Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. An expert discovered a flaw in the LastPass password manager that exposes login credentials entered on a site previously visited by a user. Go to [link] , when prompted for password click the little “…” icon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 3, 2019

Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . This is a real email! Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 17, 2019

Trend Micro addressed 2 DLL hijacking flaws in Trend Micro Password Manager that could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and much more. “ SafeBreach Labs discovered a new vulnerability in Trend Micro Password Manager software.” ” reads the security advisory published by Trend Micro.

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MAY 22, 2019

Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The company is notifying the incident to its users via email and is forcing a password reset in response to the incident. ” continues the notification.

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JULY 21, 2019

The airline company WizzAir informed its customers that it had reset the account passwords due to a technical issue in the system. The airline company WizzAir had reset the account passwords of its users due to a technical issue in its system. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ information, including passwords. Foxit Software, the PDF software provider behind the Foxit PDF reader app disclosed a security breach that took place recently exposing customers’ information.

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JULY 18, 2019

Slack is resetting passwords for accounts belonging to users that have not secured them after the data breach suffered by the company in 2015. Slack announced it is resetting passwords for accounts belonging to users that have not secured them after the data breach suffered by the company in 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

600,000 GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’ Avast researchers found at least 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese vendor that were exposed online with a default password of “123456.” The use of default passwords represents a serious problem also for the Chinese vendor.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

The leaked data includes login names, hashed passwords, and email addresses. It is not confirmed that all of the leaked data is legitimate, anyway, experts suggest users change their password immediately. Users that share the password at another site should also change the password. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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MAY 17, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following D-Link router vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2014-100005 Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-600 router (rev.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Between 2014 and 2024, the duo operated the dark web marketplace WWH Club (wwh-club[.]ws) “WWH Club and sister site members used the marketplaces to buy and sell stolen personal identifying information (PII), credit card and bank account information, and computer passwords, among other sensitive information.

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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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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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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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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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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 7, 2019

This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. During our investigation, we determined that the bad actor possessed the user ID and password for your State Farm online account.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. Continued use of this firmware or end-of-life devices is an active security risk,” states the alert.

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