Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. The bot allowed the attackers to use the phished username, password and one-time code to log in as that employee at the real employer website.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2025

The duo found Subaru’s admin panel hosted on a subdomain, allowing password resets for employee accounts without confirmation, bypassing two-factor authentication. Researchers used the valid employee email to reset the password, bypass two-factor authentication, and gain access to the panels functionality. ” wrote Curry.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2025

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Mexico’s president announced the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack that targeted the administration’s legal affairs office. Today they are going to send me a report on the supposed hacking.” This is not the first time Mexico’s presidential office has been targeted in a hack involving sensitive information.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2025

In this scam, dubbed “ ClickFix ,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Tip 2: Implementing Strong Password Policies Weak passwords can be easily compromised, giving attackers access to sensitive systems and data. LastPass reports that 80% of all hacking-related breaches leveraged either stolen and/or weak passwords.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 1, 2025

As we celebrate World Password Day on May 1st, it's clear that traditional password trickslike swapping "a" with "@" or adding an exclamation point at the endare no longer fooling hackers. Hackers today can guess common patterns and character swaps in mere seconds, leaving those "clever" passwords vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the first step of the attack, they peppered the target’s Apple device with notifications from Apple by attempting to reset his password. The target told Michael that someone was trying to change his password, which Michael calmly explained they would investigate. “Password is changed,” the man said.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

One of these experts, the white hat hacker Aditya K Sood, demonstrated how weak or default passwords expose solar plants to cyber threats, allowing remote control over power systems, risking grid security. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,smart solar systems)

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Satnam Narang , senior staff research engineer at Tenable , says the danger with stolen NTLM hashes is that they enable so-called “pass-the-hash” attacks, which let an attacker masquerade as a legitimate user without ever having to log in or know the user’s password.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 26, 2024

While hacking attempts continue to evolve, so do the strategies to secure your account. Here are five distinct ways to safeguard your Instagram from being hacked, with fresh insights you wont find elsewhere. Unlike passwords or codes, biometric data is unique to you and cannot be easily replicated. Why Biometrics?

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Heimadal Security

JULY 17, 2025

From a hacked Muppet to ransomware takedowns, leaky AI at the Golden Arches, a betting breach, and SMBs sleepwalking into […] The post 123456 Password Leads to McDonald’s Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. In less than 5 minutes you’ll be up to speed on the five biggest cyber headlines of the week.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2025

Japan s Financial Services Agency (FSA) warns of hundreds of millions in unauthorized trades linked to hacked brokerage accounts. Avoid password reuse, choose complex passwords, and check account activity often. If you suspect fraud, change passwords and contact your brokerage immediately.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2025

The hacker has published 10,000 customer records, a file showing Oracle Cloud access, user credentials, and an internal video as proof of the hack. Oracle initially privately notified customers of a breach affecting usernames, passkeys, and encrypted passwords, with the FBI and CrowdStrike investigating the incident.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Starting from Wednesday, the website archive.org was displaying a message informing visitors that it was hacked. Internet Archive hacked. 31M records breached The breach exposed user records including email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes. HIBP added that 54% of the stolen record were already in its platform.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Data breaches and account hacks are a growing concern for users, especially with the personal and professional information shared on the platform. If youre worried about your Instagram account being hacked , it's essential to take proactive steps to protect your data. This will help protect your account from potential threats.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2025

Security researchers discovered 16 billion stolen passwords from Apple, Google, Facebook and more. Unlike traditional hacks, malicious software infected millions of personal devices, secretly stealing every login. Here's what this means for your accounts and how to protect yourself immediately.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Booking.com said it now requires 2FA , which forces partners to provide a one-time passcode from a mobile authentication app (Pulse) in addition to a username and password. One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

They can also steal personal data, banking details, cryptocurrency info, emails, and passwords by scraping the files the users upload. If users fall victim to this scam, immediately contact their financial institutions, secure their accounts, and change all passwords using a trusted device. Reporting the incident to IC3.gov

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Tools designed for password cracking often exploit weak security practices, but understanding these methods is vital for safeguarding your account. This guide explores Snapchat password-cracking tools while focusing on ethical ways to enhance security. Weak or simple passwords are particularly vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The two infostealers allowed operators to harvest usernames, passwords, contact info, and crypto-wallets from victims, the threat actors sold this data to criminals for financial theft and hacking. Use a password manager : Simplifies managing strong, unique passwords across accounts.

