Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 Poorly implemented authentication can also lead to network breaches and compliance headaches. Each connection needs to be authenticated and privileges enforced. It can also enforce two-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” ” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials. Image: KrebsOnSecurity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Proofpoint have found that cyber crooks are easily see foxing users of Multifactor Authentication (MFA) these days by buying phishing kits that have the ability to bypass MFA. After reading the article, you might get a feeling on how to proceed with Multi-factor Authentication and keep your online activity safe.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn’t exist at the time. Alas, in 2018, the.llc TLD was born and began selling domains. SSL/TLS certs).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The victim shaming site operated by the Snatch ransomware group is leaking data about its true online location and internal operations, as well as the Internet addresses of its visitors, KrebsOnSecurity has found. Probably the most active Internet address accessing Snatch’s darknet site is 193.108.114[.]41 top , sntech2ch[.]top

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Authentication and Identification are Getting Harder 6. What a Secure Internet+ Looks Like 8. How We Can Secure the Internet+ 9. How to Engender Trust on the Internet+. I'm using the word "Internet+," and I'm not really happy with it.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Many companies now require employees to supply a one-time password — such as one sent via SMS or produced by a mobile authenticator app — in addition to their username and password when logging in to company assets online. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

But Lucky225 said the class of SMS interception he’s been testing targets a series of authentication weaknesses tied to a system developed by NetNumber , a private company in Lowell, Mass. Surprisingly, despite the fact that I publicly disclosed this in 2018 , nothing has been done to stop this relatively unsophisticated attack.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. In 2018, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2018

” It is common for Web sites to keep a record of the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address of all visitors, and those addresses can be used in combination with online geolocation tools to glean information about each visitor’s hometown or region. . Currently, that update is slated to be released in mid-July 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), seniors lost $500 each on computer tech assistance scams in 2018. Internet and email fraud.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 Use access control lists for applications, Internet traffic and monitoring.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Godaddy.com , the world’s largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. 1 to allow the sending of email from Internet addresses tied to two ISPs identified in my original Jan. 22 story. 31 and Feb.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

He urges enterprises to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and to enforce robust password policies to reduce the risk of account compromise. Report ransomware incidents to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , CISA, or MS-ISAC.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Today, the internet is the glue for areas like communication, commerce, healthcare, entertainment, and pretty much everything in between. MFA is a double-edged sword While essential for secure access, multi-factor authentication (MFA) creates additional barriers for users with disabilities. This is a long-running story, by the way.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

The credit union said the investigation that fueled the lawsuit was prompted by a 2018 KrebsOnSecurity report about glaring security weaknesses in a Fiserv platform that exposed personal and financial details of customers across hundreds of bank Web sites. Brookfield, Wisc. Most alarmingly, this security control was purely illusory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This aptly describes the Internet of Things (IoT), where many small things are coming together to shape what we all hope will deliver a great leap in the way we live and do business. According to Maciej Kranz, Cisco VP for strategic innovation, writing for IoTechExpo.com , “[In 2018] IoT security will become the No.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

pic.twitter.com/KiaGNKhaig — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 1, 2018. She was pretty shocked when I showed her this as it was precisely the same verbal password as she used to authenticate to her bank. I'm like yo my credit cards and financial information your entering into this internet system isn't even fully encrypted.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In late September 2018, the REACT Task Force spearheaded an investigation that led to the arrest of two Missouri men — both in their early 20s — who are accused of conducting SIM swaps to steal $14 million from a cryptocurrency company based in San Jose, Calif. . million customers.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Most immediately is the ubiquity of 2-factor authentication. Our phone numbers are now frequently used as authenticators when websites requires us to verify our login with an SMS message.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. Software gaps Similarly, the availability of onboard Wi-Fi services has become increasingly common in commercial aircraft so passengers can stay connected to the internet even during a long flight.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. TLS is a component of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , the system used to encrypt data, as well as to authenticate individual users and the web servers they log onto.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address over 60 vulnerabilities, including the recently disclosed zero-day flaw. The Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 includes the zero-day flaw recently disclosed by a researcher via Twitter. Of the 62 CVEs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

during the talk “Bug Hunting in RouterOS” at Derbycon , it leverages a known directory traversal flaw tracked as CVE-2018-14847. The Chimay Red hacking tool leverages 2 exploits, the Winbox Any Directory File Read (CVE-2018-14847) and Webfig Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. release date: 05-25-2018) using the x86 ISO.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” Storing authentication credentials for the API is a significant issue. Storing authentication credentials for the API is a significant issue.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The flaws are a Directory Traversal (CVE-2018-10822), Password stored in plaintext (CVE-2018-10824), and a Shell command injection (CVE-2018-10823). Researchers found a directory traversal vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-10822, that could be exploited by remote attackers to read arbitrary files using an HTTP request.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. How prevalent is 2FA authentication? Overall, as of late 2018, 52.5% Methodology.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Time is of the essence in these attacks because many companies that rely on VPNs for remote employee access also require employees to supply some type of multi-factor authentication in addition to a username and password — such as a one-time numeric code generated by a mobile app or text message.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

In 2018 and 2019, ransomware-triggered business disruptions came not in global-spanning worms, ala WannaCry and NotPetya, but in unrelenting one-off attacks. One popular strain of exploits revolves around hacking known vulnerabilities in the authentication protocol known as Kerboros , which integrates with AD. I’ll keep watch.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online. and printers (or print servers).

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