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LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call

Security Affairs

According to the password management software firm, the employee was contacted outside of the business hours. ” The employee ignored the contact and reported the attempt to the security team, the company confirmed that the incident did not impact the company.

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The Top Five Habits of Cyber-Aware Employees

CyberSecurity Insiders

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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A new phishing scam targets American Express cardholders

Security Affairs

The page was crafted to request the victims to enter their user ID and password. The phishing campaign bypassed native Google Workspace email security controls because it passed both DKIM and SPF email authentication. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, American Express).

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3 of the Worst Data Breaches in the World That Could Have Been Prevented

Security Affairs

While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. SolarWinds employees claim that the attack resulted from a weak password that an intern had used – “solarwinds123”. All of that could’ve been avoided had SolarWinds implemented a strong password policy.

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CafePress faces $500,000 fine for data breach cover up

Malwarebytes

In February 2019, a threat actor was able to access millions of email addresses and passwords. According to the complaint by the FTC this was made possible because CafePress failed to implement reasonable security measures to protect the sensitive information of buyers and sellers stored on its network. Informing customers.

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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Security Affairs

While not deeply sensitive, the information could still be used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets based on the criminals’ preferred methods of social engineering. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all your online accounts.

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Nude photo theft offers lessons in selfie security

Malwarebytes

With those, he broke into social media profiles / web storage and stole nude images and movies, and traded them with others. To gain access to the email accounts, he appears to have reset account passwords by correctly guessing password reset questions. The easiest way to do this is by letting a password manager do it for you.