2018 Authentication Web Fraud 
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.
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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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. The key works without the need for any special software drivers.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
LastPass officially instituted this change back in 2018, but some undisclosed number of the company’s earlier customers were never required to increase the length of their master passwords. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. LastPass sent this notification to users earlier this week.
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. domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com.
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.
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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