Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

” The US firm urges customers to be vigilant for social engineering and phishing attacks. The company also recommends active multi-factor authentication (MFA), and regularly rotate their MongoDB Atlas passwords. .” At this time, we are not aware of any exposure to the data that customers store in MongoDB Atlas.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare portals, payment information, and websites. million payments. ” reads the alert.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

The potential leak of financial details could lead to serious concerns, as often threat actors use the data to launch identity theft and other kind of social engineering attacks on the impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Some of the most popular ones include RAM scraping, wherein the memory of targeted devices is scanned for collecting sensitive information. Some malware attacks install tools like keyloggers to capture the keystrokes for stealing passwords or other sensitive information. One common. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

The messages contain a password-protected ZIP file containing an LNK file when opened. Like LLM-generated social engineering lures, threat actors may incorporate these resources into an overall campaign.” Upon executing the LNK file, it triggers PowerShell to run a remote PowerShell script. ” concludes the report.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

The exposed records include email addresses full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, LinkedIn username and profile URL, personal and professional experience/background, genders, and other social media accounts and usernames. Passwords are not included in the archive. ” reported RestorePrivacy.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

The leaked information included names, phone numbers, emails, private communication via SMS messages, passwords, and employees’ credentials. Screenshot of leaked customer information Researchers also stumbled upon 70,000 customer credentials. Leaking employee credentials might put the company at risk of targeted cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. Set random passwords to generate 10-character alphanumeric passwords. If using personal passwords, utilize complex rotating passwords of varying lengths. Windows 10).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

of users in the report, the only contact information recorded is full name and email address. Cloud identity and access management firm has no evidence that this information is being actively exploited. The company warns impacted customers of phishing or social engineering attacks that rely on the compromised data.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2020, the pandemic forced companies to restructure their information security practices, accommodating a work-from-home (WFH) approach. Security issues with passwords, software vulnerabilities and social engineering combined into an overwhelming majority of initial access vectors during attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an adaptive phishing campaign, attackers gather specific information about victims through various sources, such as social media, public websites, and previous data breaches. One of the key elements of these campaigns is social engineering, which aims to psychologically manipulate victims.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

This means that most cyberattacks could be prevented by following simple cybersecurity best practices, such as using strong passwords, updating software, and avoiding phishing emails. According to PurpleSec, 98% of cybercrime relies on social engineering to accomplish it. Phishing emails are more common than you know.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2022

Microsoft observed a large-scale phishing campaign that used adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing sites to steal passwords, hijack a user’s sign-in session, and bypass the authentication process even when the victim has enabled the MFA.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Recently the company suffered a ransomware attack and threat actors have stolen the personal information of a large number of people. The stolen data also includes driver’s license numbers and/or social security numbers. ” The investigation is still ongoing to determine the extent of security incident.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

“On March 21st, 2021 the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained over 1 billion records. The database was accessible to everyone without any type of authentication. ” reported the WebsitePlanet website. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2023

A massive social engineering campaign is targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server to steal their login credentials. “One explanation is that the adversary relies on password reuse by the administrator targeted through phishing – i.e., using the same credentials for both email and administration.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In our exclusive Behind the Scenes interview series, we take a deeper look at a topic that is relevant to the information security community. Today's conversation answers this question: How can threat intelligence strengthen security awareness? Will you give us some information on each one? What are you seeing?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

The decrypted icon files revealed the location of the malware’s control server, which was then queried for a third stage of the malware compromise — a password stealing program dubbed ICONICSTEALER. The double supply chain compromise that led to malware being pushed out to some 3CX customers. Image: Mandiant. Microsoft Corp.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The security team at the company identified that an employee had signed-in to their personal Google profile on the Chrome browser of their Okta-managed laptop. “The username and password of the service account had been saved into the employee’s personal Google account. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Now, however, the expanded compilation – if genuine – “could serve as a goldmine for scammers,” says CyberNews senior information security researcher Mantas Sasnauskas. Brute-forcing the passwords of the affected Facebook profiles. Change the password of your Clubhouse and Facebook accounts. Spamming 3.8

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Implementing a resilient multi-factor authentication and choosing unique and strong passwords are essential for building better defenses to protect our data, there are also additional steps that citizens can take. Cybercriminals increasingly employ social engineering tactics because they are effective. Recognize phishing.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2023

. “On January 11, the Mailchimp Security team identified an unauthorized actor accessing one of our tools used by Mailchimp customer-facing teams for customer support and account administration. ” reads the notice published by the company. ” reads the post published by TechCrunch.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) have issued a joint security advisory to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting organizations from multiple US industry industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

“On January 11, the Mailchimp Security team identified an unauthorized actor accessing one of our tools used by Mailchimp customer-facing teams for customer support and account administration. WooCommerce pointed out that payment data, passwords or other sensitive information was not exposed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

The exposed file contained: Full MySQL database Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) – a unique sequence of characters that identifies a resource – as well as username and password to access it; JSON Web Token’s (JWT) passphrase and locations of private and public keys; A link to the git repository for the site; Symfony application secret.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

A statement shared by Mailchimp CISO Siobhan Smyth with TechCrunch revealed that the company discovered the security breach on March 26. The company was the victim of a social engineering attack aimed at its employees. A threat actor gained access to a tool used by the company’s customer support and account administration teams.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place. Can’t come up with a strong password? What were we looking at?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Brute-forcing the passwords of LinkedIn profiles and email addresses. The leaked files appear to only contain LinkedIn profile information – we did not find any deeply sensitive data like credit card details or legal documents in the sample posted by the threat actor. Change the password of your LinkedIn and email accounts.

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