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Glove Stealer bypasses Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption to steal cookies

Security Affairs

The Glove Stealer malware exploits a new technique to bypass Chrome’s App-Bound encryption and steal browser cookies. The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, password managers, and email client information.

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Enhancing Pwned Passwords Privacy with Padding

Troy Hunt

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). They could be searching for any password whose SHA-1 hash begins with those characters. Very slick!

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Microsoft: Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates

Krebs on Security

Kev Breen at Immersive points to an interesting flaw ( CVE-2025-21210 ) that Microsoft fixed in its full disk encryption suite Bitlocker that the software giant has dubbed “exploitation more likely.” Unpatched.ai was also credited with discovering a flaw in the December 2024 Patch Tuesday release ( CVE-2024-49142 ).

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On world password day, Microsoft says fewer passwords, more passkeys

Malwarebytes

If there is a cybersecurity themed day that we would like to get rid as soon as possible its world password day. To quote Microsoft : As the world shifts from passwords to passkeys, were excited to join the FIDO Alliance in leaving World Password Day behind to celebrate the very first World Passkey Day.

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Stealer here, stealer there, stealers everywhere!

SecureList

Kral In mid-2023, we discovered the Kral downloader which, back then, downloaded the notorious Aurora stealer. This changed in February this year when we discovered a new Kral stealer, which we believe is part of the same malware family as the downloader due to certain code similarities. That file is the Kral downloader.

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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

As I said, our IT department recently notified me that some of my data was leaked and a pre-emptive password reset was enforced as they didn't know what was leaked.    It would be good to see it as an informational notification in case there's an increase in attack attempts against my email address.

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Around 3.3 million POP3 and IMAP mail servers lack TLS encryption

Security Affairs

Over 3 million POP3 and IMAP mail servers lack TLS encryption, exposing them to network sniffing attacks. million POP3 and IMAP mail servers lack TLS encryption, exposing them to network sniffing attacks. With POP3, the e-mails are downloaded to the local device and often deleted from the server. We see around 3.3M