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Password manager hijacked to deliver malware in supply chain attack

Malwarebytes

In the latest example of a supply chain attack, cybercriminals delivered malware to customers of the business password manager Passwordstate by breaching its developer’s networks and then deploying a fraudulent update last week, said Passwordstate’s maker, Click Studios. That attack, which resulted in an $18.5

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Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach

Security Affairs

Retail giant Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 The US largest home improvement retailer giant Home Depot agrees to $17.5 According to the US retailer the payment card information of approximately 40 million Home Depot consumers nationwide. The post Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 ” . . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Passwordstate Was Hacked in a Supply Chain Attack

Heimadal Security

Passwordstate, the on-premises password management solution being used by over 370,000 security and IT professionals from 29,000 companies worldwide and serving companies from the Fortune 500 rankings, from a wide range of industry sectors, like government, defense, finance, aerospace, retail, automotive, healthcare, legal, and also media, was recently (..)

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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

Legitimate retailers are never going to make you dig for the deals, so they aren’t going to put the good stuff in an attachment. It’s not just attachments from retailers, but also from shipping companies or financial institutions. Public Wi-Fi networks are not secure and can expose you to malware and hackers. Bottom line.

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Black Friday and Cyber Monday, crooks are already at work

Security Affairs

Other campaigns observed by the experts invited recipients to claim gift cards from popular retailers like Home Depot. In this case, the spam messages include links to fake online survey pages that have nothing to do with the retailer’s gift card. The experts also published a guide for a secure holiday shopping.

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Passwords vs. Passkeys: The State of Passkeys on User Endpoints

Duo's Security Blog

The latter may be secured in a password manager, yet may also be stored in an open text file or cached in a browser, leaving them vulnerable to endpoint attacks. Passkeys are better than passwords Storage Passwords can be scraped from a text file or extracted from a browser cache.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

This bold about-face dumbfounded many longtime Norton users because antivirus firms had spent years broadly classifying all cryptomining programs as malware. DigitalOcean severs ties with Mailchimp after that incident , which briefly prevented the hosting firm from communicating with its customers or processing password reset requests.