Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A botnet of 130,000+ devices is attacking Microsoft 365 accounts via password-spraying, bypassing MFA by exploiting basic authentication. SecurityScorecard researchers discovered a botnet of over 130,000 devices that is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

A previously unknown threat actor released config files and VPN passwords for Fortinet FortiGate devices on a popular cybercrime forum. A previously unknown threat actor named Belsen Group published configuration files and VPN passwords for over 15,000 Fortinet FortiGate appliances. “2025 will be a fortunate year for the world.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Username domainuser -Password password Note: I’ve tried to provide time stamps and output during run-time, so you know what it’s doing. Hopefully the functionality will help people better understand where there may be risk of password exposure, data exposure, or command execution. They are all run automatically.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We've also added 244M passwords we've never seen before to Pwned Passwords and updated the counts against another 199M that were already in there. The file in the image above contained over 36 million rows of data consisting of website URLs and the email addresses and passwords entered into them.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

For decades, passwords have been our default method for keeping online accounts safe. A team at Cybernews conducted a study of over 19 billion newly exposed passwords which showed were looking at a a widespread epidemic of weak password reuse. Does that make the password obsolete? But our opponents have.

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Zero Day

MAY 5, 2025

Your lazy passwords are putting you and your company at risk.

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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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Penetration Testing

MAY 2, 2025

In 2020, Microsoft updated its Authenticator app to introduce password-saving and autofill capabilities, effectively transforming Microsoft Authenticator into The post Microsoft Authenticator to Drop Password Manager Features by August 2025 appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The post Ground Rule of Cyber Hygiene: Keep Your Password Policy Up to Date appeared first on Security Boulevard. Research shows that most organizations and users fail to follow the simple practices that make computing safe. In 2024, organizations reported a.

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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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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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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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Schneier on Security

APRIL 1, 2025

That is, does the reset erase the old encryption key, or just sever the password that access that key? .—on phones so it can’t be recovered? Does resetting a phone to factory defaults erase data, or is it still recoverable? When the phone is rebooted, are deleted files still available?

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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. It uses a common low-level keyboard hook to record keystrokes and writes the logs to local files.

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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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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. Executing this series of keypresses prompts Windows to download password-stealing malware.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2024

unique passwords provided by law enforcement agencies into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) following botnet takedowns in a campaign they've coined Operation Endgame. The only data we've been provided with is email addresses and disassociated password hashes, that is they don't appear alongside a corresponding address.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

Auto-fill Exploits: A small but critical sign when your password manager doesnt autofill it might be a scam site. He explained: There are moments that should raise red flags but dont like when your password manager doesnt autofill. Avoid reusing passwords across different services. Always stop and check the URL.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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.    It would be good to see it as an informational notification in case there's an increase in attack attempts against my email address.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2025

. “There has been a sharp increase in the number of cases of unauthorized access and unauthorized trading (trading by third parties) on Internet trading services using stolen customer information (login IDs, passwords, etc.) Avoid password reuse, choose complex passwords, and check account activity often.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They dont crack into password managers or spy on passwords entered for separate apps. If enough victims unwittingly send their passwords, the cyber thieves may even bundle the login credentials for sale on the dark web. The requests are bogus and simply a method for harvesting passwords.

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Zero Day

MAY 9, 2025

Heard of polymorphic browser extensions yet? These savage imposters threaten the very future of credential management. Here's what you need to know - and do.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These devices typically don’t support browsers, making it difficult to sign in using more standard forms of authentication, such as entering user names, passwords, and two-factor mechanisms. Authentication through device code flow is designed for logging printers, smart TVs, and similar devices into accounts.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

If you find an app from this family or another information stealer on your device, there are a few guidelines to follow to limit the damage: Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you dont use for anything else. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2025

Use a different password for every account. If you get your username and password stolen on one account you dont want scammers to be able to use it on another. Password managers help you create complex passwords, and they remember them for you. Double checking in this way could save you doing something you later regret.

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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

MAY 12, 2025

Heard of polymorphic browser extensions yet? These savage imposters threaten the very future of credential management. Here's what you need to know - and do.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

31M records breached The breach exposed user records including email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes. HIBP confirmed that the stolen archive had 31M records, including email address, screen name, bcrypt password hash, and timestamps for password changes. Internet Archive hacked.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 24, 2025

Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you dont use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2025

It finally recommends using strong, unique passwords (min. 10 characters, mix of letters, numbers, symbols) for both Wi-Fi and admin pages and avoiding reusing passwords or using easy sequences like 1234567890. ” concludes the security advisory.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 27, 2025

Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you dont use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

.” Compromised data include names, emails, phone numbers, partial card info for some campus diners, and hashed passwords from legacy systems. The company reset affected passwords. The data breach did not expose passwords, merchant logins, full card numbers, bank details, or Social Security numbers.

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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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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

The bank unexpectedly sent me a temporary password to sign up, and when I did, the temporary password had expired. But then, after I went to reset the password, the bank emailed me a one time code. Which is a fine practice, and brings me to the question: Why expire the first passwords at all? Why make it harder?

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