Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. According to the complaint by the FTC this was made possible because CafePress failed to implement reasonable security measures to protect the sensitive information of buyers and sellers stored on its network. Informing customers.

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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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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. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, American Express).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

The exposed records include email addresses full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, LinkedIn username and profile URL, personal and professional experience/background, genders, and other social media accounts and usernames. Passwords are not included in the archive. ” reported RestorePrivacy.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 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. ” continues the post.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

But along with the advantages, such as saved time and resources, delegating non-core tasks creates new challenges in terms of information security. Access is set up using a certificate or a login/password pair, and in rare cases multi-factor authentication is added. Rounding out the top three is targeted phishing.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

The leaked information included names, phone numbers, emails, private communication via SMS messages, passwords, and employees’ credentials. Screenshot of leaked customer information Researchers also stumbled upon 70,000 customer credentials. Leaking employee credentials might put the company at risk of targeted cyberattacks.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. Set random passwords to generate 10-character alphanumeric passwords. If using personal passwords, utilize complex rotating passwords of varying lengths. Windows 10).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) have issued a joint security advisory to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting organizations from multiple US industry industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place. What were we looking at?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

The database was accessible to everyone without any type of authentication. “On March 21st, 2021 the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained over 1 billion records. ” reported the WebsitePlanet website. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The confidentiality of information in internet communications. Internet communications use the protocol called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), which allows information to be transmitted from one computer to another through a series of intermediate computers and networks. Mutual authentication of interlocutors.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With those, he broke into social media profiles / web storage and stole nude images and movies, and traded them with others. To gain access to the email accounts, he appears to have reset account passwords by correctly guessing password reset questions. The easiest way to do this is by letting a password manager do it for you.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

While not deeply sensitive, the information could still be used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets based on the criminals’ preferred methods of social engineering. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all your online accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Given the group’s historical use of phishing, were commend network defenders employ robust anti-phishing training and highly encourage the use of a FIDO2-compliant multi-factor authentication token, such as aYubikey.,” ” concludes the report. The report includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this threat.

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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 (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

A team of security researchers from PrivacySavvy recently discovered an OTP vulnerability in Airlift Express, which could lead to account hacks and exploits by cybercriminals. Fortunately, the company has successfully fixed the security loopholes, but the incident shows the inadequacy of one-time passwords in protecting app users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

A statement shared by Mailchimp CISO Siobhan Smyth with TechCrunch revealed that the company discovered the security breach on March 26. The company was the victim of a social engineering attack aimed at its employees. A threat actor gained access to a tool used by the company’s customer support and account administration teams.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Now, however, the expanded compilation – if genuine – “could serve as a goldmine for scammers,” says CyberNews senior information security researcher Mantas Sasnauskas. Brute-forcing the passwords of the affected Facebook profiles. Change the password of your Clubhouse and Facebook accounts. Spamming 3.8

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

. “While the technique has been around for decades , its resurgence as a top security risk could be due to a wider adoption of multi-factor authentication (MFA) making it difficult to conduct abuse, and shifting attacker focus to social engineering tactics,” said Ashley Shen, a TAG Security Engineer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

“On August 4, 2022, Twilio became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. The company has more than 5,000 employees in 17 countries, and its revenues in 2021 are US$2.84

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Implementing a resilient multi-factor authentication and choosing unique and strong passwords are essential for building better defenses to protect our data, there are also additional steps that citizens can take. Cybercriminals increasingly employ social engineering tactics because they are effective. Recognize phishing.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

is an electronic cyberattack that targets a user by email and falsely poses as an authentic entity to bait individuals into providing sensitive data, corporate passwords, clicks on a malicious web link, or execute malware. SMishing is social engineering in the form of SMS text messages. Remote access. Remote Access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Brute-forcing the passwords of LinkedIn profiles and email addresses. The leaked files appear to only contain LinkedIn profile information – we did not find any deeply sensitive data like credit card details or legal documents in the sample posted by the threat actor. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Password and info stealers. Apart from sign-in credentials, system information, and keystrokes, many info stealers are now adding hot wallet data to the list of information they search for and exfiltrate. Based on our threat data, we saw millions of cryptojacker encounters in the last year. Ransomware.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, certain network requests piqued our interest: login_user request to get access_token with a correct password The request in the screenshot above retrieves an access token to the API based on the following authentication data: username, password and key. This was the first security-related issue we discovered.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In other systems, other types of scripts were found, namely webshells, and also SMTP senders to leverage social engineering campaigns (Figure 6). Figure 6: SMTP senders used by criminals to leverage social engineering campaigns. Figure 8: Snipet of code that sent sensitive information to a Telegram chanel.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.” One-time password (OTP) bots. These bots allows phishers to bypass 2FA (two-factor authentication) protections automatically.

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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 (..)

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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. Utilizing AI-driven bots for advanced social engineering techniques.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The commands include instructing the malware to download and execute files, start processes, shutdown and reboot the system, and steal cookies and local passwords.” See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2022

Passwords no longer meet the demands of today’s identity and access requirements. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. Passwords no longer meet the demands of today’s identity and access requirements. What is Strong Authentication?

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The main risks enumerated in the report are: Creating malicious DNS records; Obtaining SSL certificates; Transparent Proxying for traffic interception; To prevent phishing attacks, NCSC recommends using unique, strong passwords, and enabling multi-factor authentication when the option is available. ” continues the report.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

The CIS Critical Security Controls can be seen as a roadmap for implementing a successful cybersecurity program. SANS is an organization dedicated to information security training and security certification, and the Critical Security Controls effort focuses on prioritizing security controls that have demonstrated real-world effectiveness.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. Humans are not the weakest link in information security. Today: Jayson E.

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