Malwarebytes

MARCH 21, 2023

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has notified its fans they may be affected by a data breach in a third-party service the organization uses. In January of 2023, Mailchimp fell victim for the second time in a year to a social engineering attack. Change your password. Check the vendor's advice.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Which are the most common causes of a Data Breach and how to prevent It? Data breaches are highly damaging and equally embarrassing for businesses and consumers. If you look at Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, you can find some of the most common causes of data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy has made it official that a data breach has occurred on its database in September this year leaking email addresses to hackers that could lead to phishing attacks in the future. The post GoDaddy data breach could lead to Phishing Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. million Word Press customers.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no. A treasure trove for social engineers. Retained customers’ data longer than was necessary.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

Prima facie has revealed that the stolen data includes birth dates, customer names, gender details, password, phone numbers and shopping & payment history. And usually details such as these are accessed by cyber criminals to launch social engineering driven attacks in the future.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

The recent Mailchimp data breach has impacted multiple organizations, some of them are already notifying their customers. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp recently disclosed a news data breach , the incident exposed the data of 133 customers. reads the post published by TechCrunch.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

The potential leak of financial details could lead to serious concerns, as often threat actors use the data to launch identity theft and other kind of social engineering attacks on the impacted customers. The post Data Breach at Britain JD Sports leaks 10 million customers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Using routine social engineering strategies, the cyber-thieves gathered information about key employees. Professional networking and social media platforms continue to prove a rich landscape for phone numbers, locations, hobbies, dates of birth, family members, and friendships. Limit the number of unsuccessful login attempts.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Have you ever wondered why your email address and other information appeared in a data breach impacting a platform you never signed up for? That’s why email-validation services are an attractive target for cybercriminals looking for a fresh batch of email addresses for their next wave of social engineering attacks.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. The direct path to data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach after threat actors have stolen employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack. Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. While the number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 decreased by 58% compared to 2019, the coronavirus pandemic gave cybercriminals new ways to thrive,” wrote Bitdefender researcher and blogger Alina Bizga.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Broward Health, a large healthcare system in South Florida, disclosed a data breach that impacts more than 1.3 What information was compromised in Broward Health data breach? Unfortunately for Broward Health and its patients, the personal data involved in the breach is quite extensive.

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Identity IQ

MAY 15, 2021

Passwords are your first line of defense for protecting your digital identity. As important as they are, however, about 52 percent of people still use the same passwords across multiple accounts and 24 percent use a variation of common passwords that are easy to hack. Hackers employ different strategies to steal your passwords.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Often inadvertent data breaches stem from a well-meaning employee trying to meet the needs of clients but without the technical systems to facilitate. Their database of phone numbers, along with other key information about our phones’ usage and characteristic, makes them more valuable to hackers than your average data breach.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

World Password Day is today, reminding us of the value of solid passwords, and good password practices generally. You can’t go wrong shoring up a leaky password line of defence though, so without further ado: let’s get right to it. Breaching the issue. The problem with passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Multiple trusted sources told KrebsOnSecurity that Sosa/King Bob was a core member of a hacking group behind the 2022 breach at Twilio , a company that provides services for making and receiving text messages and phone calls. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another. According to an Aug.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Today’s columnist, Marcus Kaber of Specops Software, writes that as much as the tech companies are pushing biometrics options like facial recognition, most enterprises still run on legacy passwords. Enterprise security and IT are mostly well aware of these many password-driven risks. Industry must double down on password protection.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Cloud is known in the gaming world and, among other things, allows gamers to play resource heavy games on lower-end devices, The stolen data includes full customer names, email addresses, dates of birth, billing addresses, and credit card expiration dates. According to Shadow, no passwords or sensitive banking data have been compromised.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

.” At this time, we are not aware of any exposure to the data that customers store in MongoDB Atlas.” ” The US firm urges customers to be vigilant for social engineering and phishing attacks. However, the company states that the activity is not related to the security incident.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Historically, account takeover (ATO) has been recognized as an attack in which cybercriminals take ownership of online accounts using stolen passwords and usernames. Cybercriminals purchase a list of account credentials from the dark web that are usually compiled by hackers through social engineering, data breaches, and phishing attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

Accessing vital information to complete day-to-day tasks at our jobs still requires using a password-based system at most companies. Today, bad actors are ruthlessly skilled at cracking passwords – whether through phishing attacks, social engineering, brute force, or buying them on the dark web.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 7, 2022

“We informed a very small number of customers that the SIM card assigned to a mobile number on their account may have been illegally reassigned or limited account information was viewed,” a T-Mobile spokesperson told BleepingComputer last week in response to questions about a new T-Mobile data breach.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Keeping these systems up to date and installing the latest security patches can help minimize the frequency and severity of data breaches among organizations. This means using longer passwords — at least 16 characters , as recommended by experts — in a random string of upper and lower letters, numbers, and symbols.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

According to Active Network data breach notice, parents who accessed Blue Bear-based web store to pay school fees or buy books and other material between October 1, 2019, and November 13, 2019, might have had their personal data stolen. ” reads the notice of data breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. It works because users often use the same password for multiple websites. It's good in theory but fails in practice.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Category News, Social Engineering. All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. Phishing and poor password practices. Risk Level. Several large companies were hacked in the first half of September. The common theme?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Experts found new MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection flaws The University of Manchester suffered a cyber attack and suspects a data breach Russians charged with hacking Mt. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. Meanwhile, a quarter report that they’ve used generic passwords like “password” and “ABC123.”All

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 15, 2022

Twitter data breach affects 5.4M Twilio breached after social engineering attack on employees. Slack flaw exposed users' hashed passwords. Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: KMSpico explained: No, KMS is not "kill Microsoft". Can your EDR handle a ransomware attack? 6-point checklist for an anti-ransomware EDR.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Admins’ notes on users present in leaked logs may also help malicious actors build a profile and better target users through spearphishing or other social engineering attacks. Notes on users, submitted by admins and customer support agents.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“The username and password of the service account had been saved into the employee’s personal Google account. Okta this week warned nearly 5,000 employees that their personal information was exposed due to a data breach suffered by the third-party vendor Rightway Healthcare. ” continues the post.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

One of the main risks associated with ChatGPT is the potential for data breaches. These chatbots can be vulnerable to attacks that allow unauthorized access to sensitive data, such as customer information or financial records. Another risk associated with ChatGPT is the potential for social engineering attacks.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

With more than 15 billion login credentials available on the dark web because of data breaches, millions of online accounts remain at risk of unauthorized access. While these individual prices seem low, it’s important to remember that data breaches usually compromise millions of accounts at a time which are then sold in bulk.

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