encryption Architecture Phishing 142

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Around the same time, users receive legitimate looking emails from what appears to be an authentic Google domain to add credibility to what the caller is claiming to have happened. How to avoid AI Gmail phishing Never click on links or download files from unexpected emails or messages.

Phishing 107

Phishing Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Accountability 107

Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2025

CVE-2025-31201 : An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. Apple’s Pointer Authentication (PA) is a hardware security feature designed to detect and prevent tampering with critical pointers (like function addresses or return addresses) in memory.

Authentication 96

Authentication Software Mobile Media 96

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The fix: Download the appropriate fixed version, based on your existing version of vCenter Server, from Broadcom’s list of patched software. The attacker must be authenticated and have Site Owner permissions to conduct the attack, but with those, they could inject and execute arbitrary code in SharePoint Server contexts. base score.

Phishing 102

Phishing Authentication Software VPN 102

Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2025

The alternative: passkeys Passkeys are an alternative, more modern authentication method designed to replace passwords with a safer, simpler alternative. The authentication process is as simple as unlocking your device. Use secure device authentication: Enable biometrics or PINs on your devices to fully benefit from passkey security.

Passwords 80

Passwords Password Management Authentication Accountability 80

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. In an Aug. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

Mobile 340

Mobile Phishing Authentication Accountability 340

Schneier on Security

AUGUST 7, 2023

The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. That backdoored update was downloaded by over 14,000 networks worldwide. A bunch of networks, including US Government networks , have been hacked by the Chinese. Congress wants answers.

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Authentication Government Hacking Accountability 246