Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The initial blog was on August 25th, saying there was a breach, but it wasn’t so bad because they had no access to customer data or password vaults: Two weeks ago, we detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment. And specifically, asking me whether I used LastPass or any other password manager.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 9, 2017

From that moment, the timeline in their public disclosure began which I highlighted in this tweet: 23 hours and 42 minutes from initial private disclosure to @disqus to public notification and impacted accounts proactively protected pic.twitter.com/lctQEjHhiH — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 6, 2017. That's how it should be done.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 8, 2022

Since 2017, if you’ve invited anyone to a Slack workspace, your password has leaked. The post Slack App Leaked Hashed User Passwords for 5 YEARS appeared first on Security Boulevard. How could this have happened?

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 17, 2020

One of those offering claimed access over the Exploit forum in 2017 was known as “fxmsp” and is wanted by the FBI “for involvement in several high-profile incidents,” said Mark Arena, chief executive of cybercrime intelligence firm Intel471. That last sentence is important, yes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In August 2017, Salonen, a customer of Cryptopay, emailed their customer services team to ask for a new password. A fair point, as it's never a good idea to send a new password in an email. A password-reset link is safer all round, although it's not clear if Cryptopay offered this option to Salonen.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

House Oversight and Homeland Security committees last week, SolarWinds’s former and current CEOs blamed an intern for creating a weak FTP server password and leaking it on GitHub – an act which may or may not have contributed to a supply chain hack that impacted users of the tech firm’s Orion IT performance monitoring platform.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In September 2017, theaccountancy firm giant revealed thatwas targeted by a sophisticated attack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients. In addition to emails, hackers had potential access to IP addresses, architectural diagrams for businesses and health information.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

From March 2016 to March 2017, we analyzed several black markets to see how hijackers steal passwords and other sensitive data. [.]. Our research tracked several black markets that traded third-party password breaches, as well as 25,000 blackhat tools used for phishing and keylogging.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? Billions of them, in some cases.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. Constella also shows the email address zankomario@gmail.com used the password “dugidox2407.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260. Attackers also attempted to exploit weak vendor-supplied passwords.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Not one of them involves passwords. Multi-factor authentication If changing passwords is like the eating your veggies of the security world, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is more like eating fresh fruits. And since MFA already requires an established password, you're already halfway there. And guess what?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

Slack is resetting passwords for approximately 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when users created or revoked a shared invitation link for their workspace. Slack announced that it is resetting passwords for about 0.5% The post Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

That phishing site prompted visitors to enter their account credentials — including usernames, passwords, one-time passcodes and PIN numbers — to unlock their accounts. In January 2017, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a California woman who saw nearly $3,000 drained from her account via a cardless ATM operated by Chase Bank.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2018

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. A YubiKey Security Key made by Yubico. a mobile device). a mobile device).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

•A whopping 80 percent were due to stolen credentials (nearly a 30 percent increase since 2017!). Brute forcing passwords (10 percent) came in third. Poor password practices are responsible for most incidents involving web applications and data breaches since 2009. Brute forcing passwords. Shifting exposures.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Active since at least 2013 , XE Group is a cybercriminal group focused on credit card skimming and password theft via supply chain attacks. The group was also observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Telerik UI such as CVE-2017-9248 and CVE-2019-18935. ” reads the analysis published by Intezer.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. The portal asked me for an email address and suggested a longish, randomized password, which I accepted. Consumers in every U.S. Getting an account at myequifax.com was easy.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

million customers, including website administrator passwords, sFTP credentials, and private SSL keys; -December 2022: Hackers gained access to and installed malware on GoDaddy’s cPanel hosting servers that “intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations. An example seller’s panel at deer.io. Click image to enlarge.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2019

and higher can now be used as Security Keys , an additional authentication layer that helps thwart phishing sites and password theft. Once a user has enrolled their Android phone as a Security Key, the user will need to approve logins via a prompt sent to their phone after submitting their username and password at a Google login page.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 25, 2019

One of the larger threats outlined in the report was the Emotet Trojan, a sophisticated malware program capable of data theft, network monitoring, and propagating itself onto other vulnerable systems, and the Trickbot Trojan that steals passwords and browser histories from infected machines. “[F]ormer

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

That includes the iPhone X, a model that Forbes has learned was successfully raided for data by the Department for Homeland Security back in November 2017, most likely with Cellebrite technology. [.]. There's also a credible rumor that Cellebrite's mechanisms only defeat the mechanism that limits the number of password attempts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Turner said he created the account at Experian in 2020 to place a security freeze on his credit file, and that he used a password manager to select and store a strong, unique password for his Experian account.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017. I very consciously avoided talking about it publicly at the time (largely because I didn't want to draw attention to it), but particularly around late 2016 and very early 2017, I was quite concerned with the broader genre that is data breach search services. Not had a @haveibeenpwned notification!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The group also created the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. Attackers inserted rogue JavaScript to capture usernames and passwords in real-time, enhancing lateral movement within networks. This infrastructure technique is versatile, supporting operations globally. ” concludes the report.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Hackers used a compromised password to access the company network via a virtual private network in the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline attack. A widely known vulnerability that hadn’t yet been patched was the entry point for the 2017 Equifax attack. Some of the biggest breaches have come down to small mistakes.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 21, 2020

. “The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2018

Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. Reddit said the exposed data included internal source code as well as email addresses and obfuscated passwords for all Reddit users who registered accounts on the site prior to May 2007.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

For those who can’t be convinced to use a password manager, even writing down all of the account details and passwords on a slip of paper can be helpful, provided the document is secured in a safe place. Perhaps the most important place to enable MFA is with your email accounts.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One of them even infected visitors with the SocGolish malware , a sophisticated JavaScript malware framework that has been actively used by cybercriminals since at least 2017. Brute force attacks, where the criminals try a whole bunch of passwords they obtained from other breaches. Keep your software up to date.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

The CIA produced the report in October 2017, roughly seven months after Wikileaks began publishing Vault 7 — reams of classified data detailing the CIA’s capabilities to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. Not allowing multiple users to share administrative-level passwords.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

That domain registration record included the Russian phone number +7-951-7805896 , which mail.ru’s password recovery function says is indeed the phone number used to register the hottabych_k2 email account. Those records show this individual routinely re-used the same password across multiple accounts: 16061991. Vpn-service[.]us

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