Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2020

If you're reading this, chances are you've arrived here from a link I sent you via email. That email would have been a reply to one you originally sent to me that would have sounded something like this: Hi, I came across your blog on [thing] and I must admit, it was really nicely written. On a popular blog.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 20, 2023

Kevin started regularly coming… pic.twitter.com/w1UMm7mGa8 — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 20, 2023 In other news, I share a lot more on the upcoming domain search changes in this week's video and I've gotta say, I'm feeling pretty good about them. It's Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Google’s search engine page and localized to North America. This blog post aims to share the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) as well as indicators of compromise (IOCs) so defenders can take action. Indicators of Compromise Cloaking domains: kunalicon[.]com

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 23, 2022

DuckDuckGo offers a privacy-focused search engine, an email service, mobile apps, and data-protecting browser extensions. The post DuckDuckGo Blocking Google Sign-In Pop Ups on All Sites appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. A standalone web browser is currently in beta and only available on macOS.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since June, there has been a fourfold increase in the search volume around keywords associated with these types of attacks. Scans slip through These attacks are so successful because many traditional email security tools focus only on text-scanning, allowing image-based attacks to slip through.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? This search via Urlscan reveals dozens of recent phishing attacks that have leveraged the Slinks feature. The best advice to sidestep phishing scams is to avoid clicking on links that arrive unbidden in emails, text messages and other mediums.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Since then, the source of the dataset has been identified as data breach search engine Leak-Lookup. From SpyCloud’s blog: “a small number of individual breaches totaling a large number of records – approximately 1.6 That leaves a lot of new records. billion – appeared distinct, as compared to SpyCloud’s dataset.”

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 27, 2022

LockBit works by scanning a network in search of lucrative targets automatically, and then it will propagate the virus across the system and will encrypt any accessible computer systems. The post Fake Copyright Emails Used to Deploy LockBit Ransomware appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. This […].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users.” ” reads the post published by security firm Wiz. “We found several high-impact, vulnerable Microsoft applications.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

For example, here's Jordan's go at deflecting his role in the ecosystem and yes, this was the entire terms of service: I particularly like this clause: You may only use this tool for your own personal security and data research. You may only search information about yourself, or those you are authorized in writing to do so.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

after receiving what looked like a bill for search engine optimization (SEO) services rendered on behalf of their domain names. The missives appear to be an $85 bill for an “annual search engine listing” service. 2010 to a Mark Scott in Blairgowrie, Scotland, using the email address clientnews@reputationmanagementfor.com.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this blog post, we will focus on the dangers of looking for assistance online and the numerous malicious ads trying to reel you in. Calling the IRS People will often go on Google to search for a phone or contact number for a business they are trying to get in touch with. However, please beware that they are highly suspicious.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

An individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple , Dell , and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018. Details in the material gone walkabout included financial transactions, emails relating to cases as well as letters from witnesses. The FBI and the Oklahoma Securities Commission have both declined to comment.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The information exposed included the full name, employer, email, address, phone number and IP address of 56,934,021 individuals, and the revenues and employee counts for up to 25 million business entities. Hackenproof, the Estonian cybersecurity company that found the data trove online, announced their discovery on their blog.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

MERCURY (aka MuddyWater , SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros ) has been active since at least 2017, in January 2022 the USCYBERCOM has officially linked the Iran-linked APT group to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). The attackers were able to interfere with security tools using Group Policy Objects (GPO).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? ru in 2008.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. Just to scroll back for a bit of context, anyone who owns a domain can do a free domain search on HIBP. And then it took off. This post talks about how I'm addressing that.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.”

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 15, 2023

During this past year, we have seen an increase in the use of malicious ads (malvertising) and specifically those via search engines, to drop malware targeting businesses. In this blog post, we share details about this new campaign along with indicators of compromise. net : The download is a digitally signed MSI installer.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administratio n (CISA), Snatch was originally named Team Truniger , based on the nickname of the group’s founder and organizer — Truniger. ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru. According to a September 20, 2023 joint advisory from the FBI and the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2023

However, malvertising is also a great vehicle for phishing attacks which we usually see more often via spam emails. Threat actors continue to abuse and impersonate brands, posing as verified advertisers whose only purpose is to smuggle rogue ads via popular search engines.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2023

A document accidentally uploaded to Google’s VirusTotal service has resulted in the potential exposure of defence and intelligence agency names and email addresses. The list makes up roughly 5,600 of the site’s customers, and identities multiple security-centric entities. Sadly the emails listed are not entirely anonymous.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

News spreads of the risks while attackers and security professionals alike begin searching for potential attack targets for the purpose of exploiting or protecting them. For example, some domain search results gave me a common endpoint that was returning an HTTP Response Code of 200. based application security vendor.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2019

The data included the applicants’ names, email addresses, gender, and personal essays and was exposed via a misconfigured database called Elasticsearch on the website of AIESEC, a “youth-run” non-governmental organization with over 100,000- members worldwide. The data was cached on the node for testing purposes and mistakenly left unsecured.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Google announced the opening of the dark web monitoring report security feature to all Gmail users in the United States. Gmail users, the feature allows them to search for their email addresses on the dark web. name, address, email, phone number and Social Security number) and notified users if it’s found.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Bad actors publish posts with titles containing popular keywords to allow Google Search to index the content. Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, it sends emails to the user when it finds new results (i.e. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 2, 2020

But it may also signal that ransomware purveyors are searching for new ways to profit from their crimes as victim businesses struggle just to keep the lights on during the unprecedented economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. . A partial screenshot from the REvil ransomware group’s Dark Web blog.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Nitrogen is the name given to a campaign and associated malware that have been distributed via malicious search ads. In this blog post, we look at a recent Nitrogen campaign and specifically at how the initial payload is being served onto victims. Many businesses are not adequately protected when it comes to malicious ads.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The attack took place in October 2022, threat actors sent phishing emails that contained links to a password-protected file hosted in Drive. The APT41 group, aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

In case you’ve missed the news – hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Exchange Server systems worldwide are thought to have been compromised by hackers, who exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to steal emails. It is not present in the cloud-based Exchange Online or Microsoft 365 (formerly O365) email services.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 28, 2021

Source: The Record) Marketo, an underground data leak marketplace, takes extortion one step further by emailing competitors the data they stole from victim organizations. Source: Help Net Security) Speaking of copycats, a repurposed REvil ransomware has also emerged. Source: Atlas VPN). Stay safe, everyone!

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

LinkedIn has announced a new set of security features that will help verify user identity, remove fraudulent accounts, and boost authenticity, according to an official blog post from the company. To combat these threat actors, LinkedIn has announced three new features.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

The RUSdot mailer, the email spamming tool made and sold by the administrator of RSOCKS. According to the cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the user Stanx indeed registered on Exploit in 2013, using the email address stanx@rusdot.com , and the ICQ number 399611. According to a statement by the U.S. ” the post enthuses.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

“The German investigators were also able to secure the content of the Russian’s email accounts, who are said to have used Apple user accounts, among other things. The German police are now searching for Kozachek along with another Russian hacker, Dimitri Badin, who is responsible for the Bundestag hack.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. Create security awareness for employees. One of the most important ways to protect against data breaches is to increase employee security awareness. Change passwords regularly.

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