Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

The extent of the flaw is wide, according to data collected by Krstic during the study, the vulnerabilities could impact up to 10 million people and 30,000 doors at 200 facilities. SecurityAffairs – buildings, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hacking Advertising Surveillance Data collection 87

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

Attackers also manipulate local Administrator accounts to maintain persistence, they were spotted enabling the disabled local Administrator account, followed by resetting its password. However, the exact persistence mechanisms remain unclear due to insufficient forensic data.

Malware 107

Malware Accountability Phishing Data collection 107

Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

Social Engineering 136

Social Engineering Data collection Media Passwords 136

Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

jailbreaking tool Attackers took over the Perl.com domain in September 2020 Bug bounty hunter awarded $50,000 for a Microsoft account hijack flaw Clop ransomware gang leaks data allegedly stolen from cybersecurity firm Qualys Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2021 has arrived. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Data collection Ransomware Hacking 67

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

He was rumored to have hacked into his high school’s computer system, although those rumors were never confirmed. While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network. The FBI found more than 20 million files collected from victim machines on hardware confiscated from Durachinsky’s home.

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Malware Passwords Identity Theft Data collection 87

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Put into context, it would make little sense to use a privacy-oriented browser and all the features such a browser may have to offer, but continue to reuse passwords across online accounts. Security and privacy overlap, both inside and outside the digital space.

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Accountability Engineering Passwords Internet 111

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

.” T-Mobile said that threat actors did not access names on the account, physical or email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax ID, passwords, or PINs. SecurityAffairs – hacking, T-Mobile). If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Data breaches Mobile Telecommunications Wireless 131

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 240

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

But in more recent years, Wazawaka has focused on peddling access to organizations and to databases stolen from hacked companies. Those three passwords were used by one or all of Wazawaka’s email addresses on the crime forums over the years, including wazawaka@yandex.ru , mixseo@mail.ru , mixseo@yandex.ru , mixfb@yandex.ru. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 29, 2021

But to all those who are using such devices to keep their homes neat and clean, you better know a fact that such robots when connected to internet can be intercepted by hackers who can then snoop into your homes by hacking the device cameras. But the report doesn’t say to never buy such goods.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

Access is set up using a certificate or a login/password pair, and in rare cases multi-factor authentication is added. Most of these utilities allow automatic access by login/password, but they are vulnerable to brute-force attacks. In other cases, they used data that was stolen before the incident began.

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VPN Accountability Passwords Antivirus 75

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the first half of 2018, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said that the most popular attack vector against IoT devices remains cracking Telnet passwords (75,40%), followed by cracking SSH passwords (11,59%). Top 10 countries from which Kaspersky traps were hit by Telnet password attacks is led by Brazil, China, and Japan.

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IoT Passwords Malware Advertising 80

Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Seismic monitoring devices linked to the internet are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could disrupt data collection and processing, according to Michael Samios of the National Observatory of Athens and his fellow colleagues who put together a new study published in Seismological Research Letters.

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IoT InfoSec Data collection Encryption 128

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We’ve been alerted that portions of the PHPBB user table from our forums showed up in a leaked data collection.” ” read a message published on the XKCS forum “The data includes usernames , email addresses, salted, hashed passwords, and in some cases an IP address from the time of registration,”.

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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Data collection 82

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Experts from threat intelligence firm KELA , speculate the threat actor could have obtained the credentials buying “Azor logs,” which are lots of data stolen from computers infected with the AzorUlt info-stealer trojan. SecurityAffairs – hacking, executive). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Accountability Cybercrime Hacking Retail 103

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. A simple human error can lead to devastating attacks, from data exfiltration to ransomware,” Sasnauskas said. Original post at [link].

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IoT Engineering Passwords Media 114

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2020

All it takes is one phished or hacked username and password to get a toehold on AD. Even so, hacking groups continue to manipulate PAM and AD to plunder company networks. It an employee to log on once, and gain access to multiple systems, without have to type a username and password every time.

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Accountability Authentication Digital transformation Passwords 138

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

IIain Paterson and Justin Macorin join The Hacker Mind podcast to share insights from their SecTor 2021 talk on hacking behavioral biometrics. A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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Hacking Authentication Artificial Intelligence Technology 52

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

Silent Night is able to grab information from online forms and perform web injections in major browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer, monitor keystrokes, take screenshots, harvest cookies and passwords. SecurityAffairs – Silent Night, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Banking Advertising Malware Cybercrime 133

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

User personal data for sale. Crooks offers data collected through phishing campaign to the subscribers. Data includes verified online banking credentials, in some cases phishers also provides info on the account balances. One-time password (OTP) bots. ” continues the analysis. ” Phishing-as-a-Service.

