Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access. Armed with access to your inbox, thieves can then reset the password for any other service or account that is tied to that email address.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

For businesses, this means their compromised access can be resold multiple times, leaving them vulnerable to repeated attacks from different threat actors if passwords arent changed promptly. This plaintext file often contains usernames and passwords, giving attackers immediate access to credentialsno advanced tools or expertise needed.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in me sitting alone by this screen whilst the Telstra staffer disappeared into the back room for a few minutes: Is it normal for @Telstra to display customer passwords on publicly facing terminals in their stores?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 230,000 individuals. The telecommunications provider pointed out that no financial information (credit or debit card numbers, banking details) has been compromised. Access to the affected legacy database has also been closed.”continues

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

The Russian government, military, and intelligence service may wish to achieve some operational effect, for example, disrupting the power grid or interfering with telecommunications infrastructure, which may be part of a larger war plan. Each of these organizations performs cyber operations for various reasons.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2025

Google's report confirms that UNC3944 continues to "demonstrate persistence and adaptability in targeting organizations, particularly those in the retail, hospitality, and telecommunications sectors." Educate and empower your help desk Implement callback verification procedures before password resets. Use device-based trust policies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some of the most popular brands don’t enforce a strong password policy, meaning anyone can peer into their owners’ lives. While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. And over the past six months, the criminals responsible have created dozens if not hundreds of phishing pages targeting some of the world’s biggest corporations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. US NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn that China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

A 42-year-old manager at an unnamed telecommunications company has admitted SIM swapping customers at his store. For that reason, SIM swapping can be used to get around two-factor authentication (2FA) codes sent by SMS message. If you notice irregular transactions, contact your bank to have your account blocked and avoid further fraud.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

Telecommunications giant AT&T has finally confirmed that 73 million current and former customers have been caught up in a massive dark web data leak. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Web hosting giant DigitalOcean discloses it was one of the victims, and that the intruders used their access to send password reset emails to a number of DigitalOcean customers involved in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. ” SEPTEMBER. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion. A report commissioned by Sen.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 19, 2024

Tracki devices are sold by some major telecommunication companies, sometimes under the Tracki brand or sometimes under their own label. This “simple internal support tool” required no other authentication than logging in using a password that shared between Tracki and Trackimo employees.

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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. Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts. Do not store passwords, usernames, or other information for easy login on mobile device applications.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. ” IMPROVEMENTS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

A new malware named Cuttlefish targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data. Cuttlefish has a modular structure, it was designed to primarily steal authentication data from web requests passing through the router from the local area network (LAN).

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NetSpi Technical

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Also developed by IBM, IMS is widely used in finance, telecommunications, and retail industries for high-volume transaction processing and data management. Test Investigate password policies by checking for sufficient complexity or modifying what is submitted during authentication to test if validation is adequately secure.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. In some campaigns analyzed by Mandiant, the threat actor was using residential IP address ranges to authenticate to target environments.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s plenty of cheap Internet of Things (IoT) baby monitors out there with default passwords baked in, insecurely stored data, and an alarming amount of compromise stories in the news. Instead of Wi-Fi, they use other technologies called Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) and Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

Just after the WorldNet Telecommunications, the LG electronics fall as a victim of the Maze ransomware operators.” . “As part of our regular darkweb monitoring, our researchers came across the data leak of LG Electronics been published by the Maze ransomware operators. ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts. Microsoft worked with telecommunications providers around the world to disrupt key Zloader infrastructure. Disruption. Stay safe, everyone!

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Utilize phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication whenever possible. Require all accounts with password logins to have strong, unique passwords, and change passwords immediately if there are indications that a password may have been compromised.". Block obsolete or unused protocols at the network edge.".

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Most essentially, facial recognition technology promises a solid amount of internal and external security advantages in the day-to-day activity of enterprises, making it a key technology for passwordless authentication. Also read: Passwordless Authentication 101. False Negatives, Deepfakes and Other Concerns.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2018

Failing to set up a corresponding online account to manage one’s telecommunications services can provide a powerful gateway for fraudsters. Adding two-factor authentication ( whenever it is available ) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers. Telecom Infrastructure Abuse: The threat actor used Verizon IPv6 addresses to access the network, leveraging telecommunications infrastructure with a clean reputation to bypass security controls.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The experts analyzed the case of a campaign targeting the customers of the telecommunication giant Verizon, attackers used a square root symbol, a logical NOR operator, or the checkmark symbol itself. The trick adopted by the crooks aims at creating a sort of optical interference that could allow bypassing anti-spam solutions.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The usual targets range from organizations in the IT sector, including telecommunications service providers; the DIB (Defense Industrial Base) sector, which is related to military weapons systems; and other critical infrastructure sectors. Authentication bypass by spoofing. Use multi-factor authentication. Command injection.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Customers end up calling help desks for multiple reasons, including to reset their passwords and manage their profile, privacy, and data sharing settings. For example, allowing customers to manage and reset their usernames and passwords alone can save enterprises millions of dollars annually.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

Within 10 business days, agencies will have to change the passwords for their DNS account and enable multifactor authentication where available, but CISA warns risks for SMS-based MFA. The check must be completed in 10 days and includes Address (A), Mail Exchanger (MX), and Name Server (NS) records.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered several plugins that were uploaded on compromised victims and were used to: Install additional malware; Capture screenshots; Log keystrokes; Steal passwords from browsers; Intercept RDP credentials; Steal files; Start reverse shell; Phish Windows credentials; Escalate privileges bypassing UAC.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Their scope of interests includes – major telecommunications companies such as Claro, Telefonica and AT&T. Data stolen from the targeted organization were also used for future extortion or public release.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Authentication and password management. Passwords are one of the least safe user authentication methods, yet they are also frequently used for web applications for safeguarding online data. Authentication is the procedure of confirming that a person, organization, or site is who they say they are.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2018

Then it emerged that Securus had been hacked, its database of hundreds of law enforcement officer usernames and passwords plundered. mobile networks. LocationSmart disabled its demo page shortly after that story. By that time, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

By encrypting data, it can only be accessed with the right password and by those with the appropriate access rights. You may have seen passwords getting longer and more complex in recent times. This stems from how easily cybercriminals can figure out passwords and decrypt data or gain access to systems using a brute-force approach.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 18, 2023

government agencies, over the past month using authentication tokens forged with the stolen MSA key. Also read: How to Improve Email Security for Enterprises & Businesses Sophisticated Authentication Hack Microsoft noted that Storm-0558’s core working hours are impressively businesslike, from 8 a.m.

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NopSec

JUNE 28, 2022

A new advisory from top federal security and law enforcement agencies warns that state-sponsored cyber actors from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are exploiting vulnerabilities in commonly used network devices to data from major telecommunications providers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. Encryption protocols can also verify the authenticity of sources and prevent a sender from denying they were the origin of a transmission.

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