Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

107 million records include personal data and basic account information such as the user ID, number of Weibo tweets, number of followers and accounts users are following, account gender, geographic location and more. The dump doesn’t include Weibo users’ passwords. ” reported the website PingWest. ?????????????

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APRIL 5, 2020

A group of security researchers has found thousands of Android apps containing hidden backdoors and blacklists. There are 7,584 apps with secret access keys, 501 apps that embed master passwords, and 6,013 apps with secret commands. Moreover, these security risks hold generally across all of our data sources.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Yesterday almost $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency contained in a password-protected BitCoin wallet was moved to another wallet. Ahead of the 2020 Presidential election a mysterious transaction was noticed by cyber security experts and researchers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The bank changed 23,000 passwords in 2018 without consent. However, some branch employees of Woori Bank modified the passwords and as a result of the operation, the accounts have been reactivated. However, some branch employees of Woori Bank modified the passwords and as a result of the operation, the accounts have been reactivated.

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APRIL 11, 2020

The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password. In response to the incident, the SFO Airport reset all email and network passwords. The airport also forced a reset of all SFO related email and network passwords on Monday, March 23, 2020.”

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JUNE 28, 2020

” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system. If you use the legacy email and password login, your passwords are encrypted, but we highly encourage that you change it. We do not store any credit card or payment related information on our servers.”

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Users of the above companies have to immediately change their passwords, and if they use the same passwords at other sites, they should also change the password at those sites. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” states BleepingComputer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords. The data breach was first reported by Risk Based Security last week, since then, Quidd has never disclosed any data breach recent security incident.

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APRIL 26, 2020

The data for any specific firewall depends upon the specific configuration and may include usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access.” ” “Passwords associated with external authentication systems such as AD or LDAP are unaffected.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Data contained in the backup includes : Full name Business address Business email address Business phone number Company URL Nature of business Encrypted password (hashed) IP address Newsletter subscription preferences. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes the notification.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

The leaked records included a login name, full name, MD5 hashed password, email address, phone number, zip, and other data related. The company has notified impacted users via email, it admitted to having recently discovered the data breach, in response to the incident it has forced a password reset.

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APRIL 30, 2020

. “Since the beginning of March, the number of Bruteforce.Generic.RDP attacks has rocketed across almost the entire planet” Attackers attempt to brute-force the username and password used to protect RDP access to systems exposed online, they can use combinations of random characters or leverage dictionary of most popular passwords.

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APRIL 19, 2020

A hacker has leaked the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World on a well-known hacking forum. . 22,000,000 users affected and while the database only contains username and hashed passwords, I believe it is just part of the full database that was probably taken as well. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The recent Emotet campaign uses spam messages with password-protected attachments, experts noticed a decline in infections over the weekend, a behavior already observed in the past. Emotet joined the password-protected attachment bandwagon with a campaign starting Friday. ” states the Italian CSIRT’s alert. .

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APRIL 1, 2020

In malspam attacks, attackers could encrypt the Excel file by setting up a password, then when the victims receive the email, hackers trick them into opening the attachment using a password included in the content of the message. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

The hacker access to users’ data, including usernames , email addresses, SHA-2 hashed passwords, account sign-up dates and country, the last-login date, the internet (IP) address, and links to profile photos. The majority of Mixcloud users signed up via Facebook authentication, in which cases we do not store passwords.”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Change your Activision account passwords and add 2FA immediately. Activision accounts are apparently being leaked so change your password, although that might not even help because they're apparently generating 1,000 accounts every 10 minutes. Players are recommended to change their account passwords as soon as possible.

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JANUARY 25, 2020

Cisco has addressed a high-severity flaw in the Cisco Webex video conferencing platform ( CVE-2020-3142) that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to enter a password-protected video conference meeting. reads the security advisory published by Cisco. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Webex, hacking).

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AUGUST 12, 2020

On August 6, during a review of email configuration and rules, the staff at the SANS Institute discovered a security breach. 28,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been forwarded to an unknown email address. Financial information either passwords were not impacted in the incident.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

UberEats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. “During our research process, the Cyble Research Team got hold of some informative details related to this leak.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 28, 2020

The huge trove of data contains over 386 million user records, but only some of them included the user’s password. Users of the above companies are recommended to change their passwords as soon as possible, they have to change the passwords where they used the same login credentials.

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MARCH 16, 2020

. “We recently became aware that some of our customers’ personal information stored on one of our databases has been accessed without permission. To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“They are officers of the ‘Crimean’ FSB and traitors who defected to the enemy during the occupation of the peninsula in 2014. This ‘line of work’ is coordinated by the FSB’s 18th Center (Information Security Center) based in Moscow.” 5 members of the group have been notified of suspicion of treason.”

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APRIL 20, 2020

Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums, the archive doesn’t include passwords.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

The Zoom platform hosts both password-protected virtual meetings and webinars, and sessions for non-pre-registered participants who can join the meetings by entering a unique Meeting ID (comprised of 9, 10, and 11-digit numbers). The latter case doesn’t require a password or going through the Waiting Rooms. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

These attacks, which used passwords and usernames collected from previous hacks of accounts worldwide, took advantage of the fact that many people reuse passwords and usernames across multiple accounts.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” states the press release.

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MAY 15, 2020

million January 2014 Wego.com 6.5 million April 2014 Coubic.com 2.6 million April 2014 ClassPass.com 1.6 million January 2014 Wego.com 6.5 million April 2014 Coubic.com 2.6 million April 2014 ClassPass.com 1.6 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

. “We want to update you that we have discovered that some of our users’ order information was accessed by an unauthorized party.” “We can confirm that all payment information, passwords and accounts are safe, but certain users’ name, contact number, email and shipping address may have been exposed.

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MARCH 10, 2020

international financial and corporate data, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and compromised user accounts from many U.S. Individuals can also buy computer files, financial information, PII, and usernames and passwords taken from computers infected with malicious software (malware) located both in the U.S. storefront.”

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

. “By forging an authentication token for specific Netlogon functionality, he was able to call a function to set the computer password of the Domain Controller to a known value. After that, the attacker can use this new password to take control over the domain controller and steal credentials of a domain admin.”

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MARCH 17, 2020

The website was distributing a file named WSHSetup.exe, it is the downloader for both the CoronaVirus Ransomware and the Kpot password-stealer. exe,’ which is the Kpot password-stealing Trojan. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. One of these files is, ‘file1.exe,’

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

A threat actor has breached the forum of Albion Online and stole usernames and password hashes from its database. On top of that, the attacker gained access to encrypted passwords (in technical terms: hashed and salted passwords).” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MAY 2, 2020

. “The server was live at the time of our investigation, leaking Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data from people accessing private accounts on Le Figaro’s news website, and in some cases, their login credentials.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The CVE-2020-3158 flaw is related to the presence of a system account that has a default and static password in the Smart Software Manager tool. “The vulnerability is due to a system account that has a default and static password and is not under the control of the system administrator.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to security firm Tencent, the team of hackers has been active over the past few months by hacking into Microsoft SQL Servers (MSSQL) to install a crypto-miner. “Tencent Security Threat Intelligence Center detected a new type of mining Trojan family MrbMiner. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, MrbMiner).

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JULY 13, 2020

The second script is then executed and attempt to launch a version of the Azorult password-stealing Trojan, but if detects that the program is running on Any.Run it will display the message ‘Any.run Detected!’ “When the second script is run, it will attempt to launch what appears to be the Azorult password-stealing Trojan.

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