Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2019

The FEC’s ruling comes in response to a petition by California-based Area 1 Security , whose core offering focuses on helping clients detect and block phishing attacks. Last year, the FEC granted a similar exemption to Microsoft Corp.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

SEC penalized Cambridge Investment Research because more than 121 of their email accounts were hacked between 2018 January and 2021 July. SEC reiterated that Cambridge Investment Research discovered the first breach in 2018 January but took no action to boost email account security until 2021. .

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Snippets from that fascinating conversation are recounted below, and punctuated by accounts from a recent victim who lost more than $100,000 after his mobile phone number was hijacked. ” Indeed, the theft of $100,000 worth of cryptocurrency in July 2018 was the impetus for my interview with REACT. million customers. ” Sgt.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The attack chain associated with ARCHIPELAGO starts with phishing emails that embed malicious links. Upon clicking the link, the recipient is redirected to a phishing page that masquerades as a login prompt. Upon clicking the link, the recipient is redirected to a phishing page that masquerades as a login prompt.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Dunkin' Donuts (2015-2018): The company faced multiple credential stuffing attacks that led to unauthorized access to customer accounts. customers were targeted by a phishing campaign after a suspected data breach. customers were targeted by a phishing campaign after a suspected data breach. Subway U.K. Subway U.K.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

But the moment someone calls through with one single account compromise, the customer service rep has no idea what they’re walking into. It could be a fairly straightforward phish. In 2018, they were offering backpack upgrades for anybody using authentication and their SMS Protect service.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Passwords suffer from all the problems you're probably already aware of: they're often weak, they're regularly reused and they're also readily obtainable through attacks such as social engineering (phishing, smishing , vishing , etc.) There's a lot more to them than that, but for the purposes of this post it solves the phishing problem.

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