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Phishing Scams Social Engineering Banking 89

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

These systems tie into everything from passwords and web chat systems for car company employees, to file repositories and other parts of business infrastructure which potentially feed back into the vehicles themselves. Your car potentially hasn’t “just” been a car for a long time. Are these issues still a problem?

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Manufacturing Data collection Social Engineering Engineering 75

Identity IQ

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’re still under the impression that hacking is restricted to hoodie-wearing individuals in darkened rooms, then you might be vastly underestimating the scale the data breach problem. . Last year alone more than 300 million consumers were impacted by data breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Cybercrime Data collection 98

BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

The company’s data also claims that 64 per cent of companies have experienced social media-related incidents like hacking and fraud. Another risk is social media hacking. The incident shows that not all hackers’ motives are financial or data collection. Sometimes, they want to damage the victim’s reputation.

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Media Accountability Authentication Passwords 52

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Following the recent Twilio hack leading to the leakage of 2FA (OTP) codes, cybercriminals continue to upgrade their attack arsenal to orchestrate advanced phishing campaigns targeting users worldwide. This way they can harvest valid session cookies and bypass the need to authenticate with usernames, passwords and/or 2FA tokens.

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Phishing Accountability Hacking Advertising 99

SecureList

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Ladon hacking utility (which is popular in China) is used as the main lateral movement tool. It combines network scanning, vulnerability search and exploitation, password attack, and other functionality. The attackers compressed stolen files into encrypted and password-protected ZIP archives.

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Malware Phishing Passwords Data collection 92

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The decryption password is provided as a command-line argument (Base64 encoded string), and the xPack backdoor can run as a standalone application or as a service (xPackSvc variant). Attackers also used legitimate versions of WinRAR appear for data exfiltration and batch scripts to automate the data collection process.

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Manufacturing Malware Data collection Encryption 88

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In a recent security report, researchers revealed an unsecured archive of US voter data collected by Deep Root Analytics, a data firm connected to the Republican National Convention (RNC). Here’s a few things to keep in mind: Password-protect any data you don’t want the public to access.

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Data breaches Social Engineering Internet Internet 52

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Such revelations create intrigue as to whether a more insidious actor could perform a similar hack in order to conduct industrial espionage by spying on development and production activity.

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Surveillance IoT Accountability Passwords 129

Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2021

Detailed credentials for more than 21 million mobile VPN app users were swiped and advertised for sale online last week, offered by a cyber thief who allegedly stole user data collected by the VPN apps themselves. The data leak of SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 28, 2021.

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VPN Passwords Internet Internet 145

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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Spyware Mobile Advertising Software 193

Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Dormant accounts make you more vulnerable to potential hacks, exposing your personal information. Strengthen your defenses by creating unique and complex passwords for each account. Consider employing a password manager to organize and track them securely. This creates an extra security buffer if your password is compromised.

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Identity Theft Education Media Accountability 52

The Security Ledger

JANUARY 22, 2019

Troy Hunt made a name for himself calling attention to massive data leaks via his blog, troyhunt.com and – especially – haveibeenpwned.com , his online tool for checking to see if your credentials have been stolen. See also: Expert says: Hack your Smart Home to Secure It. They have.).

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IoT Passwords Accountability Data collection 45

SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made. An OTP (one-time password) bot is another service available by subscription. Phishers use OTP bots to try and hack 2FA.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 121

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

Although this does take time, with training and upskilling programs , insightful workshops, and “Hacker Fridays” (where employees can try to hack a specific smart device), team members will become more capable of dealing with the new diagnostics support work, as well as any general IoT problems. 5 Be aware of your operating landscape.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the case of LLMs, information passed to the bot can be compromised according to several scenarios: Data leak or hack on the provider’s side; Although LLM-based chatbots are operated by tech majors, even they are not immune to hacking or accidental leakage. Account hacking.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Slack resetting passwords for roughly 1% of its users. Former NSA contractor sentenced to 9 years for stealing classified data.

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Small Business Media Spyware DNS 54

Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016.

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