eSecurity Planet

MAY 14, 2025

Bitwarden and Dashlane are two popular password managers that offer business plans in addition to their products for individuals. 5 Bitwarden is a popular business password manager with features like user management, custom session length, and integrations with SIEM products. However, Dashlane is still a great choice for businesses.

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Password Management Passwords Data breaches Encryption 87

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

They also accused Vrublevsky of facilitating money laundering for Hydra , the largest Russian darknet market at the time. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes. Incredibly, the day after our initial interview via Telegram, Shefel proposed going into business together. ” he inquired.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It's the old "data is the new oil" analogy that recognises how valuable our info is, and as such, there's a market for it. As I said, our IT department recently notified me that some of my data was leaked and a pre-emptive password reset was enforced as they didn't know what was leaked. 

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Data breaches Passwords B2B Technology 329

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

The site says it sells “cracked” accounts, or those that used passwords which could be easily guessed or enumerated by automated tools. One example is Genesis Market , where customers can search for stolen credentials and authentication cookies from a broad range of popular online destinations.

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Hacking Cybercrime Passwords Authentication 352

Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2022

Many of the sites seemingly do not intend to conduct the data-logging but incorporate third-party marketing and analytics services that cause the behavior. The group disclosed their findings to these sites, and all 52 instances have since been resolved.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

On January 29, the FBI and the Dutch national police seized the technical infrastructure for a cybercrime service marketed under the brands Heartsender , Fudpage and Fudtools (and many other “fud” variations). One of several current Fudtools sites run by the principals of The Manipulators.

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Phishing Cybercrime Advertising Malware 276

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of all its customers, as well as the mobile phone numbers and other data on people who have hired lawyers to go after telemarketers.

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Mobile Marketing Consumer Protection Wireless 361

Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

This is where a bot takes a password and email address that has been stolen and leaked online, and then tries those credentials across a myriad of services in the hope that its owner will have reused the password elsewhere. Don’t reuse passwords. These account takeover attacks have skyrocketed lately. Protect your PC.

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Internet Internet Passwords Artificial Intelligence 144

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. 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.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.

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Manufacturing Spyware Surveillance Marketing 288

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD claimed they grabbed the data by using passwords stolen from a Turkish airline employee who had third-party access to Airbus’ systems. And when all of your passwords are stolen and your important accounts have been hijacked or sold, you will wish you had simply paid for the real thing.

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Cybercrime Passwords Authentication Malware 345

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Fluent in American English, a gang member convinced a help desk worker to provide a one-time password to log into the systems. But persuading a poorly trained help desk operator to provide a temporary password isn’t, unfortunately, out of the ordinary. Reduce the amount of time a temporary password can be used.

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Social Engineering Passwords Authentication Marketing 310

Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

Authentication sans password is already possible and solutions are on the market from companies like Ping Identity. With passwords passé, it's time to make the leap to better security.

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Passwords Marketing Authentication 216

Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2025

One-time-password (OTP) delivery remains the work-horse of passwordless and multi-factor authentication flows. Yet the 2025 market has fractured into two [] The post OTP Authentication in 2025: How MojoAuth Stacks Up Against Twilio Verify, Auth0, Stytch & Descope appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Authentication Marketing Passwords B2C 94

Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

From Brian Krebs : A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S.

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Cybercrime Marketing Passwords Spyware 271

Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The MyEstatePoint Property Search app leaked data on nearly half a million of its users, exposing their names and plain-text passwords, the Cybernews research team has found. The app, developed by NJ Technologies, an India-based software developer, has over half a million downloads on the Google Play store and mainly serves the Indian market.

Passwords 141

Passwords Identity Theft Mobile Technology 141

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share , crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. Once a victim types their user ID and password, criminals will receive the data immediately. Passkeys come to mind immediately since they do not involve passwords at all.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. An OTP (one-time password) bot is another service available by subscription.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 145

Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Sizmek’s own marketing boilerplate says the company operates its ad platform in more than 70 countries, connecting more than 20,000 advertisers and 3,600 agencies to audiences around the world. The company is listed by market analysis firm Datanyze.com as the world third-largest ad server network. . ” PASSWORD SPRAYING.

