Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This is interesting research and data: With Google accounts as a case-study, we teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to better understand how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild. billion credentials exposed by third-party breaches. The report.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. Password abuse at scale arose shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to make shared secrets the basis for securing digital connections. Our brains just won’t do it.”.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. But in February 2016, Babam joined Verified , another Russian-language crime forum. com (2017).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Iran-linked Peach Sandstorm APT is behind password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023. Microsoft researchers observed a series of password spray attacks conducted by Iran nation-state actors as part of a campaign named Peach Sandstorm (aka Holmium , APT33 , Elfin , and Magic Hound ).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

From now on, all WhatsApp backups will be protected by a password enabled encryption method offering an extra layer of security protection to users from spying eyes. In the year 2016, Facebook rolled out the encryption feature to its messaging features and seems to have now induced the feature into its subsidiaries one by one.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

The plaintiffs wanted to investigate possible racial discrimination in online job markets by creating accounts for fake employers and job seekers. So in 2016 they sued the federal government, seeking a declaration that this part of the CFAA violated the First Amendment.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to The Guardian , which first reported the incident,hackers may have accessed company customers emails along with usernames, passwords and personal details of top accountancy firms blue-chip clients. Deloitte has faced hacking claims twice recently.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

The perpetrators also alter account balances and security measures to make an unlimited amount of money available at the time of the transactions, allowing for large amounts of cash to be quickly removed from the ATM. “At a pre-determined time, the co-conspirators withdraw account funds from ATMs using these cards.”

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Adam Levin

APRIL 18, 2019

The social media company automatically uploaded the information from users who had registered with the site after 2016 and provided their email addresses and passwords. Facebook announced that it “unintentionally” harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million of its users without their consent.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 10, 2019

From there, the attackers simply start requesting password reset links via text message for a variety of accounts tied to the hijacked phone number. million stealing cryptocurrencies and extorting people for restoring access to social media accounts that were hijacked after a successful SIM-swap.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

While it is generally a bad idea for cybercriminals to mix their personal life with work, Witte’s social media accounts mention a close family member (perhaps her son or husband) had the first name “Max,” which allegedly was her hacker handle. law enforcement agencies. Image: DOJ.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

On May 8, KrebsOnSecurity received a tip that hackers obtained a username and password for an authorized user of esp.usdoj.gov , which is the Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) system managed by the DEA. “Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) allows for a federated search of 16 Federal law enforcement databases.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

A researcher found a flaw in Windows OS, tracked as PetitPotam, that can be exploited to force remote Windows machines to share their password hashes. The NTLM authentication hash can be used to carry out a relay attack or can be lately cracked to obtain the victim’s password. The news of the attack was first reported by The Record.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The latest, major threats to Mac computers can steal passwords and credit card details with delicate precision, targeting victims across the internet based on their device, location, and operating system. Some info stealers dont even require an additional stepthey can take cryptocurrency directly from a victims online accounts.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

From March 2023, that is within 30 days, Netflix, the world-renowned streaming service provider, is all set to enforce a ban on password sharing. Therefore, from early next month, Netflix is all set to roll out a new feature that legally allows the current subscribers to share their account passwords with their loved ones.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Election 2016 campaign in terms of malicious activity and offer practical and relevant including actionable threat intelligence on their whereabouts. Elections 2016 campaign: linuxkrnl[.]net. accounts-qooqle[.]com. account-gooogle[.]com. account-yahoo[.]com. accounts-googlc[.]com. password-google[.]com.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 15, 2021

References Free speech is not absolute - anywhere - and in the US there are numerous exceptions where free speech is not protected (and nor should it be) The more mainstream tech platforms have a history of banning all sorts of accounts for violating their terms of service, for example Twitter deleted hundreds of thousands of ISIS accounts in 2015/2016 (..)

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

2016 sales thread on Exploit. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” user account — this one on Verified[.]ru account on Carder[.]su account on Carder[.]su ” Fitis’s Livejournal account. “Why do I need a certificate?”

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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

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. Indeed, perhaps this enterprising Nigerian scammer is just keeping up with current trends.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

World Password Day is today, reminding us of the value of solid passwords, and good password practices generally. You can’t go wrong shoring up a leaky password line of defence though, so without further ado: let’s get right to it. The problem with passwords. Shoring up your passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

The alleged hacker behind the credential stuffing attacks on UK National Lottery accounts has been sentenced to nine months in prison. ” The attack took place in November 2016 and impacted the National Lottery customer database containing about 9,000,000 records. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – National Lottery, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

The popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were accessed by hackers as result of a massive credential stuffing attack. On Friday, the popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were hit by hackers. ” continues the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 17, 2020

As you work from home, you’ve likely had to create a bunch of new accounts for a bunch of new remote applications, programs, and services. You already had way too many passwords to keep track of before, right? Up pops an error message - “Incorrect username or password.” Enter the password manager You may have heard about these.

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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. In November 2016, an exploit[.]ru

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

Million email accounts without permission. Million email accounts without user’permission. We recently read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to provide the passwords to their email accounts to confirm their identity. This means that roughly 1.5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 23, 2019

The quiz uses real-world phishing campaigns, including the Russian hack that gained access to the email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager. “We When you have two-factor authentication enabled, even if an attacker successfully steals your password they won’t be able to access your account,” wrote Henck.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

According to historic records maintained by Domaintools.com [an advertiser on this site], that email address — ing.equipepro@gmail.com — was used in 2016 to register the Web site talainine.com , a now-defunct business that offered recreational vehicle-based camping excursions just outside of a city in southern Morocco called Guelmim.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. VFEmail’s Twitter account responded that “external facing systems, of differing OS’s and remote authentication, in multiple data centers are down.” Just attack and destroy.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Investigators allege that between October 2016 and May 2018, Hared and Ditman grew proficient at SIM swapping, a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. .” Winblo’s account on ogusers[.]com Soon after that, his phone went dead.

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