Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2022

Our 2022 update to our famous password table that’s been shared across the news, internet, social media, and organizations worldwide. Looking for a high resolution version to download? Download the table now. Password Strength in 2022 It’s been two years since we first shared our (now famous) password table.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since the dawn of the Internet, the digital world has continued to evolve, offering users unlimited access to information, entertainment and ways of connecting with people around the globe. Despite these benefits, going online can expose users to multiple risks to their safety and privacy. How to ensure safe digital encounters.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 27, 2023

Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-founder of Keeper Security, has offered up some tips to best secure your online accounts and stay safe on the internet. Improving your password habits: Do not use any combination of characters that is easy to guess. Recognisable keystroke patterns or short passwords should also be avoided.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some of you may even have changed your old router’s password for a brand new one. It’s time to dig into the under-the-hood action that is your home’s internet sharing capabilities. What is a Wi-Fi password? If you’re on metered internet, that could prove costly and leave you with no internet for a month.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

The company believes the incident occurred on January 4, 2021, after threat actors managed to trick employees into accessing and downloading malicious software on some retail-store computers. “A few employees in retail stores were successfully scammed by unauthorized individuals and downloaded software onto a store computer.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

When it comes to love and romance, that is the password question, isn't it? This Valentine's Day, we attempt to lift the lid on this steamy cybersecurity subject to see if two people in a romantic relationship are both on board on the matter of exchanging passwords with each other. Password sharing among couples is really very common.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 20, 2021

It’s unclear how those credentials were leaked, and the team looking into the incident says that the password was strong. “The intruder was able to download a copy of the user list that contains email addresses, handles, and other statistical information about the users of the forum,” said OpenWRT’s maintainers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. who picked up his cell phone and said shut it off from the Internet.” ” WHOLESALE PASSWORD THEFT.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Security researchers have discovered banking Trojan apps on the Google Play Store, and say they have been downloaded by more than 300,000 Android users. As you may know, banking Trojans are kitted for stealing banking data like your username and password, and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes that you use to login to your bank account.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. Probably the most active Internet address accessing Snatch’s darknet site is 193.108.114[.]41 top , sntech2ch[.]top

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. This is where a password manager comes in.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. Default passwords are bad, and you should be using strong, unique passwords.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

Over recent weeks, I've begun planning the release of the 3rd version of Pwned Passwords. If you cast your mind back, version 1 came along in August last year and contained 320M passwords. It's not a trivial task - crunching the data, updating the counts, dumping it into different formats, uploading tens of GBs (over Aussie internet.),

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2022

In April 2022, ThreatLabz discovered several newly registered domains, which were created by a threat actor to spoof the official Microsoft Windows 11 OS download portal. ThreatLabz discovered several newly registered domains spoofing the official Microsoft Windows 11 OS download portal. Key points. dat:*wallet*.*:*2fa*.*:*backup*.*:*code*.*:*password*.*:*auth*.*:*google*.*:*utc*.*:*UTC*.*:*crypt*.*:*key*.*;50;true;movies:music:mp3;

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 27, 2021

A similar type of attack just played out against an Enterprise Password Management tool called Passwordstate. Supply chain cyberattack against password manager Passwordstate. Affected customers' password records may have been harvested.". Stop the Passwordstate Service and Internet Information Server.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 18, 2023

The 2023 update to the Hive Systems Password Table that’s been shared across the internet, the news, universities, and by thousands of organizations worldwide. Looking for high resolution versions to download? So we’ll talk through the data, our assumptions, and oh, you’re going to see a LOT of variations of the password table.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

On February 9, 2024, the Justice Department announced that an international operation had seized internet domains that were selling information-stealing malware. General signs that a RAT is active on your system may be: A slow computer and seemingly slow internet connection. Only download apps and other software from trusted sources.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you happen to visit a website that’s been compromised, your computer can quickly be infected by cyber criminals implementing a popular drive-by download attack. Here, we’ll look at what a drive-by download is, types of attacks, and how to stay protected this holiday season. What Is A Drive-By Download? Data transfer.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Distribution of programming languages used in writing web applications, 2021–2023 ( download ) We analyzed data obtained through web application assessments that followed the black, gray and white box approaches. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Even if the devices have since been patched, if the passwords were not reset, they remain vulnerable. The vulnerable SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated attacker to download system files via special crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2018-13379. Apparently the FortiOS system files also contained login credentials.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. Various 16Shop lures for Apple users in different languages. Image: Akamai.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

