Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

com , a malware-based proxy network that has been in existence since at least 2010. Cached versions of the site show that in 2010 the software which powers the network was produced with a copyright of “ Escort Software.” The various “iboss” email accounts appear to have been shared by multiple parties.

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Google Security

APRIL 24, 2023

Christiaan Brand, Group Product Manager We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator , across both iOS and Android, which adds the ability to safely backup your one-time codes (also known as one-time passwords or OTPs) to your Google Account. It’s also the primary entry point for risks, making it important to protect.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. account).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

” That handle used the same ICQ instant messenger account number ( 555724 ) as a Mazafaka denizen named “ Nordex.” ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. In 2017, U.S. Constella tracked another Bankir[.]com

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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.” In 2010, someone with the username Pepyak on the Russian language affiliate forum GoFuckBiz[.]com frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts used by election officials at the state and local level. “I hope that doesn’t happen, but politicians are regular people who use the same tools we use.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. Why get rid of passwords?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. “In early October, the Ukrainian surveillance team said they’d lost him,” he wrote.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

used the password 225948. According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016. and admin@stairwell.ru

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Kislitsin is accused of hacking into the now-defunct social networking site Formspring in 2012, and conspiring with another Russian man convicted of stealing tens of millions of usernames and passwords from LinkedIn and Dropbox that same year. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 14, 2021

Instagram, the subsidiary of Facebook company, has announced that it is going to roll out an additional security feature that allows its users to review their login info, data related to other accounts that share the login info, and recovery contact information.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

People who responded to recruitment messages were invited to create an account at one of these sites, enter personal and bank account data (mules were told they would be processing payments for their employer’s “programmers” based in Eastern Europe) and then log in each day to check for new messages. indep: Yeah.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

Stolen records belong to 2 million user records of MyFreeCams Premium members, they include usernames, email addresses, MyFreeCams Token (MFC Token) amounts, and passwords in plain text. At the time of this writing, the threat actor has deleted its post, as well as its account, and emptied the cryptocurrency wallet used for the sale.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

“Taking account of all of the information available to him, he considered Mr Assange’s risk of suicide to be very high should extradition become imminent. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

cyber ops capability is Stuxnet , the self-spreading Windows worm found insinuating itself through Iranian nuclear plants in 2010. The report goes on to describe how a group of state-sponsored hackers, referred to as Elfin or APT33 , carried out extensive “password-spraying” attacks. One prime demonstration of U.S. That was a glitch.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2020

Way back in 2010 I was writing about this as part of the OWASP Top 10 for ASP.NET series and a near decade on, it's still a problem. You can go and create an account there then try to change the password and watch the request that's sent via your browser's dev tools. Imagine this request: POST [link] Cookie: AuthCookie=EF29.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 2, 2021

Malaysia Airlines, also known as Malaysian Airlines System in some parts of the world was reportedly cyber attacked by hackers during the period of March 2010 to July 2019.

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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

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. net 2010-11-22 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn 2333youxi[.]com blazefire[.]com blazefire[.]net

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

last official release 2010) has a path traversal vulnerability. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated remote attacker (in cases where remote administration is enabled) or any local (LAN) party to obtain: The contents of the md5crypt (salted/hashed) passwords in /etc/passwd. The muhttpd server 1.1.5 released June 1, 2022).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale. The first worm of note that accomplished this was Stuxnet.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A separate set of startups soon cropped up specifically to handle the provisioning of log on accounts that gave access to multiple systems, and also the de-provisioning of those accounts when a user left the company. Efforts to balance security and productivity sometimes backfired.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 3, 2024

Imagine an employee setting up a system incorrectly or using a weak password—that one mistake could open the doors to an attacker. A compromised VPN account with a weak password led to a ransomware attack that disrupted fuel supplies throughout the U.S. Recent wake-up calls Take the 2022 Colonial Pipeline attack , for example.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2022

These communications on the backend of username and password login processes ensure users get authenticated by the overarching identity manager and authorized to use the given web service(s). in 2010 and OAuth 2.0 Context: Authentication vs. Authorization. Identity Managers. A graphic showing how SAML 2.0 The launch of OAuth 1.0

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

The hackers gained access to Blue Bear , a cloud school accounting software customized especially for K-12 schools and districts to help manage and simplify schools’ activity fund accounting. Exposed data include name, store username and password, payment card number, payment card expiration date, and payment card security code.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

One solution is to put a web server on the device listening, and to pay for a sticker with a unique admin password, which then drives customer support costs. Another solution is to have the device not listen but to reach out to your cloud service, and let customers register their devices to their cloud account.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outlook account settings contain important information essential for your inbox to operate properly. Restoring this data in case of loss might take much time especially when you have multiple accounts. This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules?

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 25, 2021

The perp claims to have stolen usernames, emails, clear text passwords, and MFC Token balances of 2 million Premium and Diamond members. After selling the stolen records, he immediately deleted his account and post from the forum. Despite these assurances, MyFreeCams has notified impacted members to reset their passwords.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 2, 2019

Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. The post Podcast Episode 140: passwords are. Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. Half a century later, the password has long since outlived its usefulness. Read the whole entry. »

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SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Curiously, unlike common stealers, OnionPoison implants do not automatically collect user passwords, cookies or wallets. 3BA945FD2C123FEC74EFDEA042DDAB4EB697677C600F83C87E07F895FB1B55E2. 2021-Dec-21 09:44:08. PE32+ executable (DLL) (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. net 2010-11-22 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO., More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn 2333youxi[.]com blazefire[.]com blazefire[.]net

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SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2020

SecureWorld recently covered the news about Twitter's widespread celebrity account hijacking. Lamo passed away in 2018, but @Lucky225 continues to run the @6 account, per the request of Lamo's family. Now, we have a few updates. Sure enough my Twitter app showed that I had been logged out 'due to an error.'.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. This is poor form as it can break tools that encourage good security practices such as password managers. Let them paste passwords!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Police can access information from car-connected phones and online accounts without the warrant typically required.” The police was able to access the infotainment system of the vehicle to obtain a broad range of information, including the suspect’s location, user passwords, email addresses, IP addresses and phone numbers.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Fraud: Sophisticated scams, including bonus abuse and account takeovers, pose significant financial risks. Using strong, unique passwords, enabling multi-factor authentication when available, and being cautious about sharing personal information are crucial steps in protecting oneself. Online gamblers, meanwhile, must remain vigilant.

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