Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

. “An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by conducting a brute-force attack against valid user accounts,” Narang said. “Despite the high rating, the belief is that brute-force attacks won’t be successful against accounts with strong passwords.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The tsunami of passwords that exist across every aspect of our digital life means that there’s a thriving underground industry of cyber-criminals trying to get at them. This time passwords were lightly protected by the 1970s-era DES algorithm. Taking a password dump from a server isn’t, of course, the only route to compromise.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2021

Password managers play an important role in maintaining a strong security profile, and LastPass is certainly on our list of Best Password Managers & Tools for 2021. Alternative password managers offer a number of advantages over LastPass depending on your business needs. Read more: LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

“This seems like a short sentence when taking into account the gravity of his actions and the life-altering consequences to thousands of people, but it’s almost the maximum the law allows for,” Kurittu said. Ville Tapio, the former CEO of Vastaamo, was fired and also prosecuted following the breach.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. Tell me a little bit about the problems with passwords and how passwordless solves for them.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

The attack could force remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that could then be easily cracked. As we saw when discussing the HiveNightmare zero-day, hashed passwords are useful to attackers. The authentication process does not require the plaintext password. Pass the hash. The hash is enough. Hard to patch.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Among those is rustraitor[.]info

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” Bringing things full circle, Constella Intelligence shows that various online accounts tied to the email address unforgiven57@mail.ru .” Crypt[.]guru’s

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Dashlane and LastPass are two of the biggest names in password management software. They both provide businesses secure vaults for sensitive information, including passwords, credit card details, and personal identification numbers. It has long been regarded as a top password manager for both personal and professional use.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Apple has also promised that passwords will be a thing of the past, and passkeys will become available for iOS 16. Dashlane last month integrated passkeys into its cross-platform password manager.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

KrebsOnSecurity first encountered Aqua’s work in 2008 as a reporter for The Washington Post. ” Only, in every case the company mentioned as the “client” was in fact a small business whose payroll accounts they’d already hacked into. tank: He is the account from which we cashed. HITCHED TO A MULE.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Often, they start their journey by stealing an initial set of credentials or somehow spoofing the application or network so they don’t have to use a password at all. Both require threat actors to steal credentials or perform some other kind of attack to gain access to the privileged account.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. Plott said his company never refuses to issue a money-back request from a customer, because doing so would result in costly chargebacks for NextLevel (and presumably for the many credit card merchant accounts apparently set up by Mr. Mirza).

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap , a conjunction of the Russian word for accountant “Buhgalter” and the English word “trap”. It tries to harvest passwords from mail clients, browsers, etc.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

QBot has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials, and other financial information from the victims. “If the user complies, an archive will be downloaded from a remote server (compromised site), protected with a password given in the original PDF file.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

All this could enable attackers to hijack accounts and have admin access. That could allow arbitrary admin account creation and access to files and personal information. That could allow arbitrary admin account creation and access to files and personal information. Cybernews contacted all universities mentioned in the research.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Out of Palo Alto, California, Cloudera started in 2008 by alumni of Google, Yahoo!, With the EDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server, clients gain features like password profiles, enhanced audit logging, and data redaction. Born from Google in 2008, the Google Cloud Platform is a leading cloud infrastructure provider. Microsoft Azure.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. The most commonly used passwords today are, “password” and “123456,” and it only takes a hacker.29 In 2008, Myspace was the world’s largest social networking site. Peace stole data from over 360 million Myspace accounts.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. When you add this type of data to cloud storage, ensure your account is protected with more than just a password. Credit card details. Your address and phone numbers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2021

In the SingHealth breach, “bad system management” was responsible for the event, resulting in access to an unsecured administrator account. However, with the emergence of new strains of ransomware that exfiltrate data prior to encrypting it, access control for accounts becomes increasingly important.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Examples of Botnet Malware Attacks.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2021

The year was 2008. Joomla was plagued by vulnerabilities at that time, and someone managed to access the user database and crack the passwords. The password for my test account there.well, I was using it in some other places. It was my old password from before I started working with security. Management Lessons.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

In total, we found nine auxiliary modules performing different malicious activities such as file gathering, keylogging, taking screenshots, recording the microphone and stealing passwords. The module that looked most interesting to us is the one that performs email exfiltration from Gmail accounts.

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

A secondary mitigating factor is that many privileged accounts are members of the protected users security group, which has the benefit of disabling NTLM authentication for all member accounts. It takes into account new critical vulnerabilities as they emerge, ensuring your risks are prioritized accordingly in your unique environment.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile. 8, 15.0.0.0/8, 8, 16.0.0.0/8,

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Born from two board members of AVG Technologies, Evolution Equity Partners started in 2008 to help US and European-based entrepreneurs in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and consumer-enterprise crossover segments. In 2008, the Washington, DC-based firm made a prudent decision by shifting its focus to cybersecurity.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

Specifically, they wanted to be able to automatically “harvest” tokens on a host as people connected, keeping the tokens usable for operators even after the associated account logged off. Traditionally this has involved various methods to retrieve plaintext passwords, hashes, or Kerberos keys/tickets. Approaches. References.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2020

Our decoy is a Windows server 2008 with nothing particularly special about it beyond the fact that it is configured as a decoy. In one case, he attempted to download and execute code from an external site using an SSH password guessing attack, and in the other, he injected assembly code. from 193.228.91.110.

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Cytelligence

JULY 30, 2020

Introduced in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server, RDG addresses some of these concerns by enabling organizations to keep their RDP endpoint servers behind a firewall by exposing just the RDG server to the internet in order to forward the RDP connections. Implement account lock-out capabilities ; and .

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. Stealers also bridge the realms of criminal and nation-state focus. me/+ZjiasReCKmo2N2Rk (Mystic Stealer News).

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2014, Wazawaka confided to another crime forum member via private message that he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on these marketplaces. “I used to steal their QIWI accounts with up to $500k in them,” Wazawaka recalled. ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA? Matveyev , in Abakan, Khakassia.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. So but before I'm not an early adopter of anything, it's not like I've had Bitcoin since 2008 or something. This really happened to Dan Reich and a friend.

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