The flaw affects the procedure for changing expired passwords, the backdoor could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious commands with root privileges on the machine running vulnerable Webmin. You can download the #metasploit module exploits of #0days via this link => [link]. ” Webmin developers explained. “To

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This overconfidence is cause for concern for many cybersecurity professionals as humans are the number one reason for breaches (how many of your passwords are qwerty or 1234five?). Only 28 percent don’t use repeated passwords•Only 20 percent use a password manager. Not using repeated passwords. What needs to get done.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 18, 2023

Looking for the most recent Password Table? The 2023 update to the Hive Systems Password Table that’s been shared across the internet, the news, universities, and by thousands of organizations worldwide. So we’ll talk through the data, our assumptions, and oh, you’re going to see a LOT of variations of the password table.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week , I made it fast - real fast - and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I've since shaved another 56% off the load time for requests that hit the origin. Why Speed Matters for Pwned Passwords. And a bunch of other cool perf stuff while I'm here.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 20, 2022

A study that included a response from about 2000 respondents also confirmed that on average a hacking person was found using the internet of their neighbor without permission for a time frame of 52 days, while over 20 people were found using the connection all year long. Change the default router password.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The file that Doug ran is a simple Apple Script (file extension “ scpt”) that downloads and executes a malicious trojan made to run on macOS systems. But Doug does still have a copy of the malicious script that was downloaded from clicking the meeting link (the online host serving that link is now offline).

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

In its simplest form, the illegal data marketplace has long involved the exchange of currency for personal records containing attributes such as email addresses, passwords, names, etc. We block known breached passwords. So, we (the good guys) adapt and build better defences. We implement two factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Here, it was distributed using fake webpages, where the victim downloaded an MSI file, which then held the remaining Lampion infection chain. As previously stated [ 1 ], [ 2 ], the VBS file is one that, when executed, serves as a downloader for the infection chain. Figure 4: VBS file – Lampion downloader – obfuscation layer.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2019

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. The security researcher Gynvael Coldwind (@voltagex) discovered that the stored attributes can include user usernames and passwords. ” Böck wrote. url metadata attribute. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2023

Cyber swindlers, also known as cyber fraudsters, are individuals or groups who use the internet and technology to commit fraud or deception for financial gain. It’s important to be vigilant when using the internet and to take measures to protect your personal information and financial details.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2022

Today, the average consumer has 100 online accounts, and, in a perfect world, each account would have unique and complex usernames and passwords. Many people use simple (easy to guess) passwords and many more reuse passwords on multiple sites. To make matters worse, most people rarely change their passwords. In the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 12, 2024

Microsoft says attackers could connect to OMI instances over the Internet without authentication, and then send specially crafted data packets to gain remote code execution on the host device. ” CVE-2024-21334 earned a CVSS (danger) score of 9.8 (10 ” CVE-2024-21334 earned a CVSS (danger) score of 9.8 (10

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

World-in-HD (WiHD), a French private video torrent community, left an open instance exposing the emails and passwords of all of its users and administrators. However, the Cybernews team discovered a publicly exposed Elasticsearch cluster on WiHD that lacked any password protection. What data was exposed?

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Kali Linux

MARCH 31, 2024

The fastest is probably to just download a pre-built image from the Kali Linux download page , either the current 2024.1 When the image is downloaded, let’s start it. Now our VM is up and running, so we’re going to download and install a version of liblzma that contains the backdoor. Don’t know how?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

As it happens, you don’t have to buy an internet connected device for one of the most private areas of your home. 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.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

This week, security researchers said they spotted that same vulnerability being exploited by a new variant of Mirai , a malware strain that targets vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale attacks and as proxies for other cybercrime activity. which boasts some 100 million devices deployed worldwide.

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