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Accountability Passwords Advertising Penetration Testing 268

Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2021

The modern market economy, which aggressively rewards corporations for short-term profits and aggressive cost-cutting, is also part of the problem: Its incentive structure all but ensures that successful tech companies will end up selling insecure products and services. This is known as “privatizing profits and socializing losses.”

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Risk Government Marketing Software 363

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2024

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) orders smart device manufacturers to ban default passwords starting from April 29, 2024. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging manufacturers of smart devices to comply with new legislation that bans default passwords. ” reads the announcement published by NCSC.

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Passwords Manufacturing Telecommunications Cyber Attacks 139

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. Image: Wikipedia. “2FA has proven to be a powerful tool in securing communications channels. .”

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Accountability Hacking Authentication Marketing 361

SecureWorld News

MAY 28, 2025

In early May 2025, two of the United Kingdom's best-known grocers, Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op, as well as luxury retailer Harrods, were struck by sophisticated social-engineering attacks that tricked IT teams into resetting critical passwords and deploying ransomware across their networks. billion ($1.5 billion U.S.)

Retail 106

Retail Social Engineering Passwords Ransomware 106

Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. Password re-use becomes orders of magnitude more dangerous when website developers engage in this unsafe practice.

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Hacking Marketing Cybercrime Accountability 363

Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

These messages frequently warn recipients about a problem with their accounts, like a password that needs to be updated, a policy change that requires a login, or a delayed package that has to be approved. In reality, those usernames and passwords are delivered directly to cybercriminals on the other side of the website.

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Small Business Cybersecurity Passwords Scams 104

Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 22, 2022

I read through that last one live in this week's video and as you'll hear, a breach of any kind is never a good look but what stands out for me about this one isn't the breach itself, rather the marketing effort SOCRadar has made around it. As I say in the video, it just feels. See if you agree.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many companies had uploaded sensitive customer records to accounts at the cloud data storage service Snowflake that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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Hacking Government Identity Theft Accountability 263

Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2023

Also, Genesis Market and Operation Cookie Monster. But more seriously, I cannot think of a better example of ambiguous language that's open to interpretation and so easily avoided (hello MM-DD people!) It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta. Book a demo today.

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Identity Theft Marketing DDOS Passwords 268

Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

"Based on FIDO standards, passkeys are a replacement for passwords that provide faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across a user’s devices. Unlike passwords, passkeys are always strong and phishing resistant. The FIDO Alliance asserts that passkeys are a replacement for passwords.

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Passwords Authentication Insurance Cyber Insurance 133

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The hack was acknowledged by the forum’s current administrator, who assured members that their passwords were protected with a password obfuscation technology that was extremely difficult to crack. Roughly a week ago, the OGUsers homepage was defaced with a message stating the forum’s user database had been compromised.

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Accountability Hacking Scams Media 351

Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.” relied on the passwords asus666 and 01091987h.

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Malware Passwords Accountability Advertising 306

Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

Don't reuse passwords for anything important -- ­and get a password manager to remember them all. Once that happens, the market will step in and provide companies with the technologies they can use to secure your data. Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible.

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Identity Theft Passwords Password Management Authentication 279

IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s interesting to note that many people will happily unlock their phone by just looking at it and have no problem tapping their bank card against a store’s point of sale terminal, but if the term password security is presented to them, they have a blank expression, or worse, shrink away. So, it’s undoubtedly already out there.

Passwords 101

Passwords Password Management Technology Authentication 101

Zero Day

JANUARY 16, 2025

Bitwarden is one of the best password managers on the market, but are you using it effectively? Here are a few tips to ensure you are.

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Password Management Passwords Marketing 97

Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2025

Reddit posts target crypto enthusiasts Scammers are lurking on subreddits visited by cryptocurrency traders and posting about free access to TradingView, a web-based platform and social network that provides charting tools for analyzing financial markets, including stocks, forex, cryptocurrencies, and commodities.

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Cryptocurrency Malware Scams Antivirus 130

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Zacks is an investment research company best known for its “Zacks Ranks,” which are daily lists that provide stock market watchers and likely investors with possible company portfolio purchases, ranked on a scale from one to five. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

Accountability 101

Accountability Data breaches Passwords Phishing 101

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches. A week before breaking the story about Onerep, KrebsOnSecurity published research showing the co-founders of Radaris were two native Russian brothers who’d built a vast network of affiliate marketing programs and consumer data broker services.

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Data breaches Marketing Passwords Risk 201