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Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Close Home Tech Security 16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself Wondering if your information is posted online from a data breach? If we have made an error or published misleading information, we will correct or clarify the article. Sounds scary, right?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2025

Threat actors were spotted exploiting the default super admin account (admin@LocalDomain), which often still uses the weak default password password. Even fully patched devices can be compromised if password hygiene is poor. Arctic Wolf is monitoring the situation and urges organizations to secure all local accounts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled , English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. Intel471 finds the user FlorainN registered across multiple cybercrime forums using the email address olivia.messla@outlook.de.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

The attacker then moved via RDP to a server and attempted to deploy ransomware as a password-protected zip file, but the victims EDR tool blocked it. Ensure default passwords of IoT devices are changed to unique and complex ones.” Realizing EDR was active, they pivoted by scanning the network for vulnerable devices.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

A compromised password can lead to identity theft and data breaches. To safeguard your Gmail password, you need to adopt a few best practices that will enhance your accounts security and keep cyber threats at bay. If hackers gain access to your Gmail password , they could potentially compromise these connected services too.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2025

A critical flaw (CVE-2025-24859, CVSS 10) in Apache Roller lets attackers keep access even after password changes. where active user sessions are not properly invalidated after password changes. where active user sessions are not properly invalidated after password changes. All versions 6.1.4 are affected. version 6.1.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. This aligns with prior findings that cybercriminals cracked master passwords from LastPass to carry out major heists. Authorities seized $24M in frozen assets before they could be withdrawn.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2025

The data, structured by URL, login, and password, targets services like Apple, Google, Facebook, Telegram, GitHub, and even government portals. In the summer of 2024, CyberNews discovered the largest password compilation to date, known as RockYou2024 , on a popular hacking forum. The compilation (“rockyou2024.txt”)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2025

Microsoft warns that threat actor Storm-1977 is behind password spraying attacksagainst cloud tenants in the education sector. Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Storm-1977, using AzureChecker.exe to launch password spray attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Interbank disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed the hack of the organization and leaked stolen data online. Alleged stolen data includes personal info, credit card details, CVVs, passwords, and API credentials. A threat actor that uses the moniker ‘kzoldyck’ claims the leak of 3.7

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2025

Fortinet addressed a critical vulnerability in its FortiSwitch devices that can be exploited to change administrator passwords remotely. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to change administrator passwords. ” reads the advisory. . ” reads the advisory. Upgrade to 7.6.1 or above FortiSwitch 7.4 through 7.4.4

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 9, 2025

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2025

A notorious hacker group known as Golden Chickens is back in the spotlight after cybersecurity researchers discovered two new digital weapons designed to steal passwords, watch every word you type, and target your cryptocurrency. A familiar name behind major hacks Golden Chickens has been active since at least 2018.

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Hacker's King

JANUARY 8, 2025

You may also like to read: How Hackers Spy On Hacked Phone? How To Detect and Secure Yourself Hacker's Most Preferred Hacking Techniques These techniques can be described as the most liked techniques of users to hack Android devices. By using this technique, hackers extract any information required to hack your Android device.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“No passwords” , “no bank cards” , “no content of communications (emails, SMS, voice messages, etc.)” The company said that passwords and bank card details were not compromised, it also pointed out that its customers’ communications were not exposed. million IBAN details. .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 24, 2025

A sophisticated supply chain hack targeting Oracle Cloud has exfiltrated a staggering 6 million records. The initial access was gained by hacking the login endpoint (login.(region-name).oraclecloud.com), Immediate mitigation measures include: Resetting passwords, particularly for privileged LDAP accounts. region-name).oraclecloud.com),

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